A new version of Shotcut video editor is out, rounding out what’s proven to be a bumper month for Linux video editing enthusiasts thanks to big updates to Flowblade, OpenShot and Kdenlive. The headline feature in Shotcut 25.12 is full 10-bit video support in the CPU pipeline. Until now, editing 10-bit clips in this MLT-based tool involved trade-offs: using GPU effects and filters, or opting for basic CPU filters that lack transitions or compositing. Now, you don’t need to. Most CPU filters, transitions, and other editing/blending options have been updated to to handle 10- and 12-bit sources, though a few remain […]
Daniel Stenberg has written a blog post about the decision to ban the use strcpy() in curl: The main challenge with strcpy is that when using it we do not specify the length of the target buffer nor of the source string. [...] To make sure that the size checks cannot be separated from the copy itself we introduced a string copy replacement function the other day that takes the target buffer, target size, source buffer and source string length as arguments and only if the copy can be made and the null terminator also fits there, the operation is done.
December happens to be a busy month for video editor releases in the open-source world. This month there's been the release of Flowblade 2.24, OpenShot 3.4, Kdenlive 25.12, and now there is Shotcut 25.12 before closing out the month and year...
GNU Wget 2.2.1 open-source program for retrieving content from web servers is now available for download with various improvements and fixes. Here's what's new!
Linux users bristle at the whole idea of getting "tracked," but pixel tracking is built into the very foundation of the commercial web. We examine the dark art of pixel tracking and tell you about some tools that will keep the trackers at bay.
The term "vendor lock-in" has been in common parlance for as long as I've been working on this magazine. We don't talk about vendor lock-in as much as we used to, but everyone knows it is still out there, operating in evermore subtle ways to take choice away from users.
Experts use tools such as bc and dc for arithmetic in the shell. The num-utils and datamash packages open up further opportunities for processing numerical values at the command line.
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