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
• Ubuntu versions: 17.10, 17.04, 16.10, 16.04, and 14.04

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
• PPA: main WebUpd8 PPA

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
  
• PPA: main WebUpd8 PPA | direct deb download

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)
  
• PPA: WebUpd8 Tilix PPA

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)
  
• PPA: WebUpd8 Terminix PPA

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)
  
• PPA: WebUpd8 Atom PPA

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
  
• PPA: main WebUpd8 PPA
  

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
  
• PPA: main WebUpd8 PPA
  

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
  
• PPA: Oracle Java 7 / 8 / 9 Installer

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
  
• PPA: main WebUpd8 PPA