The digital photo manager Shotwell 0.23.6 was released. It’s available in PPA for Ubuntu 16.04 and Linux Mint 18. Shotwell photo manager is updating frequently in recent months, the latest 0.23.6 is released just two weeks after the last and it features: Fix locale-dependent times Use nl_langinfo instead of custom LConv Fix renaming of tags and saved searches Improve message ...

OpenShot 2.1, the new major stable release series since OpenShot 1.4.x (2.0 is a beta series), was finally released a few hours ago with a huge number of new features, bug fixes, and improvements! brings many stability and performance related improvements, multiple memory leak fixes, and also following new features: Supports for displaying audio waveforms on clips Improves property editing ...

Qmmp, an open-source Qt-based multi-media player, just got an update a few hours ago by releasing version 1.1.3 and 0.10.3. Qmmp is a free audio player with Winamp-like user interface. It supports XMMS and Winamp 2.x skins, mms, MPRIS, Last.fm, lyrics, most audio formats, and more. And the latest Qmmp 1.1.3/0.10.3 features: added xesam:contentCreated field in the mpris plugin improved ...

LiVES is a free and open-source video editing software and VJ tool designed to be simple to use, small in size, yet powerful with many advanced features. LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non-linear editing in one professional quality application. It will let you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or ...

Gnome Pie, a radial visual application launcher, got an update recently with some improvements and fixes. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS via PPA. Gnome Pie is an application inspired by a World of Warcraft addon called OPie, offers a cool new way to launch applications in Gnome. While Ubuntu 16.04 offers the 0.6.8 release, Gnome-Pie 0.6.9 ...

FileZilla FTP Client has reached the 3.21.0 release, here’s how you can install or upgrade it in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Changes in FileZilla 3.21.0: Fixed a string format vulnerability introduced in 3.20.0-rc1 when listing directories using SFTP SFTP: Added support for AES-GCM ciphers as implemented in OpenSSH OS X: Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab can now be used to switch forward and ...

While NVIDIA 370 is still in beta stage, the latest long-lived NVIDIA Linux driver 367.44 has been released with official support for TITAN X (Pascal) and GeForce GTX 1060 (both 3GB and 6GB) GPUs. Besides supporting new GPUs, there is also a regression fix concerning applications using indirect GLX that would crash, and a 367.35 regression fix arround mode-setting when ...

The KDE video editing software, Kdenlive, has reached the 16.08 release a few days ago with great new features, stability improvements and over 370 bug-fixes. Kdenlive 16.08 release highlights: Native support for Krita images A new modern logo and website insert mode is now enabled Timeline effect rendering new Library Widget allows to copy and paste sequences between different projects. ...

While Ubuntu 16.04 offers the Darktable 2.0.3 in its main archive, here’s how to install the latest Darktable (so far, it’s 2.0.5) in Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 14.04 via PPA, and keep it up-to-date by receiving future updates along with other System updates via Software Updater. Darktable changes from 2.0.3 to current 2.0.5 release: Support grayscale input profiles Add a ...

Want to change your login screen? It’s easy to do it via a GTK+ greeter for the default LightDM display manager in Ubuntu 16.04. Using LightDM GTK+ greeter instead of the default Unity greeter allows users to theming Ubuntu login screen via GTK 3 themes, and icons. And there’s a simple graphical tool to configure all the settings. To get ...