The Document Foundation has released the first RC for the new LibreOffice 4.4.5 branch. It’s a maintenance update for the entire 4.4.x branch and it’s not the last one in the series.

Soon after LibreOffice 4.4.4 was released by the developers, a new RC has been released for a new version, and it looks like The Document Foundation is not wasting any time. The 4.4.x branch is the most advanced right now, but that won’t be true for much longer. Soon, we’ll have the 5.0 version… (read more)

Canonical has just announced that a large number of Firefox vulnerabilities have been fixed and that version 39.0 of the browser has been added to Ubuntu 15.04 and all the other supported Ubuntu versions.

This latest version of Firefox debuted on July 3, but it took the Ubuntu maintainers almost a week to make it available in the official repositories. It usually takes a lot less than seven days to land in the distros, but this time it was a lot longer. In fact, it was long… (read more)

Krita, an open-source digital painting software piece that aims to be the best in its field, has been upgraded to version 2.9.6 and is ready for download.

The Krita team successfully got funding from a Kickstarter project a month ago, and the developers promised one thing above anything else. They wanted to have an app that is just as fast as Photoshop, and they weren’t kidding. They have pushed a couple of updates since then, and now they have another one out the door. It’… (read more)