PostgreSQL 17 has been released. It enhances performance and scalability while responding to changing data access and storage patterns. The update features major overall performance enhancements, such as an overhauled memory management system for vacuum, storage access optimizations, improvements for high concurrency workloads, bulk loading and export speedups, and index query execution improvements.
The DXVK DirectX to Vulcan translation layer has been upgraded to version 2.4.1, which addresses a number of issues and enhancements.
Memory chunk sizes are now dynamically set based on the application's memory allocation, which improves out-of-the-box functionality in game launchers. The Vulkan swap chain issue was resolved, as were the descriptor pools. The default shader code generation for DXBC crazy instructions has been altered to address flickering issues in games with multiple vertex shaders. The D3D8 implementation was modified to handle errors and fix memory leaks. Optimizing vertex buffer uploads improved performance marginally. Some games utilizing software vertex processing were also improved.
The MariaDB Foundation announced MariaDB 11.7.0, a preview of the MariaDB 11.7 series, which includes new features such as methods for generating UUID versions 4 and 7, near-instant binlogging of big transactions, faster crash recovery, cost-based subquery optimization strategy selection, and additional GIS functions.
The release also allows you to change system-versioned tables, return ROW values from stored functions, explicitly name columns in derived tables, and use arbitrary key/value pairs with the CREATE SERVER statement. The update also addresses issues with Daylight Saving Time adjustments and includes MariaDB Vector Search.
PHP 8.4's first release candidate has been released and features enhancements to BcMath, DOM, MBString, Opcache, PHPDBG, PCRE, PDO_PGSQL, SimpleXML, SOAP, SPL, Standard, TSRM, Windows, and ZIP. BcMath's speed has improved, while ext/bcmath has solved scale overflow and included bcdivmod.
Debugging has been corrected, as have DOM properties. MBString has been upgraded to Unicode 16.0. PHPDBG has resolved issues with PCRE, PDO_PGSQL, and PQclosePrepare. Reflection has added the missing ReflectionProperty::hasHook[s]() methods are now fixed, SimpleXML has segmentation errors fixed, SOAP has issues solved, and TSRM prevents unrelated handles from being closed. Windows has been addressed, and Zip has added ZipArchive::ER_TRUNCATED_ZIP to libzip 1.11.
PHP 8.3.12 has been released, with bug fixes for CGI, core, DOM, fileinfo, FPM, MySQLnd, Opcache, SAPI, standard, and streams. The update includes fixes for parameter injection vulnerabilities, configuration problems, CRC32 API build errors, uninitialized lineno, curl_multi_select overflow, segmentation faults, fileinfo, FPM, MySQLnd, Opcache, SAPI, standard, and streams. The improvements address issues such as MSan false-positive, configure errors, CRC32 API build errors, uninitialized lineno, curl_multi_select overflow, DOM, fileinfo, FPM, MySQLnd, Opcache, SAPI, standard, and streams.
PHP 8.2.24 has been released, with bug fixes for CGI, Core, Curl, DOM, Fileinfo, FPM, MySQLnd, Opcache, SAPI, SOAP, Standard, and Streams.
OWASP CRS v4.7.0 is a collection of attack detection rules that are designed to be compatible with ModSecurity or other web application firewalls. The latest version includes new features such as the addition of sendgrid.env to restricted files, modifying the regex to match multiple whitespaces, updating XSS detection, and code refactoring.
GloriousEggroll has released GE-Proton9-14, packed with fixes for a bunch of problems, including a workaround for God of War Ragnarok SteamDeck=1, a libcuda nvidia fix for Star Citizen, a Plain Site fix, a Worms: Blast fix, and an Elden Ring fix.
The pgAdmin Development Team has released pgAdmin 4, version 8.12, which includes 13 bug fixes and new features. Notable improvements include restoring preferences to their default values, creating a new configuration variable for special email domains, and allowing non-continuous selected SQL code chunks in the query tool.
The release also tackles security vulnerabilities, increases the flexibility of SchemaView and DataGridView, and resolves server disconnection issues. The update also adds support for OIDC-based OAuth2 authentication, resolves cursor movement issues, and improves confirmation modals.
Wine Staging serves as a playground for trying out new and exciting features that haven't made their way into the main development branch of Wine. It's all about making things faster and giving developers a chance to collaborate and enhance their patches before they become part of the main branch.
The change log for Wine Staging 9.18 includes a rebase against Wine 9.18 and some updates to the vkd3d-latest patchset and ntdll-WRITECOPY patchset.
The change log for Wine Staging 9.18 includes a rebase against Wine 9.18 and some updates to the vkd3d-latest patchset and ntdll-WRITECOPY patchset.
Darktable nightly build 20240922 allows you to test new features before they are officially released. It eliminates existing bugs and adds complex code, but stability may suffer. New versions may change the database structure, so use with a different library. AppImage is compatible with glibc 2.35 or later releases.
Wine 9.18 has been released and includes a new Media Foundation backend based on FFMpeg, initial support for network sessions in DirectPlay, a new Desktop Control Panel applet, and several bug improvements.
AMD released a new version of its compute platform, ROCm, which includes significant new capabilities and improvements. The most significant version change is the increase in the rocAL version number from 1.3 to 2.0, which necessitates the recompilation of applications that were linked to version 1.3. ROCm now supports Facebook General Matrix Multiplication (FBGEMM) and its associated FBGEMM_GPU library. New improvements in ROCm Offline Installer Creator 6.2.1 include logging support, more strict checks for Linux versions and distributions, updated necessary repositories, and fixes to CTest problems.
The second hot fix release of Heroic Games Launcher 2.15 is now available.
pg_stat_kcache is an extension for the PostgreSQL database server, providing real reads and writes statistics. It requires the pg_stat_statements extension and requires PostgreSQL 9.4 or more. New features include track entry creation timestamp, bug fixes, and PostgreSQL 17 compatibility.
Valve Software has released Proton 9.0-3, which includes support for numerous new games and fixes for a variety of bugs. These include the playability of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Ball at Work: The Ultimate Speedrun Platformer!, Banyu Lintar Angin, Dinner with an Owl, Farlight 84, Flatout 3, KinitoPET, Owl Observatory Demo, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Super, Sword of Convallaria, Syberia, THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII STEAM EDITION, To Pixelia Demo, Unity of Command II, and Zaccaria Pinball.
The update also fixes regressions in Alan Wake's American Nightmare DLC, Bionic Commando, GRID Autosport, and GRID II. The game also improves language compatibility for Guild Wars 2, adds controller support to Fallout 3 launchers, and addresses cutscene playback difficulties in Iragon games. The update also addresses license agreement difficulties and crashes in games such as Dinogen Online, SCP Secret Laboratory, Burnout Paradise Remastered, and The Finals.
Audacity 3.6.4 is a patch version that fixes two issues: a crash while closing Audacity and projects not being compact when closed.
Apache NetBeans IDE 23 has been launched, with various enhancements to enhance the user experience. These include updates to Gradle, Maven, the stack trace parser, Maven version settings, and other features.
The editor has been changed to allow focus events to propagate before performing glyph gutter actions, and the Docker-Load images issue has been resolved. The UI has been modified to sharpen the status bar notification bubble on HiDPI/Retina screens, provide a border to fast search boxes in Outline and TreeView components, and avoid using ImageIcon in more places to maintain HiDPI icon resolution.
The editor has been changed to allow focus events to propagate before performing glyph gutter actions, and the Docker-Load images issue has been resolved. The UI has been modified to sharpen the status bar notification bubble on HiDPI/Retina screens, provide a border to fast search boxes in Outline and TreeView components, and avoid using ImageIcon in more places to maintain HiDPI icon resolution.
The Mesa bugfix release 24.2.3 is now available, with the next release coming in two weeks on October 2nd. Change logs address several issues, including lowering VM bind operations, correcting shellcheck failures, encoding both sps and pps in the same buffer, and fixing radeon_enc_code_ue with values exceeding 2^16. Other enhancements include the addition of the megadriver_libdir argument, the inclusion of the va driver in libgallium when building with dri, and the disabling of EFC on VCN 2.2.
Samba 4.20.5 is the latest stable release in the Samba 4.20 series. It addresses issues such as "inherit permissions = yes" triggers, inaccurate FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES responses, samba-tool importing the default configuration file, and confusion over compound SMB2 queries. Additionally, new vfs_ceph modules have been introduced, and readlinkat crashes have been resolved.
