How to Install ClipGrab 3.6.6 on Ubuntu 17.10, 18.04

    ClipGrab is a free downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Dailymotion and many other online video sites.  It converts downloaded videos to MPEG4, MP3 or other formats in just one easy step.

Which sites are supported by ClipGrab?

• YouTube

         YouTube is the most popular video website in the world. This is also why it is the most important site supported by ClipGrab.
         Videos can be downloaded in HD (1080p und 720p) as well as in standard definition (480p, 360p and 240p).
        Additionally, ClipGrab provides an integrated and easy-to-use search function for YouTube videos.

How to install Wine 2.22 Released with ARM64 on Ubuntu 17.04, 17.10

  Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

Wine 2.22 Changelog:

• [New] Source selection dialog for scanners.
• [New] Improvements in ARM64 support.
• [New] Float audio formats with more than 2 channels in XAudio.
• [New] Fixes for DLL injection support.
• [New] Input methods improvements.
• [Fix] IE6 and IE4 have greenish toolbar icons

How to install DVDStyler 3.0.4 on Ubuntu 17.10, 18.04

  DVDStyler 3.0.4 Authoring Tool released is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs. It allows not only burning of video files on DVD that can be played practically on any standalone DVD player, but also creation of individually designed DVD menus. It is Open Source Software and is completely free.

DVDStyler 3.0.4 Changelog:

• fixed handling of files with multiple video streams (pictures, video thumbnails or cover arts)
• added possibility to play video from internal file browser
• win32/win64: updated Manolito's VBR plug-in

How to Install qBittorrent 4.0.1 on Ubuntu 17.10, 18.04

   qBittorrent is a free, open-source and reliable P2P BitTorrent client, available for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows. It aims to provide a free software alternative to uTorrent.

qBittorrent 4.0.1 changelog : 

• BUGFIX: Fix crash on opening torrent/magnet (uninitialized pointer).
• BUGFIX: Enable preferences Apply button when ip banlist is modified
• BUGFIX: Allow drag-n-drop magnet links to mainwindow.
• BUGFIX: Fix crash when aborting a torrent creation process.
• BUGFIX: Correctly check if torrent passed during application start already exists.

How to install Qmmp Music Player 1.2.0 'Winamp Like' on Ubuntu

   qmmp is a free and open-source audio player written in C++ with the help of the Qt library. It officially supports the operating systems Linux, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows. It is the only audio player not featuring a database that uses the Qt library. The default user interface of qmmp is inspired by Winamp.

Qmmp 1.2.0 changelog:

• added archive reader plugin (requires TagLib 1.11 or higher);
• added file writer plugin;
• added icecast output plugin;
• added feature to disable notifications when another application is in the full screen mode;
• added cover tab to the track details dialog;

How to install Vivaldi 1.13 Released with Improvements on Ubuntu 17.10

   Vivaldi Web Browser is a free, fully customizable web browser. Feature rich, powerful, secure and fun!

 

 

Vivaldi 1.13 Changelog: 

New features

• [New] Protection against accidentally canceled downloads
• [New] Resume downloads from the previous browser session
• [New] Show download speed in panel entries
• [New] Window Panel (Phase 1)

How to install Virtualbox 5.2.2 Added Improvements for High Resolution Screens on Ubuntu

  VirtualBox  is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

Virtualbox 5.2.2 Changelog:

• User interface: various improvements for high resolution screens
• User interface: added functionality to duplicate optical and floppy images
• User interface: various improvements for the virtual media manager
• VMM: fixed emulation so that Plan 9 guests can start once more (5.1.0 regression)
• Storage: fixed regression breaking iSCSI

Install HP Print Drivers HPLIP 3.17.11 Adds Ubuntu 17.10 Support

   HPLIP is a free, open-source HP-developed solution for printing, scanning, and faxing with HP inkjet and laser based printers in Linux.

Drivers HPLIP 3.17.11 Changelog: 
Added Support for the following new Distros:

• Ubuntu 17.10 (64bit)

Other Requirement:

• Class Driver support

How to install Krita 3.3.2 released on Ubuntu 17.10, 18.10

   Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

•     concept art
•     texture and matte painters
•     illustrations and comics

Krita 3.3.2 Changelog:
fixes two important regressions:

• Krita 3.3.1 would read brush presets with textures incorrectly. This is now fixed.
• Windows 1709 broke wintab and Windows Ink tablet handling in various ways; we worked around that and it works again in this version of Krita.

How to Install SuperTuxKart 0.9.3 Final on Ubuntu, a 3D Kart Racing Game released

     SuperTuxKart, aka STK, released version 0.9.3  Final on November 20, 2017 This new version brings in several new tracks, karts and features. It’s a free, open-source and cross-platform racing game available for Linux, OS X and Windows. It features the mascots of many open source project like Tux, Beastie, Pidgin, Wilber etc, with Mozilla Thunderbird being the referee.

SuperTuxKart 0.9.3 Final  Changelog:

• Reduced RAM and VRAM usage, reducing load times
• New mesh format optimized for space and hardware skinning
• Code refactoring of both render pipelines
• New karts Wilber and Hexley
• New karts Kiki and updated Konqi

How to Install KStars 2.8.7 on Ubuntu 17.10

    KStars is free, open source, cross-platform Astronomy Software. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes up to 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets, asteroids, supernovae, and satellites. For students and teachers, it supports adjustable simulation speeds in order to view phenomena that happen over long timescales, the KStars Astrocalculator to predict conjunctions, and many common astronomical calculations.

KStars 2.8.7 features:

•     Change your geographic location to see how the view of the sky changes with latitude
•     Understand the difference between sidereal days and solar days by changing the speed of simulation
•     Attach trails to planets and set a high simulation rate to see their trajectories as they perform retrograde motion

How to Install MKVToolNix 18.0.0 on Ubuntu 17.10

    MKVtoolnix is a set of tools to create, alter, split, join and inspect Matroska files(mkv). With these tools one can get information about (mkvinfo) Matroska files, extract tracks/data from (mkvextract) Matroska files and create (mkvmerge) Matroska files from other media files. Matroska is a multimedia file format aiming to become THE new container format for the future. Use MKVCleaver or gMKVExtractGUI to extract/demultiplex mkv video and audio files.

MKVToolNix 18.0.0 Changelog:
New features and enhancements

• build system: when building with clang v3.8.0 or newer, configure will no longer restrict optimization flags to -O1 and use -O3 again (older versions of clang suffered from excessive memory usage with higher optimization levels).
• build system: when building with mingw 7.2.0 or newer, configure will no longer restrict optimization flags to -O2 and use -O3 again (older versions of mingw suffered from bugs such as segmentation faults with higher optimization levels).

How to Install VLC 2.2.7 on Ubuntu 16.04, 14.04

    VLC Media Player is one of the most prominent and also durable multi format, free of charge media player available

VLC 2.2.7 Changelog:
Decoders:

• Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
• Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
• Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
• Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection

Demuxers:

• Fix potential crash in ASX parser
• Fix AVI read/write overflow

How to install Vivaldi 1.12 Released on Ubuntu 17.10

   Vivaldi Web Browser is a free, fully customizable web browser. Feature rich, powerful, secure and fun!

 

Vivaldi 1.12 Changelog:
New Features

• [Downloads] Add support for “Sort by Type”
• [Downloads] Add Download Info to the Download Panel
• Image Properties
• New setting to limit accent color saturation

Hot to Install Terminix Terminal Emulator 1.7.1 on Ubuntu via PPA

Tilix is an advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.

Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget with the following features:

• Layout terminals in any fashion by splitting them horizontally or vertically
• Terminals can be re-arranged using drag and drop both within and between windows
• Terminals can be detached into a new window via drag and drop
• Input can be synchronized between terminals so commands typed in one terminal are replicated to the others
• The grouping of terminals can be saved and loaded from disk
• Terminals support custom titles

How to install FileZilla 3.29.0 released on Ubuntu 17.10

    FileZilla is a free, cross-platform and full-featured FTP (File Transfer Protocol) solution for the Linux and Open Source ecosystems. It is also compatible with the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

FileZilla 3.29.0 changelog

• Fix: Fix activity indicators not working after the update check has been run
• Added new quick search filter to file lists, accessed through Ctrl+F
• FTP over TLS: Mismatched hostnames are now highlighted in red in the certificate verification dialog
• Filters using regular expressions can now be case-insensitive

How to Install Wireshark 2.4.2 on Ubuntu 17.10

  Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.

Wireshark 2.4.2 Changelog:

• fixed: Wireshark crash when end capturing with "Update list of packets in real-time" option off.
• fixed: Diameter service response time statistics broken in 2.2.4.
• fixed: Sequence number isn’t shown as the X axis in TCP Stream Graph - RTT.
• fixed: Using an SSL subdissector will cause SSL data to not be decoded (related to reassembly of application data).
• fixed: Wireshark 2.4.0 doesn’t build with Qt 4.8.

How To Install OpenShot Video Editor 2.4.1 released On Ubuntu 17.10

   OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor for Linux. OpenShot can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats.

OpenShot 2.4.1 release highlights:

• Improved Image Quality : improved the image processing pipeline in OpenShot to create sharper images, by switching our image scaling algorithm, and most importantly, only scaling a frame once, as opposed to multiple times (which used to happen in certain scenarios). This results in a noticeably sharper image, and slightly better performance.

How to install XnView MP 0.88 on Ubuntu 17.10

XnView is an image organizer and general-purpose file manager used for viewing, converting, organizing and editing raster images, as well as general purpose file management. It comes with built-in hex inspection, batch renaming and screen capture tools. It is licensed as freeware for private, educational and non-profit uses. For other uses, it is licensed as commercial software.

XnView MP 0.88 Changlog:

• [New] More used formats at the top in save dialog
• [New] Policy entries in xnview.ini
• [New] Exposure adjsutement in edit mode
• [New] FLIF 0.3

How to install VidCutter 5.0 with New Features on Ubuntu 17.10

    VidCutter is an open-source video trimmer app for Linux, Windows and macOS. It’s built using Python and Qt5, and uses FFmpeg as its decoding and encoding backend. It lets you cut, split or trim large video files in to smaller, easier to share clips.

VidCutter 5.0 Changelog

• SmartCut feature introduced for frame accurate cuts; beginning and end clip segments are reencoded and joined with middle segment for each clip defined in the Clip Index along source video's defined keyframes
• SmartCut enabled via app settings as well as toggle button on the main interface. SmartCut can take up to 2 mins vs a few seconds so use it only if frame accuracy is a requirement

How to install LiVES Video Editor 2.8.7 Ubuntu 17.10

  LiVES is a Video Editing System. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet it has many advanced features.

    LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non-linear editing in one professional quality application. It will let you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates. It is a very flexible tool which is used by both professional VJ's and video editors - mix and switch clips from the keyboard, use dozens of realtime effects, trim and edit your clips in the clip editor, and bring them together using the multitrack timeline.

LiVES 2.8.7 Changelog:  

• Remove glad.h dependence on khr
• Prompt for clip name when rendering to new clip
• Fix autolives toy

How to install SMPlayer 17.11.2 Released on Ubuntu 17.10

   SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats. It doesn't need any external codecs. Just install SMPlayer and you'll be able to play all formats without the hassle to find and install codec packs.

SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. But apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play Youtube videos or download subtitles.


SMPlayer 17.11 Changelog:

• A crash that may happen on KDE when the global menus are activated has been fixed.
• Fix: SMPlayer won't cancel logout in KDE.
• The seek function in the MPRIS2 code has been fixed.

How to Install LibreOffice 5.4.3.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 & Higher

    LibreOffice is a powerful office suite – its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity. LibreOffice includes several applications that make it the most powerful Free and Open Source office suite on the market: Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector graphics and flowcharts), Base (databases), and Math (formula editing).

LibreOffice 5.4.3.2 Changelog:

• LibreOffice uses wrong attribute for feature "shrink-to-fit"
• Cannot run LibreOffice, api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing (for local solution see comment 7)
• Cannot paste formatted text (.rtf) from clipboard on Mac. It comes always unformatted. Still broken in 5.3.6 and 5.4.1

How to install IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2.6 Released on Ubuntu 17.10

   JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA is a Java integrated development environment (IDE) for developing computer software. It is developed by JetBrains (formerly known as IntelliJ), and is available as an Apache 2 Licensed community edition, and in a proprietary commercial edition. Both can be used for commercial development.

IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2.6 Changelog:

• fixed: NullPointerException in com.intellij.openapi.externalSystem.settings.AbstractExternalSystemSettings.setLinkedProjectsSetting s in offline inspections mode
• fixed: Changelog converted automatically to US-ASCII
• fixed: Code inspection hangs in the latest 2017.2.5 release

Firefox 57 Released! How to Install it via PPA on Ubuntu 17.10

   Mozilla Firefox web browser has reached the 57 stable release makes Firefox faster and more stable with completely new browsing engine.

Firefox 57 Changelog :  
New

• A completely new browsing engine, designed to take full advantage of the processing power in modern devices
• A redesigned interface with a clean, modern appearance, consistent visual elements, and optimizations for touch screens
• A unified address and search bar. New installs will see this unified bar. Learn how to add the stand-alone search bar to the toolbar

NetBeans IDE 8.2 released, Install on Ubuntu 17.10

    NetBeans is an open-source project dedicated to providing rock solid software development products (the NetBeans IDE and the NetBeans Platform) that address the needs of developers, users and the businesses who rely on NetBeans as a basis for their products; particularly, to enable them to develop these products quickly, efficiently and easily by leveraging the strengths of the Java platform and other relevant industry standards.

What's New in 8.2

• ECMAScript 6 and Experimental ECMAScript 7 Support
• HTML5/JavaScript Enhancements
• PHP 7 support
• Docker support

How to Install Linux Kernel 4.14 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds.

  Linus Torvalds announced that:

    No surprises this week, although it is probably worth pointing out how the 0day robot has been getting even better (it was very useful before, but Fengguang has been working on making it even better, and reporting the problems it has found).

How to Install Wine 2.21 Released via PPA on Ubuntu

   Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

Wine 2.21 changelog:

• Still more metafile support in GdiPlus.
• Indirect draws support in Direct 3D.
• Calling convention fixes on ARM.
• Improved serial port detection on Linux.

How to install Inkscape 0.92.2 on Ubuntu 17.10

    Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. It is used by design professionals and hobbyists worldwide, for creating a wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps and web graphics. Inkscape uses the W3C open standard SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) as its native format, and is free and open-source software.

    Inkscape has sophisticated drawing tools with capabilities comparable to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Xara Xtreme. It can import and export various file formats, including SVG, AI, EPS, PDF, PS and PNG. It has a comprehensive feature set, a simple interface, multi-lingual support and is designed to be extensible; users can customize Inkscape's functionality with add-ons.
 
Inkscape 0.92.2 highlights

Improvements

• Add a control point to the centers of rectangles, circles/ellipses and stars to make it easier to move them and to align them in a precise way. (Video)
• DPI Change: Command line option --dpi-update-method=[none|scale-viewbox|scale-document] to batch-process legacy files.
• Improve selection chemistry z-stack ordering.

How to Install Atom Text Editor 1.22.0 on Ubuntu 17.10

   Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core a tool you can customize to do anything but also use productively without ever touching a config file.

    Atom is a free and open-source text and source code editor for OS X, Linux, and Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js, and embedded Git Control, developed by GitHub. Atom is a desktop application built using web technologies. Most of the extending packages have free software licenses and are community-built and maintained. Atom is based on Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell), a framework that enables cross-platform desktop applications using Chromium and Node.js. It is written in CoffeeScript and Less. It can also be used as an IDE. Atom was released from beta, as version 1.0, on June 25, 2015. Its developers call it a "hackable text editor for the 21st Century".

How to Install Kodi 17.5 Released in PPA for Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10

   Kodi spawned from the love of media. It is an entertainment hub that brings all your digital media together into a beautiful and user friendly package. It is 100% free and open source, very customisable and runs on a wide variety of devices.

   Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls.

Kodi 17.5 Changelog:

• Joysticks: Fix accelerometers preventing screensaver
• More robust way of handling audio output on variety of Android devices
• Fix playback of DVD file over network on Linux
• Update to FFmpeg 3.1.11

How to install Visual Studio Code 1.18 on Ubuntu 17.10

  Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity).

Visual Studio Code 1.18 release highlights:

• Multi-root workspaces released to Stable - Group a logical set of folders into a single workspace.
• Vertical panels - Dock panels (Terminal, Output, or Debug Console) to the right of your editor.
• Git indicators in the Explorer - See pending file changes in the File Explorer.
• Inline pending change review - View pending changes and perform partial commits in the editor.

How to install Plasma Desktop 5.11 on Ubuntu 17.10

  The KDE® Community is a free software community dedicated to creating an open and user-friendly computing experience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment and a platform to easily build new applications upon. We have a strong focus on finding innovative solutions to old and new problems, creating a vibrant atmosphere open for experimentation.

KDE releases a Bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.11.3. Plasma 5.11 was released in October with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. 

Plasma Desktop 5.10 Changelog:

• Don't refresh invalid backends.
• Remove unused class.
• Don't delete resources whenever asked to clear the view.
• Extend the resetModel until the model is ready to be fetched again.
• Make sure we set the page size.
• Unneeded dependency in the library.

How to Install Enlightenment E22 via PPA on Ubuntu 17.10

   Enlightenment originally began as a project to create a Window Manager for X11. Since then it's grown into the one million lines of C code that form the EFL libraries, as well as a Window Manager and a set of applications. There's a vibrant and active community of developers and users who work on and use the code every day.

Enlightenment E22 Highlights:

• Greatly improved Wayland support
• Improvements to new gadget infrastructure
• Added a sudo/ssh askpass utility gui
• meson build system

How to install Opera 49 Released with Built-in VR Player, adds snapshot tool on Ubuntu 17.10

    Opera 49 was released earlier today. The new release features included VR playback system that supports 360-degree vedios, 2D movies or standard 180-degree videos, editing tools and selfie mode in Snapshot tool, emoji for snap , accessibility to line drawing tool popover buttons, Bookmarks bar folder icon color improvements, Popup windows are too wide when full URL is displayed.

Opera 49 release highlights:

• [Mac] Buildsign script not working
• Create API for activating Snap from the welcome page
• Promote O49 to Stable channel
• Remove ‘Dont need sidebar(…)’ hint

How to Install Audacity 2.2.0 via PPA on Ubuntu 17.04, 18.04

   Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
Compilation instructions for Audacity are provided in the source code:

• Windows: win\compile.txt
• macOS: mac/Build.txt
• GNU/Linux: INSTALL.

Audacity 2.2.0 Changelog:

• Four supplied user interface themes, and customizability of themes for advanced users.
• Playback of MIDI files (fully automatic on Windows; requires cooperating software synthesizer programs on macOs or Linux; special thanks to Audacity co-founder Roger Dannenberg and new contributor “pokechu22”)
• Better organized menus

How to install Synfig Studio 1.2.1 : A Powerful Animation Software on Ubuntu 17.04, 18.04

   Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality 2D animation with fewer people and resources.

Synfig Studio 1.2.1 Changelog:

• Fixed rendering of text with international characters on Windows.
• Fixed algorithm of Fast Gaussian Blur, eliminating the random artifacts.
• Fixed incorrect rendering of Twirl Layer and Noise Distortion Layer.

How to install SMPlayer 17.11 Released on Ubuntu 17.04, 18.04

   SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats. It doesn't need any external codecs. Just install SMPlayer and you'll be able to play all formats without the hassle to find and install codec packs.

SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. But apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play Youtube videos or download subtitles.

SMPlayer 17.11 Changelog:

• The video equalizer by software has been fixed.
• The thumbnail generator is now more precise with short videos.

How to install Qmmp Music Player 1.1.12 'Winamp Like' on Ubuntu 17.04, 18.04

   qmmp is a free and open-source audio player written in C++ with the help of the Qt library. It officially supports the operating systems Linux, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows. It is the only audio player not featuring a database that uses the Qt library. The default user interface of qmmp is inspired by Winamp.

Qmmp 1.1.12 changelog:

• fixed IPC regression.
• added AAC mime types to the qmmp.desktop;
• added album artist support in the cue parsers;
• using game name as album tag in the gme plugin;
• fixed seeking in the mpris plugin;

How to Upgrade Ubuntu 17.04 to Ubuntu 17.10

Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) will be released on October 19, 2017. This version will be supported for 9 months until July 2018. For those looking for long term support versions of Ubuntu, they may want to install Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS) or wait for then upcoming 18.04 (LTS). The LTS versions are usually supported for 5 years.

Ubuntu 17.10 replaces Unity with Gnome Shell as its default desktop environment. It’s powered by 4.13 Kernel and runs Gnome on Wayland by default. Xorg is also available for choice.

Upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10 from Ubuntu 17.04

How To Install OpenShot Video Editor 2.4.0 released, Improved Stability On Ubuntu 16.04 & Higher

   OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor for Linux. OpenShot can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats.

OpenShot Video Editor 2.4.0 Changelog:
openshot-qt (Video Editor)

• Improving undo/redo support. Now the last X number of undo/redo actions are stored in the project file. The number can be adjusted in the prefences, under the auto-save tab. This also vastly improves the usefulness of the auto-save system, since it saves your undo/redo history as well.
• Fixed Image Sequence exporting. Supports PNG, JPG, PPM, BMP and a few others. Also added 'Audio Only' and 'Video Only' export options.

Install Kid3 Audio Editor 3.5.1 Improved High-DPI Support on Ubuntu 17.04

   Kid3 is an open-source cross-platform audio tag editor for many audio file formats. It supports DSF, MP3, Ogg, FLAC, MPC, MPEG-4 (mp4/m4a/m4b), AAC, Opus, SPX, TrueAudio, APE, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF, tracker modules.

Features

• Edit ID3v1.1 tags
• Edit all ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 frames
• Convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags
• Edit tags in MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, DSF, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Opus, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF files and tracker modules (MOD, S3M, IT, XM)
• Edit tags of multiple files, e.g. the artist, album, year and genre of all files of an album typically have the same values and can be set together.

How to Install Kdenlive 17.04.3 Video Editor on Ubuntu 17.04, 17.10

    Kdenlive is an open source video editor. The project was started around 2003. Kdenlive is built on Qt and the KDE Frameworks libraries. Most of the video processing is done by the MLT Framework, which relies on many other open source projects like FFmpeg, frei0r, movit, ladspa, sox, etc…

Kdenlive 17.04.3 Changelog:

• Fix crash on importing multistream clip.
• Fix crash when creating proxies – real issue not yet fixed.
• Fix compile (gcc7).
• Show info on MLT found
• Non-portable flag, let build system handle it.

How to Install SuperTuxKart 0.9.3 RC1 on Ubuntu, a 3D Kart Racing Game released

     SuperTuxKart, aka STK, released version 0.9.3 RC1 on October 28, 2017 the last big update before going on Steam, SuperTuxKart 0.9.3-rc1 dubbed the "Halloween Update". It’s a free, open-source and cross-platform racing game available for Linux, OS X and Windows. It features the mascots of many open source project like Tux, Beastie, Pidgin, Wilber etc, with Mozilla Thunderbird being the referee.

New Features and bug fixes in SuperTuxKart 0.9.3 RC1

• To help you navigate in the dark, karts now have headlights that are automatically turned on during night time.
• A lot of the annoying physics bugs were corrected by hiker. Karts should no longer bump randomly against walls.
• Karts have also exhaust smoke coming out of their pipes.