Linux

The interactive Unix shell Fish reaches version 4.9 with faster tab completion, a Konsole scrolling fix and several keyboard-input corrections, delivered across three quick point releases.

Audacity 4.0 is the free audio editor’s biggest update in years: a Qt-rebuilt interface, a flexible clip model and the new aup4 project format, though some features are missing.

The Wine project ships version 11.17 with initial display mode emulation, upgrades the Direct3D library VKD3D to 2.1 and fixes 44 bugs in games and applications.

The free KDE video editor Kdenlive ships version 26.08.0 with reorderable timeline tracks, automatic audio tracks and eleven crash fixes headlining the open-source project’s autumn release.

The Grml team ships a new stable of its sysadmin rescue system: the base is now Debian 14 „Forky”, alongside kernel 7.1.8 and GNU Screen 5.0.1.

A Carnegie Mellon University team shows that the anomalous Hall effect also appears with a magnetic field lying in the plane of the material – not only perpendicular to it. The finding could enable simpler magnetic sensors, but remains lab physics at low temperatures for now.

GNOME 51 “A Coruña” has hit its Release Candidate: Mutter gains cross-GPU scan-out and a blur policy, the Shell switches to Glycin. Stable arrives September 16.

Arch Linux’s September ISO ships Linux kernel 7.2 by default for the first time. We break down the versions and who actually needs the download.

The free audio editor Audacity arrives in version 3.7.9. For the first time the official Windows builds enable ASIO support, alongside FFmpeg 9 compatibility and several fixes against data loss.

System76 has released COSMIC 1.7, just one week after 1.6. The small maintenance update refines the compositor, the file manager and the text editor.