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• 2025-03-05 Manage all household devices without the corporate spying using "Home Assistant 2025.3"
⌂ But! Before I dive into the release, let me quickly catch you up on things you might have missed...
 
• 2025-03-04 After almost a year of hard work, "KeePassXC 2.7.10" Password Manager is now available
🗝 Today, we are releasing KeePassXC 2.7.10 with many bug fixes and enhancements. The most prominent changes are the addition of a Proton Pass importer and...
 
• 2025-03-03 A ton of new features are in the latest "Godot 4.4" to help create the next GREAT GAME
🎮 Look forward to plenty of quality of life improvements hidden within this release. Faster load speeds, reduced stutter, streamlined processes...
 
• 2025-02-24 "Armbian v25.2" is the latest OS for all those Pi-like boards out there
ⓐ We are thrilled to announce Armbian Release 25.2, packed with significant updates across our entire ecosystem! These updates are aimed at enhancing functionality, expanding hardware support, and refining the user experience for both developers and everyday SBC users. Let's dive into the exciting new features...
 
• 2025-02-24 Newly minted "Claws Mail 4.3.1" contains many updates for this fast lightweight Email Client
✉ New in this release:

* The configuration option, "Don't popup error dialog on receive error" has been changed to "Show error dialog on receive error". Your previous choice will be automatically changed to the new format...
 
• 2025-02-22 File Compression Utility "PeaZip 10.3.0" has been greenlit for release to the general public
🫛 PeaZip 10.3.0 improves various archive managing functions, as handling archives containing errors, automatic browsing of compressed TAR archives, displaying task progress, saving reports, and context menu integration in Gnome and KDE...
 
• 2025-02-22 Give the latest "Thrive 0.8.1" a spin - an interesting Environmental Sim/Game
☾ Environmental interactions get a lot more varied in this new latest version of Thrive...
 
• 2025-02-20 "KiCad 9.0.0" Electronics Design Automation Suite now available for download
🅺 The KiCad project is proud to announce the release of the next major version of KiCad. Version 9 is packed with new features, improvements, and hundreds of bug fixes...
 
• 2025-02-20 Anyone needing to program in Java (or various other languages too) the "Apache NetBeans 25" IDE is now here
⬢ The Apache NetBeans team is pleased to announce that Apache NetBeans 25 was released on February 20, 2025. What’s in the Apache NetBeans 25 release...
 
• 2025-02-11 Book lovers rejoice with the new "Calibre 7.26" eBook Manager and Reader
📒 New features

Allow specifying web search links that are used when clicking on item names in the Book details panel for custom columns via Preferences->Add your own columns...
 
• 2025-02-11 Newly released "KDE Plasma 6.3" delivers an unmatchable desktop experience
⚙ One year on, with the teething problems a major new release inevitably brings firmly behind us, Plasma’s developers have worked on fine-tuning, squashing bugs and adding features to Plasma 6 - turning it into the best desktop environment for everyone!

Read on to discover all the exciting new changes landing in this release...
 
• 2025-02-11 "SteamOS 3.6.21" Stable Update
ⓢ SteamOS 3.6.21 has been released to the Stable channel for Deck with the following changes....
 
• 2025-02-09 Release of "DietPi v9.10" supports new boards
🍓 The February 9th, 2025 release of DietPi v9.10 comes with new images for the Orange Pi 5 Max, Orange Pi 5 Pro and NanoPi M6 SBCs, improvements for YaCy, MineOS, frp, Logitech Media Server and the NFS server and additionally with several bug fixes...
 
• 2025-02-06 New version "LibreOffice 25.2" released
🖺 LibreOffice 25.2, the new major release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux is available on our download page. LibreOffice is the best office suite for users who want to retain control over their individual software and documents, thereby protecting their privacy and digital life from the commercial interference and the lock-in strategies of Big Tech...
 
• 2025-02-06 "OpenWrt 24.10.0" - First stable release
🛜 The OpenWrt Community is proud to present the OpenWrt 24.10 stable version series. It is the successor of the previous 23.05 stable major release. OpenWrt 24.10.0 incorporates over 5400 commits since branching the previous OpenWrt 23.05 release and has been under development for over one year...
 
• 2025-02-04 A one-two punch: new "Thunderbird 135.0" out as well
🐦 What’s New

NEW     Add-ons: Added support for specifying a cookieStoreId when creating a space...
 
• 2025-02-04 Take back the Internet with "Mozilla Firefox 135" now available
🦊 NEW     Firefox Translations now supports more languages than ever! Pages in Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean can now be translated and Russian is now available as a target language for translating into...
 
• 2025-02-03 For the budding astronomer "KStars v3.7.5" is released
🔭 KStars v3.7.5 is released on 2025.02.03 for Windows, MacOS & Linux. It's a bi-monthly bug-fix release with a couple of exciting features. Here are the release notes organized by developer...
 
• 2025-02-03 "Ardour 8.11" being released is music to the ears of digital audiophiles
⮝ Ardour 8.11 is a hotfix release that contains a fix for a critical workflow-blocking bug. All users of 8.10 and all Linux distributions should upgrade to 8.11 as soon as possible...
 
• 2025-01-30 RTS game "0 A.D. Alpha 27" is out; the last alpha before an official first release (finally)
⨁ Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 27: “Agni”, the twenty-seventh and last alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. The release is named after the Hindu god of fire Agni...
 
• 2025-01-25 For Desktop Publishing the latest "Scribus 1.7.0" has been released
🖋 The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.7.0. This is the first release in the next development series of Scribus and brings these major changes and bugfixes...
 
• 2025-01-25 New "Shotcut version 25.01" Video Editor is out: Finally, playlist bins
🎥 New Stuff

• Added Bins and media type & text search to Playlist.
• Added View - Files panel...
 
• 2025-01-11 Manage Personal Finances with Latest "Skrooge 25.1.0"
💵 The Skrooge Team announces the release 25.1.0 version of its popular Personal Finances Manager based on KDE Frameworks...
 
• 2025-01-10 "Gambas 3.20.0" has been released for Programming in BASIC
🦞 What's new?

Among the hundreds of fixes and enhancements, the main features of this release are the following...