Kodi 22 “Piers” is taking shape with FFmpeg 8, HEIC support, Python 3.13, and wide-ranging platform improvements ahead of the final release.

OpenZFS 2.4 extends Linux kernel compatibility up to 6.18 while supporting FreeBSD 14, 15, and 16, bringing major performance, quota, and storage improvements.

Arch Linux has made its official WSL image fully reproducible, ensuring bit-for-bit identical builds using archived repositories and normalized timestamps.

The Armbian team has launched a new official imager that simplifies flashing Armbian OS on single-board computers across macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Kdenlive 25.12 open-source video editor introduces a new docking system, redesigned menus, improved markers, audio monitor updates, and more.

Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” is now in public beta, offering users an early look at new features and improvements before the final release.

NVIDIA’s Linux driver 590.48 debuts as a New Feature Branch release with Wayland fixes, Vulkan performance improvements, and updated platform requirements.

The systemd v259 release makes journald persistent by default, drops TPM 1.2 support, and fully transitions networking components to nftables.

Asahi Linux reports major upstream progress in Linux kernel 6.18, improving Apple Silicon support across audio, USB-C, sensors, and more.

Flatpak 1.16.2, a universal app delivery framework for Linux, introduces reinstall support for bundle installs, Intel Xe VA-API enablement, and multiple stability and security fixes.

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A second GIMP 3.2 release candidate (RC) is now available for testing, should you fancy sampling the various changes on course for the upcoming stable release. GIMP 3.2 iterates on the huge GIMP 3.0 release that landed earlier this year, which took more than 7 years to get in to shape. No lengthy gap for GIMP 3.2 or successors as the team switches to an accelerated development cycle. Below I run through what’s changed since GIMP 3.2 RC1. That build, along with the GIMP 3.1.2 & 3.1.4 dev releases, added lots of new features. There are no new features here, as the point […]

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Armbian Imager is out now as the official utility for flashing the Armbian Linux operating system to your single-board computer. Here's our first look!

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Flatpak 1.16.2 Linux app sandboxing and distribution framework is now available for download with various enhancements and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!

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For .NET developers and users, Ubuntu is finally adding the latest .NET 10 support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.04/25.10, and next Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

.NET 10 is the Long Term Support (LTS) version that was released a month ago. It features 3 years support until November 10, 2028.

The new version features JIT enhancement with various inlining improvements, improved code generation for struct arguments, and loop inversion.

It added Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) 10.2 support for x64-based processors. And, it updated NativeAOT’s type preinitializer with support for all variants of the conv.* and neg opcodes, further optimizing runtime performance. For more features about .NET 10, see it in MS website.

Microsoft provides official .NET packages for Linux through portable tarballs, which are available to download at this page. User may select download it, decompress, and run the executable directly from the extracted folder.

Why installing .NET package from Ubuntu Repository

As you may know, Ubuntu announced the collaboration with Microsoft more than 3 years ago, to provide enterprise-grade .NET support through native .deb packages in the universe repositories.

Canonical has packaged .NET 6/7 for Ubuntu 22.04, .NET 8 for 22.04/24.04 & higher, and .NET 9 for Ubuntu 25.04/25.10.

For .NET 10, it’s already made available for Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04, while the support for Ubuntu 24.04 and 25.04 will be available soon.

The .NET packages in system repositories are well tested by Ubuntu developers, and keep receiving security updates. They provide better integration with your system, as they are built with Distro specific patches and PATH and environment variables setup out-of-the-box.

And, user may ask for community support (from e.g., AskUbuntu and Ubuntu Discourse) and report bugs for the packages in launchpad.

To install .NET 10 in Ubuntu from 24.04 to 26.04, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install dotnet10

Besides installing the full SDK and run-times, you may select install only the SDK or runtime that you need:

sudo apt install dotnet-sdk-10.0

sudo apt install dotnet-runtime-10.0

sudo apt install aspnetcore-runtime-10.0

NOTE: For Ubuntu 24.04 and 25.04, .NET 10 is being rolled out gradually, so far for one-fifth of users. If you can’t get it, just wait. It will be available in next days if everything goes well.

What about Ubuntu 22.04

For Ubuntu 22.04, the maintainer team has made .NET 10 into this PPA repository.

Both the PPA and official Ubuntu packages are maintained by same team members. However, the PPA package is NOT officially supported by Ubuntu.

To add the PPA, open terminal and run commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dotnet/backports

sudo apt update

After that, you may run the apt install command above to install .NET 10 SDK and runtimes.

The 25.12.0 version of Kdenlive video editor is finally available to download!

The new version of this KDE’s software added a welcome dialog at app start, allowing to open or create new project, or create new from a profile.

For new users, the welcome screen also provides options to select prefer color scheme, and configure default profile resolution, frame rate, layout orientation, and video/audio tracks number etc.

The new version also introduced new widget docking system, allowing to easily re-arrange the video editor components by dragging on their tab-bars.

Simply click down on the tab-bar of the target component then drag, it will show you the layout thumbnails. Just drag the cursor icon onto target layout position, then you’re done moving the component. Or, you may double-click (on tab-bar) to cancel the dragging, or even leave it to be outside of the video editor window.

Besides that, the release also updated the clip monitor and project monitor (video preview section) with enhanced audio display, 1080p monitor scaling, and hamburger menu options to create mark from zone.

The add marker dialog now has time span support, letting to easily set the end time and duration. Media browser now has preview support, making easy to find out the file that you want. And, Safe Zone button is added in monitor toolbar, vertical safe zone layout and zoom reset.

The new version also updated audio waveform support by adding reset/cycle actions, and moving zoom control from A1 track header to status bar.

It brings back snapping when resizing for non-rotated frames, supports snapping when moving a rotated frame, and snapping for all edges when moving instead of only top-left.

And it added power management option to disable sleep while rendering and playing, switched av1 encoder to the highly optimized software dav1d encoder, and added SVT-AV1 to codecs which use crf option.

Other changes include:

• Two new frei0r filters.
• Add xsd for effects.
• Add vertical editing profile.
• Quality and speed control to svtav1 preset.
• Duration support in MarkerListModel import/export.
• Add XML files for LADSPA TAP effects.
• Allow appending video clips directly to a project in command line.

There are as well numerous other improvements and tons of bug-fixes in this release. For details, see the change-log in the KDE announcement page.

Get Kdenlive 25.12.0

The official packages for Linux, Windows, and macOS are made available in the KDE website via the link below:

For Linux, it’s an AppImage for AMD/Intel platform, which can be run directly to launch the video editor, after adding executable permission.

There’s also an official Flatpak package for most Linux on both amd64 and arm64 processors, though not updated at the moment of writing.

For Ubuntu user who prefer native .deb package, the new release has been made into Ubuntu 26.04 repository, and I’ve uploaded the package into this unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 25.04.

To add the PPA and install Kdenlive deb package, run commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/kdenlive
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kdenlive