Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest – June 2025
Hello once more from the Thunderbird development team! For many of our team members, the summer has started with our annual sprint to release ESR and enjoy a little time afk, as our colleagues in the southern hemisphere hunker down for winter and power...
Amarok 3.3 Released Using Qt 6, GStreamer Audio Engine
A new version of iconic Qt music player Amarok has been released, the first to be based on Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6. Amarok 3.3 (codenamed ‘Far Above the Clouds’, a reference a song by progressive rock musician Mike Oldfield) picks up a glut of imp...
Amarok 3.3 Released with Qt 6, GStreamer Audio Engine
A new version of free music player Amarok has been released, ported to Qt 6 and no longer using the Phonon audio backend. Details on what's new inside. You're reading Amarok 3.3 Released with Qt 6, GStreamer Audio Engine, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. ...
Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Business Developers
Red Hat this morning went public with RHEL for Business Developers, an expansion of their RHEL Developer Program to make it easier for business developers to make use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux at no-cost for their development efforts...
Get started with Google Agent Development Kit
A common use case in generative AI is developing an agent, which is a system users interact with in plain language to accomplish a given task. Creating AI agents can require a lot of heavy lifting, even when you’re leveraging an existing commercial ...
The ultimate software engineering abstraction
Really big changes don’t happen in the programming world very often. I’ve been lucky to be around long enough to see a couple of them. And we are all lucky enough to be seeing one today. I remember well the heady days in the mid-1990s when rapid ...
PowerVR Vulkan Driver Enhancements Merged Ahead Of Mesa 25.2
The Mesa 25.2 code is expected to be branched next week to kick off the release process for this quarter's iteration of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. As such, there's going to be a mad dash over the next week to land lingering features and oth...
