SMPlayer, an open-source graphical front-end for Mplayer and MPV, reached the 17.10.2 release earlier today. SMPlayer 17.10.2 is a small release with some performance improvements. Changes in the release include: New option in Preferences -> Network to select the preferred quality for streaming sites The audio equalizer is now disabled by default on Linux to prevent a no sound problem ...

MKVToolNix 17.0.0 “Be Ur Friend”, a new release of the free and open source Matroska libraries and tools, was release yesterday with new features, enhancements, and various bug-fixes. MKVToolNix 17.0.0 release highlights: The word “timecode” has been changed to “timestamp” everywhere it was used in MKVToolNix. mkvextract’s command line interface has been changed to allow extraction of multiple items at ...

KeePass 2 password manager reached the 2.37 release days ago with many new features and performance improvements. KeePass was Windows only application. Since the 2.x series, it’s working on Linux with Mono project. If you prefer a password manager with native Linux support, try KeePassXC. KeePass 2.37 release highlights: When creating a new database, KeePass now offers to print a ...

Ubuntu 17.10 replaces Unity with Gnome 3 as its default desktop environment. The application window buttons (minimize, maximize, and close) are now in the right side of the title bar. Fortunately, the button layout is configurable in Gnome Desktop. For those who are accustomed to have the window buttons in the left do following steps. Move “minimize, maximize, close” buttons ...

The Wine development 2.18 was released a day ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu via its official repository. Wine 2.18 features radial gradients in Direct2D, asynchronous message support in WebServices, virtual memory write watches improvements, freeType 2.8.1 compatibility fixes, as well as a total of 22 bug-fixes. How to Install Wine 2.18 in Ubuntu: The official Wine repository ...

The latest long-lived branch of NVIDIA driver for Linux has reached the 384.90 release with new Quadro P5200 GPU support and various bug-fixes. NVIDIA 384.90 release highlights: Added support for the following GPU: Quadro P5200 Fixed a regression that caused display flickering at lower PowerMizer performance levels on some GPUs. Fixed a regression that prevented console restoration after a VT ...

The latest Wine development has reached the 2.17 release with DirectWrite, virtual memory improvements and various bug-fixes. Wine 2.17 brings better support for grayscale mode in DirectWrite, per-application StartupWMClass in desktop files, virtual memory compatibility improvements, palette handling improvements in WindowsCodecs, reply messages improvements in WebServices, and a total of 20 bug fixes. How to Install Wine 2.17 in Ubuntu: ...

MPV, the MPlayer-forked media player, has reached the 0.27 release earlier today with new features, performance improvements and various fixes. MPV 0.27 release highlights: handle media keys on Windows. rework of video output code for rendering API abstraction for future non-GL video outputs OpenGL updates include: support for embedded ICC profiles direct rendering support a compute shader based EWA kernel ...

JetBrains PyCharm IDE has reached 2017.2.2 release more than a week ago. Now you can easily install it in Ubuntu 16.04 and/or Ubuntu 17.04 via PPA. PyCharm 2017.2.2 fixed following bugs: An issue in the creation of Angular CLI projects Code insight and inspection fixes: “method may be static” issues, and misidentification of Python 3.7 Django: Cache conflict with Jinja ...

The latest Wine development release, Wine 2.16, was released last night with some new features and various bug fixes. Wine 2.16 adds support for pasting metafiles in RichEdit, better support for grayscale PNG images, support for safety features in library loading, better handling of transforms in GdiPlus, rendering improvements in DirectWrite, and a total of 19 bug-fixes. How to Install ...