The 3.0 release of VLC media player, code name “Vetinari”, is now available! Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 18.04. VLC 3.0 release highlights: Activate hardware decoding by default, to get 4K and 8K playback! Support 10bits and HDR Support 360 video and 3D audio, up to Ambisoncics 3rd order Allow passthrough for HD audio ...

Opera web browser reached new stable 51 release earlier today with browser speed improvements and some new features. We’re happy to introduce the stable version of Opera 51 today. Our new browser comes with internal and practical improvements to help you browse faster and more smoothly. Opera 51 Release Highlights: Improved browsing speed – It’s said Opera 51 is 38% ...

The latest long-lived NVIDIA Linux driver reached the 390.25 release a few days ago. Now you can install it in Ubuntu via PPA repository. NVIDIA 390.25 adds support for GeForce GTX 1060 5GB and Quadro P620 GPUs. And there are following changes included in the release: Fixed a regression introduced in 390.12 that prevented displays from working normally when running ...

qStopMotion, a free application for creating stop-motion animation movies, reached the 2.4.0 release after more than a year of development. qStopMotion is a fork of stopmotion for Linux with Qt framework and redesigned user interface. Users can create stop-motions from pictures imported from a camera or from the harddrive and export the animation to different video formats such as mpeg ...

Free and open-source image organizer digiKam 5.8.0 was released earlier today. The new release features a new tool to export collections to UPNP/DLNA compatible devices. digiKam 5.8.0 release highlights: Linux Appimage, Windows installer, and MacOS package bundle improvements A new tool to export to UPNP/DLNA device Port DropBox export tools to OAuth2 Mysql support improvements Many fixes and improvements to ...

Gnome photo management software, Shotwell 0.27.3, was released hours ago with improvements and some bug-fixes. Changes in Shotwell 0.27.3 include: Fix upgrading from Shotwell 0.7.2 Make Histogram widget accessible by keyboard Add F4 as shortcut for the Date/Time dialog Fix an issue where the date/time picker was out-of-sync with the calendar widget Refactor shotwell.ui into smaller ui files and make ...

A new update for the latest long-lived NVIDIA Linux driver 384 series was released a few days with some new GPUs support and a few fixes. Changes in NVIDIA 384.111 include: Added support for GPUs: GeForce MX130, GeForce MX110, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with Max-Q Design, Quadro P500. Fixed a regression that prevented displays connected via some types of passive ...

A new major release of the open-source photography workflow software, Darktable 2.4.0, was released earlier today. Darktable 2.4 comes with hundreds of issues closed. There are various new features and changes, and the biggest of them is support for Microsoft Windows. The big changes in Darktable 2.4: A new module for haze removal The local contrast module can now be ...

The new major VLC media player 3.0 reached RC2 release. The VideoLAN team made it easy to test VLC 3.0 dev releases via Snap packages in Ubuntu. Changes in VLC 3.0 include: HTTP/2 support. Improved UPnP support. Adaptive streaming support. Early work on Wayland support Optional systemd support. Support for network browsing with Samba, FTP/SFTP, NFS, and other protocols. Support ...

Gnome photo manager shotwell 0.27.2 was released a day ago with performance improvements and some bug-fixes. Changes in Shotwell 0.27.2 includes: Use meson for building the debian package Improve the wording for the “Width or Height” scaling constraint Fix unmounting the camera when it is mounted via mtp, not gphoto2 Speed up color transformations Refactor Tumblr and Flickr code to ...