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Nearly 30 years after its first release, the open source Java programming language is continuing to improve.

Today Java 24 becomes generally available, bringing with it substantial improvements across language features, libraries, security, and runtime performance. The latest release contains exactly 24 Java Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), coincidentally matching the version number, along with approximately 3,500 additional fixes and improvements.

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Coming four months after Blender 4.3, the Blender 4.4 release introduces support for integer sockets in the compositor, a much more accurate Fast Gaussian mode of the Blur node, a revamped Glare node for greater control and a better user experience, and support for rendering videos using the H.265/HEVC codec.

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Citrix Wrike is a collaborative work management solution. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

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Powered by the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 42 beta ships with the soon-to-be-released GNOME 48 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, as well as the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment on the Fedora KDE Spin, which was promoted to edition status.

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Add additional functionality to a GNOME desktop with these great GNOME extensions. This roundup showcases 42 cool GNOME extensions.

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We recommend a variety of different Bluetooth tools besides BlueZ, the official implementation of the Bluetooth protocol stack.

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GIMP 3.0 is here with a modern GTK3 UI, non-destructive filters, improved file support, enhanced color management, and more.

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Redo Rescue (formerly Redo Backup and Recovery) is a powerful and user-friendly backup and disaster recovery solution that provides a simple, easy-to-use interface that anyone can navigate.

Whether you’re using Linux or Windows, Redo Rescue supports bare-metal restores, meaning you can fully recover your system even if your hard drive fails or gets corrupted within minutes.

With Redo Rescue, all your files, settings, and system configurations will be restored to the exact state they were in when the most recent backup was taken.

The software runs as a live ISO image, built on Debian, and provides a graphical interface for ease of use, which is open source and completely free for both personal and commercial use.

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Discover JDownloader, a fantastic open-source download management tool that uses Java technology and offers advanced features exclusively available in this tool.

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This week, we got a lot of great releases, starting with a new bugfix update for the Audacity 3.7 audio editor and a new KDE Plasma 6.3 point release with numerous bug fixes, and continuing with a major GStreamer multimedia framework update and a big release for the digiKam photo management software.

Also this week, the IPFire hardened Linux firewall received a big kernel bump, the upcoming Mesa 25.1 graphics stack promises a big change for NVIDIA GPU users, the KDE Project released the KDE Frameworks 6.12 software suite, and Debian published new installation media for the Debian 12 Bookworm series.

On top of that, I take a look at the brand-new Garuda COSMIC edition and tell you all about the new features coming to the LXQt 2.2 desktop. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for March 16th, 2025.

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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 12.10, Debian 12.10, Audacity 3.7.2, Kitty 0.40, Rust takes root in Ubuntu, KDE’s X11 support to continue until Plasma 7, and more.

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ShareFile is a secure content collaboration, file sharing and sync software. It’s designed to handle document workflows for any size team. It has built-in security features to protect files.

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Debian 12 “Bookworm” receives its tenth refresh (12.10), featuring 66 bug fixes and 43 security updates. Here’s more on that!

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Coming four months after digiKam 8.5, the digiKam 8.6 release is here to improve the application’s face management feature using cutting-edge AI technology by completely rewriting it, including the Face Classifier and Face Pipeline implementations. This leads to 25%-50% faster operation when using the full CPU.

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