The Desktop team has just returned from our engineering sprint in Gothenburg, and as we begin the development cycle for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, I’m excited to share what’s coming next for Ubuntu Desktop. Long-term support releases traditionally focus on stability, refinement, and a cohesive user experience across installation, daily use, security, and enterprise integration. Here is a look at the key themes and what we aim to deliver when 26.04 ships next April. Desktop Experience Gnome 50 and ne...

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## Key Points * **ROS Noetic** has reached end of life, but Canonical is ensuring continued security and support for developers and organizations building robots on Ubuntu. * **Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM)** for ROS coverage has been extended to **ROS Noetic content-sharing snaps** , providing long-term support and security for ROS environments. * **Content-sharing snaps** simplify packaging, improve consistency, and reduce image size across robotic systems, making it easier for developers to build and deploy robots securely on Ubuntu. As a tech journalist reporting on the latest Ubuntu news, I’m excited to share insights on the recent developments in the Ubuntu Robotics team’s efforts to support developers and organizations building robots on Ubuntu. With **ROS Noetic** reaching its end of life in May 2025, the team has been working tirelessly to ensure that users can continue to build and deploy robots securely on the platform. This is a significant concern for the **Linux** and **open-source software** communities, as ROS is a widely-used framework for building robot applications. To address this issue, **Canonical** has extended its **Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM)** for ROS coverage to **ROS Noetic content-sharing snaps**. This update is a crucial step towards providing long-term support and security for ROS environments distributed through the **Snap ecosystem**. By doing so, developers can continue to rely on maintained and compatible components, ensuring the security and stability of their robotic systems. But what exactly are **content-sharing snaps**? In simple terms, they allow multiple snaps to share common dependencies, such as **ROS libraries** , **tools** , and **assets** , without duplication. This model simplifies packaging, improves consistency, and reduces image size across robotic systems. By following a modular architecture, developers can build more efficient and scalable robotic systems. For example, **content-sharing snaps** can be used to share common dependencies across multiple robots, reducing the overall size of the system and making it easier to maintain and update. The extension of **ESM** to **ROS Noetic content-sharing snaps** is a significant development for the **Ubuntu** and **Linux** communities. It demonstrates **Canonical’s** commitment to supporting the development of secure and reliable robotic systems. By providing long-term support and security for ROS environments, **Canonical** is enabling developers to focus on building innovative robotic applications, rather than worrying about the underlying infrastructure. The **Snap ecosystem** plays a critical role in this effort, providing a secure and efficient way to package and distribute ROS applications. With **content-sharing snaps** , developers can easily share and reuse components, reducing the complexity and overhead of building robotic systems. This, in turn, can lead to faster development times, improved collaboration, and increased innovation in the field of robotics. As the **Ubuntu Robotics** team continues to work on ensuring the security and support of ROS environments, developers and organizations can rest assured that their robotic systems will remain secure and up-to-date. The extension of **ESM** to **ROS Noetic content-sharing snaps** is a significant step forward in this effort, and we can expect to see more developments in the future. With **Canonical’s** commitment to supporting the **Linux** and **open-source software** communities, the future of robotics on Ubuntu looks bright. As developers and organizations continue to build and deploy robots on Ubuntu, they can trust that their systems will be secure, reliable, and supported for years to come. Read the rest of the article Upgrade your life with the Linux Courses on Udemy, Edureka Linux courses & edX Linux courses. All the courses come with certificates. Post Views: 177 ### Please Share this: * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest *

**Following onfrom its beta release in September, the Pinta 3.1 release is now available for download with new features and plenty of fixes.** Pinta is, as I’m sure you know, a modest open-source and cross-platform image editor. It began life as a pseudo-clone of Paint.NET (the former being written in Mono, an open-source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET, which the latter was made in). These days, it’s very much its own thing, serving as a simple yet capable raster graphics editor sitting below _The GIMP_ in complexity, but above no-frills _Tux Paint_ type offerings. Pinta 3.1 brings a variety of **new effects, tools and options** to bolster the app’s capabilities. Among them, a **new axonometric grid** option. This is enabled via _View > Canvas Grid_… dialog, with options to dial in a specific grid size. Axonometric grids are used when creating isometric art since the lines help the eye main correct perspective: Axonmetric grid in Pinta 3.1 (plus tooltip shortcut hints) Pinta 3.1 makes various improvements to selection activities. The _Lasso Select_ gains **Polygon Selection mode**. Click to add a point(s) to your desired selection area, and tap `enter` to complete the selection ready for deleting, cutting, applying effects, painting, etc. The old selection method is still there, now labelled as _Freeform_ mode. **Selection outlines are now animated** with marching ants to make them easier to spot on canvas; and the bounds of any selection area are highlighted on canvas rulers (if rulers are visible, of course). Both changes make it easier to select pixel-perfect regions. Elsewhere, the _Gradient_ tool adds on-canvas **handles to adjust gradient length and direction** ; and there are **improved layer context menus** when right-clicking layers that only show actions applicable for the type. Other notable changes in Pinta 3.1: * **New _Cells_ effect** * **Delete (entire) words in text tool using** `Ctrl` **+** `Backspace` * **Toolbar tooltips list keyboard shortcut** (if available) * **Repeatedly draw using** _Splatter_ brush** by holding mouse button** * **“About” dialog includes links to issue tracker and forum** * **Dithering effect uses current palette colours**(or not, your choice) * **Button to set new Random Seed value in various effects** * **_Twist_ effect adds radius percentage parameter** * **Warning if saving image to format that doesn’t support layers** * **Transparent palette colours now drawn against a checkerboard pattern** * **Lower memory usage when using zoom tool** * **New icon for macOS** * **Bug fixes** For more details on the makeup of this release, check the change-log on the Pinta Github. ## How to Install Pinta 3.1 Windows and macOS users can download Pinta 3.1 from the project’s GitHub releases page where, for the first time, a Windows on ARM installer is also available. Linux users can grab source code to compile it from the release page too. Ubuntu user? You may prefer to install the official Pinta Snap package instead. Just search for Pinta in App Center (make sure it’s the Snap, not the repo DEB which is an older version) or fetch it from the command-line by running: sudo snap install pinta Once installed, launch from the Applications Grid. You can also get _Pinta_ from Flathub.

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A cleaner look, if you choose **A new version of _Turntable_ , the universal music scrobbling tool and ‘now playing’ desktop widget for Linux is out with a couple of cool new features.** As the app is a conduit to relay your listening habits to other services, this update adds a simple “wrapped year-in-review” style recap of said listening habits. Turntable’s developer, _Evan Paterakis_ , cautions that the year-end recap feature, accessed from the player’s settings panel, is an ‘experiment’ so far from perfect. The reason things aren’t perfect? Because Turntable doesn’t log what you play itself, simply sends it to your preferred service, e.g., Last.fm, Libre.fm, etc. As _“different services provide different levels of information and assets and almost none provide a reliable way to get cover and artist images”_. Turntable’s ‘wrapped’ feature is only as good as your stats Turntable’s wrapped, pulling from my Last.fm account, showed the correct stats, but not for the past year: for my entire _19 years_ of scrobbling music. As much as I love my #1 Artist (pictured above), I didn’t spend 2025 listening listen to 32 tracks a day by them ;) Still, it’s a nice feature which, with other music logging services, should provide a lick of insight (and, no doubt, a few _“oh wow… I can’t let people know I listen to THEM so much…”_. If you use _Turntable_ to scrobble the music you listen to via local music files, this is a nice attempt to offer you an end of year retrospective of the ones made popular by music streaming services (since aped by seemingly _everything_ – my supermarket loyalty card has an ‘unwrapped’). ### Collapsible player controls Works with all layouts, orientations and elements The neatest (literally) new feature in Turntable 5.0: collapsible media controls. If you just want to see album art on your desktop while you’re working for a cleaner look, or would prefer to access media controls as/when required, this is neat. It works with all layouts, orientations and configurations, including the spinning ‘tone arm’ layout, pictured above. Other changes: * **Background portal support with autostart on boot** * **Active music player auto-detected when opening _Turntable_** * **Options reorganised** * **Minor design tweaks** * **Bug fixes** In all, a nice update to Turntable. The appeal of an app like this isn’t universal (I don’t pretend otherwise), but as someone who is almost always listening to music, has scrobbled to Last.fm since 2006, and can’t resist some desktop embellishment – it’s my new Linux apps of 2025, for sure. Turntable does have a CLI, should you wish scrobble on a headless setup (or on desktop without the GUI showing at all). As it works with all MPRIS-enabled apps, you can skip setting up Last.fm or similar in each app you use, and funnel through this instead. **Get _Turntable_ on Flathub**

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