GStreamer Major Release, OpenBMC Project, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds Free Mobile Version and More
News briefs for March 20, 2018.
GStreamer, the cross-platform multimedia framework, announced a new major stable release yesterday. The new version 1.14.0 has lots of new features and bug fixes, including WebRTC support, "experimental support for the next-gen royalty-free AV1 video codec", Video4Linux encoding support and more. See the release notes for more info.
The Linux Foundation introduced the OpenBMC Project yesterday, which has a goal of defining the open-source implementation of the BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) firmware stack "that will work across heterogeneous systems that include enterprise, HPC, telco, and cloud-scale data centers". See Jim Zemlin's blog post for the details.
Freespire 3.0.8, the open-source equivalent to Linspire OS, was released yesterday. This release contains several bug fixes as well as the KDE Plasma 5 desktop.
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds now has a free mobile version, Ars Technica reports. Downloads are available for all iOS 9.0 and later devices and most Android 5.1.1-and-above devices with at least 2GB RAM.
Mozilla released a security advisory on Firefox last week, regarding out of bounds memory writes, and at the same time released version 59.0.1 with a fix.
Jill Franklin is an editorial professional with more than 17 years experience in technical and scientific publishing, both print and digital. As Executive Editor of Linux Journal, she wrangles writers, develops content, manages projects, meets deadlines and makes sentences sparkle. She also was Managing Editor for TUX and Embedded Linux Journal, and the book Linux in the Workplace. Before entering the Linux and open-source realm, she was Managing Editor of several scientific and scholarly journals, including Veterinary Pathology, The Journal of Mammalogy, Toxicologic Pathology and The Journal of Scientific Exploration. In a previous life, she taught English literature and composition, managed a bookstore and tended bar. When she’s not bugging writers about deadlines or editing copy, she throws pots, gardens and reads.
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