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📰 gThumb is barely recognisable in its GTK4/libadwaita port gThumb, the open-source image viewer and organiser, has been rewritten in Vala and ported to GTK4/libadwaita – and compared to the old UI, it’s barely recognisable. An alpha build of gThumb 4.0 is available for testing. Alongside the visual revamp, this brings support for WEBP and PNG animations, lets you export images in the JXL format and includes a censor filter to pixelate or blur out parts of an image. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/gthumb-gtk4-port-redesign #opensource

📰 I tried an open-source Figma alternative, and its AI does what Figma's can't Not a Figma killer, but something more interesting. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/ditched-figma-for-open-source-tool-ai-does-what-figma-cant/ #opensource

📰 ReactOS Introduces Unified Live/Install Media, New Storage Driver ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows has seen some exciting improvements this week... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Unified-ISO #opensource

📰 AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI AMD software engineers on Friday released a new version of GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their open-source software for Windows and Linux leveraging the Lemonade SDK and aiming to make it easy to build AI agents on your PC with all local AI processing across AMD's CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.17.5 #amd#linux#opensource

📰 VideoLAN Publishes Dav2d For Open-Source AV2 Decoder While the Alliance For Open Media had been aiming for the AV2 release by the end of 2025, as of right now the AV2 specification remains in a draft status. VideoLAN developers though for months have already been working on dav2d as an open-source AV2 decoder and that code was published this weekend... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dav2d-Open-Source-AV2-Decode #opensource

📰 Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April Happenings A lot happened in the Linux and open-source world during the month of April. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 shipped, a lot of news around age attestation/verification laws, the Linux 7.0 kernel was released, Linux 7.1 is bringing many exciting changes as well as removing of old hardware drivers, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU was released, we began testing the Intel Arc Pro B70 "BMG-G31", and much more software and hardware content that... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/April-2026-Highlights #fedora#intel#kernel#linux#opensource#ubuntu

📰 Shotcut 26.4 Video Editor Adds Vulkan GPU to Speech to Text on Linux Shotcut 26.4 open-source video editor is now available for download with Vulkan GPU support for Speech to Text on Linux, 10-bit VP9 MP4 (E-AC-3) and 10-bit VP9 WebM (Opus) export presets, and more. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/shotcut-26-4-video-editor-adds-vulkan-gpu-to-speech-to-text-on-linux #linux#opensource

📰 LibreOffice 26.2.3 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 40 Bug Fixes LibreOffice 26.2.3 is now available for download as the third point release to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 43 bug fixes. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-26-2-3-open-source-office-suite-released-with-more-than-40-bug-fixes #opensource

📰 GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C/C++ Improvements GCC 16.1 is now available as the first stable release of GCC 16 as this year's major open-source GNU compiler feature release... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.1-Released #amd#gnu#opensource

📰 Servo Browser Engine Seeing Progress On FreeBSD Support Following the recent Servo 0.1 release, the Servo project has published their latest monthly status report to highlight recent development efforts around this modern open-source browser engine... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-On-FreeBSD #opensource

📰 Wireshark 4.6.5 Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities and Updates Protocol Support Wireshark 4.6.5 open-source network protocol analyzer is now available for download with updated protocol and capture file support, multiple security vulnerabilities, and various bug fixes. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/wireshark-4-6-5-fixes-multiple-vulnerabilities-and-updates-protocol-support #opensource

📰Canonical Unveils Ubuntu AI Strategy: Local Models, User Control, and Smarter Workflows by George WhittakerCanonical has officially revealed its long-anticipated plans to bring artificial intelligence features into Ubuntu, marking a significant shift for one of the world’s most widely used Linux distributions. Rather than rushing into the AI wave, Canonical is taking a measured, privacy-focused approach, one that aims to enhance the operating system without compromising its open-source values. 🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/canonical-unveils-ubuntu-ai-strategy-local-models-user-control-and-smarter-workflows #linux#opensource#ubuntu