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Companion v3.5.4 - Release Notes

🐞 BUG FIXES

• dragging action group can disappear #3367
• full import disappearning delays #3365
• clear variables about surfaces when disconnected #3362
• external links not always opening in new tabs
• surface discovery not handling ipv6 correctly
• emulator keymap for presenter controller incorrect #3359
• feedbacks breaking when expressions fail to parse#3386
• handle pasted variable names better in some input fields #3390
• improve resilience of elgato software check on windows #3261

🐞 MODULE FIXES

• generic-swp08
• haivision-connectdvr
• roland-vr120hd
• neutrik-dpro
• ntp-technology-dot
• smodetech-smodelive
• vitec-avediaplayer9300-series

Full Changelog: v3.5.3...v3.5.4

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Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed “Plucky Puffin”, is here. This release continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open-source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, partnering with the community and our partners, to introduce new features and fix bugs.

Ubuntu 25.04 introduces GNOME 48 with triple buffering for smoother performance, HDR settings, and new features like a Wellbeing Panel and Preserve Battery Health mode. A new modern PDF reader, Papers, is now the default.

The installer now offers a smoother experience when installing alongside other operating systems, with better BitLocker support, and advanced partitioning.

Built on the Linux 6.14 kernel, this release brings a new scheduling system with sched_ext, enhanced Wine/Proton gaming support through the new NTSYNC driver, and better container tooling via decoupled bpftools and linux-perf.

Developer experience takes a leap forward with the introduction of devpacks. These snap bundles deliver the latest Go and Spring ecosystems, alongside updated toolchains for Python, Rust, .NET, LLVM, OpenJDK, and more.

Ubuntu 25.04 also expands confidential computing to on-premise environments with AMD SEV-SNP host support, and introduces a new ARM64 Desktop ISO for next-gen hardware.

Networking and identity management see continued improvements, including secure time sync with NTS, better Active Directory (AD) integration, cloud authentication against EntraID and Google identity, and DNS-aware wait-online logic with Netplan.

The newest Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu are also being released today. More details can be found for these at their individual release notes under the Official Flavours section:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/plucky-puffin-release-notes/48687#heading–official-flavours

Maintenance updates will be provided for 9 months for all flavours releasing with 25.04.

How to get Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin

In order to download Ubuntu 25.04, simply visit:

https://ubuntu.com/download

Users of Ubuntu 24.10 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 25.04 if they have selected to be notified of all releases rather than just LTS upgrades. For further information about upgrading, see:

https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop/upgrade

As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge.

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document caveats, workarounds for known issues, as well as more in-depth notes on the release itself. They are available at:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/plucky-puffin-release-notes

Find out what’s new in this release with a graphical overview:

https://ubuntu.com/desktop

https://ubuntu.com/desktop/features

If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but aren’t sure, you can try asking in any of the following places:

https://matrix.to/#/#support:ubuntu.com

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/support

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

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If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at:

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About Ubuntu

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Professional services including support are available from Canonical and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit:

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Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list on Thu Apr 17 16:18:26 UTC 2025 by Utkarsh Gupta, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team.

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• Adds support for GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

• Please find an extensive list of fixed bugs in release note PDF (under Additional Information)

Learn more in our Game Ready Driver article here.

The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.5.1, a Release Candidate (RC) in the rolling release, and MariaDB 11.4.2, the first Generally Available (GA) release in the MariaDB 11.4 series. …

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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.11.8, MariaDB 10.6.18, MariaDB 10.5.25 and MariaDB 10.4.34, the latest stable releases in their respective long-term series (maintained for five years from their first stable release dates), as well as MariaDB 11.2.4, MariaDB 11.1.5 and MariaDB 11.0.6, the latest stable releases in their respective short-term series (maintained for one year). …

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Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Faster natural sort
• *nix: Fixed focus issue in Site Manager
• Updated to libfilezilla 0.50.0

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Get an early look at MariaDB Catalogs—our multi-tenant database feature. No compiling needed! Just pull the image from quay.io and set MARIADB_CATALOGS to get started. Try it out and help shape the future of MariaDB!

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Bugfixes and minor changes:

• UI: Fixed crash opening settings dialog if there are usernames starting with a character that sorts less than the less than sign

If you appreciate my work, you can show your support with a donation through GitHub sponsors. Your support helps me continue improving and growing the app. Thank you!

💥 Crash fixes

• Fix experimental audio night mode feature crashing the app #4582, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔧 Bugfixes

• Do not set audio session to pipeline on create #4584, by @nielsvanvelzen

Contributors

• @nielsvanvelzen

VIENNA, Austria – April 10, 2025 – Enterprise software developer Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH (henceforth "Proxmox") today announced the release of Proxmox Backup Server version 3.4. Designed to address enterprise data protection needs, this latest version of the open-source backup solution introduces new capabilities that further improve performance and usability.

Highlights in Proxmox Backup Server 3.4

• Optimized Performance for Garbage Collection (GC): To increase storage efficiency through deduplication, backup data in Proxmox Backup Server is saved as chunks. In order to free up storage space after backup snapshots have been deleted, a garbage collection (GC) process identifies and cleans up unreferenced backup data chunks. This version 3.4 optimizes the GC mechanism and integrates a cache to reduce the number of expensive file metadata updates. While this enhancement increases memory usage, it substantially reduces execution time, resulting in faster and more efficient garbage collection. The caching mechanism can be fine-tuned on a per-datastore basis.
• Granular backup snapshot selection for sync jobs: Offsite backups are of great interest for data security and therefore Proxmox Backup Server provides sync jobs to push or pull backup snapshots to and from remote Proxmox Backup Server instances. Group filters already allow the selection of which backup groups should be synchronized. In this latest version, the selection functionality has been extended to allow exclusive synchronization of encrypted or verified backup snapshots.
• Static build of Proxmox Backup client: While Proxmox Backup Server is tightly integrated with Proxmox VE, its command-line client can also be used outside of Proxmox VE. A new statically-linked binary of the command-line client makes it easier to create file-level backups of arbitrary Linux hosts.
• Increased throughput for tape backup: Since version 3.4, Proxmox Backup Server now allows to increase the number of worker threads when reading chunks during tape backup, which can significantly increase the throughput in certain setups.
• Latest versions of open-source technologies: This version is based on Debian 12.10 (“Bookworm”), but uses a newer Linux kernel 6.8.12-9 and includes ZFS 2.2.7 (with compatibility patches for Kernel 6.14). While the kernel 6.8.12-9 is the stable default, Linux kernel 6.14 can optionally be installed for better support of the latest hardware.

Proxmox Backup Server seamlessly integrates into Proxmox Virtual Environment—users just need to add a datastore of Proxmox Backup Server as a new storage backup target to Proxmox VE. 

Availability

Proxmox Backup Server 3.4 is now available for download. Users can either update their version of the solution or install the ISO image on bare-metal using the Installation Wizard. Distribution upgrades from older versions of Proxmox Backup Server are possible via APT. Optionally, Proxmox Backup Server can be installed on top of Debian. 

License: Proxmox Backup Server is free and open-source software, published under the GNU AGPLv3. 

Enterprise Support: For enterprise users, Proxmox Server Solutions offers a subscription-based support model, which provides access to the extensively tested Enterprise Repository, with regular updates via the web interface, as well as technical support on a subscription basis. Prices start at EUR 540 per server, including unlimited backup storage and unlimited backup-clients.

Resources

• ISO Image Download: https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads
• Forum Announcement: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-3-4-released.164869/
• Roadmap: For published and upcoming features, see the Release Notes & Roadmap

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About Proxmox Backup Server
Proxmox Backup Server is an enterprise backup solution for backing up and restoring virtual machines, containers, and physical hosts. The open-source client-server software supports incremental backups, deduplication, Zstandard compression, and authenticated encryption. To increase productivity, the easy-to-use Proxmox Backup Server allows you to back up your data in a space-efficient manner, restore VMs, archives or single objects in a flash. With the web-based user interface, you can effectively reduce work hours thanks to simplified management. Proxmox Backup Server is licensed under the GNU AGPLv3. Enterprise support subscriptions are available from Proxmox.

About Proxmox Server Solutions
Proxmox provides powerful and user-friendly open-source server software. Enterprises of all sizes and industries use the Proxmox solutions to deploy efficient and simplified IT infrastructures, minimize total cost of ownership, and avoid vendor lock-in. Proxmox also offers commercial support, training services, and an extensive partner ecosystem to ensure business continuity for its customers. Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH was established in 2005 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria. To learn more visit www.proxmox.com or follow us on LinkedIn and YouTube.

Contact: Daniela Häsler, Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH, marketing@proxmox.com

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• FTP: fixed crash if receiving an unusual sequence of commands.
• Fixed spurious error while backing up configuration.
• MSW: fixed silent crash of the installer at the end of the installation process.
• UI: fixed bug that might lead to duplicate IPs being retrieved by "retrieve public IP" button in the FTP tester.
• UI: added proper spacing between unit labels and the controls they are attached to.

This is a small release to improve compatibility with the upcoming Jellyfin 10.11 release.

💥 Crash fixes

• Fix crash when trying to update detached AudioNowPlayingFragment #4538, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔧 Bugfixes

• Fix ItemRowAdapter failures never logged #4547, by @nielsvanvelzen

📈 Dependency updates

• Update androidx.media3 to v1.6.0 #4549, by renovate[bot]
• Update dependency org.jellyfin.sdk:jellyfin-core to v1.6.8 #4564, by renovate[bot]

Contributors

• @nielsvanvelzen

VIENNA, Austria – April 09, 2025 – Enterprise software developer Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH (henceforth "Proxmox") today released version 8.4 of its server virtualization management platform, Proxmox Virtual Environment. This version comes with a range of improvements and new features.

Highlights in Proxmox VE 8.4

• Live migration with mediated devices: Mediated devices allow physical hardware resources to be partitioned into multiple virtual devices. It is now possible to migrate running virtual machines (VMs) which have mediated devices such as NVIDIA vGPU in use. Within a cluster, live migration to another node is possible if hardware and driver support for live migration is equally available on the target node. An available platform with support for live migration is NVIDIA vGPU. Additionally, the new ‘pve-nvidia-vgpu-helper’ tool simplifies the setup of NVIDIA vGPU drivers.
• API for third-party backup solutions: Proxmox VE now provides an API simplifying the development of plugins by external backup solution providers. Third party backup solutions can now directly implement backup and restore functionalities in Proxmox VE, and make use of advanced features. Third-party backup providers can implement a plugin that is fully integrated in the backup stack and in the web interface of Proxmox VE. This gives third-party backup solutions the opportunity to enhance the efficiency, reliability, and manageability of their backup and restore features in Proxmox VE.
• Virtiofs directory passthrough: Version 8.4 offers the functionality to share files and directories directly between a host and the VMs running on that host. This is achieved through the use of virtiofs, which allows VM guests to access host files and directories without the overhead of a network file system. Modern Linux guests support virtiofs out of the box while Windows guests need additional software to use this feature.
• Latest versions of open-source technologies: Proxmox VE 8.4 is based on Debian 12.10 (“Bookworm”), but uses the Linux kernel 6.8.12 as stable default and the newer kernel 6.14 as opt-in. This version of Proxmox VE includes updates to the latest versions of leading open-source technologies for virtual environments like QEMU 9.2.0, LXC 6.0.0, ZFS 2.2.7 with compatibility patches for kernel 6.14, and Ceph Squid 19.2.1 as stable option.

Further enhancements include more robust backup fleecing, improvements in the software-defined networking (SDN) stack, and additional options in the ISO installer. 

Availability

Proxmox VE 8.4 is now available for download. The ISO image contains the complete feature-set and can be installed on bare-metal. Distribution upgrades from older versions of Proxmox VE are possible with apt. It’s also possible to install Proxmox VE 8.4 on top of Debian. Proxmox Virtual Environment is free and open-source software, published under the GNU Affero General Public License, v3.

Support Subscriptions: For enterprise users, Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH offers a subscription-based support model, which provides access to the extensively tested Enterprise Repository, with regular updates via the web interface, as well as technical support on a subscription basis. Prices start at EUR 115 per year and CPU.

Resources

• ISO Image Download: https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads
• Forum Announcement: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-ve-8-4-released.164821/
• Roadmap: For published and upcoming features, see the Release Notes & Roadmap

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Facts
The open-source project Proxmox VE has a huge worldwide user base with more than 1.5 million hosts. The virtualization platform has been translated into over 30 languages. More than 200,000 active community members in the support forum engage with and help each other. By using Proxmox VE as an alternative to proprietary virtualization management solutions, enterprises are able to centralize and modernize their IT infrastructure, and turn it into a cost-effective and flexible software-defined data center, based on the latest open-source technologies. Tens of thousands of customers rely on enterprise support subscriptions from Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH.

About Proxmox VE
Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE) is the leading open-source platform for all-inclusive enterprise virtualization. With the central web interface, you can easily run VMs and containers, manage software-defined storage and networking functionality, high-availability clustering, and multiple integrated out-of-the-box tools like backup/restore, live migration, replication, and the firewall. Enterprises use the powerful yet easy-to-manage, all-in-one solution to meet the core requirements of today’s modern data centers. Proxmox VE allows them to remain adaptable for future growth, thanks to its flexible, modular and open architecture.

About Proxmox Server Solutions
Proxmox provides powerful and user-friendly open-source server software. Enterprises of all sizes and industries use Proxmox solutions to deploy efficient and simplified IT infrastructures, minimize total cost of ownership, and avoid vendor lock-in. Proxmox also offers commercial support, training services, and an extensive partner ecosystem to ensure business continuity for its customers. Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH was established in 2005 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria. To learn more visit https://www.proxmox.com or follow us on LinkedIn or on YouTube.

Contact: Daniela Häsler, Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH, marketing@proxmox.com

🚀 Jellyfin Server 10.10.7

We are pleased to announce the latest stable release of Jellyfin, version 10.10.7!

This minor release brings several bugfixes and security fixes to improve your Jellyfin experience.

As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!

You can find more details about and discuss this release on our forums.

Important Notes

• Configurations behind a reverse proxy that did not explicitly configure trusted proxies will not work after this release. This was never a supported configuration, so please ensure you correct your configuration before upgrading. See the updated docs here for more information.

Changelog (12)

🔒 Security

• Fix validation of API parameters to FFmpeg [GHSA-2c3c-r7gp-q32m], by @Shadowghost
• Fix trusting forward headers if none are configured [GHSA-qcmf-gmhm-rfv9], by @JPVenson

Note: GHSAs will be published seven (7) days after this release.

📈 General Changes

• Fix regression where "Search for missing metadata" not handling cast having multiple roles [PR #13720], by @Lampan-git
• Clone fallback audio tags instead of use ATL.Track.set [PR #13694], by @gnattu
• Backport 10.11 API enum changes [PR #13835], by @nielsvanvelzen
• Support more rating formats [PR #13639], by @IDisposable
• Fix stackoverflow in MediaSourceCount [PR #12907], by @JPVenson
• Upgrade LrcParser to 2025.228.1 [PR #13659], by @congerh
• Include Role and SortOrder in MergePeople to fix "Search for missing metadata" [PR #13618], by @Lampan-git
• Delete children from cache on parent delete [PR #13601], by @Bond-009
• Fix overwrite of PremierDate with a year-only value [PR #13598], by @IDisposable
• Wait for ffmpeg to exit on Windows before we try deleting the concat file [PR #13593], by @Bond-009
• Fix 4K filtering when grouping movies into collections [PR #13594], by @theguymadmax
• Remove empty ParentIndexNumber workaround [PR #13611], by @Shadowghost
• Update dependency z440.atl.core to 6.20.0 [PR #13845], by @Shadowghost

New uNmINeD development snapshot is available for download!

Changes:

• (GUI) Added 8:1 zoom-in level to web export
• Switched from ReactiveUI.Fody to ReactiveUI.SourceGenerators (this was a huge refactoring)
• Updated to .NET 9.0.202
• Updated to Avalonia 11.2.6

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Full List of Changes

This release contains the following fixes and changes:

• Updated name sort rule handling to consider accented characters. Thanks to @bernardo-campos. (#5550, #5542)
• Updated translations with latest Crowdin changes. (#5537)
• Updated PHP dependency package versions.
• Fixed a range of issues for the new WYSIWYG editor: (#5558)
  • Fixed content saving issues, specifically on save shortcut usage.
  • Fixed list conversion & parsing which was mishandling tasks lists.
  • Fixed a range of list selection and nesting scenarios.
  • Updated keyboard navigation to be more reliable around images & media embeds.
• Fixed comment times not being shown. (#5555)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Faster natural sort
• *nix: Fixed focus issue in Site Manager
• Updated to libfilezilla 0.50.0