The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 24.10. Xubuntu 24.10, code-named Oracular Oriole, is a regular release and will be supported for 9 months, until July 2025. Xubuntu 24.10 features the latest updates from Xfce 4.19, GNOME 47 and MATE 1.26. For Xfce enthusiasts, you'll appreciate the new features and improved hardware support found in Xfce 4.19. Xfce 4.19 is the development series for the next release, Xfce 4.20, due later this year. As pre-release software, you may encounter more bugs than usual. Users seeking a stable, well-supported environment should opt for Xubuntu 24.04 instead. Highlights: Xfce 4.19 is included as a development preview of the upcoming Xfce 4.20, it features early Wayland support and improved scaling; GNOME 47 apps, including Disk Usage Analyzer and Sudoku, include a refreshed appearance and usability improvements.
When the file system of the Persistent Storage has errors, Tails now offers you to repair the file system when unlocking from the Welcome Screen. Because not all file system errors can be safely recovered this way, we wrote comprehensive documentation on how to recover data from the Persistent Storage using complementary techniques. Update Tor Browser to 13.5.6. Improve the notification when a network interface is disabled because MAC address anonymization failed. Increase the maximum waiting time to 8 minutes when unlocking the Persistent Storage before returning an error. Hide shown password while unlocking Persistent Storage.
Added scandirat(3) from FreeBSD. Added elf_aux_info(3), designed to let userland peek at AT_HWCAP and AT_HWCAP2, using an interface from FreeBSD. Added missing function wcsnlen(3) to find length of a wide string (i.e. wcslen(3) with a max len argument). Imported libva 2.22.0, an implementation for VA-API (video acceleration API). VA-API provides access to graphics hardware acceleration capabilities for video processing. Added the option '-u name' to env(1) to remove a variable from th environment. Various bugfixes and tweaks in userland: Throughout the source tree, add missing error checks to calls of gmtime(3) and localtime(3). Added missing error checks to all calls under libexec and sbin in case of ctime(3) and ctime_r(3) failures when timestamps are far off.
Many in-house scripts and applications have been tweaked and further improved. Some new apps include: antiX TV - antiX streaming tv receiver; antiX Radio - antiX streaming radio receiver GUI for MPV; Finder - Simple yad script to search for everything (Files, Installed apps, web); antiX SAMBA manager - Script for managing SAMBA shares in antiX control centre; antiX equaliser toggle - tool for activating or deactivating pipewire-equaliser Easyeffects; antiX acoustic colours - script allowing to change the acoustic colour of audio output; meld - graphical tool to diff and merge files.
The new release 24.04.1.3 of Starbuntu presents the new update of the libreoffice suite 4:24.2.6-0ubuntu0.24.04.1. In addition, Starbuntu now allows to set the GTK themes of GTK2, GTK3 and GTK4 programs separately or uniform. Moreover, the editor of the app launchers has thoroughly been revised and expanded, and beyond, a problem of the automatic mount of storage devices has been solved.
bslx-6.11.1-1-2024.10.01-x86_64 has been released and is available for download. We were told that the new kernel would provide some performance improvements for Intel and AMD products as well as networking. So far I have noticed that overall performance has been noticeably better. Networking is definitely faster.
Since we released 'Wynsdey' in May 2024, we worked hard to get the next release of Manjaro out there. We call it Xahea. The GNOME edition has received several updates to GNOME 46 series. This includes a lot of fixes and polish when GNOME 46 originally was released in March 2024. The Plasma edition comes with the latest Plasma 6.1 series 1 and KDE Gear 24.08 1. It brings exciting new improvements to your desktop. Plasma 6 hits its stride with version 6.1. While Plasma 6.0 was all about getting the migration to the underlying Qt 6 frameworks correct, 6.1 is where developers start implementing the features that will take your desktop to a new level.
The 24.10 release is built on the Debian testing repository as of October 1, 2024, and includes the Linux kernel 6.10.11-1. This version introduces an option to install Rescuezilla and features the Openbox window manager. Pre-installed applications include GParted, PCManFM, Xfce Terminal, and Netsurf, among others. Additionally, a wide array of CLI tools such as testdisk , clonezilla , ddrescue , and cryptsetup are provided. Users can also take advantage of 1-click installs for popular software like Boot-Repair, Firefox, Synaptic, and Dropbox.
The new release, version 15.24.10.01i, includes updates to Debian drivers, a new menu option to reload the desktop under "Config / Reload Desktops", and compatibility with the backup project from version 15.24.09.08i. This version is based on Debian Bookworm 64-bit for both the Live Raizo system and virtual machine. The release size is 2.24 GB for the "i" version and 1.79 GB for the "p" version.
The GParted team has released a new stable version of GParted Live, featuring GParted 1.6.0 and several updates and improvements. Key changes include the removal of the cpufrequtils package, which is no longer available in the Debian repository, and the inclusion of pm-utils , suggested by a community member. The gl-screenshot tool now uses zenity exclusively, due to the unavailability of gdialog and Xdialog . This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of September 28, 2024) and uses the updated Linux kernel 6.10.11-1. Users are advised that a minimum of 512 MB of RAM is required for full functionality, and there may be issues displaying the X Desktop on older NVIDIA graphics cards, with a workaround provided for safe graphics mode.