WebUpd8 Ubuntu PPAs Status

Brackets 1.10 is available in the WebUpd8 Brackets PPA (it includes libgcrypt11 so the debs in the PPA should work on any Ubuntu / Linux Mint version, unlike the official deb packages). 

Changes:

Multiple encoding support: Brackets now supports more than 40 different file encodings. You can now Open/Save files with different encodings.

Search History: Access all your most recently searched queries from the search bar.

@rule and pseudo-selector code hints: CSS code hints now support @rule and pseudo selector/element code hints.

Inline CSS code hints: Brackets now provides CSS code hints in style attribute value in html.

Forward/Backward navigation in edit history: Navigate backward/forward using Alt-I, Alt-Shift-I across explicit cursor positions.

Enable/Disable default extensions: You can now enable/disable default extensions, that are shipped with Brackets.

Native Menus for Linux: HTML menus are replaced with native menus in Linux.

The complete release notes are available HERE.

Package info:

Description: Brackets is an open-source code editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

Package name: “brackets”

PPA: WebUpd8 Brackets PPA

Syncthing-GTK version 0.9.2.5 is available in the main WebUpd8 PPA. Changes:

Changed wording in notification for better clarity

Added config-only option to disable status icon animation

Added -o argument, dumps captured Syncthing daemon output to stdout

Added argument to disable status icon

Fix: Filesystem watching fails on folder with space in id.

Fix: 1st run wizard now stores password hash directly instead of leaving hashing to syncthing

Fix: Switched to timeout_add_seconds for inotify polling

Package info:

Description: Syncthing is a cross-platform peer-to-peer file synchronization client/server application written in Go, similar to BitTorrent Sync. It can be used to synchronize files between computers however, unlike BitTorrent Sync, Syncthing is open source. Syncthing GTK is a GTK3 & Python GUI for Syncthing (which comes with a web GUI only by default)

Package name: “syncthing-gtk”

Ubuntu versions: 17.04, 16.04 and 14.04

Albert 0.12.0 is available in the main WebUpd8 PPA. Changes:

the ignore now supports relative patterns by prefixing the pattern with a slash

the wildcard character "*" now behaves like git ignore files by matching all characters but slashes (for wildcard matching including slashes uses double asterisks, "**")

the websearch extension was updated with a "more confortable" UI, the list now supports drag and drop, and the search engines are now edited using a dedicated dialog

terminal extension: the default action now launches in a shell without terminal

Package info:

Description: Albert is a quick launcher used to run applications, open files or their paths, open bookmarks in your browser, search the web, calculate things and a lot more.

Package name: “albert”

Ubuntu versions: 17.04, 16.10 and 16.04

Tilix 1.6.1 (previously called Terminix) is available in the WebUpd8 Tilix PPA. Changes since the previous PPA version (1.5.8):

Quick fix for an issue with Tilix suddenly requiring a new library libgdkglext-3.0.so.0, corrected by building against older GtkD library for now.

Fix problem with only being able to open a custom link once

Fix layout options crashing Tilix in GTK 3.14

Fix issue with preferences window displaying a very wide window instead of normal size

The text in the titlebar is now properly centered

Fixed issue with Tilix ignoring the geometry parameter

Package info:

Description: Tilix (previously Terminix) is a featureful GTK3 terminal emulator.

Package name: “terminix”

Ubuntu versions: 17.10, 17.04, 16.10 and 16.04 (32bit & 64bit; even though it’s officially supported on 64bit only)

Terminix was updated to version 1.5.2 today, and is now available in the WebUpd8 Terminix PPA. Changes:

Removed Timeout from terminal to fix segfault with visual bell

Fixed Nautilus plugin where it was crashing Nautilus for some users

Variables used in application title now resolve correctly.

Fix version number

Package info:

Description: Terminix is a featureful GTK3 terminal emulator.

Package name: “terminix”

Ubuntu versions: 16.10 and 16.04 (32bit & 64bit; even though it’s officially supported on 64bit only)

Atom 1.14.0 is available in the WebUpd8 Atom PPA. Changes:

A fundamental data structure in the editor has been implemented in native code to reduce memory and yield better performance for large files. More improvements to come.

Atom 1.14 makes available a 64-bit installation for Windows.

Overhaul of the bundled C# grammar

Upgrade find-and-replace to use new marker layer API for fast clearing of markers

Option for avoiding overlay movements

Reduce the impact of leaking Editor, Selection, & Cursor objects

Improvements to the MRU tabs UX:

An MRU-ordered list of the tabs to visit now appears during MRU traversal.

There is an option in the tabs package settings to make ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab do MRU or simple left/right traversal.

Fixed a bug in keyup handling such that the MRU order doesn't appear to randomly change.

A complete changelog can be found here.

Package info:

Description: Atom is an open source “hackable text editor for the 21st Century” developed by GitHub.

Package name: “atom”

Ubuntu versions: 17.04, 16.10, 16.04, 15.04 and 14.04 (32bit & 64bit)

Rclone Browser 1.1 is available in the main WebUpd8 PPA. Changes:

Added --transfer option in UI

Supports encrypted .rclone.conf configuration file

Fixed crash when canceling active stream

Added ETA tooltip for transfer progress bars

Allow to specify extra arguments for rclone

Fix for browsing Hubic remotes

Support high-dpi mode for macOS

Package info:

Description: Rclone Browser is a GUI for Rclone,  a command line tool for synchronizing files from or to cloud storage services, which supports Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, Dropbox, Microsoft One Drive, Amazon S3, Amazon Drive, Openstack Swift / Rackspace cloud files / Memset Memstore, Hubic, Yandex Disk, and Backblaze B2. 

Package name: "rclone-browser"

Ubuntu versions: 16.10, 16.04, 15.05 and 14.04

Streamlink 0.3.0 is available in the main WebUpd8 PPA. Changes:

Added support for bongacams.com streams

Add support for pluzz.francetv.fr

Fix ArteTV plugin

Add support for Canal+ TV group channels

Add support for Play TV

Fix TF1.fr plugin

plugins.sportal: added support for the live stream on sportal.bg

Optionally use FFMPEG to mux separate video and audio streams

stream.ffmpegmux: fix support for avconv, avconv will be used if ffmpeg is not found

Support for 4K videos in YouTube

cli: try to terminate the player process before killing it (if terminate takes too long) support

Add plugin for huajiao.com and zhanqi.tv

A complete changelog can be found on GitHub.

Package info:

Description: Streamlink is a Livestreamer fork, a command line utility that pipes video streams from services such as Livestream, Twitch, UStream, Youtube Live and more, to video players like VLC, mpv, and so on.

Package name: "streamlink" (along with "python-streamlink" and "python3-streamlink")

Ubuntu versions: 16.10, 16.04, 14.04

Oracle Java (JDK) 8u121 is available in the WebUpd8 Oracle Java PPA. This release contains fixes for security vulnerabilities described in the Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory.

To see the official release notes, click HERE.

For information on installing Oracle JDK8 and JDK9 in Ubuntu / Linux Mint or Debian, see:

Install Oracle Java 8 In Ubuntu Via PPA Repository [JDK8]

How To Install Oracle Java 8 In Debian Via Repository [JDK8]

Install Oracle Java 9 In Ubuntu, Linux Mint Or Debian Via PPA Repository [JDK9]

Package(s) info:

Package name “oracle-java8-installer”

Ubuntu version(s): 17.04, 16.10, 16.04, 14.04 and 12.04

Audacious 3.8.1 is available in the main WebUpd8 PPA. Changes:

Added support for opus cover art

Fixed: QT: 'Do not load metadata...' appears 2x in prefs

Fixed: Time slider can be dragged beyond end of song

Package info:

Description: Audacious is a featureful, lightweight music player. It ships with numerous plugins, and the version in the main WebUpd8 PPA offers 3 interfaces: Winamp 2-like, GTK2 and Qt.

Package name: “audacious”

Ubuntu versions: 16.10, 16.04, 15.10, 15.04, 14.04

Multiload 1.5.2 is available in the main WebUpd8 PPA. Changes:

Fixed: Desktop entry for Systray contained a small typo, because of which it was not assigned to the correct desktop categories in some systems

Fixed: several memory leaks, some of these were severe enough to make Multiload-ng use huge amounts of memory after some days of continuous use (up to several hundreds MB)

Package info:

Description: Multiload-ng is a graphical system monitor for the Unity (indicator), Xfce, LXDE, and MATE panels, forked from the old GNOME Multiload applet. It can also run in a standalone window or as a systray applet.

Package name(s): multiload-ng-indicator, multiload-ng-systray, multiload-ng-standalone, mate-multiload-ng-applet, xfce4-multiload-ng-plugin, lxpanel-multiload-ng-plugin

Ubuntu versions: 16.10 (with the MATE applet, AppIndicator and Standalone built with GTK3, rest are GTK2), 16.04, 15.10, 15.04 and 14.04 (there’s no LXPanel applet for 14.04)

Guake 0.8.0 is available in the WebUpd8 Unstable / Backports PPA. Changes:

Close a tab with the middle button of the mouse

Fix error when toggle key was disabled

Uppercase pallete name

Fix pylint errorsC

Translation updates

Package info:

Description: Guake is a drop-down terminal inspired by computer games consoles such as the one used in Quake, which slides down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed (F12 by default in Guake).

Package name: guake

Ubuntu versions: 16.10, 16.04, 15.10, 15.04 and 14.04

Puddletag 1.2.0 is available in the WebUpd8 Puddletag PPA. Changes:

Fixed: #280 Turn off auto-saving "Enter description here" description for cover art

Added: CJK Encoding for Encoding Conversion Function

Fixed: Parsing tracks in Discogs if only a single artist

Fixed: Setting user-agent for Tag Sources

Fixed: Support for latest mutagen

Changed: Improved Amazon tag source album matching.

Added: Swedish translation

Updated: Czech translation

Added: Spanish translation

Package info:

Description: Puddletag is an audio tag editor for Linux, similar to the Window app Mp3tag.

Package name: “puddletag”

Ubuntu versions: 16.10, 16.04, 15.10, 15.04 and 14.04

Multiload-ng 1.5.0 is available in the main WebUpd8 PPA. Changes:

Reorderable graphs

New graph: Battery

Remove timespan column in Preferences window

Remove of preferences item Fill space between graphs

Removed icons from menu items to comply with GNOME HIG

Support for older versions of LxPanel (starting from v0.5.8)

New color scheme: Super Mario Bros (with colors from 1985 game)

New color scheme: Dragon Ball Z

New color scheme: The Simpsons

Add byte count to detailed tooltip in Swap graph

Show size of block devices in Disk graph filter selection

Higher level of optimization (build with -O3)

Install autostart entries by default (systray, indicator)

Other minor improvements and bug fixes

I should also note that while building the LXPanel plugin should now work with the Ubuntu 14.04 version, it doesn’t actually work due to the Ubuntu 14.04 LXPanel package not having some files required for building it.

Package info:

Description: Multiload-ng is a graphical system monitor for the Unity (indicator), Xfce, LXDE, and MATE panels, forked from the old GNOME Multiload applet. It can also run in a standalone window or as a systray applet.

Package name(s): multiload-ng-indicator, multiload-ng-systray, multiload-ng-standalone, mate-multiload-ng-applet, xfce4-multiload-ng-plugin, lxpanel-multiload-ng-plugin

Ubuntu versions: 16.10 (with the MATE applet built with GTK3, rest are GTK2), 16.04, 15.10, 15.04 and 14.04 (there’s no LXPanel applet for 14.04)

Brackets 1.8 is available in the WebUpd8 Brackets PPA. Changes:

Update shell node version to 6.3.1

Cut, Copy and Paste operations are now available in the context menu

Code-folding has now been enabled for blocks and helpers in handlebar template files

Brackets 1.8 now supports 'ARIA' attributes for html attribute code hints

For a complete list of changes, see THIS page.

Package info:

Description: Brackets is an open-source code editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

Package name: “brackets”

PPA: WebUpd8 Brackets PPA

Atom 1.12.0 is now available in the WebUpd8 Atom PPA. Changes:

international keyboard support

electron updated to version 1.3 (bringing Chrome 52)

improved keybinding usabiliy

For a complete list of changes, see THIS page.

Package info:

Description: Atom is an open source “hackable text editor for the 21st Century” developed by GitHub.

Package name: “atom”

Ubuntu versions: 16.10, 16.04, 15.10, 15.04 and 14.04 (32bit & 64bit)

The Atom 32bit builds failed with Atom 1.11.x due to a bug. For this reason, the WebUpd8 Atom PPA provided the latest stable Atom 1.11.2 for 64bit, but an older Atom version for 32bit (1.10.2).

The bug hasn’t been fixed in Atom yet, but there’s a PR that fixes it, and I’ve used it to build the Atom PPA packages.

Note that the Atom package in the WebUpd8 PPA currently has a weird version: 1.11.2.64bit+1.11.2.32bit - that’s due to providing different 32bit and 64bit versions for the last release, like I mentioned above. This will return to a normal version with the next stable Atom release.

Package info:

Description: Atom is an open source “hackable text editor for the 21st Century” developed by GitHub.

Package name: “atom”

Ubuntu versions: 16.10, 16.04, 15.10, 15.04 and 14.04 (32bit & 64bit)