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The latest long lived NVIDIA Linux driver series has reached the 384.69 release with Quadro P4000 with Max-Q Design support, and a few bug-fixes. NVIDIA 384.69 features: New GPU Quadro P4000 with Max-Q Design support. Fixed an intermittent hang when using Vulkan to present directly to display with the VK_KHR_display extension. SteamVR was particularly affected by that hang. Disabled G-SYNC ...

The Wine development release has reached version 2.15 earlier today. Wine 2.15 added support for AES encryption, improved Bezier support in Direct2D, improved chunked transfer in WinInet, and fixed bugs for running Illustrator CS6, emClient, Bricscad, Joystick, Microsoft Outlook 2010, XM6 TypeG, Peavey Revalver IV, FUJITSU Software ATLAS，and Magic Online. How to Install Wine 2.15 in Ubuntu: The official Wine ...

While Shotwell 0.27 is still marked as unstable release, the Gnome photo management software got a new update for Shotwell 0.26 series a few hours ago with various bug-fixes and translation updates. Changes in Shotwell 0.26.3 include: Fix missing XML escape in wallpaper.xml file Fix missing “Photos” menu content Fix missing “find” icon Fix build macro for appstream Fix data ...

JetBrains PyCharm python IDE got an update by releasing version 2017.2.1 a day ago. The new release brings various bug fixes to Python 3.6, JavaScript, Docker, and more. Changes in PyCharm IDE 2017.2.1 includes: Docker: Python console volume issue fix, and various other fixes Debugging: concurrency visualization for Python 3.6, and console fixes Inspections: variable type comparison bugs Namespace package ...

Fotoxx, free and open-source Linux image editing and collection management software, has reached the 17.08 release a few days go. Fotoxx 17.08 release highlight: Thumbnails enlarged to 512 pixels for faster galleries Click to play video file thumbnails via default media player. New widget types to make some dialogs smaller to cover less of the image window. save and recall ...

The new Wine development release has reached the 2.14 release days ago with new features and a total of 18 bug-fixes. The official repository has made the binary packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, and their derivatives. What’s New in Wine 2.14: Mono engine updated with some bug fixes. C++ calling convention workarounds in the IDL compiler. Z-order ...

Focus Writer, a simple open-source full-screen word processor, reached the 1.6.6 release days ago with some bug-fixes and translation updates. FocusWriter supports TXT, basic RTF, and basic ODT files. It allows you to customize your environment by creating themes that control the font, colors, and background image to add ambiance. It also features on-the-fly updating statistics, daily goals, multiple open ...

The Libreoffice office suite reached the new major 5.4 release 3 days ago. Now it’s available in the official backports PPA for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Linux Mint 18.x, and their derivatives. What’s new in LibreOffice 5.4: a new standard color palette improved file format compatibility importing PDFs now yield much better quality support for OpenPGP ...

Gscan2pdf, a graphical tool to produce PDFs or DjVus from scanned documents, has reached the 1.8.4 release hours ago. Several bugs has been fixed in the release. Gscan2pdf is an open-source tool for Linux that features: Compatible with any SANE-capable scanner Crop, threshold & clean up scan Reorder pages via DND Write multi-page scan to PDF, DjVu or TIFF Write ...

A new maintenance release of Virtualbox 5.1 series, Virtualbox 5.1.26, was released hours ago with various bug fixes to audio, Linux network interface, etc. Virtualbox 5.1.26 changelog: VMM: reset the TSC on VM reset to work around a Windows bug Audio: fixed memory leak when enabled with VRDP connections Audio: fixed creation of too many sound sinks on Linux hosts ...