To start things off, a ton of bug fixes alongside a few enhancements are coming to the F2FS filesystem (for Pixel devices) in the the Linux 4.21 kernel[1].

Wine HQ just officially announced the development release of version 4.0 RC4[2] which also boasts numerous bug fixes.

The release of Gzip version 1.10 has been announced on the Savannah community site[3].

All while VideoLAN published VLC version 3.0.5[4].

In distribution news, KaOS, the rolling release Linux distribution, just pushed out version 2018.12[5].

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Petros Koutoupis, LJ Editor at Large, is currently a senior platform architect at IBM for its Cloud Object Storage division (formerly Cleversafe). He is also the creator and maintainer of the RapidDisk Project. Petros has worked in the data storage industry for well over a decade and has helped pioneer the many technologies unleashed in the wild today.

References

  1. ^ Linux 4.21 kernel (lkml.org)
  2. ^ version 4.0 RC4 (www.winehq.org)
  3. ^ Savannah community site (savannah.gnu.org)
  4. ^ VLC version 3.0.5 (www.videolan.org)
  5. ^ version 2018.12 (distrowatch.com)

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