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I really like when we all clock certain people or obsessions (like using AI for everything) as a mark of a shit person that doesn't value human life. And then only shit people come out to defend it.

Have you heard about these three female artists? If you have, let us know what else you know about them to celebrate!

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It’s march, so it’s manga month! here are some of Hannah’s favorite manga reads! comment below some of your recs! <3

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Linux Release Roundup (February 2026) February 2026 delivered a fresh batch of Linux app releases, with updates to VLC, GIMP, Vivaldi, and VirtualBox among the many that filtered out. I covered som...

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Linux Release Roundup (February 2026) February 2026 delivered a fresh batch of Linux app releases, with updates to VLC, GIMP, Vivaldi, and VirtualBox among the many that filtered out. I covered som...

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Linux Release Roundup (February 2026) February 2026 delivered a fresh batch of Linux app releases, with updates to VLC, GIMP, Vivaldi, and VirtualBox among the many that filtered out. I covered som...

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Linux Release Roundup (February 2026) February 2026 delivered a fresh batch of Linux app releases, with updates to VLC, GIMP, Vivaldi, and VirtualBox among the many that filtered out. I covered som...

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Linux Release Roundup (February 2026) February 2026 delivered a fresh batch of Linux app releases, with updates to Ardour, Lutris and Bazaar among the many that filtered out during the month. I cov...

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Linux Release Roundup (February 2026) February 2026 delivered a fresh batch of Linux app releases, with updates to VLC, GIMP, Vivaldi, and VirtualBox among the many that filtered out. I covered som...

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Linux Release Roundup (February 2026) February 2026 delivered a fresh batch of Linux app releases, with updates to Ardour, Lutris and Bazaar among the many that filtered out during the month. I cov...

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Everyone loves a little magic now and then 🙂‍↕️🐉✨ What are your favorite fantasy stories? 🤔💭

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Running a magazine is no easy feat . . . Meet the teams responsible for bringing you guys such amazing content! 🩵

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Linux Release Roundup (January 2026) January's software updates include VLC 3.0.23, Shotcut 26.1 with GPU decoding, and Vivaldi 7.6. Take a look at the month’s notable Linux app releases. You...

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Linux Release Roundup (January 2026) VLC 3.0.23, GIMP 3.0.8 and VirtualBox 7.2.6 were among January’s Linux app releases, slipping alongside an open-source video editor, versatile command-line fi...

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Linux Release Roundup (January 2026) January 2026 was a productive month for Linux app releases, with updates to VLC, GIMP, Vivaldi, and VirtualBox among those pushed out. I covered many of the mon...

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Linux Release Roundup (January 2026) January's software updates include VLC 3.0.23, Shotcut 26.1 with GPU decoding, and Vivaldi 7.6. Take a look at the month’s notable Linux app releases. You...

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Linux Release Roundup (January 2026) January's software updates include VLC 3.0.23, Shotcut 26.1 with GPU decoding, and Vivaldi 7.6. Take a look at the month’s notable Linux app releases. You...

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Dear Readers, The Long River Review team is back for the Spring semester and ready to get to work! We're so excited to welcome our new members and reunite with friendly faces. The team has some amazing events, blog posts, podcasts, and interviews planned so stay tuned for more information and updates! Thank you for your continued support. With love, *LRR*

The day has arrived! The Long River Review is back for the spring semester! Our team members are hard at work, so stay tuned for events, blogs, podcasts, and so much more. 💌✍️

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**Got time for a final blast through smaller Linux app updates to round out 2025?** There will be plenty of big new releases to look forward to in 2026, no doubt. Before we race head first in to a new year, I felt it right to give one last glance back at updates that landed during December which I didn’t dedicated a full article to… But which I didn’t want to leave out, either. ### Darktable 5.4.0 Capture sharpen controls in darktable 5.4.0 A new version of open source RAW photo editor _darktable_ (sic) is out, with a couple of big new features in tow that should please photography professionals and enthusiasts alike. There’s a **new tone mapper** based on Blender’s AgX bolsters editing with explicit white and black point controls, adjustable pivot for the tone curve and independent sliders for shadow and highlight contrast. **Workspace support** makes its long-awaited appearance. This lets you create and switch between separate databases and configurations. Useful if you’re juggling professional work alongside touching up personal pics, or if you just want to experiment. Capture sharpening is now built into the _demosaic_ module to help recover detail lost to in-camera blurring; app performance is improved across the board (but especially for those working off NAS’ or spinning HDDs; and ICC colour profiles are now handled under Wayland. The darktable 5.4 update also adds support for a slew of new(er) cameras, including the Canon EOS R1 and R5 Mark II, Fujifilm X-E5, Nikon Z fc, Sony ZV-1M2, and the Leica Q3 Monochrome. Plus, updated colour matrices and new noise profiles for some models too. As darktable is open source software for Linux, Windows and macOS, you can download the latest release from the official website for all major OSes. An AppImage is available for Linux, but if you prefer Flatpak then darktable is on Flathub, but it is not yet verified. The usual reminder applies: back up before upgrading, as there’s no going back to 5.2 once you’ve converted your library! ### Clapper 0.10.0 Clapper media player hit 0.10.0 this month, continuing to expand its “enhancer plugin system”. MPRIS, Server, and Discoverer features are now enhancer plugins. A reminder that Clapper is both an end-user app, and a library which _other apps_ can use to provide media experiences. Configuration of enhancer plugins can be done via the preferences window; you can write new plugins in Lua (if that’s your thing); and a new audio-only widget is available for those building audio players (and a few Python examples available in the project repo). User-facing additions include frame stepping with the `E` key, the ability to preview GStreamer pipelines from the info dialog; new speed icons; support for drag-and-drop between lists in different windows; and the ability to ‘load and parse’ playlists. Crash fixes are included, such as one that readies issues with auto-resize for some video resolutions. Clapper is free, open-source software for Linux and Windows. Linux users can install the latest version of the desktop app can be installed from Flathub (also carried in some distro repos); Windows users can download a package from the GitHub releases page. ### QEMU 10.2.0 FOSS Virtualisation and emulation tool QEMU hit version 10.2, composed of over 2,300 commits from 188 contributors. Among the “big” changes ferried within the commits is **live update support** through a new migration mode to let you update running VMs with reduced resource usage, and **potentially better performance** due to switching to `io_uring `for QEMU’s main loop. ARM emulation has gained support for a stack of new CPU features, whilst HPPA users can emulate an HP 715/64 workstation. PowerPC gets PowerNV11 and PPE42 CPU support, and FreeBSD hosts can finally use 9pfs shared filesystems. If you work with QEMU regularly, beside to read over the full list of changes, and pay particular attention to what’s been deprecated (in case someone you rely on no longer boots). QEMU is free, open-source software available for Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD systems. You can download the latest release from… A variety of sources, in a variety of formats, but the best place to start is by visiting the official QEMU website. ### Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.3 Fetch ISO/IMGs in-app from other sources The Raspberry Pi team issued two updates to their recently revamped image writing tool. Changes focus on boosting performance, and resolving a few underlying bugs. A couple of new features were added, like support for adding custom repos to pull ISO/IMGs from. Writing images is faster due to various I/O tweaks; there’s bottleneck detection and real-time progress update have been implemented, and a “detailed write timing breakdown” added for those who want to analyse performance during writes. For the latter, press `Ctrl` + `Shift` + `P` during a write session to save details to a JSON. Usability buffs include password field component with show/hide toggle button, the reintroduction of multiple SSH key support, better accessibility coverage for screen readers, and a new icon for macOS 26 Tahoe and .SVG icon asset for Linux. Raspberry Pi Imager is free, open-source software available for Windows, macOS and Linux. Download it from the official website or grab it from the GitHub repo. ### MPV **0.41.0** A new version of command-line video player MPV landed, and it uses libplacebo’s `gpu-next` renderer by default. This should deliver improved performance and better HDR support. Vulkan hardware decoding is also now preferred over other APIs (where available). Linux users on Wayland get better colour support thanks to` color-management-v1` and `wp-color-representation-v1` protocols, tablet input support, and clipboard writing (a clipboard backend is included for those using MPV on X11). A buffering indicator in the on-screen controller, frame-stepping support, and an assortment of new command line options also feature. MPV is free, open-source software available for pretty much every operating system out there. More details on the MPV Github. ### ONLYOFFICE 9.2.1 ONLYOFFICE 9.2.1 refines the 9.2.x series feature set Early December delivered the ONLYOFFICE 9.2 release with its AI agents, macro recording and PDF redaction features. This was quickly followed by a point update to resolve a number of issues users were experiencing. ONLYOFFICE 9.2.1 patches a word break breakage when using Korean text in the _Document Editor_. In the _Spreadsheet Editor_ , transferring sheets between documents using cope/paste longer causes a data overlap. _PDF Editor_ picks up a plethora of patches, including errors caused when opening (!) or scrolling (!) a PDF file; errors when copying, pasting and undoing actions using the ‘Find’ panel in editing mode, or trying to delete a page. Security is bolstered with hot fixes for exploits involving XSS injection of JS code in the font field, vulnerability in the text area of the comment editing form, and memory manipulation during XLS to XLSKX conversion that could lead to info leaking. Of note, **ONLYOFFICE 9.2.1 supports Linux ARM64 devices** – something many users had been asking for for a long while! ONLYOFFICE’s desktop apps are free, open-source software available to download for Windows, macOS and Linux. AI integrations will require API keys from third-party services, or access to a large-language model running locally, fyi. Downloads are available on the official website or direct from the GitHub releases page (under ‘assets’ – expand to show all available builds), with official Snap package and Flatpak build also available. ### Scribus 1.6.5 (Stable) & 7.1 (Dev) Scribus’ unstable branch is where cool stuff is happening Scribus, the free and open source desktop publishing app, released v1.6.5 in December as a minor refinement to its existing stable branch. It resolves issues with light and dark mode handling, the colour eyedropper, and PDF export font rendering. There’s also a security fix that removes the ability to load remote SVG image data. Scribus 1.7.1 is the latest development release, building on what 1.7.0 brought (Qt Advanced Docking System, SVG icons, revamped palettes, white-space review mode, optical margins, etc) with search in preferences windows, document log interface, and security fixes. Scribus is free, open source software available for Linux, Windows and macOS. You can download the latest versions (stable or development) by following the relevant links on the Scribus install page. #### Finally… I also want to say thank you — yes, as in _you_ , you. Thank you for reading this site, commenting, and connecting with me; for the news tips and suggestions you send in, the coffee you (generously) buy me, and for each article of mine you take the time to read and share. With so many websites, streaming services, and social media grifters unrelentingly demanding attention, that you choose to visit _this_ site and support what _I_ do leaves me humbled, happy, and beyond grateful. **_So truly: I wish you all a happy, healthy, secure and fulfilling 2026 — with a lot more Linux in it, too!_**

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Linux App Release Roundup (December 2025) I roundup a crop of December's smaller Linux app releases, including the Clapper media player, QEMU virtualisation tool, Scribus DTP and ONLYOFFICE. Yo...

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Linux App Release Roundup (November 2025) A recap of Linux app releases in November 2025, including updates to Blender, Euphonica, Vivaldi, Blender, Shotcut and a clutch of indispensable VLC tools....

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**December’s here (_“December’s here, December’s here…“_ as the festive ear worm from New Found Glory goes) which means November is no longer here — ergo, it’s time for a Linux App Release Roundup!** November was host to a number of big software updates, a few of which I did plan to cover _properly_ but, for one reason or another, got away from me. I did cover Firefox 145 and Thunderbird 145 (out like clockwork), the Raspberry Pi Imager 2 released (redesigned), Mission Center 1.1 (better filtering), Fish 4.2 (multi-line suggests) and the GIMP 3.2 Release Candidate (improved text tool). If you see an app update appear, feel free to tell me about it using the contact form. Your tips, prods and suggestions help me stay on top of things – thanks! Read on for a recap of what else last month delivered… ### Bazaar 0.5.10 Bazaar continues being a brilliant Slick desktop Flathub frontend _Bazaar_ saw two updates last month, one medium and one “smol” (to quote its developer). Search was overhauled with a ‘rich card’ format that shows important info about apps, saving the need to page through to the full listing to see if it’s the one you want. Nifty. Elsewhere, a new ‘hide-eol’ preference was added. When enabled this stops Bazaar from returning any end-of-life applications or applications that rely on on end-of-life runtimes. Notices on app tiles and in listing signpost apps that use end-of-life runtimes. Beyond that, lots of smaller tweaks, bug fixes, visual finesse and the addition of a few smaller niceties (a ‘what’s new’ page in the _About_ dialog and new ‘On the Go’ category among them) to round things out. Ubuntu users can install Bazaar from Flathub. ### Euphonica 0.98.0 Dynamic playlists? Time to get creative… _Euphonica_ , the unapologetically bliny MPD client, issued a new beta build in November adding a major new feature: Dynamic Playlists. Rather create a static playlist containing a specific set of tracks you can create playlists that generate contents based on filter/ordering rules you define. Rules can be dynamic too, e.g., ‘limit to songs played in the last 30 days’, which is neat. As such, if you’d love to have ‘personalised’ playlists similar to those offered on music streaming services, but with local files, you can e.g., “Monthly Most Played”, “Songs I Always Skip”, etc. _And_ dynamic playlists in Euphonica can be made to refresh at a set schedule (e.g., “1st of the month”, “every time I open the app”); you can set custom artwork for them, and import & export dynamic playlists in JSON for backup (or sharing). All of that sounds _hella_ _cool_ to me — if I was talking like someone hip in 1999. Euphonica is an MPD _client_ (GUI front-end) and not a standalone music player you will need to connect to an MPD server to get to play anything (you can run one locally, which is what I do). Also keep in mind it’s “beta” software – bugs, quirks, etc. Ubuntu users can install _Euphonica_ from Flathub. ### Blender 5.0 Official release video Blender 5.0 was released in November and, like every release, the amount of improvements across the software’s many tools, views and functionality is vast – much of it hard to appreciate if you’re not an existing user. For creative pros, the biggest change in Blender 5.0 support for ACES (Academy Colour Encoding System) and HDR colour pipelines, which means content has predictable production-grade wide-gamut colour, exposure and HDR data from creation through render and final export. The version improves the way ‘large-scale geometry’ is handled, so working with `.blend` files which contain millions of vertices is stable. Cycles, Blender’s renderer, adds adds a new default volume rendering algorithm (‘null scattering’). There’s a new storyboarding template which, with Grease Pencil (which a new “Pen” tool in Edit mode), make it easy to create looped animations, while general workflow has been tightened with drag-and-drop buffs, a more predictable Outliner, and unified widget styles. And that’s but scratching the service. More details on everything new, improved and retired (Intel macOS support) can be found in the official Blender 5.0 release notes. Blender is free, open-source software for Windows, macOS and Linux. Ubuntu users can install Blender from the Snap Store, Flathub or download an installer from the official website. Older versions of Blender are available in the Ubuntu repos. ### Vivaldi 7.7 Streamlined start page in Vivaldi 7.7 Vivaldi 7.7 slipped out last month, the latest stable release of the Chromium-based browser that serves power users as much as those who can’t tell their address bar from their elbow. It ships a clutch of updates, mainly focused on streamlining workflows. There’s now cross-desktop tab sync, making it easy to find and open tabs from _other_ devices via the Windows Panel or Tab Button within the browser. The browser now features a Unified Start Page putting both dashboard widgets and the traditional Speed Dials one the same page. Cognitively, this is tidier (and like most changes in Vivaldi, those who prefer other approaches can dial around in settings to achieve it). Finally, Vivaldi 7.7 cleans up its Privacy Dashboard to provide clearer insight into blocked content, adds new performance controls (e.g., configure tabs to be excluded from resource management), and tweaks a few bits of its UI here and there. Vivaldi is free, but not open-source software available for Windows, macOS and Linux. Ubuntu users can install Vivaldi as a Snap, fetch it from Flathub or download a DEB package from the browser’s website (which is also available ARM64 devices). ### Shotcut 25.10 Using webkit animations to create titles A new version of the Qt-based and cross-platform open-source video editor _Shotcut_ was released with a clutch of interesting changes. Shotcut 25.10 lets you generate ‘Image/Video from HTML’, so you can use CSS, JavaScript, etc to create text-based content on a transparent background. The feature is limited to 15fps, requires Google Chrome or Chromium, and won’t work in Flatpak builds. Other updates include new Screen Snapshot and Screen Recording options (which do what you think they do); _Text to Speech_ support extends to Notes and Subtitles; a new Typewriter text generator, and some small UI changes. Shotcut 25.10 includes FFmpeg 8.0 and the minimum glibc requirement is bumped to v2.35 meaning that it’ll only run on Ubuntu 22.04 or later. Ubuntu users can install Shotcut from the Snap Store, Flathub, or download an AppImage from the official website (where macOS and Windows installers can also be found). ### VLC Components VLC 3.0.22 hit release candidate in September but it’s yet to be _officially_ released, although source code tarballs are up on the official server. VideoLan, makers of VLC, released new versions of libdvdread, libdvdnav and libdvdcss – 3 critical components that allow VLC to play DVD and Blu-ray Discs. _“The biggest features of those releases (libdvdread/nav 7 and libdvdcss 1.5) are related to DVD-Audio support, including DRM decryption,”_ the team say. If you use VLC to play optical media and you aren’t having any issues playing content you don’t need to go out of you way to download and compile these libraries, but if you are experiencing quirks with newer discs, you may wish to. ### Kdenlive 25.12 RC The Kdenlive 25.12 Release Candidate is out for testing ahead of it’s (presumable, given the version number) stable release in December. The team say the update brings UI changes “to improve your workflow”, including a new widget docking system, and an “enhanced audio display” in the clip monitor with a waveform, and menus have been reordered to be more “logical” – all good stuff. If you make vertical videos for social media you’ll find the upcoming version caters for you as the welcome screen revamp now lets you pick a vertical orientation for new project from the get-go, and devs have added editing layout and safe areas for vertical formats. #### Until next month! That’s a wrap on November’s highlights. While those updates did not get their own headline (from me), they’re solid updates and, on the off chance you hadn’t heard about them, now you have. _**Got a tip about an app update I should cover? The contact form is always open!**_

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**October brought ghosts, ghouls — and a glut of great Linux app updates**. Big hitters included Mozilla Firefox 144, Thunderbird 144, ONLYOFFICE 9.1, Ghostty 1.2, GIMP 3.0.6 and the all-new Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0. And major virtualisation updates in the form of VirtualBox 7.2.3, Parallels Desktop 26 and VMWare Workstation 25H2. But, as regular readers (you rock) will know, each month I round up a slew of smaller Linux app updates which didn’t receive the ‘full post’ treatment on this site, yet are still worth knowing about. As ever, if you spot an update I’ve missed (or am yet to hear about), give me a shout using the contact form. Your tips help hugely. Waffle over, on to what arrived in October. ### Calibre 8.11.x Calibre, the venerable open-source ebook manager, converter and reader, added AI integration in September, letting users connect to local large language models (via Ollama) to ‘ask questions’ about the text they’re reading. In October, the developers refined the feature: users can now set arbitrary HTTP headers for requests, and custom URLs work as intended. Small but important tweaks to one of Calibre’s biggest feature additions in a while. Elsewhere, this update improves Tolino e-reader support, fixes an issue with the ebooks.com plugin and resolves a regression that broke HTML versions. On Linux, Calibre 8.11 no longer uses `/tmp` for export libraries to fix issues on distros that mount `/tmp` in RAM. _Calibre_ is free and open source software available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Official installers are available from the project website for Windows and macOS, while Linux users can run an official script that downloads and unpacks the official binary. ### Resources 1.9.0 Resources 1.9 is the first update to this GTK4/libadwaita system monitoring tool the 1.8 release back in March (which added Raspberry Pi GPU monitoring among other changes). It ships with a range of minor new features and general improvements. Notable, Resources will stop updating ‘graphical’ elements within the app if its window is not in view. This is designed to save on power. It also now supports type-to-search, so you don’t need to reveal or focus a search field box to start sifting for a specific process. Other changes of note: * **Support for the new Intel Xe GPU driver** * **Power usage reading improved for certain GPUs** * **PCIe 7.0 and 8.0 interface support** * **Wi-Fi interfaces now show link information** so… * **Flatpak build will request network access** to get link info * **New ‘Commandline’ column option in _Processes_ view** * **‘Uptime’ added to the CPU view** * **Battery detection and power calculation improved** * **Numerical values right-aligned in _Apps_ and _Processes_ views** _Resources_ is free, open source software for Linux. The developer would prefer that you install it from Flathub but there are unofficial Arch and Fedora packages/repos around for those who’d rather not. ### Haruna 1.6 _Haruna_ is a cute (pun intended) modern media player targeted at KDE desktops (it runs elsewhere too, of course). It’s kind of like a Qt version of Celluloid in that it does everything you’d expect, in a modern, flexible guise. Last month it scored a minor update that focused on the player’s playlist feature. It’s now possible to resize the in-window playlist; an icon for playback actions is shown in the playlist header; the button to add a new playlist moves to the tab bar. Haruna’s mouse settings now lets users customise the action for mouse forward and back buttons (for those with mice that have them), refining a feature the previous update added. Various bugs were fixed, including issues with looping playlists, playlist tabs not saving, and issues renaming playlists immediately after adding them. _Haruna_ is free, open-source software and you can get the latest release from Flathub. If the very latest version isn’t essential, Haruna is also available to install from the Ubuntu repos. ### BleachBit 5.0.2 Free, open source and cross-platform system cleaning tool _BleachBit_ saw its first major release in nearly 2 years back in May. Last month, it got a minor update with new UI options, backend reliability buffs and several new cleaners for Linux users. BleachBit 5.0.2 is able to clean the pacman cache (on Arch-based distributions) and clean out disabled snap packages on Ubuntu. Both of the new cleaners ought to be used with care: BleachBit is powerful software but not everything it can delete should be! Elsewhere, this update introduces official support for Debian 13, Linux Mint 22.2, openSUSE Leap 15.6 and 16. The official Debian and RPM package metadata has been updated, and a swathe of translations updated. * **UI font size can be changed** using `ctrl` + `-` / `+` / `0` shortcuts * **New full screen mode** can be activated by pressing `f11` * **Fix for issues vacuuming Firefox 140 and later** The next major release, 5.2.0, will offer granular cookie cleaning options. A redesigned BleachBit GUI is in development (earmarked for inclusion in v5.4.0) and will remain GTK-based. BleachBit 5.0 is available for download from the BleachBit website for Windows (installer and portable) and for Linux (provided as a 64-bit DEB for Ubuntu and Linux Mint, supports Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and above). ### DigiKam 8.8.0 If you take a lot of photos (or just hoard them, like I do), _DigiKam_ is a solid to manage, organise and perform edit your snaps. A new version of the Qt-based app landed in frame in October. DigiKam 8.8.0 is a flashy (sorry) release that sees the app complete its core port to Qt 6.10. This should improve performance on and compatibility with modern OSes. The release also updates the LibRaw, Exiv2, and G’MIC-Qt (v3.6) plugins. This means broader support for RAW files, latest camera metadata reading and more image filters. Plus, the _Image Editor_ now offers a background-blur tool for fake depth-of-field effects. With this release, tag hierarchies can be imported and exported as text files. This will make it easier for users to move carefully structured tags between systems; in _Preview_ mode, DigiKam 8.8 will visualise focus points in images shot on Fujifilm and Olympus cameras. Elsewhere, the app respects monitor colour profiles on Windows, macOS, and Linux with Wayland, and uses native desktop notifications for imports and batch edit progress updates. DigiKam 8.8.0 is available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. For the former, grab the official AppImage from the project web site, seek it out on an alternative storefront or wait for it to hit your repos (if you’re on a rolling-release distro). ### Bazaar 0.5.6 Ubuntu users who make heavy use of Flathub who aren’t using Bazaar, should check this solid desktop storefront and Flatpak management tool out – the latest update giving even-more reason to do so! Bazaar 0.5.6 continues to flesh out its feature set with the sort of things most of us come to expect from a desktop app store. Screenshots in app listing open in a new in-app viewer with zoom buttons, paging and a button to copy the image the clipboard. Descriptions in app listings use ‘better rendering’ and look more like they do on Flathub itself – and text is selectable, hurrah! Bazaar’s global progress bar makes it handy to track when apps are installing, updating or being removed. With this release, it tweaks its ‘pending’ state so you can tell when an operation is being readied to run, but isn’t yet running. Finally, there’s now a ‘Flathub like carousel for featured apps’ at the top of the main view. Slides for apps which are spotlighted use an app’s logo, title, sub-line and defined branding colours, similar to the Flathub website and GNOME Software. ### LibreOffice 25.2.7 All good things come to an end (I don’t mean this post, lol), and so the October release of LibreOffice 25.2.7 rounds off the 25.2.x series. No new features arrive (they rarely do in a maintenance update) but the seventh and final batch of bug fixes and stability buffs improve reliability, performance and—here it comes that word—interoperability across the suite’s core components. LibreOffice 25.2.7 is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows from the LibreOffice website, but may turn up in Linux distro repositories also — The Document Foundation urge all users of this release to upgrade, if possible, to the newer LibreOffice 25.8 series. #### Until next month! That wraps up this month’s recap of smaller but noteworthy releases. While these updates might not have gotten their own headlines, they’re still the sort of steady improvements that make daily Linux desktop use all the better. _**Got a tip about an app update I should cover? The contact form is always open!**_

Linux App Release Roundup (October 2025) October brought ghosts, ghouls — and a glut of great Linux app updates. Big hitters included Mozilla Firefox 144, Thunderbird 144, ONLYOFFICE 9.1, Ghostty...

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**October brought ghosts, ghouls — and a glut of great Linux app updates**. Big hitters included Mozilla Firefox 144, Thunderbird 144, ONLYOFFICE 9.1, Ghostty 1.2, GIMP 3.0.6 and the all-new Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0. And major virtualisation updates in the form of VirtualBox 7.2.3, Parallels Desktop 26 and VMWare Workstation 25H2. But, as regular readers (you rock) will know, each month I round up a slew of smaller Linux app updates which didn’t receive the ‘full post’ treatment on this site, yet are still worth knowing about. As ever, if you spot an update I’ve missed (or am yet to hear about), give me a shout using the contact form. Your tips help hugely. Waffle over, on to what arrived in October. ### Calibre 8.11.x Calibre, the venerable open-source ebook manager, converter and reader, added AI integration in September, letting users connect to local large language models (via Ollama) to ‘ask questions’ about the text they’re reading. In October, the developers refined the feature: users can now set arbitrary HTTP headers for requests, and custom URLs work as intended. Small but important tweaks to one of Calibre’s biggest feature additions in a while. Elsewhere, this update improves Tolino e-reader support, fixes an issue with the ebooks.com plugin and resolves a regression that broke HTML versions. On Linux, Calibre 8.11 no longer uses `/tmp` for export libraries to fix issues on distros that mount `/tmp` in RAM. _Calibre_ is free and open source software available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Official installers are available from the project website for Windows and macOS, while Linux users can run an official script that downloads and unpacks the official binary. ### Resources 1.9.0 Resources 1.9 is the first update to this GTK4/libadwaita system monitoring tool the 1.8 release back in March (which added Raspberry Pi GPU monitoring among other changes). It ships with a range of minor new features and general improvements. Notable, Resources will stop updating ‘graphical’ elements within the app if its window is not in view. This is designed to save on power. It also now supports type-to-search, so you don’t need to reveal or focus a search field box to start sifting for a specific process. Other changes of note: * **Support for the new Intel Xe GPU driver** * **Power usage reading improved for certain GPUs** * **PCIe 7.0 and 8.0 interface support** * **Wi-Fi interfaces now show link information** so… * **Flatpak build will request network access** to get link info * **New ‘Commandline’ column option in _Processes_ view** * **‘Uptime’ added to the CPU view** * **Battery detection and power calculation improved** * **Numerical values right-aligned in _Apps_ and _Processes_ views** _Resources_ is free, open source software for Linux. The developer would prefer that you install it from Flathub but there are unofficial Arch and Fedora packages/repos around for those who’d rather not. ### Haruna 1.6 _Haruna_ is a cute (pun intended) modern media player targeted at KDE desktops (it runs elsewhere too, of course). It’s kind of like a Qt version of Celluloid in that it does everything you’d expect, in a modern, flexible guise. Last month it scored a minor update that focused on the player’s playlist feature. It’s now possible to resize the in-window playlist; an icon for playback actions is shown in the playlist header; the button to add a new playlist moves to the tab bar. Haruna’s mouse settings now lets users customise the action for mouse forward and back buttons (for those with mice that have them), refining a feature the previous update added. Various bugs were fixed, including issues with looping playlists, playlist tabs not saving, and issues renaming playlists immediately after adding them. _Haruna_ is free, open-source software and you can get the latest release from Flathub. If the very latest version isn’t essential, Haruna is also available to install from the Ubuntu repos. ### BleachBit 5.0.2 Free, open source and cross-platform system cleaning tool _BleachBit_ saw its first major release in nearly 2 years back in May. Last month, it got a minor update with new UI options, backend reliability buffs and several new cleaners for Linux users. BleachBit 5.0.2 is able to clean the pacman cache (on Arch-based distributions) and clean out disabled snap packages on Ubuntu. Both of the new cleaners ought to be used with care: BleachBit is powerful software but not everything it can delete should be! Elsewhere, this update introduces official support for Debian 13, Linux Mint 22.2, openSUSE Leap 15.6 and 16. The official Debian and RPM package metadata has been updated, and a swathe of translations updated. * **UI font size can be changed** using `ctrl` + `-` / `+` / `0` shortcuts * **New full screen mode** can be activated by pressing `f11` * **Fix for issues vacuuming Firefox 140 and later** The next major release, 5.2.0, will offer granular cookie cleaning options. A redesigned BleachBit GUI is in development (earmarked for inclusion in v5.4.0) and will remain GTK-based. BleachBit 5.0 is available for download from the BleachBit website for Windows (installer and portable) and for Linux (provided as a 64-bit DEB for Ubuntu and Linux Mint, supports Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and above). ### DigiKam 8.8.0 If you take a lot of photos (or just hoard them, like I do), _DigiKam_ is a solid to manage, organise and perform edit your snaps. A new version of the Qt-based app landed in frame in October. DigiKam 8.8.0 is a flashy (sorry) release that sees the app complete its core port to Qt 6.10. This should improve performance on and compatibility with modern OSes. The release also updates the LibRaw, Exiv2, and G’MIC-Qt (v3.6) plugins. This means broader support for RAW files, latest camera metadata reading and more image filters. Plus, the _Image Editor_ now offers a background-blur tool for fake depth-of-field effects. With this release, tag hierarchies can be imported and exported as text files. This will make it easier for users to move carefully structured tags between systems; in _Preview_ mode, DigiKam 8.8 will visualise focus points in images shot on Fujifilm and Olympus cameras. Elsewhere, the app respects monitor colour profiles on Windows, macOS, and Linux with Wayland, and uses native desktop notifications for imports and batch edit progress updates. DigiKam 8.8.0 is available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. For the former, grab the official AppImage from the project web site, seek it out on an alternative storefront or wait for it to hit your repos (if you’re on a rolling-release distro). ### Bazaar 0.5.6 Ubuntu users who make heavy use of Flathub who aren’t using Bazaar, should check this solid desktop storefront and Flatpak management tool out – the latest update giving even-more reason to do so! Bazaar 0.5.6 continues to flesh out its feature set with the sort of things most of us come to expect from a desktop app store. Screenshots in app listing open in a new in-app viewer with zoom buttons, paging and a button to copy the image the clipboard. Descriptions in app listings use ‘better rendering’ and look more like they do on Flathub itself – and text is selectable, hurrah! Bazaar’s global progress bar makes it handy to track when apps are installing, updating or being removed. With this release, it tweaks its ‘pending’ state so you can tell when an operation is being readied to run, but isn’t yet running. Finally, there’s now a ‘Flathub like carousel for featured apps’ at the top of the main view. Slides for apps which are spotlighted use an app’s logo, title, sub-line and defined branding colours, similar to the Flathub website and GNOME Software. ### LibreOffice 25.2.7 All good things come to an end (I don’t mean this post, lol), and so the October release of LibreOffice 25.2.7 rounds off the 25.2.x series. No new features arrive (they rarely do in a maintenance update) but the seventh and final batch of bug fixes and stability buffs improve reliability, performance and—here it comes that word—interoperability across the suite’s core components. LibreOffice 25.2.7 is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows from the LibreOffice website, but may turn up in Linux distro repositories also — The Document Foundation urge all users of this release to upgrade, if possible, to the newer LibreOffice 25.8 series. #### Until next month! That wraps up this month’s recap of smaller but noteworthy releases. While these updates might not have gotten their own headlines, they’re still the sort of steady improvements that make daily Linux desktop use all the better. _**Got a tip about an app update I should cover? The contact form is always open!**_

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