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Another new release of the excellent open source video capture and streaming app OBS Studio is being prepared, with OBS Studio 32.1 Beta out now. You can get testing with a few new features and tweaks to existing features.

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Wireshark 4.6.3 has been released today as the third point release to the Wireshark 4.6 series of this popular network protocol analyzer, with support for new and updated capture file and protocol support.

Nginx Proxy Manager, a popular web-based and user-friendly reverse proxy management interface for Nginx, has just released version 2.13.6. Although this is only a patch release to a minor version, it actually delivers some fairly significant improvements.

Haraltd is a Bluetooth daemon that provides a JSON-based RPC over the native OS’s Bluetooth stack. It currently only supports Bluetooth Classic, and runs on Windows and MacOS. Installation instructions are in the README.

FFmpeg developer Lynne has landed a number of Vulkan-related imporvements to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Over the past year FFmpeg saw Vulkan shader-based decoding for more video formats, AV1 and VP9 extension work, performance improvements, and other work around Vulkan Video. It will be very exciting to see how FFmpeg delivers in 2026 with Vulkan Video and how the software ecosystem as a whole begins taking up this cross-platform, open industry standard for video encode/decode.

I just open sourced my personal project for tracking relationships. It’s like a CRM but for people you actually care about, not sales leads.

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Microsoft has open-sourced XAML Studio, a visual development tool for building Windows application interfaces. The project is now available on GitHub under the MIT license and has joined the .NET Foundation as a seed project.

The European Commission recently launched a call for evidence on a newer initiative about the importance of open source, and their reliance on non-EU countries. As covered by CADE, the initiative is called “Towards European open digital ecosystems”, and it sets out how they’re trying to sort their approach towards the open-source sector across the European Union.

I posted this article, written by Paul Romer, because while it is a few years old, the questions it adresses are more actual than ever - it could have been written yesterday. It is about propietary systems slurping up and commecializing freely available content from an economy of freely sharing ideas and facts.

Brodie a Linux YouTuber uploaded a video about a project, I was not aware off: Software Heritage. It is basically for code, what Internet Archive is for websites. If you want watch Brodies video as an introduction: >https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=MUA9Fu4jNGY or >YouTube directly https://youtu.be/MUA9Fu4jNGY

All my new code will be closed-source from now on. I’ve contributed millions of lines of carefully written OSS code over the past decade, spent thousands of hours helping other people. If you want to use my libraries (1M+ downloads/month) in the future, you have to pay.

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The European Commission has opened a public call for evidence on a forthcoming European Open Digital Ecosystems Strategy. The consultation, which runs from January 6 to February 3, 2026, invites feedback from developers, companies, public administrations, academia, and civil society.

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The following is a copypaste from a Mastodon post by @frida@camp.smolnet.org that I’ve linked above.

Brave Browser, which recently reached more than 100 million users worldwide, has rolled out a major overhaul of its built-in adblocking engine, cutting memory consumption by 75 percent and delivering a measurable performance boost across desktop and mobile platforms. The changes are live starting with Brave v1.85, with further optimizations scheduled for v1.86.

I’ve been wanting to make a modern and intuitive client for reading papers for a while. A huge thanks to arXiv for all they do

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41198147

My mother wants to make something like the image.

SnekStudio is a free, open-source VTuber application written using the Godot engine!

Users are not allowed to create Issues directly in this repository - we ask that you create a Discussion first.

After 7 years since the last stable 2.4.4 release in October 2018, Icecast 2.5 is now available for this open-source streaming media server designed to deliver live and on-demand audio content over the internet.

Hi, exam period is near so I wanted to share this.

The team behind Blur Busters has created an overlay called ShaderBeam that finally brings its motion-blur-reducing CRT Beam Simulator to the desktop environment and PC games. The overlay can be downloaded from GitHub.

Ncurses 6.6 was released today prior to closing out 2025. This programming library update for creating terminal-based text user interfaces (TUIs) features a variety of great improvements for ending out the year.

Extension allows you to read articles from (supported) sites that implement a paywall.

During the 1990s, everyone wanted to surf the information super-highway — also known as the World Wide Web or just ‘Internet’ — but not everyone was interested in getting one of those newfangled personal computers when they already had a perfect good television set. This opened a market for TV-connected thin clients that could browse the web with a much lower entry fee, with the WebTV service being launched in 1996. Bought by Microsoft in 1997 and renamed MSN TV, it lasted until 2013. Yet rather than this being the end, the service is now being revived by members of the community through the WebTV Redialed project.

Shotcut, a popular open-source video editor, has released version 25.12, introducing one of its most significant image-quality upgrades to date with full 10-bit CPU video processing and expanded linear color handling.

As we’re about to say goodbye to 2025, I decided to look back at the year through the lens of Linux and open source, and recall for our readers the most significant developments it brought to the ecosystem. I’ll start with something fundamental, of course: the Linux kernel.

Haruna, a Qt-based media player developed as part of the KDE ecosystem and built on top of MPV, has released version 1.7. The most visible changes center on playlists, as the player now supports advanced sorting and grouping, making larger music collections easier to navigate.

Lawnchair is an open source Android launcher. They just released v15 beta-2, and the other updates are in the linked post

Every culture produces heroes that reflect its deepest anxieties. The Greeks, terrified of both mortality and immortality, gave us Achilles. The Victorians, haunted by social mobility, gave us the self-made industrialist. And Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds, has given us the Hero Developer: a figure who ships features at midnight, who “moves fast and breaks things,” who transforms whiteboard scribbles into billion-dollar unicorns through sheer caffeinated will.

Over seven months after its previous 1.4.2 bugfix release, the popular open-source vector graphics editor Inkscape has issued its latest version, 1.4.3, as the third maintenance update to the 1.4 series, which includes roughly 124 bug and crash fixes.

Coreboot 25.12 is out today as the latest quarterly feature update to this open-source BIOS/firmware solution.

Libreboot as the Coreboot downstream focused on free, open-source boot firmware is out with a new test release for Christmas.

The GStreamer team has released the tenth bug-fix update, 1.26.10, of its cross-platform open-source multimedia framework for the stable 1.26 series.

As a wonderful Christmas gift to open-source fans, NVIDIA dropped their proprietary license on the CUDA Tile intermediate representation and has now made the IR open-source software.

audacity devs make a christmasfying PR to demonstrate how easy it is to modify the new Qt UI. builds included thanks to CI (linux example)

The judge in the Vizio GPL-compliance lawsuit has ruled, in a summary judgment, that the GNU General Public License, version 2, does not require the provision of signing keys needed to install modified software on a device.

Kitty, one of the most feature-rich, GPU-accelerated, and highly efficient cross-platform terminal emulators, has just unveiled its latest update, version 0.45.

Found this launcher last week and I’ve been playing with it since.

Pinta 3.1 has been released today as a major update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform paint program written in GTK# for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

With the upcoming LibreOffice 26.2 open-source office suite release, they are getting rid of the “Community Edition” branding for the standard version of this widely-used cross-platform office suite.

QEMU, a popular open-source machine emulator and virtualizer, has officially released version 10.2 (following a four-release candidate cycle) as the second point update to the 10.x series.

More than a 1,000 Docker Hardened Images (DHI) are now freely available and open source for software builders, under the Apache 2.0 license.

After eleven months in development following its previous 0.8 release, Clapper, an open-source media player for Linux built on GTK4 and GStreamer, has just released version 0.10.

GnuCash 5.14 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform double-entry accounting software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Darktable 5.4 has been released today as the latest version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform RAW image editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

The Open Source Initiative, a nonprofit organization that promotes and protects open source software, has published its annual ranking of the most viewed open source licenses in 2025, reflecting the preferences and priorities of developers, organizations, and open source communities worldwide.

The team behind Immich, a popular open-source, self-hosted photo and video management platform, has released version 2.4. One of the most visible changes affects shared albums on the web, where users can now enable an option to display the asset owner’s name directly on thumbnails.

In honor of the great RAM price gouging shortage of 2025-2026, this release cuts the memory usage of VoidAuth in half! I noticed that my own instance was pretty thicc at nearly 300MB of memory usage after stabilizing and not doing anything, so decided to do some trimming and optimization.

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.8.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with various bug fixes.

LibreWolf is one of the best browsers for people who don’t like generative AI.

In honor of the great RAM price gouging shortage of 2025-2026, this release cuts the memory usage of VoidAuth in half! I noticed that my own instance was pretty thicc at nearly 300MB of memory usage after stabilizing and not doing anything, so decided to do some trimming and optimization.

VLC Media Player 3.0.23, codenamed “Vetinari,” has been released as the twenty-fourth update in the long-running VLC 3.0 branch.

Issue and PR threads are invaluable documentation for a project, it’s difficult to migrate to another code host when years of knowledge are locked into your old hosting service. So I built a couple of scripts to archive issues, pull requests, comments, and source code from github repositories, and to turn them into static sites! With the accelerating exodus away from github, I’ve heard from a lot of people that there aren’t any good tools for archiving that knowledge in a human-readable format, so I thought this would be a useful tool to make. The initial release is ready, and just in time for github to start charging for self-hosted runners!

Version 1.6 of libopus as the library for the open-source Opus audio codec is now available. Opus 1.6 brings new machine learning “ML” based features in building atop the machine learning features initially added to Opus 1.5.