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Some of the Q1-2025 achievements for FreeBSD include:
- FreeBSD is still working on a policy for generative AI created code and documentation.
- FreeBSD Ports has landed KDE Plasma 6.3, Qt 6.8.3, Rust 1.85.1, Wine 10.0, and many other package updates.
- Porting the Intel and AMD DRM kernel graphics drivers from Linux 6.7~6.8 over to FreeBSD.
- The Intel IWX WiFi driver has landed in FreeBSD.
- Continued work porting FreeBSD to the PinePhone Pro.
- Bhyvemgr has been seeing progress as a GUI for the Bhyve virtualization written in FreePascal/Lazarus.
- The framework-kmod kernel module continues to be worked on for allowing dynamically dimming of the screen when the computer is not in use and to restore display brightness on user return, based on evdev input driver activity.
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Thunderbird 138.0.2 fixes:
- Messages could not be viewed if the profile used a UNC path
- Standalone message windows/tabs no longer responded after folder compaction
- Compacting folders with certain pending operations caused unnecessary warnings
- Security fixes
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/138.0.2/releasenotes/
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General
- Made the “2024” theme variants the default in
Preferences > Environment > Interface
(QTCREATORBUG-32400) - Updated icons
- Improved support for extracting archives
(QTAIASSIST-169) - Added a
Coursestab toWelcomemode - Added tab completion to the locator
- Extensions
- Moved the default extension registry to
https://github.com/qt-creator/extension-registry
(submissions not open to the public yet) - Added the option to configure multiple extension registries in
Preferences > Extensions > Browser - Added the dependencies and supported platforms of extensions that are not
installed to their details - Added version selectors for extensions that are not installed
- Added support for dropping extension archives onto
Extensionsmode
(Documentation)
- Moved the default extension registry to
Full list of features and fixes: https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator/releases/tag/v17.0.0-beta2
- Made the “2024” theme variants the default in
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