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Linux kernel 6.14 was released on March 24th, 2025, with new features like Btrfs RAID1 read balancing support, a new ntsync subsystem for Win NT synchronization primitives to boost game emulation with Wine, uncached buffered I/O support, and a new accelerator driver for the AMD XDNA Ryzen AI NPUs (Neural Processing Units).

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Calibre 8.2 Ebook Manager Updates the Kobo Driver with New Tolino Firmware

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GNU Paint version 0.3.4 released

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 06, 2023

Version 0.3.4 is now available as

https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gpaint/gpaint-2-0.3.4.tar.gz

This release combines existing patches from GNU/Linux distributions into an official release.� In addition,
the build infrastructure is modernized to be based on
current versions of the GNU Autotools

Changes in this version:

�� * adding guix.scm, development under GNU Guix support

�� Debian patches from Goedson Teixeira Paixao incorporatd into main release
�� includng patches for
�� * fixing missing heds libs by
�� * Fix toolbar behaviour so that gpaint follows the style set in
�� the user preferences by
�� * Fix foreground/background color selection by
�� * Fix crash when saving in unsupported format by
�� * Add accelerator keys to common functions by Matt Wheeler
�� * Ignore non-printable characters on text input by Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)
�� * fix crash on fill button click by
�� * Fix line width combo box by Thomas Viehmann
�� * Fixes rotation operations: Implement the rotation in multiples of 90 degrees using the
�� gdk_pixbuf_rotate_simple function by
�� * Avoids crash on font selection by
�� * Fixes the gpaint.desktop file by
�� * Removes reference to non-existent menu.h file by
�� * Fixes compiling with recent versions of libgtk by

This release represents gpaint is resuming active development.

Roadmap is detailed in README file but suggestions are welcome.

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