145: Linux Action News
16 February 2020
The week was packed with major project releases, we go through each of them and tell you what stands out.
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- 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