The development series for the next stable Wine 2.0 has now reached the Wine 1.9.19 release. What’s new in Wine 1.9.19: Initial version of a udev bus driver for HID. Various improvements in joystick support. Initial implementation of DC rendering in Direct2D. Improved metafile support in GDI+. And a total of 19 bugs has been fixed in this release. See ...

SMPlayer, the graphical front-end for MPlayer and mpv, has reached the 13.9 release a few days ago. SMPlayer 13.9 features option to send audio to specified device, return to Qt4 in Linux due to some Qt5 bugs. There are also a few improvements on the playlist: ability to hide any column (right click to see the options) a new search ...

Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.6, the third maintenance release for the 5.1 series, has been released with Linux 4.8 fixes for kernel display driver issues, various fixes to the Linux installer/additions packages, microphone input support, GUI, etc. VirtualBox 5.1.6 Changelog: GUI: fixed issue with opening ‘.vbox’ files and it’s aliases GUI: keyboard grabbing fixes GUI: fix for passing through Ctrl + mouse-click ...

Vim (Vi Improved) text editor has reached the 8.0 release, the first major Vim release in ten years. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04 via PPA. Vim 8.0 brings some interesting new features, many small improvements and lots of bug fixes. Here are some of them: Asynchronous I/O support, channels, JSON Jobs Timers Partials, Lambdas and ...

NVIDIA Team announced the release of Nvidia 370.28 yesterday as the first stable release for the 370 series driver in their short-lived branch. Nvidia 370.28 adds over- and under-clocking support for GeForce GTX 1000 “Pascal” graphics cards, initial support for PRIME Synchronization to synchronize flipping between an NVIDIA PRIME display source and a separate PRIME display sink (requires X.Org Server ...

Intel has recently announced the release of its Linux Graphics Update Tool 2.0.2. Ubuntu 16.04 is supported so it’s easy to install the latest Intel Graphics Stack in this LTS release. The new release supports for Ubuntu 16.04, and Fedora 24, and it’s available for download at the link below: Once you downloaded the .deb package, click install it via ...

Opera web browser for Linux finally reached the 39 stable release. It’s now based on Chromium 52.0.2743.116. What’s new in Opera 39: ES2016 exponentiation operator Fetch API: Response construction with ReadableStream Fetch API: referrer policy 2D canvas filters createImageBitmap options Invalidvalues are no longer treated as subtitles Web Audio updates. See more in changelog page. How to install Opera 39 ...

OpenMV, an unofficial open source engine reimplementation of the game Morrowind, has reached the 0.40 release a few days ago. OpenMW is a recreation of the engine for the popular role-playing game Morrowind by Bethesda Softworks. You need to own and install the original game for OpenMW to work. The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version ...

The latest development Wine 1.9.18 has been released today for running Windows Apps/Games in Linux and other OS. The wine 1.9 release is the development series for the next stable 2.0 release. What’s new in Wine 1.9.18: Support for multiple kernel drivers in a single process. More WebServices reader support. Various improvements in joystick support. Some more work towards the ...

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 ...