Alexandre Julliard has announced the release of the Wine development release, which features enhancements to PDB support within DbgHelp, expanded Vulkan video decoder capabilities in WineD3D, improved accessibility options in the SysLink control, and advancements in the Bluetooth driver.
The update comprises 28 bug fixes, addressing issues such as crashes in Strong Bad's Episode 1 - Homestar Ruiner Demo, dropdowns in the Battle.net client, and multiple applications experiencing windows with double caption/title bars, as well as improvements for Need for Speed, Command & Conquer 3, among others.
Zen Browser 1.10.1b has been released, featuring a minimize button for Picture-in-Picture, collapsed workspace icons, and a media player that accommodates video playback speed modifiers. The change log also addresses concerns related to low contrast, the removal of the gradient generator, tab unloading, drag-to-pin functionality, overflowing tabs, memory usage, and the mounting of shader caches for Flatpak users.
The second release candidate for Godot 4.4.1 has been released for testing, focused on fixing remaining and newly reported regressions that affect users who upgraded to 4.4.
The release candidate includes fixes for 3D, animation, core, editor, export, GDScript, GUI, input, physics, plugins, porting, rendering, and XR. The most notable changes in this second release candidate include fixing RemoteTransform3D to always use global rotation, fixing console errors and crashes in cleanup code for PhysicalBoneSimulator3D, using a single RNG instance for FileAccessEncrypted IV generation, making EditorProperty and its child EditorProperty behave like sibling nodes when handling mouse events, creating .uid files for detected new files, changing the root node transform warning to only show up for position, and fixing use after free in the editor inspector section cleanup.
Eric Engestrom has announced the release of Mesa 25.0.2, a bugfix update that resolves multiple issues within Mesa. The release covers multiple bug fixes, including the adjustment of log severity when enabling parameters in LinuxVirtGpu, rectifying stores following discard operations, and resetting syncobj to prevent kernel warnings. Additional enhancements consist of eliminating the support check from WinSys, enabling rendering to linear images with unaligned strides, and reverting to YUV plane order for single plane formats.
This release also incorporated a previously absent panvk feature, rectifying VkPhysicalDeviceProperties::deviceName, and introducing an intersect_2d helper. Additional enhancements consist of activating invariant geometry for DOOM (2016), eliminating the Vinterp DDX/DDY pathway, prohibiting VCC definitions for pseudo-scalar trans instructions, and confirming the inclusion of Radeon PCI IDs. The release additionally incorporates corrections for non-page-aligned descriptor bindings, enhancements for Xe2+, and guarantees VUE header writes during HS/DS/GS stages. The release encompasses bug fixes addressing a GPU hang related to inherited rendering and HiZ/HiS on GFX1201, device deduplication, and the updating of conformance versions.
An updated version of Ungoogled-Chromium has been released, which eliminates the dependency on the Google web service. The new release is based on Chromium 134.0.6998.117.
The first development snapshot of Godot 4.5 is now available for testing. The update encompasses various bug fixes, the majority of which will be backported to version 4.4 in a stable release, 4.4.1, scheduled for next week. The release features enhancements including a "Mute Game" toggle, which enables developers to mute audio during editor testing, the removal of preloaded resources as UID, support for multiple remote nodes at runtime, and a restructured TileMapLayer system.
The update encompasses enhancements in 2D usability, a fix for 3D issues, support for animations, the scene_changed signal, functionality for loading and saving DDS images, improvements to the debugger, documentation, and the editor. Additionally, it introduces drag-and-drop capabilities into array property editors and replaces UID and surface upgrade tools with universal alternatives. The update encompasses enhancements in export options, GDExtension, GDScript, GUI, particle jitter, porting, rendering, and scripting.
A new version of pgBadger, a PostgreSQL performance analyzer, has been released. This update addresses user-reported issues and introduces new features, including a report on vacuum throughput, an enhanced debugging option, milliseconds in raw CSV output, and log filenames in sample reports. The tool is an open project, and we invite contributions from all interested parties. Gilles Darold, the creator of ora2pg, developed pgBadger to analyze SQL traffic and generate HTML5 reports featuring dynamic graphs. This tool enables users to gain insights into the performance of their PostgreSQL servers and pinpoint queries that require optimization.
The release of Zed editor 0.178.5 (and 0.178.4) brings a range of enhancements and bug fixes. The updates cover a git.hunk_style setting that determines the appearance of staged or unstaged hunks, enhancements to gutter diff hunks to indicate the staging status, the addition of a secondary meta key to the Zed keystroke parser, the capability to open folders in Zed via third-party macOS file managers, a sign-out button for Copilot within Assistant settings, and improved cmd-click functionality in the terminal for locating additional paths. Furthermore, there is support for workspace/executeCommand pertaining to actions' data.
In Linux, the nano text editor now saves (Ctrl-O) by default in the terminal environment. Enhancements have been made to languages, featuring the auto-closing of JSX tags, support for clangd's inactiveRegions extension, and the inclusion of vtsls and typescript-language-server among the available language servers. The enhancements in Python now include improved highlighting for default function arguments and scoped identifiers.
The latest maintenance releases of BIND 9 are now available for download on the ISC software download page. The latest releases consist of stable branches 9.18.35, 9.20.7, and 9.21.6, in addition to an experimental development branch. The supported platforms can be found in the ARM and knowledge base articles.
A new version of the Firefox-based Zen-Browser has been released with new features and enhancements, including compatibility with MacOS passkeys and a fully integrated media player controller. The update includes the Firefox 136.0.2 update, introduces a default favicon for broken site favicons, enhances the user interface for toast notifications, and resolves various issues related to spacing, animations, toolbars, and external links. The update additionally resolves concerns for Wayland users.
VSCodium has been released and addresses issues related to qemu and ppc64le segfaults, enhances build generality, updates electron to prevent 16-page size crashes, and incorporates electron v34.3.2.
Zed 0.177.11 has been updated in Git to incorporate placeholder text for the suggested merge messages and has addressed several minor bugs.
Rust 1.85.1 is a recent point release for the programming language, enabling users to develop dependable and efficient software. This update addresses a bug in the stable 2024 Edition, which resulted in rustdoc utilizing its "unmerged" fallback method rather than the intended "unmerged" fallback method. Furthermore, it addresses regressions that were introduced in version 1.85.0, eases target_feature checks, rectifies issues in std::fs::rename on Windows 1607, downgrades the bootstrap cc, and omits submodule updates.
A small bug fix version of the Zed editor has been released, addressing a bug that hindered typing in the in-app feedback form.
LACT 0.7.2 is the latest version of an application designed to enable users to manage their AMD, Nvidia, or Intel GPU on a Linux system. The features encompass RDNA4 support, functional clock settings, power limits, and fan control mechanisms. The application relies on kernel patches provided by @Lawstorant and necessitates the use of recent kernel versions along with linux-firmware from late February.
LACT now offers support for Nvidia locked clocks, enabling users to establish both minimum and maximum settings for GPU and VRAM clock speeds. This also facilitates access to more comprehensive Nvidia information, encompassing ROP count, SM count, VRAM type, and vendor details. The historical charts have been updated to align with the GTK theme, and the management of fan control following GPU reinitialization operations has become more dependable. Package maintainers are now required to utilize the vulkaninfo command and blueprint-compiler. Additionally, the process of building and executing tests necessitates the inclusion of fuse3 and its corresponding header files. The comprehensive changelog encompasses features such as RDNA4 support, the ability to set locked clocks on Nvidia, enhanced fan sensor checks, updated chart aesthetics, and various bug fixes.
Bottles 51.21, a Linux tool designed for executing Windows software and games, has been enhanced to incorporate additional categories for appstream and desktop entries, and it addresses a bug that affected the compatibility of 64-bit bottle creation with Wine 10.2 and later versions.
Darktable 5.1 nightly build 20250315 is now available for testing.
Git 2.49.0 has been released with enhancements in the user interface, workflows, and features of the project. The release features modifications to the completion scripts for zsh, including the implementation of an alternative path-hash function for delta-base selection, the introduction of "git backfill" for bulk downloading essential files, and the re-enabling of netrc support for HTTP transport. Furthermore, the documentation for "git commit" and "git rebase" now designates commit titles accordingly, rather than referring to them as "subject".
The meson-based build now includes support for the unsafe-sha1 build knob, and the meson-based build procedure encompasses contrib/ and additional locations. The code for verifying LSan results has been streamlined and enhanced for greater reliability. A greater number of code paths now utilize a repository that is passed through the call chain, rather than relying on the primary the_repository object by default.
Python 3.14.0 Alpha 6 has been released, representing the sixth of the seven anticipated alpha versions. This release aims to support the testing of new features and bug fixes, in addition to enhancing the release process. This is not advisable for use in production environments. Significant new features encompass deferred annotation evaluation, a Python configuration C API, and Sigstore for verifiers. Enhancements consist of refined error messages, the introduction of a new interpreter, and the addition of support for UUID versions 6-8.
The Zed release v0.177.9 introduces a variety of enhancements, such as the implementation of multibuffer key context, the addition of editor::MoveToStartOfNextExcerpt and editor::MoveToEndOfPreviousExcerpt functionalities, resolution of issues related to pre-commit hooks, corrections of bugs in the project diff view, and rectification of the Git panel not displaying a "Initialize Repositories" button in empty projects. Furthermore, vim::PreviousSectionEnd has been updated to navigate to the start of the line, aligning its functionality with that of vim::NextSectionEnd.
