WeeChat 1.5 Brings New Features And Bug-Fixes

WeeChat is an open-source, multi-platform lightweight and extensible chat client, having a text user interface only. Having support for scripts and plugins that can be loaded either at startup or dynamically, the app has support for IRC.

Also, it permits multiple connections to multiple servers, has support for UTF-8 and can use multiple character sets for encoding/decoding messages.

The latest version available is WeeChat 1.5, which brings the below new features:


New features

•     core: add Portuguese translations
•     core: change default value of option weechat.look.nick_color_hash to "djb2"
•     core: move nick coloring from irc plugin to core, move options irc.look.nick_color_force, irc.look.nick_color_hash and irc.look.nick_color_stop_chars to core, add info "nick_color" and "nick_color_name", deprecate info "irc_nick_color" and "irc_color_name"

How To Install Arduino IDE 1.6.9 on Ubuntu

Arduino IDE 1.6.9 recently released, is an open-source Arduino Software (IDE) that makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The environment is written in Java and based on Processing and other open-source software. This software can be used with any Arduino board.

Arduino IDE 1.6.9 Changelog:

[ide]

• Catch and report errors during parsing contributed index files
• Fixed IDE version color on about dialog box.
• The "always-on-top update notification" popup is now less intrusive.
• Fixed untraslated string during IDE startup splash window.
• New arduino-builder: better core library detection, faster operations when recompiling and more. See https://github.com/arduino/arduino-builder/compare/1.3.9...1.3.15

How to install FileZilla 3.19.0 released on Ubuntu

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.

Features at a glance
The application is easy to use, supports multiple languages, and provides users with support for encrypted file transfers, proxy, MODE Z transfer compression, and speed limits. It can be used to transfer files larger than 4GB, as well as to resume transfers. It supports well known file transfer protocols, including FTP, FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS) and SFTP (SSH FTP). In addition, support for proxy includes SOCKS5, HTTP/1.1 and FTP-proxy.

Nmap 7.12 (Network Mapper And Port Scanner) Has Been Released, Install on Ubuntu

Nmap is a command-line network exploration tool that supports ping scanning to determine the online hosts, port scanning techniques and TCP/IP fingerprinting for remote device identification.

The latest version available is Nmap 7.12, which brings the below changes:

• Avoid file corruption in zenmap.conf, reported as files containing many null ("\x00") characters. Example exceptions:

                 TypeError: int() argument must be a string or a number, not 'list'
                 ValueError: unable to parse colour specification

How to install MuPDF 1.9 on ubuntu

MuPDF is a free, open-source, lightweight PDF viewer written in C, with all the basic features of any other PDF viewer and vim-like keybinds.

The latest version available is MuPDF 1.9, which has been recently released, coming with changes.

Headline changes:

    New command line tools: create and run.
    New low-level Java interface for desktop and android.
    Bidirectional layout for Arabic and Hebrew scripts.
    Shaping complex scripts for EPUB text layout.
    Noto fallback fonts for EPUB layout.

mutool create:

    Create new PDF files from scratch.
    Read an annotated content stream in a text file and write a PDF file, automatically embedding font and image resources.

How to install Linux Kernel 4.6.3 released on ubuntu

Kernel 4.6.3 has been released, bringing impressive new features and changes.  Linux Kernel 4.6.3. This latest release brings multiple network improvements, filesystem changes, enhancements and optimizations

 

Linux Kernel 4.6.3 Hightlights

•     ALSA: hda – Fix headset mic detection problem for Dell machine
•     x86/entry/traps: Don’t force in_interrupt() to return true in IST handlers
•     powerpc/mm/hash: Fix the reference bit update when handling hash fault
•     vxlan: Accept user specified MTU value when create new vxlan link
•     sparc64: Take ctx_alloc_lock properly in hugetlb_setup().
•     sparc: Harden signal return frame checks.

How To Install DiffImg 2.2.0 (Image Comparison Tool) On Ubuntu

DiffImg is an open-source image comparison tool written in Qt, used for comparing two images and displays the positions where the pixels differ. Among others, it has an intuitive interface, using OpenCV as backend and has support for comparing 8/16/24/32 bits BMP, PNG, JPG, Tiff, OpenExRimages images.

Current features:

•     Image difference display : a yellow/red mask can overlay the original/modified images.
•     Single/Dual panels mode.