Leftovers: Software
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Irssi 1.0.0 Released
Irssi 1.0.0 has been released. This release contains many improvements. Irssi 1.0.0 includes contributions by Lukas Mai, Xavier G, Kenny Root, Jari Matilainen, Todd A. Pratt, Manish Goregaokar, B. Thibault, Joseph Bisch, Will Storey, Lauri Tirkkonen, Lauri Nurmi, Tom Feist, Thomas Samson, Dennis Schagt, Mantas Mikulėnas and François Revol. In total, 132 files changed, 3434 lines were added and 3202 lines deleted and TheLemonMan officially joined the staff. Thanks everyone! See the NEWS for details.
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Irssi Open-Source Terminal-Based IRC Client Hits 1.0 Milestone After 18 Years
We bet you did not see that coming, but the Irssi team proudly announced today, January 5, 2017, the availability of Irssi 1.0.0, the newest stable series of the popular, open-source terminal-based IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client for UNIX systems.
And it's clearly not a coincidence to release the 1.0 milestone now as Irssi has been in development since January 1999, during which it received numerous snapshots, the last one begin version 0.8.20 released in September 2016. The fact of the matter is that the team also announced Irssi 0.8.21 to fix a total of four remote crash issues.
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MPD 0.20 released
Music Player Daemon 0.20 has been released.
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Music Player Daemon (MPD) 0.20 Released with Audio/L16 and WavPack-DSD Support
The folks over at Music Player Daemon (MPD) are kicking off the new year as well, bringing us a major update to the open-source, free, powerful, flexible, and server-side application for playing music on our GNU/Linux systems.
From the release announcement, Music Player Daemon (MPD) 0.20 appears to be a major release that comes approximately one month after the last maintenance to the MPD 0.19 series. The Git changelog attached at the end of the article also shows us that this is a pretty big update with lots of improvements and new features.
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Inkscape 0.92 Is Released
Inkscape, the very popular open source cross-platform vector drawing program, has released version 0.92. Check out the new features in this very nicely done video. (Note: The sound level is a bit loud in this video. You might want to turn the volume down on your computer before starting the video.)
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Samba 4.6 RC1 Arrives For Latest With File & Print Services
The release candidate is out for the upcoming Samba 4.6 version of this open-source SMB/CIFS implementation.
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HarfBuzz 1.4 Brings OpenType GX / Font Variations
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