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KDE Plasma 6 has been released.

Features migration to Wayland by default + written in Qt6, with tons of enhancements.

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/
This is an important blog post about upcoming font rendering and fractional scaling enhancements in Gtk 4.14:
https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/07/on-fractional-scales-fonts-and-hinting/

You would need to use a modern Linux distro to receive such update, though.
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Mozilla in collaboration with developers of other browser engines like Blink (Chrome) and Webkit (Safari) have announced the release of Speedometer 3: A benchmark for web browsers to measure their responsiveness according to modern web standards.

Take the test here and tell us how much score you got + what browser you are using: https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.0
Updates from System76 about their COSMIC desktop and its new features: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-more-alpha-more-fun

Very excited to put our hands on it once it becomes stable.
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See this hilarious bug in openSUSE KDE (Tumbleweed), and remember Windows XP bugs back in the day. 😁

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/1bi5yvo/hilarious_bug_after_a_fresh_install/
Normally we do not cover alpha/beta/RC releases of software, but Linux kernel 6.9 RC1 has been released, and so far it is full of new and interesting features: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-rc1-Released

Makes you wonder, if this is the RC1, then until the final release there will be so much more. 🎉😎
We have a few supporters on our Patreon campaign (less than 10 actually).

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A backdoor was discovered in upstream "xz" package, which found its way to many Linux distributions. It was pushed by a malicious maintainer for the project.

Details from:
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
ffmpeg 7.0 has been released.
https://ffmpeg.org//index.html#pr7.0