Linux and FOSS News You Might Have Missed - April 2019
685Here is a condensed roundup of some Linux news you might have missed during April !
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April 8th
Microsoft released their Chromium-based version of Edge.
https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download
April 9th
BlackMagic Design has announced the DaVinci Resolve Beta for its version 16.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20190408-05
Opera also announced its Reborn 3 new browser, with a crypto wallet included out of the box.
https://www.opera.com/fr/reborn3
Firefox has added some crypto mining protection to its beta releases.
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protections-against-fingerprinting-and-cryptocurrency-mining-available-in-firefox-nightly-and-beta/
April 10th
Unless you're living in one, you probably know that NASA managed to take a picture of a BlackHole, which is by no means a small achievement since these things don't emit or bounce light back. Well this blurry picture would not have been possible without open source software.
https://www.tfir.io/gnu-gplv3-at-the-heart-of-black-hole-image/
April 12th
Wine 4.6 was released, with notable improvements, such as a new backend for Wine Direct3D using Vulkan.
https://www.winehq.org/announce/4.6
April 13th
Firefox announced a recommended extensions program, which is, in essence, a selection of curated extensions for Firefox that meet certain standards of security and user experience.
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/04/08/recommended-extensions-program-coming-soon/
April 15th
DXVK 1.0.3 has been released.
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.0.3
April 17th
Steam also released a new version of its client for Linux, which most notably fixes the mouse cursor not showing up in the steam overlay on some Proton games, and improves support for Steam library on NTFS partitions.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/50095/
April 18th
Ubuntu 19.04, codenamed Disco Dingo, and its myriad of variants have been released.
The KDE community released the KDE Applications 19.04.
https://kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-19.04.0.php
In the same vein, Pop!OS 19.04, System 76's Ubuntu based OS, has been released as well. Using GNOME 3.32 with a custom theme and extensions, PopOS 19.04 brings a slim mode to reduce the size of the headers and title bars, as well as a dark mode. New installations also get the option to refresh their install from their recovery partition, reinstalling the OS without losing data in your home directory.
https://blog.system76.com/post/184281497363/popos-1904-is-here
April 19th
SteamPlay got two new releases: one to update the oldest version of Proton to 3.16-9, and another one to release version 4.2-3.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog
April 22nd
Kdenlive officially announced its next release, Kdenlive 19.04. While it's part of the KDE software compilation, it deserved a separate announcement. Among the new stuff is an automatic split of audio and video on dedicated tracks, as well as keyboard navigation for moving clips and keyframes, and the ability to resize tracks individually.
https://kdenlive.org/en/2019/04/kdenlive-19-04-released/
SuperTuxKart also finally reached its 1.0 version.
http://blog.supertuxkart.net/2019/04/supertuxkart-10-release.html
April 24th
The GNOME developers are looking to create a hardware diagnostics tool, in the same vein as what Apple includes in Mac OS X.
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/help-needed-a-hardware-diagnostics-tool-for-gnome/839
April 27th
Wine 4.7 was released, with 34 bugs fixed, and an updated Mono engine.
https://www.winehq.org/announce/4.7
April 28th
Deepin 15.10 was released, bringing a lot of enhancements to its desktop. Highlights include a stacks feature to automatically group files by type on your desktop, the ability to set a slideshow of images as your wallpaper, improved customization of sound effects with the ability to turn each sound effect on or off individually, and a ton of bugfixes.
https://www.deepin.org/en/2019/04/28/deepin15-10/
April 30th
Fedora 30 was released, bringing a vanilla GNOME 3.32 with all it entails.
https://getfedora.org
Librem, the company that makes privacy and free software focused laptops, and, soon, a phone, announced the Librem One suite of apps. The goal is simple: to remove as much privacy invasive stuff from your life, including mostly Google services.
https://librem.one