New features

• Content server: Add a checkbox in content server user preferences to prevent a user account from changing its own password via the web interface
• Restoring database: Improve performance by an order of magnitude
• Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to permit displaying the sort value for series in the Tag browser
• Welcome wizard: Change default output format to AZW3 for Kindle as MOBI is obsolete and all Kindles released within the last decade plus support AZW3
• Add 'Search "not in"' and 'Filter "not in'" buttons to Manage authors and Manage Items

Bug fixes

• Windows: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused terminal windows to popup momentarily when adding PDF files or converting them Closes tickets: 2115246

• E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.4 that broke fading of the background image Closes tickets: 2115057

• Tag browser: Fix clicking on categories to search for books by first letter of series not working correctly for non-English language books Closes tickets: 2116006

• Edit metadata individually: Ensure Next/Previous buttons work even if something re-orders the books in the book list. They will now iterate over the books as they were at the time the dialog is created Closes tickets: 2115111

• Windows: Generate catalog: Workaround for systems where a broken antivirus or similar holds open files in the catalog library causing a permission denied error Closes tickets: 2115084

New news sources

• La Presse by quatorze

Improved news sources

• Economist
• 1843
• Financial Times
• PC World
• Muy Interesante Mexico
• Hindu Business Line
• Business Standard
• Hindustan Times
• The Week
• Times of India
• Hindustan
• Financial Times
• Reason

Thumbing through the feed, the news on how this or that organization letting go of commercial options for day to day operations are mounting.

This led me to wonder what would be the impact if FOSS, be it on the OS front, productivity front or whatever, was to become truly a relevant option.

I'm painfully aware of the difficulties I've faced trying to take a few online courses to be faced with borderline desdain for not using Windows/Office/Etc and opting for FOSS solutions.

Paying/supporting a FOSS solution does not offend me. I'm happier when giving money directly to a developer or project than to an opaque company. But I'm just one.

But what could happen if the ones became millions, actively contributing with a few coins per year to projects we use daily?

What could/would happen in the short term (under a year), medium-long (one to three years) and the long term (over ten years)?

Hello, I've been working towards fully migrating to linux, but this is one issue I'm having a hard time with. I have a couple of folders on a storage drive that I share on my local network to stream movies and TV, but I can't figure out how to do it in my Linux install. I'm running Linux Mint 22, have installed Samba, and have tried a few different walkthroughs with no success. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this set up?

Thanks for your time!

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I just found this creator who is super excited about the new Bash version. He goes through some aspects of the new changes and features. There is something funny about a guy getting so excited about a new Bash version, that I wanted to share it because of that. :D

Also its nice to see the changes in action and have an explanation from someone who (seemingly) knows what he is doing.

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Source Code: github.com/bahamas10/bash-changes

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A Windows-to-Linux “translation” tool for the 200M+ Windows 10 computers not eligible to upgrade to Windows 11, Operese transfers files, settings, and programs from Windows to a brand-new Kubuntu installation. It's still very much a work in progress, but in my biased opinion, it already doesn't look too shabby!

Hello all. I've recently installed Fedora 42 on my laptop, it's a microsoft surface laptop studio so it's running with the custom surface kernel. The feature matrix on their github page says that everything should be supported for my laptop and that's pretty much been my experience so far but I've been having issues when testing out games.

The laptop has a 3050TI and is more than capable of running most of the games that I usually play on windows, and I've almost gotten it working on Fedora. They'll launch and run just fine, everything even looks pretty decent graphically, but it just has really bad stuttery input lag, even in more lightweight games that I've tested such as balatro and stardew valley.

I'm not sure what would be causing this, as far as I'm aware I'm running the right gpu driver, I've double checked that they're using the dedicated gpu rather than the integrated one with nvidia-smi, but honestly that's about the extent of my knowledge. Does anyone have any thoughts / suggestions? It would be much appreciated.

Hello, iam in the making of artix install script. I start with setting variables in dialog like bootloader="refind" and etc. but when i do artix-chroot into chroot.sh script variables are gone.

right now i have something like this:

cp ${pwd}execution/chroot.sh /mnt/mnt && USER="$USER" USER_PASSWORD1="$USER_PASSWORD1" USER_PASSWORD2="$USER_PASSWORD2"\ ROOT_PASSWORD1="$ROOT_PASSWORD1" ROOT_PASSWORD2="$ROOT_PASSWORD2"\ BOOTLOADER="$BOOTLOADER" SUPERUSER="$SUPERUSER" HOSTNAME="$HOSTNAME"\ LOCALE="$LOCALE" ENCRYPTION="$ENCRYPTION" ROOT="$ROOT" ESP="$ESP"\ KERNEL="$KERNEL" UCODE="$UCODE" artix-chroot /mnt bash -c '/mnt/chroot.sh && execute_root'

But it does not really work, tried also some things like:

```

create array of variables to pass to part 2

var_export=($formfactor $threadsminusone $gpu $boot $disk0 $username $userpassword $timezone $swap $intel_vaapi_driver $res_x $res_y_half)

initiate part 2

mount --bind /root/artix-install-script /mnt/mnt artix-chroot /mnt /mnt/chrootInstall.sh "${var_export[@]}" ```

and then in chroot.sh

```

Importing Variables

args=("$@") formfactor=${args[0]} threadsminusone=${args[1]} gpu=${args[2]} boot=${args[3]} disk=${args[4]} username=${args[5]} userpassword=${args[6]} timezone=${args[7]} swap=${args[8]} intel_vaapi_driver=${args[9]} res_x=${args[10]} res_y_half=${args[11]} ```

still not they best way, kinda messy and buggy.

THANKS FOR HELP!