VirtualBox 7.1.8 Adds Support for Linux Kernel 6.14
Ubuntu 25.04 is out this week and many will be turning to virtual machine to test, trial or tie the release into their development workflows — perfect timing for a new version of VirtualBox, then! Oracle today (April 15) issued the fourth maintenance update in the current VirtualBox 7.1 series. No new features were added but a flurry of bug fixes, stability boosts and integration buffs are present, which users across all supported OSes will benefit from. For Linux users frustrated at flakey wireless network adapter detection in earlier releases, the 7.1.8 update fixes the issue. Similarly, anyone ticked off 
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/virtualbox-7-1-8-brings-support-for-linux-kernel-6-14
Ubuntu 25.10 is Officially Named ‘Questing Quokka’
Drum roll those desks to help build some suspense because the Ubuntu 25.10 codename has been confirmed as …’Questing Quokka’. The new Ubuntu codename keeps with convention, following alphabetical order—previous release was a ‘P’—and using an adjective/noun and animal combo. Canonical previously teased a new codename, tweeting (or whatever the equivalent term is now it’s called X) “Quizzical Quokka” — on April 1, aka April Fools’ day. It seems the ‘quizzical’ element then was an encouragement to question than a statement of fact. Still, the it was only half a leg pull since next release mascot is indeed a ‘Quokka’
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/ubuntu-25-10-named-questing-quokka
Rnote 0.12 Released with Improved Linux Note-Taking Features
A major new release of Rnote, an open-source app for taking handwritten notes, sketching out ideas and annotating documents and pictures, is out. Rnote 0.12 brings several new features, new customisation and configuration options, user experience buffs, bug fixes, and other lower-level tune-ups. For those unfamiliar with it, Rnote is a digital note-taking app built using GTK4 and Rust. It’s primarily intended to be used with stylus input (so includes pen pressure, stroke styles, button actions, etc) but supports typed text entry, shapes, importing images, etc too. Rnote offers a range of document layouts, from fixed pages to infinite canvases,
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/rnote-0-12-released-with-improved-linux-note-taking-features
Pinta 3.0 Released With New Effects and GTK4 Port
Indulging your casual creativity (read: making memes, defacing selfies, etc) using open-source tools is made easier with the long-awaited release of Pinta 3.0. Pinta, as long-time Linux users will be aware, is a cross-platform raster graphics tool with a feature set and user-interface partly inspired by popular Windows image editing tool Paint.NET. I previewed the Pinta 3.0 beta back in January and came away impressed. Pinta port to GTK4/libadwaita lends the UI a much-needed modern look – and is more than superficial: usability, performance and stability is bolstered by the toolkit bump. Pinta 3.0 switches to a button-based header bar
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/pinta-3-0-released-with-new-effects-and-gtk4-port
Linux Mint Introducing Regex Searches to Nemo
Finding the exact files you want in the Nemo file manager will soon be easier and faster. Linux Mint has announced ‘enhanced’ search functionality will feature in the next major release of its GTK-based Nemo file manager (likely to see release the same time as Cinnamon 6.5 and be shipped out-of-the-box in Linux Mint 22.1 this July). New filters let you search, sift and surface files using regular expressions (often abbreviated to simply ‘regex’) queried against filenames (not contents). Linux Mint’s lead shares a sneak-peak screenshot of the filters in action: Regular expressions are powerful and easy to to use
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/linux-mint-regex-support-nemo
Firefox Nightly Introduces Experimental Link Previews with AI Summary
Hate having to read an article to understand what it’s saying and would rather read what an AI says it (potentially) says instead? Mozilla Firefox has your back. Saltiness aside, currently nightly builds of Firefox 139 include a new web link preview feature that shows (among other things) an AI-generated summary of what the page is purportedly about — before you visit it, saving you time, a click, or the need to ‘hear’ a real human voice. No data about you or the links you “preview” (and see summarised) is fired off to remote servers or third parties, meaning no-one
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Celluloid 0.28 Adds Lua Module Support, Refreshes UI
Open-source video player Celluloid saw a notable new release at the weekend, bringing a refreshed user interface (among many other changes) to users. Celluloid is a popular GTK front-end to MPV, the (exhaustingly) configurable cross-platform, command-line based media player, and makes many of MPV’s more advanced features a touch easier for users to find, try and benefit from. In Celluloid 0.28 its developers have focused on improving the UI —not hugely, don’t fret. Player controls see refinement in both regular mode, full-screen mode and if ‘floating’ controls are enabled for windowed mode – fewer buttons are shown by default: As
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/celluloid-0-28-adds-lua-module-support-refreshes-ui
Tauon Music Player Adds Slick Transparency Mode for Linux
A new version of Tauon music player is out, gifting fans of the powerful and unique-looking audio app a raft of new features to play with – including some Linux exclusive eye candy! Tauon 8.0 has been fully ported to SDL3, an efficient cross-platform and open-source multimedia library that provides a robust API for interacting with hardware (like audio devices). Tauon mention that the port provides better stability and scope for adding interesting new capabilities. Features-wise, Tauon 8.0 adds an options menu to the stop button so let users define stop behaviour (including an ‘always’ setting, e.g., ‘always stop after
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/tauon-8-0-app-update-transparent-linux
Inkscape 1.4.1 Brings Snap App Fixes, New Features
Digital artists, designers and vector illustrators among you may be be interested to know that an updated version of open source graphics app Inkscape is out. Inkscape 1.4.1 builds on the giant set of features last year’s release of Inkscape 1.4 brought with it with a number of worthwhile enhancements and bug fixes, plus two new features. When opening Inkscape a new splash screen is shown during loading (it can be disabled) to let users (especially those on older/slower devices) know something is happening since they clicked or tapped on Inkscape icon to open it. The welcome dialog which shows on
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/inkscape-1-4-1-brings-snap-app-fixes-new-features
Dull Desktop? Install ‘Picture of the Day’ App on Ubuntu
Ubuntu users can enjoy a fresh new desktop wallpaper each and every day with this new app, which sources backgrounds from Bing, Wikimedia, and NASA.
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/ubuntu-picture-of-the-day-app
DeaDBeeF 1.10 Release Brings New Features
A new version of DeaDBeeF music player is out, bringing some cool features, FFmpeg 7 support, and a flurry of bug fixes to long-time fans. The popularity of traditional desktop music player apps has dipped considerably since the arrival of music streaming services like Spotify, which give users on-demand (and often free) access to a far larger catalogue of artists, albums and releases. Still, many people (myself included) have libraries filled with MP3 and other audio files, and do enjoy listening them. I’d wager most such users have (by now) settled on their preferred local music player; for many, that
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/deadbeef-1-10-release-brings-new-features
Linux App Release Roundup (March 2025)
March was another stellar month for Linux software updates, with big improvements to essential privacy tools like KeePassXC, creative apps such as Shotcut and DigiKam, and many more — updates that didn’t warrant dedicated articles on this blog. Why? Well, sometimes it’s an update making small changes hat it’s hard to say much1 about. Other times I’m just deathly late to hearing about it (which is why new tips via the contact form are super appreciated – you help me catch the things I miss). For those of us on fixed-release Linux distributions like Ubuntu, even small app updates can
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/linux-app-release-roundup-march-2025
Firefox 137 Released with Tab Groups, Address Bar Revamp + More
Tab grouping is the latest big-ticket feature to be added to Mozilla Firefox, which sees a new stable release roll out from today. Last month’s Firefox 136 update delivered long-requested support for vertical tabs, a redesigned sidebar experience giving easy access to existing and new features (including online AI chatbots), and flipped the switch on AMD video hardware decoding for Linux users. Firefox 137 is an equally big update, bringing tab grouping, a revamped search bar, and a host of other changes. Let’s take a look. Firefox 137: New Features Tab Grouping Firefox 137 brings Tab Groups to users on the stable
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/firefox-137-new-features
Ubuntu 25.10 Codename Revealed – Or is a Prank?
Will Ubuntu 25.10 be codenamed the Quizzical Quokka? It’s an adjective + animal moniker Canonical’s marketing team tersely tweeted earlier today—sans context—but, importantly, today is April 1, aka April’s Fools Day, aka the day when companies, teams, and unpaid marketing interns spam the web with try-hard lolslop. Ubuntu 25.10 could well be Quizzical Quokka, but it may not be — if it isn’t, it ought to be. The ‘Quizzical’ portion would be a playful, it slightly odd adjective to go with since it can be confused, baffled, perplexed – not terms which best denote a dependable operating system! Quizzical can,
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/ubuntu-25-10-q-codename-maybe
Developer Revives Iconic Desktop Weather App for Linux
An iconic desktop weather app from Linux’s past has just blown in — yes, Typhoon is back! Typhoon’s conceit is simple: display current conditions at a location plus a 4 day forecast on a customisable coloured background. Weather data is via Open-Meteo, the open source meteorological API other Linux weather apps use. Long long-time OMG! Ubuntu readers may just about recall that Typhoon was forked from an older app called Stormcloud, the latter being the best-selling app on Ubuntu for 6 consecutive months (in the era when paid apps were sold in Software Center). Development on Typhoon dried up a
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/developer-revives-iconic-desktop-weather-app-for-linux
Tiling Shell GNOME Extension Update Adds New Features
An update to Tiling Shell, the efficient window snapping extension for GNOME Shell, is rolling out with some appreciable enhancements. Its nifty ‘Windows Suggestions’ feature, which makes it easy to tile your other open windows to remaining spaces in a layout, is now available when using the Snap Assistant. The option has to be manually enabled, but once done: As a reminder for those less-familia with this extension, Tiling Shell offers lots of different ways to tile windows besides the slide-in Windows 11-esque) ‘Snap Assistant’ drop zone demoed above. You can tile windows using (custom) keyboard shortcuts; a combination of
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/tiling-shell-gnome-extension-update-adds-new-features
Ubuntu Fixes Wi-Fi Connection Fail at Login Screen
Ubuntu users frustrated by the inability to connect to a new password-protected Wi-Fi network at the login screen will be pleased to know a fix is rolling out. This particular bug affects users of both Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.10. When trying to join a wireless network at the login screen (GDM) which requires a password, the password input prompt never appears and the connection fails. Why does—soon to be ‘did’—connecting to a wifi network at the Ubuntu login screen fail? Canonical software engineer (and the original bug reporter) Bartosz Woronicz explains: "The log-in screen [in Ubuntu] is implemented
#News #BugFixes #Gdm #Ubuntu24_04Lts #Ubuntu24_10
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/ubuntu-fix-wifi-connecting-login-screen
Ubuntu 25.04: The Best New Features
The upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release is set to ship with a plethora of new features, UI improvements and core changes that will be worth upgrading for. In this post, I run through the best new features Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ has to offer. If you don’t plan to test the beta—out today—you can look forward to trying all of the things pin-pointed below in April when the final, stable release arrives. From notification grouping and digital ‘wellbeing’ tools to new features in the OS installer and a performance-focused Linux kernel, there’s a lot to see — here’s what makes the
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/ubuntu-25-04-new-features
Ubuntu 25.04 Beta is Now Available to Download
If you’ve been pining to sample the Plucky Puffin, now’s the time: the Ubuntu 25.04 beta downloads are out! Ubuntu 25.04 beta lands ahead of the planned stable release on Thursday April 17, 2025. As a beta, the purpose is to let folks like you and I muck in to test it out, check it works with hardware, and report any bugs, breakages, or big issues so they can be fixed post-haste! Ubuntu 25.04 is a short-term release supported for 9 months — Ubuntu LTS releases are supported for a minimum of 5 years — but Ubuntu 25.10 is released
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/ubuntu-25-04-beta-download
Vivaldi Browser Adds Integrated Proton VPN
The Vivaldi web browser is famed for offering a plethora of options, settings and features that cater to all kinds of use-cases and needs — today it added a new one: an integrated VPN. Proton VPN for Vivaldi is exactly what it says it is: Proton VPN in Vivaldi – as in, baked in so there’s no need to download an app, install a web extension, or configure anything on a system level. It’s there, in the browser, ready to work when/if you want it. A couple of other web browsers include a built-in VPN (like Opera) or have a
#News #AppUpdates #ProtonAg #Vivaldi #Vpn
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/vivaldi-browser-now-includes-built-in-proton-vpn
