Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.4 Released with Various Changes

A new version of the Raspberry Pi Imager, a free, open source and cross-platform image writing utility (think Etcher, but much redder) is out with an array of modest improvements. Serving as the first release since last September, Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.4 adds to the big UI changes the previous version brought with some quality-of-life adjustments. For instance, in the OS customisation settings there’s an Enable SSH tab. This now uses “regex to perform some light validation” of public keys to avoid boot failures, having previously just assumed any key entered was correct. Raspberry Pi Imager 9.4 includes an ‘Exclude
#News #AppUpdates #ImageWriter #QtApps #RaspberryPi

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/raspberry-pi-imager-1-9-4-released-with-various-changes

Audacious 4.5 Beta Brings New Plugins, Better PipeWire Support

The first beta of Audacious 4.5 offers improved PipeWire support, better Qt/GTK parity, and new plugins and skins.
#News #AppUpdates #Audacious #Pipewire

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/audacious-4-5-beta-improvements

Linux App Release Roundup: May 2025

May saw another sizeable set of Linux app updates, including a big update to system monitor tool Mission Centre and long-awaited version bump to system cleaner BleachBit. We also got new versions of web browsers Mozilla Firefox and Vivaldi; the NordVPN Linux app gained a GUI; and more — but they weren’t the only releases of note. That’s why I do these Linux app release roundups: I like to highlight app updates that didn’t warrant a headline of their own, but are still worth knowing about. As always, if you hear about a notable app update I haven’t covered, tips
#News #AppUpdates #Inkscape #Lrr #Virtualbox

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/linux-app-release-roundup-may-2025

Mozilla Firefox 139 Brings Custom New Tab Wallpapers

The new Mozilla Firefox 139 release is rolling out from today and, compared to recent releases of late, it’s far lighter on user-facing changes. Not that every release can, of course. We have been spoiled: Firefox 136 came with vertical tabs, Firefox 137 brought tab grouping and revamped address bar, while last month’s Firefox 138 release debuted a proper profile manager/switcher. By comparison, the headline change in Firefox 139, per its release notes, is full-page translations on extension pages (but only if they start with the moz-extension:// URL scheme). Mozilla say this delivers a “popular request” from users. Elsewhere, Firefox 139
#News #Ai/Ml #AppUpdates #Firefox

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/mozilla-firefox-139-released-new-features

High Tide (Linux TIDAL App) Improvements

It’s been a few months since I spotlighted High Tide, a promising third-party TIDAL client for Linux desktops that’s under active development. I thought I’d recap some of its recent improvements. Before I do: keep in mind High Tide is still in development. There is no stable release, and many features are missing or a WIP. It’s also not a local music player; you need to be a paid subscriber of the TIDAL music streaming service to use this. It is a solid (and relatively reliable) alternative to the official TIDAL web app though, and installing it on Ubuntu isn’t
#News #AppUpdates #Tidal

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/high-tide-linux-tidal-client-updates

Vivaldi 7.4 Update Adds Keyboard Shortcut Controls

A new version of the Vivaldi web browser is available to download, carrying changes said to make our collective “everyday browsing smoother, faster, and just a little more delightful.” How does Vivaldi 7.4 make browsing the increasingly gamified, algorithmically manipulative and Ai slopified modern web more ‘delightful’? Shortcuts. More specifically, Vivaldi 7.4 gives you the ability to “fine-tune” how shortcuts behave on a per-site basis. If you want a website’s shortcuts to take priority over Vivaldi’s, you can. “It’s about putting you in control, making sure your shortcuts work where and when you need them most”, says Jon von Tetzchner,
#News #AppUpdates #Vivaldi #WebBrowsers

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/vivaldi-7-4-released-with-stuff

NordVPN Linux App Now Has a GUI

NordVPN today announced a major update to its Linux app, adding a much-requested GUI front-end that makes it easier to control, configure and monitor connections. Linux users have been able to use an official, comprehensive command-line interface for NordVPN for many years. Today’s announcement of a graphical user-interface option sees the company widen access to its offerings to Linux users of all experience levels. Now, a Linux GUI is available, providing, NordVPN say, “visually rich elements and ease of use without compromising advanced features. With just a few clicks, users can connect to a server, manage preferences, and monitor their
#News #AppUpdates #Nordvpn #Security #Vpn

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/nordvpn-linux-app-update-adds-gui

System Cleaner BleachBit Gets ‘Major Update’

Open source system cleaning app BleachBit has issued its first major update in over a year, bringing improved cleaning capabilities, security fixes, and myriad changes with it. For the benefit of those with dusty memories, BleachBit is a free, open source system cleaner for Windows and Linux, written in Python and GTK 3. Similar to other apps of its kind, BleachBit helps free up disk space by cleaning out caches, cookies, and other transient cruft. It can also delete files securely, wipe unallocated disk space, and squeeze Firefox’s SQLite database to improve performance. BleachBit 5.0 expands the feature set to
#News #AppUpdates #Bleachbit #SystemTools

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/system-cleaner-bleachbit-gets-major-update

Mission Center 1.0 Adds New Features

Linux system monitoring app Mission Center has put out its first update in 6 months – and it’s a big one! Mission Center 1.0 adds new hardware tracking, UI tweaks, and refactors its backend to provide palapble performance improvements, boost the app’s responsiveness and minimise ‘time deviations between refresh cycles’. The latter may sound a tad dry on the ‘excitement’ scale but, arguably, it’s a big thing: a real-time monitoring app is used for, well, real-time monitoring and those tweaks ensure hardware and system process info shown is more precise. For a closer lookout the “visible” changes in this release,
#News #AppUpdates #MissionCenter #SystemTools

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/mission-center-1-0-adds-new-features

Linux App Release Roundup (April 2025)

April brought a solid set of software updates to an assortment of different apps. In this post, I run through recent releases that didn’t get the “whole article” treatment on this blog. Sometimes, it’s a challenge to cover everything I want to (especially in an Ubuntu release month, as April was). It also relies on me knowing a new release is out, and in a timely fashion. I track as much as I can, as best as I can. But it’s easy for things to pass under my radar (which is why the new tips you send me through the
#News #AppUpdates #Elgato #Lrr #Qemu #Typhoon

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/linux-app-release-roundup-april-2025

Firefox 138 Released with Long-Awaited Profile Manager

At long last, Mozilla Firefox has native profile management features – and they don’t suck! The feature, which begins rolling out in today’s Firefox 138 update, is the latest “big ticket” feature the browser has belatedly sought to add, following recent long-requested supported for vertical tabs and tab grouping capabilities. Last month’s Firefox 137 release added the aforementioned tab grouping features, give its address bar a chip-laden overhaul, and flipped the switch on HEVC video playback on Linux. Firefox 138 has a number of notable changes to match those of its predecessor, so for a closer look at what they are,
#News #AppUpdates #Firefox

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/firefox-138-new-features

VirtualBox 7.1.8 Adds Support for Linux Kernel 6.14

Ubuntu 25.04 is out this week and many will be turning to virtual machine to test, trial or tie the release into their development workflows — perfect timing for a new version of VirtualBox, then! Oracle today (April 15) issued the fourth maintenance update in the current VirtualBox 7.1 series. No new features were added but a flurry of bug fixes, stability boosts and integration buffs are present, which users across all supported OSes will benefit from. For Linux users frustrated at flakey wireless network adapter detection in earlier releases, the 7.1.8 update fixes the issue. Similarly, anyone ticked off
#News #AppUpdates #VirtualMachines #Virtualbox

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/virtualbox-7-1-8-brings-support-for-linux-kernel-6-14

Rnote 0.12 Released with Improved Linux Note-Taking Features

A major new release of Rnote, an open-source app for taking handwritten notes, sketching out ideas and annotating documents and pictures, is out. Rnote 0.12 brings several new features, new customisation and configuration options, user experience buffs, bug fixes, and other lower-level tune-ups. For those unfamiliar with it, Rnote is a digital note-taking app built using GTK4 and Rust. It’s primarily intended to be used with stylus input (so includes pen pressure, stroke styles, button actions, etc) but supports typed text entry, shapes, importing images, etc too. Rnote offers a range of document layouts, from fixed pages to infinite canvases,
#News #AppUpdates #NoteTakingApps #Rnote

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/rnote-0-12-released-with-improved-linux-note-taking-features

Pinta 3.0 Released With New Effects and GTK4 Port

Indulging your casual creativity (read: making memes, defacing selfies, etc) using open-source tools is made easier with the long-awaited release of Pinta 3.0. Pinta, as long-time Linux users will be aware, is a cross-platform raster graphics tool with a feature set and user-interface partly inspired by popular Windows image editing tool Paint.NET. I previewed the Pinta 3.0 beta back in January and came away impressed. Pinta port to GTK4/libadwaita lends the UI a much-needed modern look – and is more than superficial: usability, performance and stability is bolstered by the toolkit bump. Pinta 3.0 switches to a button-based header bar
#News #AppUpdates #Graphic&DesignApps #ImageEditors #Pinta

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/pinta-3-0-released-with-new-effects-and-gtk4-port

Celluloid 0.28 Adds Lua Module Support, Refreshes UI

Open-source video player Celluloid saw a notable new release at the weekend, bringing a refreshed user interface (among many other changes) to users. Celluloid is a popular GTK front-end to MPV, the (exhaustingly) configurable cross-platform, command-line based media player, and makes many of MPV’s more advanced features a touch easier for users to find, try and benefit from. In Celluloid 0.28 its developers have focused on improving the UI —not hugely, don’t fret. Player controls see refinement in both regular mode, full-screen mode and if ‘floating’ controls are enabled for windowed mode – fewer buttons are shown by default: As
#News #AppUpdates #Celluloid

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/celluloid-0-28-adds-lua-module-support-refreshes-ui

Tauon Music Player Adds Slick Transparency Mode for Linux

A new version of Tauon music player is out, gifting fans of the powerful and unique-looking audio app a raft of new features to play with – including some Linux exclusive eye candy! Tauon 8.0 has been fully ported to SDL3, an efficient cross-platform and open-source multimedia library that provides a robust API for interacting with hardware (like audio devices). Tauon mention that the port provides better stability and scope for adding interesting new capabilities. Features-wise, Tauon 8.0 adds an options menu to the stop button so let users define stop behaviour (including an ‘always’ setting, e.g., ‘always stop after
#News #AppUpdates #MusicPlayers #Sdl3 #Tauon

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/tauon-8-0-app-update-transparent-linux

Inkscape 1.4.1 Brings Snap App Fixes, New Features

Digital artists, designers and vector illustrators among you may be be interested to know that an updated version of open source graphics app Inkscape is out. Inkscape 1.4.1 builds on the giant set of features last year’s release of Inkscape 1.4 brought with it with a number of worthwhile enhancements and bug fixes, plus two new features. When opening Inkscape a new splash screen is shown during loading (it can be disabled) to let users (especially those on older/slower devices) know something is happening since they clicked or tapped on Inkscape icon to open it. The welcome dialog which shows on
#News #AppUpdates #Inkscape

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/inkscape-1-4-1-brings-snap-app-fixes-new-features

DeaDBeeF 1.10 Release Brings New Features

A new version of DeaDBeeF music player is out, bringing some cool features, FFmpeg 7 support, and a flurry of bug fixes to long-time fans. The popularity of traditional desktop music player apps has dipped considerably since the arrival of music streaming services like Spotify, which give users on-demand (and often free) access to a far larger catalogue of artists, albums and releases. Still, many people (myself included) have libraries filled with MP3 and other audio files, and do enjoy listening them. I’d wager most such users have (by now) settled on their preferred local music player; for many, that
#News #AppUpdates #Deadbeef #MusicPlayers

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/deadbeef-1-10-release-brings-new-features

Linux App Release Roundup (March 2025)

March was another stellar month for Linux software updates, with big improvements to essential privacy tools like KeePassXC, creative apps such as Shotcut and DigiKam, and many more — updates that didn’t warrant dedicated articles on this blog. Why? Well, sometimes it’s an update making small changes hat it’s hard to say much1 about. Other times I’m just deathly late to hearing about it (which is why new tips via the contact form are super appreciated – you help me catch the things I miss). For those of us on fixed-release Linux distributions like Ubuntu, even small app updates can
#News #AppUpdates #Blender #Crossover #Lrr #Shotcut

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/linux-app-release-roundup-march-2025

Firefox 137 Released with Tab Groups, Address Bar Revamp + More

Tab grouping is the latest big-ticket feature to be added to Mozilla Firefox, which sees a new stable release roll out from today. Last month’s Firefox 136 update delivered long-requested support for vertical tabs, a redesigned sidebar experience giving easy access to existing and new features (including online AI chatbots), and flipped the switch on AMD video hardware decoding for Linux users. Firefox 137 is an equally big update, bringing tab grouping, a revamped search bar, and a host of other changes. Let’s take a look. Firefox 137: New Features Tab Grouping Firefox 137 brings Tab Groups to users on the stable
#News #AppUpdates #Firefox #Hevc

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/firefox-137-new-features