Firefox 150.0, the new monthly release, is available to download for Linux, Windows, and macOS users.

The new version of this popular web browser added official .rpm package, allowing to easily install the browser in RHEL, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and other RPM-based distributions according to the github release page.

It as well added GTK emoji picker for Linux. User can press Ctrl + . to trigger the picker dialog, then browser, search, and insert emojis or symbols in anywhere in the Firefox window.

Firefox 150.0 extended the local network access restrictions to all users. Meaning, it will require websites to ask for your permission before connecting to devices in local network or to apps and services on your device.

This version also improved PDF editing support. When viewing a PDF file in Firefox, you can now click the new “Manage pages” icon in the toolbar, then drag and drop re-arranging PDF pages, or copy, cut, delete, or export select PDF pages.

The split view feature has also been improved. It allows to right-click on any link and choose “Open Link in Split View“, so that it will open the link alongside your current tab.

If you have too many opened tabs, then you can now use the new Search function to quickly find out the tab to open side-by-side. And new “Reverse Tabs” option it added to tab context menu, allowing to exchange the position of the two tabs in split view.

For Windows, the new Firefox Profile management system is now available to all users, including users on Windows 10. The web apps are now available to all users who installed Firefox through the Microsoft Store. And, backing up a profile to a file is now available to all Windows 10 and 11 users, including those who use the new profile management system.

Other features in the new release include:

• Share multiple pages via context menu option.
• Type “translate” in URL bar will show a quick-action shortcut to access the local translations page.
• New setting option to turn off drag-and-drop group creation.
• Various security fixes.

For developers, Firefox 150.0 as well features:

• Support ariaNotify API for accessibility notifications.
• Support media element pseudo-classes, e.g., :playing, :paused.
• Add support highlightsFromPoint() API.
• Add support light-dark() on images, useful for dark mode websites.
• Remove the limitation that only accept two color values in color-mix() function.
• Add new auto value support on the sizes attribute for lazy-loaded image elements with multiple images defined via srcset.
• Add new element-specific section to the pseudo-class toggle panel.
• And more.

Download Firefox 150.0

The official announcement as well as the download link will be soon available in Firefox website via the link below:

If you can’t wait, then get it from this Mozilla web page.

LXQt, the lightweight Qt-based Linux desktop environment, released new 2.4.0 version yesterday.

The new version of this free open-source desktop improved Wayland, multi-monitors, and sandboxed apps support, and fixed many issues.

For Wayland, the visibility of the desktop items with multiple screen setup is consistent now, and, each monitor now has its own “Hide Desktop Items” setting options.

X11 and Wayland now have separated settings page. The main menu can be opened now on Wayland too by adding a shortcut for lxqt-qdbus openmenu in the compositor settings. And, the shortcut selectors in panel menus are disabled and a tooltip about how to configure it is added.

For laptops, the idleness option for turning off monitor(s) now has separate settings for both the cases running on battery and with AC power connected.

image from lxqt website

The volume indicator in the system tray area has been updated with a horizontal layout, and ability to display all available sinks. And, user can now move cursor over the indicator icon, and use mouse wheel or touchpad scrolling to change volume.

The new version also added new org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Access protocol for sandboxed apps (e.g., Flatpak apps) to request access permissions to e.g., camera or microphone.

It updated the “Do not disturb” mode to also ignore the transient notifications, e.g., titles of songs from players and similar. And, it implemented $XDG_STATE_HOME base directory to tell where applications should write state data, such as logs, history files, and internal databases.

Other changes in LXQt 2.4.0 include:

• Auto highlight the default file-name in file save dialog.
• Support shortcut for lock button of dropdown mode in QTerminal.
• Remove Imgur upload option for the screenshot tool.
• Add “Nord” theme for QTermWidget.
• Add OSC 7 escape sequence support for tracking current working directory.
• Support logout from SystemdProvider.
• Start calculator on numbers for lxqt-runner.

There are as well many other improvements and fixes in the release, see the official release notes for details.

Get LXQt 2.4.0

The LXQt source tarballs are available to download in the Github page.

For average users, it’s recommended to wait for your Linux distribution updates. And Ubuntu users may try out the official LUbuntu flavor, which however features LXQt 2.3.0 so far in the upcoming 26.04.

Parabolic, the popular application for downloading web video and audio, released new 2026.4.0 version today.

The new version of this free open-source yt-dlp front-end finally added macOS support, by introducing new macOS app built using the GNOME (GTK/libadwaita) version of Parabolic, with yt-dlp, deno, ffmpeg and other Parabolic dependencies in bundle.

It also added a portable version for Windows user, allowing to run the application without installation. Simply download the package, extract, and run the “Parabolic.bat” file will launch the portable app, while user may alternatively run the .exe file with --portable flag.

Besides new app packages, this version also added new preferences options to set your preferred frame rate (24, 30, or 60 FPS), and whether to show AI-scaled super resolution formats to download in additions to regular formats.

And, it now supports automatically translating embedded metadata and chapters to the app’s language on supported sites, while, a preferences option is available to disable this feature.

The “Add Download” dialog now have new “Download Immediately as Video” and “Download Immediately as Audio” to skip download options, and start downloading immediately using the previously configured options.

In the downloading view and the options page during adding a download, it now displays thumbnail image preview, allowing you to take a quick look at what you’re downloading or what you’re going to download.

Other features include a new failed filter in download view, a total duration label in playlist items view, and the ability to update deno (the JavaScript engine) within the app, though I didn’t find out where the option is.

Besides the new features above, the new version also improved the app startup time by using the native Native AOT compiler. It as well improved the selection of playlist audio/video formats, and, improved handling of long file names by now truncate file-names that are too long.

Other changes are mostly bug-fixes. They include fixes for duplicate entries in M3U playlist export, credentials not save on Linux, and batch files unusable on Linux and macOS.

Get Parabolic:

The official release note as well as the installer packages are available in Github via the link below:

For Windows and macOS, select download the package from Assets session. Fedora and Linux Mint may search & install it from either GNOME Software or Software Manager.

While other Linux may follow the steps below to install the Flatpak package.

• First, follow the setup guide to enable flatpak support. For Debian/Ubuntu, simply open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:

  sudo apt install flatpak

• Then, add flathub repository which hosts the app package, by running command:

  flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

• Finally, install the app package:

  flatpak install flathub org.nickvision.tubeconverter

If you’ve already installed the package, then run the command below to check and install updates:

flatpak update org.nickvision.tubeconverter

And, you may need a log out and back in to make app icon visible, or, replace update with run in last command to start it from terminal.

(Optionally) to remove the flatpak package, use command:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.nickvision.tubeconverter

And, remove flatpak uninstall --unused to remove useless runtime libraries.

GIMP 3.2.4, the second maintenance update of the 3.2 major release series, was released yesterday.

The new version of this popular GTK-3 based image editor continued improving UI/UX experiences, fixed various issues, and added new function for plugin developers.

The 3.2.4 now shortens long file names in the Welcome dialog’s Create page, while, user may hovering over the image preview or name to see the full name.

It significantly improved the performance when making selections inside a large image with Intersection Mode enabled, by only considering pixels within the existing selection rather than trying to calculate across the entire image.

It raised the maximum UI image size to 8192 pixels, and improve the performance when moving a floating layer or selection, by temporarily turned off the “marching ants” outline.

When editing text, it now prioritizes the global actions when a shortcut matches, before sending the hit keys to the input method engine (IME). This can prevent IME from blocking custom shortcuts.

GIMP 3.2.4 changed the behavior of the “edit-fill-*” actions. It will now either skip layers which can’t be filled (e.g., content-lock layers and link layers) or fill the expected way non-rasterized text and vector layers.

For Windows, the scanner plugin is broken due to removal of the 32-bit support. The new version introduced a Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) scanner plug-in to replace it. The new plugin can be accessed from the same place, though the UI looks difference and it requires new WIA-compatible drivers to make it work correctly.

For plugin developers, this version also added new gimp_resources_loaded () function to determine if a resource (like brushes, patterns, fonts, etc) has been loaded in GIMP before trying to use it in your plug-in.

It also deprecated the gimp_quit () plugin, which will be removed in the next GIMP 4.x release. And, several deprecated Script-fu functions have been cleaned out from scripts.

Other changes in GIMP 3.2.4 include:

• Improve temporary folder support to avoid clashes when several users run GIMP on a same computer.
• Prevent font size jumping to 0 when using shortcuts on selected text.
• The “layers-resize” now only works on raster layers.
• The “Layers to Image Size” and “Resize Layer to Selection” actions will only work on raster layers too.
• Non-raster layers are not rasterized anymore for crop tool.
• New Lao translation.

For more, see the official announcement.

How to Install GIMP 3.2.4

The official packages for Linux, Windows, and macOS, are available to download in GIMP website via the link below:

For Linux, either choose the non-install AppImage which can be run directly (after added executable permission) to launch the image editor, or install Flatpak package from Linux Mint Software Manager or Fedora Gnome Software.

Ubuntu user may choose install the Snap package in App Center (or Ubuntu Software), or install native .deb package from this unofficial PPA, which so far supports Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 25.10 and 26.04.

To add the PPA & install GIMP 3.2.4 deb package, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run commands below on by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/gimp-3
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gimp libbabl-0.1-0 libgegl-0.4-0t64

Though for Ubuntu 22.04, I’d recommend to use GIMP snap, flatpak, or AppImage packages, as system default GTK3 library is bit out-dated that could cause the app crashes.

Pods, the graphical front-end for Podman, released version 3.0.0 in last week.

The new version of this free open-source Gnome application implemented a new backend architecture to support multiple container engines.

Not only Podman, it now also works with your Docker containers. In the “new connection” dialog choose either Podman Unix Socket or Docker Unix Socket for containers on local computer, or input a custom URL for remote containers.

Then, it will automatically detect all the containers as well as the images and volumes, and display them in cards with overview of processor, memory, network, port, and disk usage.

With it, you can easily start, stop, pause, kill, rename or delete all existing containers. And, one click to prune (remove) stopped or unused containers, images, or volumes.

It also has some built-in utilities to view all container, image, or volume properties in a structured text form, connect to container’s terminal, view and search through container logs, and view and manager container processes.

As well, it provides options to pull/build images, and create new containers on them. For more, see Pods in its github page.

Install Pods in your Linux

Pods provides official Linux package through Flatpak package.

Fedora (with 3rd party repository enabled) and Linux Mint can search and install the package from either GNOME Software or Software Manager.

While Debian, Ubuntu, and other Linux distributions may follow the steps below to install it:

• First, enable flatpak support. For Debian Ubuntu and their based systems, launch terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:

  sudo apt install flatpak

• Then, add the Flathub repository that hosts the Pods flatpak package.

  flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

• Finally, install the package via command:

  flatpak install flathub com.github.marhkb.Pods

Once installed, either launch it from start menu (or Gnome Overview) and log out and back in if app icon is not visible. Or, run the command below to start from terminal:

flatpak run com.github.marhkb.Pods

And, you may replace run with update in last command to check (and install if any) updates.

Uninstall:

To uninstall the Flatpak package, use command:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data com.github.marhkb.Pods

And, run flatpak uninstall --unused to remove useles run-time libraries.

KDE announced the release of KDE Gear 26.04 on Thursday, including Kdenlive 26.04 the popular video editor.

The new version of this free open-source Qt and MLT based video editor introduced many exciting new features.

First, for multiple monitor users, the new Kdenlive 26.04 added screen mirroring feature. Instead of detaching, it can now mirror video preview to external monitor in full-screen. So that you can now preview video clips both in usual interface and larger view at the same time.

To enable the feature go to Settings -> Configure Kdenlive -> Preview -> Mirror monitor on fullscreen. After that, you may double-click, press F11, or use the Monitor -> Switch Monitor Fullscreen menu option, to mirror the video preview to external monitor.

The new version also introduced animated transition preview support.

In Compositions, a new icon view toggle is added to display items in small thumbnail previews. And, the transitions that can connect video clips with fading, sliding etc animations are now animated when you move mouse cursor over the thumbnails, making easier to know what they do.

As well, it added new filter to show luma only files, and button to generate previews.

In Kdenlive 26.04, you can now add clips using timeline context menu.

Just right-click in blank area in timeline, and go to “Add Clip” sub-menu. Then, you’ll be able to add a video clip, color clip, image sequence, title clip, online resources, create animation or generate counter, color bars, or white noise at the clicked position.

You can now select multiple clips and change the speed at the same time. Drag’n’drop a transition to the timeline will automatically adjust its duration to the above/below clips. And, a new option is added to always zoom on the mouse position instead of the timeline playhead.

Other changes include:

• Add clear undo history in Edit menu.
• Generate audio thumbnails for sequences.
• Add back delete all timeline markers action.
• Add missing HD-ready (1366×768) project profiles.
• Include “Add Clip” actions in context menu for folders in Project Bin.
• Add “Add to Project Bin” option to Render Widget.
• Improve drag and drop preview to different tracks on the timeline.

For more about Kdenlive 26.04, either see the commits in source page, or wait for the official release note in Kdenlive website.

Get Kdenlive 26.04

The official installers for Linux, Windows, and macOS are not ready at the moment of writing. Though, they will be soon available to download in KDE website via the link below:

For Linux, there’s also a Flatpak package which is also not updated at the moment of writing.

For Ubuntu users who prefer the native .deb package, I’ve built the new release package into this unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 26.04.

Simply open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run commands below one by one to get it:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/kdenlive
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kdenlive qt6-image-formats-plugins

Here qt6-image-formats-plugins is required for displaying the transition previews. For Ubuntu 25.10 and earlier, it does no longer build with system libraries because they are outdated.

Zorin OS, the popular Ubuntu LTS based distribution released new 18.1 version yesterday.

The new version of this beginner friendly Linux distribution updated the kernel to Linux 6.17, while, it’s still based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package base with support until April 2029.

Thanks to Linux Kernel 6.17, Zorin OS 18.1 now supports with more hardware, including Intel Xe3 graphics, AMD hybrid laptop GPUs, Apple Magic Mouse 2 USB-C, and ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, etc gaming handhelds. See this page for more about Linux 6.17.

For users switched from Windows, this version now supports sideloading over 240 Windows apps installer. When you launch a supported Windows app installer, it will show a dialog directs users to install either the Linux native version or closest alternatives from Software store.

The window tiling feature that introduced in the last 18 version has been updated with new options. When switching to a tiled app from the taskbar or dash, it now brings all tiled windows to the foreground together.

User can now re-order the tiling layout using the edit layouts dialog. And, edge tiling has been updated that supports drag’n’dropping windows to your active custom tiling layout.

While the Pro and Core versions are based on GNOME 46, Zorin OS 18.1 finally introduced Lite Edition features the lightweight XFCE 4.20 desktop environment for old computers.

The Lite Edition features redesigned file manager app, out-of-the-box fingerprint reader support, and a built-in webapp tool to turn any website into a desktop app.

Zorin OS 18.1 Lite (image from zorin website)

For applications with indicator icons (e.g., Dropbox, qBittorrent) on panel system tray area, the new version added a settings dialog, allowing to configure size, position, and opacity of these icons. And, it even supports using custom icons for your app indicators.

Other changes in Zorin OS 18.1 include:

• Right-to-left (RTL) language support in panel.
• Updated apps, such as LibreOffice 26.2.2, GIMP 3.2.2, and more

For more about the release, see the official announcement.

Get Zorin OS 18.1

Zorin OS provides .iso disc images for Pro, Core, Educational, and Lite Editions, which are available to download in its website via the link below:

While the Pro version needs to play $47.99, all others are free to use. And, users of Zorin 18 can upgrade to the new version by installing updates via “Upgrade Zorin OS” tool.

And, here’s the minimum hardware requirement for installing Zorin OS:

• 1 GHz Dual Core 64-bit Intel/AMD processor.
• 2 GB Memory (RAM).
• 15 GB (Core), 35 GB (Education), or 45 GB (Pro) HHD or SSD.
• 800 × 600 resolution display.

GNOME 50, the latest version of the popular Linux desktop environment, got the first maintenance updates.

The new 50.1 version introduced numerous bug-fixes and translation updates for its core modules, including the GUI framework, Gnome Control Center, Nautilus fie manager, and more.

First, it updated the GTK-4 toolkit to version 4.22.2. It fixed the wrong colors issue used for fallback symbolic icons containing classes, animating hrefs attribute in SVG not working issue, potential crash with dmabuf (Direct Memory Access buffer), and various issues with vulkan graphics API.

The GTK-3 library has also been updated to version 3.24.52 with fixes for GIMP, Firefox, and several compatibility updates for Wayland. The developer team however will slow down the update for this legacy library, and the next version is planned to be out almost one year later.

We are going to decrease the frequency of GTK3 releases and limit changes to important bug and crash fixes, going forward. The next GTK3 release is expected in March 2027.

GNOME Control Center, the system settings, has been updated with various translation updates. It fixed the keyboard navigation between cursor sizes in Accessibility, corrected the type of num_scales in Display settings, and fixed memory leak in camera and location pages.

As well, it updated the Gnome Online Account to fix an issue when building with Google Drive disabled.

Nautilus the file manager now auto-complete folder name with trailing slash again when hitting tab to trigger complement function in path bar. It also restored the default focus for permanent delete dialog, assured view item de-duplication on slow machines.

It as well improved the stability when opening folder with many custom icons, showing properties for encrypted partition, and browsing folder contains files with empty MIME type. And, it now dis-allows to edit custom icons for trash or trashed files.

nautilus 50 does not add trailing slash when pressing tab to auto-complete

The new version also updated glycin image loading library with fix that image viewer cannot view certain PNG files, added itunes genre support for podcast RSS feeds, and renamed the old xpm loader to legacy-xpm for GdkPixbuf.

There are as well many changes for the Epiphany web browser, Decibels, vala, etc modules. see the announcement for more details.

Get GNOME 50.1

GNOME 50.1 will be available in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44. And, Arch Linux has already made it into the official Extra repository.

For choice you may try the GNOME OS Nightly by installing it either in VM or real machine.

Sniffnet, the popular free open-source network traffic monitoring software, released new 1.5.0 version few days ago.

The new version of this lightweight Rust-based packet analyzer introduced per app or program based network traffic monitoring.

Meaning that you can now easily find out which applications or processes are sending or receiving data, and how many bytes or packets they generate.

Like services or network host monitoring, you may click on each app to see real-time information about the source and destination addresses, protocol, services, etc.

According to the request page, it also display app icons for each program, which however does not work in my case in Ubuntu 24.04.

In initial page for the app window, it now displays charts for all network adapters, allowing to preview the activity of each network adapter before actually starting a traffic capture.

This is useful to help users correctly choose the desired adapter to inspect, and to have an high-level view of the whole system’s Internet traffic.

The implementation includes using a thread for each network adapter to parse its packets, and a channel to share updates with the frontend every 1 second.

The new 1.5.0 also added custom IP blacklists. By going to settings -> general, user can add IP blacklist from a file (one IP per line). A new option is also added to show notification when sending or receiving data to/from a blacklisted IP. And, a new filter is added in the Inspect page to show only blacklisted connections.

This version also improved the favorite function. As you see in the screenshot, it now supports saving services or programs as favorites, and notifications has been updated to support favorite services and programs.

The favorite will persist across different runs of the app. And, a filter is added in Overview page tables to only show the saved favorite items, including currently inactive ones.

It as well added a --config_path or -c command line option to tell the path of the app configuration file. So that you can easily find out which file to edit for the default configurations, such as app language, window size and position, favorites, IP blacklists, and so on.

Other changes in Sniffnet 1.5.0 include:

• New welcome screen.
• Support search prefixes ! and != in Inspect page filters, to search values that don’t contain or aren’t equal to a given string.
• Add sanity checks when loading configurations from file, to ensure it works as expected.
• Translation updates, and some fixes.

Get Sniffnet

The packet analyzer software provides official installers for Linux, Windows, and macOS, as well as source tarball, which are available to download via the link below:

For Linux, either select the non-install AppImage that works in most Linux Distributions, though it needs to be run as root (sudo) to avoid permission issue, or download & install DEB for Debian/Ubuntu, RPM for Fedora/RHEL based distributions.

And, select amd64 for modern Intel/AMD processors, arm64/aarch64 for 64-bit ARM devices (e.g., Snapdragon X or Raspberry Pi), armhf for 32-bit ARM, or i386 for old X86 computers.

Scribus, the free open-source desktop publishing software, released new 1.6.6 version yesterday.

The new stable version introduced two new script functions, fixed various issues, and performed extensive code cleanup with plugin improvements.

For designers and developers, the new version added new getImageRotation () and setImageRotation () functions to get or set the rotation of an image frame.

You may use getImageRotation("name") in your Python script to get the rotation of the image “name”. If “name” is not given, then the currently selected item is used.

And, you may use setImageRotation(degree, "name") in script to rotate the image “name” with certain degree (rotate counterclockwise). Also, if “name” is not given, the currently selected item is used. And, it may raise WrongFrameTypeError if the target is not an image.

The new 1.6.6 also improved MS Publisher import. Scribus has the basic support for importing MS Publisher .pub files since version 1.5. The new version continued the development by improved image scaling behavior.

There are as well fixes for various issues, including the crashes due to umlaut composition in file names of embedded PDF documents, lost image links after collect for output function, and StoryText::endOfWord() returning an incorrect result if the position is already at the end of a word.

Other changes include fixes for building issues and code cleanup for many import plugins, including AI, CDR, CGM, CVG, Micrografx Draw, EMF, FreeHand, IDML, ODG, legacy OODraw, Apple Pages, Macintosh Pict, PageMaker, MS Publisher, QuarkXPress, Dia Shapes, Kivio, SVG (import and export), SVM, UniConvertor, Viva Designer, MS Visio, WMF, WPG, Xara, Xfig, XPS, and Zoner Draw.

Scribus 1.7.3

Besides version 1.6.6, Scribus also released new 1.7.3 unstable version on the same day, which it the development release series for next v1.8 stable that features Qt6 port.

The new development version added new real-time spell checker runs in a separate thread while editing, overhauled Search & Replace with collapsible advanced criteria and ability to search across all text frames.

It as well introduced new Change Case feature to convert text between lowercase, uppercase, capitalise, sentence case, and toggle case, with full undo/redo support. And, it added numbering support in more languages, significantly improved JPEG XL import, and Barcode Generator plug-in rewritten.

For more about the new releases, see the official release notes for Scribus 1.6.6 and Scribus 1.7.3.

Get Scribus 1.6.6 or 1.7.3

Scribus provides official packages for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Along with the source tarball, they are available to download via the link below:

And, the 1.7.3 development version is available to download this page.

For Linux, it’s a non-install AppImage. Just add executable permission, then you may run the file to launch Scribus. Though, Ubuntu since 22.04 needs to install libfuse2 for this package format support.

For choice, there are community maintained Flatpak package (not updated at the moment of writing), and unofficial PPA that contains the native .deb package for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 25.10 and 26.04.

To add the PPA and install Scribus 1.6.6, run the commands below in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) one by one:

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

For any reason, you may optionally remove the PPA by running command:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/scribus

And, remove the scribus deb package via:

sudo apt install scribus scribus-data