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When the Gimp development team started to work on Gimp 3.0 in 2020, it probably did not think that it would take five years to release the new version. Gimp 3.0 is a major update that has been in the making for seven years, since the release of Gimp 2.10. The open source image editor…
Linux users who download Firefox from Mozilla to install the browser on their device will experience quicker downloads and installs going forward. Mozilla explained on its Nightly website that it switched the packaging to .tar.xz from the previously used .tar.bz2 format. The change has the following benefits: A 25 percent reduction in file size reduces…
The developers of the open source encryption software VeraCrypt have released VeraCrypt 1.26.14 for all supported platforms. The new version adds a notification if volumes are affected by the XTS master key vulnerability. The issue was fixed last year in VeraCrypt 1.26.7, but only for newly created volumes. While unlikely even then, the newly added…
An update for the open source cross-platform office suite LibreOffice is now available. LibreOffice 24.8 is available for all supported systems. The new version includes over a hundred improved or new features. Several are important from a security point of view. The details: Several of these options are interesting from an end-users point of view….
Recently, there has been a bit of a revival when it comes to forks of the Firefox browser. After Mullvad Browser, it is now Zen Browser that is trying to win the Internet by storm. The Firefox-based browser is available as an alpha at the time of writing. Despite that, it felt very stable during…
The team behind the open source email client has released the long-awaited Thunderbird 128 to the public. The version is not yet available as an update, only as a direct download from the official website. You can upgrade from current stable versions of Thunderbird to the new release, but need to run the installer to…
BleachBit is a free program for Microsoft Windows and Linux devices that helps users delete temporary files to free up disk space. Often compared to CCleaner, BleachBit has not gone down the route of commercialization. The program is free and does not contain locked tools that need to be unlocked with a purchase. Users on…
RSS Guard is may RSS reader of choice. I have used quite a few RSS readers in the past decades: from Google Reader and FeedDemon to QuiteRSS, to name just a few major ones. I like QuiteRSS, but development has more or less ceased. RSS Guard is an open source RSS reader that comes with…
Google Photos Takeout is a straightforward option to export all Google Photos to a local computer system. It is an excellent option to create a local backup of all photos uploaded to Google Photos or moving to a different provider. A big problem with the takeout is that the photos are stored in multiple zip…