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FOSS NEWS

Firefox is Adding Split View for Tabs, Here’s How to Enable It:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/enable-firefox-split-view-feature

LibreOffice 26.2 Gets Rid Of The "Community" Edition Branding:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-262-Drops-Community
(Fair move, it didn't really make sense to call it Community Edition, because it's that by default, not a paid commercial product which has a free of charge, FOSS version like IntelliJ IDEA for example.)

Ghostty Terminal Adopts a Non-Profit Funding Model:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ghostty-terminal-non-profit-fiscal-sponsorship

MPV 0.41 Released With Wayland Improvements, Vulkan Hardware Decoding Preferred:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MPV-0.41-Released

Darktable 5.4 RAW Photography Software Reaches Parity Between X11 & Wayland:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Darktable-5.4

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.13 has been released:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/heroes-of-might-and-magic-2-project-fheroes2-version-1-1-13-has-been-released/

Free and open source Settlers-like, Widelands v1.3 is out with market trading and new maps:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/free-and-open-source-settlers-like-widelands-v1-3-is-out-with-market-trading-and-new-maps/

Pinta 3.1 is Out with Axonometric Grids, Marching Ants + More:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/pinta-3-1-released-new-axonometric-grids

Zettlr 4.0 launches with new table editor, in-app PDF/image viewer & big workflow upgrades:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/zettlr-4-0-launches-with-new-table-editor-in-app-pdf-image-viewer-and-big-workflow-upgrades/

Turntable 5.0 Adds Collapsible Player Controls & Year-End Recap:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/turntable-linux-desktop-media-controls

BookStack 25.12 adds user mentions in comments, content URL history system, and much more:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/bookstack-25-12-adds-user-mentions-in-comments-content-url-history-system-and-much-more/

Ruby 4.0 Released With Ruby Box Experimental Feature, ZJIT Compiler:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ruby-4.0-Released

Lua 5.5 brings global variable declarations and read-only loop variables:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lua-5.5-Released

QEMU 10.2 Released With IO_uring Support For Helping Allow For Greater Performance:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-10.2-Released

Coreboot 25.12 Released With Qualcomm X1 Plus Platform Support, AMD Turin PoC:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-25.12-Released

Libreboot 26.01-rc1 Released To Support A Few More Systems:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Libreboot-26.01-rc1

P.S. Happy New Year, everyone! 🎆🎇

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