(Linux news in previous posts of thread)
FOSS NEWS
Odysee presents new AR-based payment system, discontinues Stripe payment and LBC content boosting:
https://odysee.com/@Odysee:8/introducingdecentralizedpaymentsonodyseeforeveryoneeverywhere:7
(Discontinuing LBC support probably means the platform won't be connected to the LBRY blockchain anymore. Also, content discoverability will be hurt pretty much, even if creators can get monetized, smaller creators will have a much harder time being discovered. I get that their new parent company Arweave is probably forcing them to switch to their crypto stuff and ditch LBRY, but it will probably just hurt the platform in the long run, especially because the new payment system requires signing up to an additional service, which many people are not a big fan of.)
Thunderbird 140 released with "Mark as Spam" and "Mark as Starred" actions for notifications, reorganized settings, bug fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/thunderbird-140-adds-mark-as-spam-and-mark-as-starred-actions-to-notifications
ONLYOFFICE Documents 9.0 for Android released with OCR support, DocSpace version history, Markdown and OpenDocument Graphics support, etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/onlyoffice-documents-9-0-for-android-adds-ocr-docspace-version-history-and-markdown-viewing/
Matrix 1.15 released with OpenID Connect support, richer information about rooms before joining, better room discovery, additional text formatting options for messages, etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/matrix-1-15-adds-improved-oidc-authentication-room-summaries-and-rich-topic/
7-Zip v25 released with faster compression, enhanced CPU support, improved legacy format handling:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/7-zip-v25-adds-faster-compression-enhanced-cpu-support-and-improved-legacy-format-handling/
HuggingChat is shutting down, will be replaced by another service better integrated into the Hugging Face ecosystem:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/hugging-face-shuts-down-its-ai-chatbot-huggingchat-to-make-way-for-new-ai-service/
(more FOSS news in comment)
