For users of the Xfce4 desktop environment, a new release of xfce4-notifyd 0.4 is now available as the project's newest feature release.

QupZilla 2.2 has been released as the last feature release for this open-source web-browser project prior to its re-branding initiative under the KDE umbrella as the Falkon project.

SDDM 0.16 is now available as the latest feature release of the Simple Desktop Display Manager, commonly used by some KDE-based Linux desktops for log-in management needs.

NASA is still said to be porting their "Eyes" visualization software to Linux.

With FreeType 2.8.1 having been released last week, a lot of new code landed in the early hours of today to its Git repository.

Enlightenment 0.22 is now available in alpha form with a variety of improvements, including continued progress on Wayland.

Jon Thomas has announced the release of the OpenShot Video Editor 2.4 released. Among the features of OpenShot 2.4 are "vastly improved stability" for this non-linear, cross-platform video editor.

According to Net Applications' Netmarketshare, the Linux market share on the desktop as judged by browser interactions may now be above 3%.

We are one step closer to the long-awaited GIMP 2.10 update with today seeing the newest development release, GIMP 2.9.6.

Xfce 4.14 is still running behind schedule but at least progress is being made on this lightweight, GTK-based desktop environment.

EFL 1.20 is now available as the newest version of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.

Mattia Rizzolo has written a status update concerning Debian's Reproducible Builds project for ensuring the package archive can be rebuilt bit-for-bit in a verified and reproducible path from source code to binary.

Exo 0.11.4 is the first release candidate ahead of Exo 0.12 and marks the library's complete port to GTK3.

MATE developer Martin Wimpress has shared that they are talking to Mir developers about how Mir could be used as a Wayland compositor.

Another Xfce component saw a new development release in the slow road towards Xfce 4.14.

Kingsoft Software has released an updated version of their (proprietary) office productivity software for Linux.

Xfdesktop 4.13.1 was released this weekend as another baby step towards the long-awaited Xfce 4.14.

The Xfce desktop has integrated hybrid sleep support.

The release of Xfce 4.14 continues getting closer as their transitional step for getting the lightweight desktop environment up and running with the GTK3 tool-kit.

Enlightenment 0.21.8 was released this week as the latest stable point release to the E21 series.

Simon Steinbeiß has announced the debut of the first GTK+3 release of the xfce4-panel package.

AMD's Harry Wentland has sent out the latest round of patches to the yet-to-be-merged DC display stack (formerly known as "DAL") for the AMDGPU kernel driver.

A new point release of the OpenShot video editor is now available for those satisfied with this open-source non-linear video editing solution.

Clement Lefebvre has tagged the Cinnamon 3.4.0 release ahead of the Linux Mint 18.2 "Sonya" OS update.

For those looking forward to the upcoming Qt 5.9 tool-kit release, the third beta is now shipping.

In the latest monthly progress report on Linux Mint, some of the upcoming changes for the GNOME3-forked Cinnamon Desktop Environment were shared.

VSXu, the OpenGL-accelerated audio/music visualizer combined with a visual programming language, released their v0.6 release to end out April. The VSXu 0.6 milestone incorporates more than two years of work.

An Enlightenment developer has been working on support for accelerating EFL Evas filters with OpenGL shaders.

Those trying to run Netflix from Chrome/Firefox on different Linux distributions should now see broader compatibility for this popular streaming service without having to alter your HTTP user-agent strings.

A ton of code hit the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries' (EFL) Git tree yesterday with the latest feature activity.