GE-Proton9-21 has been released, featuring updates to multiple proton game files, including mono, icu for both 64 and 32 bit, wine, dxvk, vkd3d-proton, and vkd3d. The patch 56653 has backported a bug fix from Wine for GetLogicalProcessorInformation, effectively addressing edge case crashes encountered in certain games. Proton updates encompass addressing issues with Dirt 3 outside of Steam, eliminating unnecessary fixes, and disabling Esync and Fsync for Supreme Commander.
VSCodium 1.96.0.24347 has been released, featuring a range of updates such as patch enhancements, elimination of mangling in extensions, client support, substitution of the ripgrep binary for riscv64, modifications to URLs, improvements in the build process, PPC64LE UI support, and an updated version of Electron.
The Audacity 3.7.1 patch release addresses issues in effects, reinstates the installation directory, and enhances the "Adjust Playback Speed" dialog, thereby preventing crashes and elevating the user experience.
The pgAdmin Development Team has announced the release of pgAdmin 4 version 8.14, which incorporates 23 bug fixes and introduces new features. Significant updates encompass the incorporation of tags on server nodes, enabling NULL ordering for columns in view/edit data filter dialogs, displaying auto-complete column names in filtered rows dialogs, utilizing a pgpass file in the pgAdmin container through Docker secrets, transmitting connection details as placeholders in the passexec command, and implementing pgAdmin in a container with readOnlyRootFilesystem set to true.
Valve Software has announced the release of Proton 9.0-4, which addresses issues for several games, including APB Reloaded, Conqueror's Blade, Cube Hero Odyssey, Disgaea 4 Complete+, Hard Chip Demo, ScarQuest, Sniper Elite, Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown, Total War: SHOGUN 2, and Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2.
The update also resolves issues with Hell Let Loose, Final Fantasy XVI, and additional titles. This update addresses keyboard input issues in Rivals of Aether II, resolves the crashing of Chromacell on launch, and introduces support for NVIDIA Optical Flow API and DLSS 3 Frame Generation. The update resolves various issues, including the malfunctioning of single-player games such as Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, Hard Reset Redux, and Shadow Warrior on AMD GPUs. It also addresses the improper exit of Skull and Bones on Nvidia GPU systems, the unplayability of Dark and Darker following a game update, and the lack of configurability in the EA Desktop App setup.
QEMU 9.2.0 has been released, featuring more than 1700 commits contributed by 209 authors. Notable features encompass the provision for 3D acceleration of Vulkan applications through the Venus Vulkan driver, cryptographic support for SHA-384 hashes, QATzip-accelerated compression capabilities, experimental Rust support for device models, ARM emulation support for FEAT_EBF16 and FEAT_CMOW architecture features, and two-stage SMMU translation for sbsa-ref and virt boards.
Apache NetBeans IDE 24 has been released, featuring various enhancements aimed at optimizing the development workflow. The updates encompass enhancements in Gradle, Maven, Ant, Java Platform Libraries, LSP, PHP, C/C++, LSP Client, CPPLite, and Enterprise.
pgBadger 13.0 functions as a PostgreSQL performance analyzer, delivering comprehensive reports that are derived from log files. The update addresses several user-reported issues and introduces new features. The update enhances support for auto_explain plans in CSV and JSON log formats, introduces two additional options for defining inbound query and session histograms, and includes three LOG messages not reported as events. However, it creates a backward compatibility issue when utilized in incremental mode.
With the release of OBS Studio 31.0, users can now enjoy new features such as NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur, preview scrollbars, zoom/scale indicator, v210 format support for AJA device capture, Amazon IVS service integration, QSV AV1 Screen Content Coding, and first-party YouTube Chat features.
Changes include updating the browser source/docks CEF (Chromium) to version 127 (6533) on all platforms, modifying scene elements to utilize relative coordinates, separating NVIDIA Audio Effects from Noise Suppression, and enabling first-party YouTube Chat capabilities. The NVENC implementation has been refactored to include many enhancements, and SDK 12.2 features like split encoding are now supported. Additional features from previous SDKs are supported, including B-Frames as a reference and Target Quality VBR mode (CQVBR). Bug updates include two fixes for the QSV encoder on Linux, a race issue with multitrack video output reconnect, and probable crashes in Linux Window Capture. Additionally, the application settings have been separated into "app" and "user" setups. Except for Alder Lake N, the fixes only apply to Lunar Lake or newer versions.
Wine Staging 10.0-rc1 has been released, serving as a testing area for winehq.org, and includes bug fixes and features that have not yet been integrated into the development branch.
The first release candidate for Wine 10.0-rc1 is now available, signifying the commencement of the annual code freeze period. The update encompasses enhancements to vkd3d, the Mono engine, the Bluetooth driver, UTF-8 support in C runtime functions, the implementation of split debug information utilizing build IDs, as well as a range of bug fixes.
Godot 4.4 dev 6 is a pre-release version, focusing on features and quality of life. The release includes several new features, such as Camera3D preview in inspector, debug color customization for 3D collision shapes, and support for runtime WAV file loading. Camera3D preview is now displayed inside the inspector, eliminating the need to switch cameras. The debug color customization now matches its 2D counterparts, thanks to the addition of the debug_color and debug_fill properties. A new API allows users to create and dispose of temporary files, ensuring user data is not polluted.
The "AM" application manager for AppImage has been updated to version 9.3 to be enhanced to streamline path access, correct total size calculations, and facilitate sandboxing during the installation of AppImages.
Dylan Baker has announced the release of Mesa 24.3.1, the first point release of the 24.3 series, which includes numerous fixes and improvements.
AMD has announced the release of ROCm 6.3.0, the latest version of its advanced generative AI and large language model server. The update features the rocJPEG library, a high-performance JPEG decoding SDK designed for AMD GPUs. The ROCm Compute Profiler and ROCm Systems Profiler have undergone a renaming to align with their updated focus within the ROCm software stack. The SHARK AI toolkit for high-speed inferencing and serving has been introduced, featuring support for the Stable Diffusion XL model on AMD Instinct:tm:MI300 devices.
ROCm 6.3.0 introduces support for PyTorch 2.4, enabling the Transformer Engine to optionally choose a flexible and optimized Attention solution for AMD GPUs. The hipStreamLegacy API has been integrated, serving as the equivalent to NVIDIA cudaStreamLegacy. The ROCm Offline Installer Creator 6.3 now includes a feature that allows for the uninstallation of the previous version of ROCm on a non-connected target system prior to the installation of a new version.
ROCm 6.3.0 introduces support for PyTorch 2.4, enabling the Transformer Engine to optionally choose a flexible and optimized Attention solution for AMD GPUs. The hipStreamLegacy API has been integrated, serving as the equivalent to NVIDIA cudaStreamLegacy. The ROCm Offline Installer Creator 6.3 now includes a feature that allows for the uninstallation of the previous version of ROCm on a non-connected target system prior to the installation of a new version.
A new version of FEX has been released to address several issues. It fixes Steam's webhelper process, which was causing issues with the updated Chromium embedded version of Valve's Steam client. Additionally, it fixes WINE path execution problems, which were previously fixed by Asahi Lina. FEX has also replaced YIELD with WFE, an ARM64 instruction that is typically useful for SMT systems. This change is due to Qualcomm's new Oryon CPU treating WFE as a nop, a trade-off that Qualcomm's new Oryon CPU treats as a nop.
The release candidate for PHP 8.3.15 has been released for testing with several fixes and improvements. These include fixes for calendar, COM, core, GD, GMP, hash, OPcache, OpenSSL, PDO, Phar, PHPDBG, SAPI, SimpleXML, SOAP, and Streams.
The release candidate for PHP 8.4.2 has addressed multiple bugs across various components, including BcMath, COM, Core, Curl, DBA, DOM, FPM, GMP, Opcache, SAPI, PHPDBG, Standard, Streams, and Windows Server 2025. The updates include the removal of unnecessary padding with leading zeros, the resolution of issues with COM, Core, and is_zend_ptr(), the resolution of potential out-of-bounds reads in zend_dirname() on Windows, and the correction of memory leaks in curl mime handling. In addition, the release fixes problems with UBSAN warnings and a segmentation fault that happened with the breakpoint map and phpdbg_clear().
The release candidate for PHP-8.2.27 has been released, featuring a range of fixes and enhancements. These encompass resolutions for calendar, com, core, GD, GMP, hash, opcache, openssl, PDO, Phar, PHPDBG, SAPI, SimpleXML, SNMP, standard, streams, and Windows. The updates address the jdtogregorian overflow and the cal_to_jd julian_days argument overflow.
The release of "AM" Application-Manager 9.2 for AppImages includes code refactoring, module updates, and enhanced support for local AppImages via appimageupdatetool and a dedicated table.
