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OpenZFS 2.4 Squeezes In Some Last Minute Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 11/18/2025 - 09:48
Following OpenZFS 2.4-rc3 from nearly one month ago is now a fourth release candidate for the upcoming OpenZFS 2.4. A few more features and improvements have been squeezed into this release in nearing the stable milestone...

GIMP 3.2 RC1 Brings More UI/UX Improvements, Proper SVG Export

Phoronix - Tue, 11/18/2025 - 09:26
Last year GIMP developers expressed a goal of releasing GIMP 3.2 within one year of GIMP 3.0. With GIMP 3.0 having released in March, it looks like their GIMP 3.2 release goal will become a reality with the GIMP 3.2-RC1 debuting today...

FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 Brings Build Fixes For Google Cloud & Azure, Base Repository Changes

Phoronix - Tue, 11/18/2025 - 06:34
FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 is available today for testing as this leading BSD operating system works toward the stable release in early December...

Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Preview Released

Phoronix - Tue, 11/18/2025 - 05:15
At the start of the year developers behind the Budgie desktop environment hoped for shipping Budgie 10.10 in Q1-2025. We are now in Q4 without a stable release but at long last a preview version is at least available. Budgie 10.10 is the point at which Budgie is going all-in on Wayland in leaving behind the X11 desktop session support...

systemd 259-rc1 Released With Musl libc Support, New run0 "Empower" Mode

Phoronix - Tue, 11/18/2025 - 04:26
Released a short time ago was systemd 259-rc1 as the first test release toward this next version of this dominant Linux init system and service manager...

Git 2.52 Released With More Preparations Toward Git 3.0

Phoronix - Tue, 11/18/2025 - 03:51
Git 2.52 is out today as the newest feature release of this distributed revision control system and in working toward Git 3.0 that will hopefully release by the end of 2026...

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