Linux Action News 145
Feb 17, 2020•16 min
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Episode description
The week was packed with major project releases, we go through each of them and tell you what stands out.
Plus an update from Essential, and NetBSD's first big ask in ten years.
Links:
- KDE Plasma 5.18 Released
- KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Released, This is What's New
- MATE 1.24 released
- OpenShot 2.5.0 Released — Perhaps one of the most exciting changes in OpenShot 2.5.0 is our experimental support for hardware acceleration.
- OpenShot Video Editor Just Got a Massive Update
- Firefox 73.0 Released — Today’s Firefox release includes two features that help users view and read website content more easily, quickly.
- Firefox ESR 68.5.0 Released
- Tor Browser 9.0.5 Released — This release updates Firefox to 68.5.0esr, NoScript to 11.0.13, and on desktop, Tor to 0.4.2.6. We also added a new default bridge and backported a few improvements from the alpha series.
- Tails 4.3 is out
- An Update from Essential — We have made the difficult decision to cease operations and shutdown Essential.
- Essential, Andy Rubin’s phone company, is shutting down
- Andy Rubin’s smartphone startup, Essential, is dead
- After just one phone, Essential Products ends
- NetBSD fundraiser — We are trying to raise $50,000 in 2020
- NetBSD 9.0 Released
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