The Stable channel has been updated to 150.0.7871.24/.25 for Windows andMac as part of our early stable release to a small percentage of users. A full list of changes in this build is available in thelog.
You can find more details about early Stable releases here.
Interested in switching release channels? Β Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
nginx-1.30.3
stable and
nginx-1.31.2
mainline versions have been released,
with fixes for
buffer overflow
vulnerability in the ngx_http_proxy_v2_module
and ngx_http_grpc_module (CVE-2026-42055), and
buffer overread
vulnerability in the ngx_http_charset_module (CVE-2026-48142).
Additionally, nginx-1.31.2
includes a fix for
use-after-free
vulnerability in the ngx_http_v3_module (CVE-2026-42530).
Kind of reminds me of back in 1995 or so when my website would randomly
end up picked by some best of the web list that I never heard of.
The web is still a small place I guess.
In today's blog, we take you along on a trip to the town ofΒ Akureyri, which you will be able to visit yourself when the upcoming Iceland DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 releases. So let's take a look!
Akureyri is the fourth-largest city in Iceland and is often referred to as the Capital of the North due to its location and importance to the region. Nestled on the shores of EyjafjΓΆrΓ°ur, Iceland's longest fjord, the town enjoys a spectacular setting beneath snow-capped mountain peaks, with the GlerΓ‘ River flowing through its heart.
The earliest records of settlement in the area date back to the 9th century. However, it was not until the 18th century that Akureyri began to develop into an important commercial center, thanks to its harbor and proximity to rich fishing grounds. Today, it is Iceland's second-largest port and serves as a major hub for the country's fishing industry, as well as for cruise ships and cargo transport.
Drivers traveling along Route 1, also known as the Ring Road, will pass directly through the center of Akureyri. From there, several side roads branch off toward the harbor, industrial areas, and local food-processing facilities. In the port district, truckers can deliver cargo to a marine logistics center, a shipyard, and an electronics manufacturing depot.
One of Akureyri's most recognizable landmarks is Akureyrarkirkja, a striking church designed in 1940 by GuΓ°jΓ³n SamΓΊelsson, the architect behind HallgrΓmskirkja in ReykjavΓk, Iceland's most famous church.
Players will also recognize a number of other landmarks inspired by their real-world counterparts, including the Hof Cultural and Conference Centre on the waterfront and the Akureyri Art Museum, with its famous colorful pavement leading to its entrance. The town is also a great spot for whale watching tours, which is why we've also included the local whale watching center.
We hope you'll fall in love with Akureyri, with its colourful houses and stunning natural surroundings. If you do, you might even buy a garage in town and transform it into your company's northern Iceland branch.
Also, remember to give our X/Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, and TikTok a follow as you'll receive updates not only about Iceland, but also other news from our games straight to your feed. Or subscribe to our newsletter to stay informed.Β Until next time, safe travels!
Very happy to share that a new package rspdlite arrived on
CRAN today in its inaugural
version 0.1.0-1. It wraps and provides the (header-only) C++20 library
spdlite which its author
describes (aptly) as tiny, fast, capable. Just like its bigger
sibbling spdlog (which we
wrapped as rcppspdlog), it is
written by Gabi Melman. However,
with a focus on C++20 and compile-time configuration, it is lighter,
nimbler and faster. It is also still a fairly young project so changes
may occur.
I have been working on this for about a month, and it is ready for
use by R and C++. It contains the initial upstream release 0.1.0, and I
plan to follow the upstream versioning making this first release as
0.1.0-1.
The package itself provides the headers for use from other C++
projects (i.e.Β mostly other packages), as well as a simple R wrapper so
that logging can occur from either C++ or R. It will generally access
the single logger instance in a compilation unit. So for a package built
against these header it would be shared library of that package. At
present we provide the basic logging level setters and getters,
formatting accessors, and two (compile-time) options of a βnull loggerβ
and a file-based logger. More options are availble from the C++ level,
multiple logging sinks are but one example. Some examples are provided
in the package as an R
example and a C++
example; these are probably best examined from the sources.
The NEWS entry for this release is simply and just announces that we
have a release. More details are in the ChangeLog
and the GitHub
repo.
Release Highlights: Although GeForce Game Ready Drivers and NVIDIA Studio Drivers can be installed on supported notebook GPUs, the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) provides certified drivers for your specific notebook on their website. NVIDIA recommends that you check with your notebook OEM for recommended software updates for your notebook.
Game Ready for Empulse This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS and RTX technologies including Empulse.
Fixed Gaming Bugs
World of Warcraft: Gaming stability improvements [5563205]
Apex Legends: Occasional visual corruption after extended gameplay [6239327]
Users may observe DLSS settings being grayed out in certain games after updating to display driver 615.47 [6262805]
Improved gaming stability in multi-monitor configurations when using V-SYNC with DLSS Frame Generation [6158481]
Resolved an issue that could cause jittering or ghosting in some DirectX 11 games when Smooth Motion is enabled [5937897]
Resolved an issue that could cause some games to crash when launched with Smooth Motion enabled [5466398]
Fixed General Bugs
[Ada] Resolves a frame pacing issue on certain monitors when G-SYNC is enabled [6226972]
Resolved an issue that prevented the EDID from being read on certain monitors causing them to be identified as "NVIDIA NV-Failsafeβ [6005508]
Resolved an issue where certain monitors would not wake from sleep mode [5806798/5635230]
General stability improvements when the system fails to create a new allocation [5449920]
The Stable channel has been updated to 149.0.7827.155/.156 for Windows andMac and 149.0.7827.155 for Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the Log
Security Fixes and Rewards
Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but havenβt yet fixed.
This update includes 33 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.
[N/A][516496659]Critical CVE-2026-12437: Use after free in WebShare. Reported by Google on 2026-05-25
[N/A][516947912] Critical CVE-2026-12438: Inappropriate implementation in WebView. Reported by Google on 2026-05-27
[N/A][519728275] Critical CVE-2026-12439: Use after free in Digital Credentials. Reported by Google on 2026-06-03
[N/A][519731619] Critical CVE-2026-12440: Use after free in DigitalCredentials. Reported by Google on 2026-06-03
[N/A][520157118] Critical CVE-2026-12441: Use after free in File Input. Reported by Google on 2026-06-05
[N/A][521950423] Critical CVE-2026-12442: Use after free in Passwords. Reported by Google on 2026-06-09
[N/A][522566295] Critical CVE-2026-12443: Use after free in Web Authentication. Reported by Google on 2026-06-11
[N/A][513160088] High CVE-2026-12444: Out of bounds read in Chromoting. Reported by Google on 2026-05-14
[N/A][513199795] High CVE-2026-12445: Use after free in Extensions. Reported by Google on 2026-05-14
[N/A][513313107] High CVE-2026-12446: Insufficient data validation in Passwords. Reported by Google on 2026-05-14
[N/A][513405023] High CVE-2026-12447: Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC. Reported by Google on 2026-05-15
[N/A][513458233] High CVE-2026-12448: Inappropriate implementation in WebView. Reported by Google on 2026-05-15
[N/A][513480539] High CVE-2026-12449: Use after free in Chromoting. Reported by Google on 2026-05-15
[N/A][514531776] High CVE-2026-12450: Inappropriate implementation in Media. Reported by Zhixin Tu on 2026-05-19
[N/A][514741076] High CVE-2026-12451: Use after free in DigitalCredentials. Reported by Google on 2026-05-19
[N/A][515462244] High CVE-2026-12452: Use after free in Downloads. Reported by Google on 2026-05-21
[N/A][516448843] High CVE-2026-12453: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Input. Reported by Google on 2026-05-25
[N/A][516926968] High CVE-2026-12454: Race in Safe Browsing. Reported by Google on 2026-05-27
[N/A][517069848] High CVE-2026-12455: Use after free in Tab Strip. Reported by Google on 2026-05-27
[N/A][517124587] High CVE-2026-12456: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Extensions. Reported by Google on 2026-05-27
[N/A][517153117] High CVE-2026-12457: Insufficient data validation in Extensions. Reported by Google on 2026-05-27
[N/A][517258337] High CVE-2026-12458: Incorrect security UI in Passwords. Reported by Google on 2026-05-27
[N/A][517406035] High CVE-2026-12459: Inappropriate implementation in Serial. Reported by Google on 2026-05-28
[N/A][517484284] High CVE-2026-12460: Insufficient policy enforcement in File System Access. Reported by Google on 2026-05-28
[N/A][517727318] High CVE-2026-12461: Out of bounds read in WebRTC. Reported by Google on 2026-05-29
[N/A][517916024] High CVE-2026-12462: Use after free in Media. Reported by Google on 2026-05-29
[N/A][518042749] High CVE-2026-12463: Inappropriate implementation in Views. Reported by Google on 2026-05-30
[N/A][519358344] High CVE-2026-12464: Use after free in Browser. Reported by Google on 2026-06-03
[N/A][520189702] High CVE-2026-12465: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Metrics. Reported by Google on 2026-06-05
[N/A][520199394] High CVE-2026-12466: Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC. Reported by Google on 2026-06-05
[N/A][520202726] High CVE-2026-12467: Use after free in Extensions. Reported by Google on 2026-06-05
[N/A][521485244] High CVE-2026-12468: Inappropriate implementation in Updater. Reported by Google on 2026-06-08
[N/A][521618871] High CVE-2026-12469: Uninitialized Use in GPU. Reported by Google on 2026-06-09
We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel.
Interested in switching release channels? Find out howhere. If you find a new issue, please let us know byfiling a bug. Thecommunity help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 148.0.7778.271for Windows and Mac which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.
A full list of changes in this build is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Donations are appreciated. There is now a PayPal option.
Changes from 2.7.2 to 2.7.3:
Updates:
Updated LAV Filters to version 0.82
Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.10.4.2550
Updated MPC Audio Renderer
Fixes:
A few crash fixes, bug fixes and small improvements.
OpenSubtitles download error 406
Subtitle downloads from OpenSubtitles may fail depending on time of day. This is due to our daily download quota being exceeded. Current amount of donations is barely enough to pay for the existing quota. So it is unlikely that quota can be increased and situation will get worse over time.
If you create an OpenSubtitles account and configure it in MPC-HC settings then you may be able to bypass the quota.
Options > Subtitles > Misc > Right-click on OpenSubtitles.com > Setup > Fill in username/password
Overview of features
A lot of people seem to be unaware of some of the awesome features that have been added to MPC-HC in the past years. Here is a list of useful options and features that everyone should know about:
Play HDR video
This requires using either MPC Video Renderer (MPCVR) or madVR.
These renderers can be selected here:
Options > Playback > Output
With other video renderers, the colors will be wrong!
MPCVR is now included and is the recommended renderer for modern systems. MadVR needs to be installed separately. MPCVR also supports Dolby Vision. MadVR does not.
For optimal performance you should change the hardware decoder to D3D11 in LAV Video Decoder settings when using MPCVR on Windows 10/11, because this renderer uses DirectX11.
(Automatic detection of GPU and configuration of the above settings is high on my ToDo list, so MPC-HC will have better default out-of-the-box settings on modern systems in the future.)
The installer of MPC-HC is very basic (and that will not change).
I therefore recommend using K-Lite Codec Pack. That includes MPC-HC and other essential components. It has a very advanced installation that can automatically create file associations, and helps you with easy configuration of important MPC-HC settings, such as preferred subtitle language. It also does automatic configuration of renderer and hardware decoding, for best performance and HDR support.
The Standard version should be sufficient for most people. Use Full version of you like to use MadVR.
Modern GUI Theme (Dark or Light) or the old classic theme
Options > Player > User Interface
It is also possible to change the height of the seekbar and size of the toolbar buttons.
Plus there are options to show audio/video details in the statusbar, such as codec and resolution.
Customizable toolbar buttons
You can add/remove/re-order the player buttons.
There are also several different toolbar designs to choose from.
Video preview on the seekbar
Options > Player > User Interface > Hover type
Ability to search for subtitles
Press D for manual search.
Or enable automatic search in: Options > Subtitles > Misc
Adjust playback speed
Menu > Play > Playback rate
The buttons in the player that control playback rate take a 2x step by default. This can be customized to smaller values (like 10%):
Options > Playback > Speed step
Adjusting playback speed works best with the internal audio renderer. This also has automatic pitch correction.
Options > Playback > Output > Audio Renderer
MPC-HC can remember recently played files and also their playback position, so you can resume playback from when you left
Options > Player > History
You can quickly seek through a video with Ctrl + Mouse Scrollwheel.
You can jump to next/previous file in a folder by pressing PageUp/PageDown.
You can right-click on the framestep button to step backwards. Some other buttons also have right-click actions, such as closing file by right-clicking stop.
You can perform automatic actions at end of file. For example to go to next file or close player.
Options > Playback > After Playback (permanent setting)
Menu > Play > After Playback (for current file only)
A-B repeat
You can loop a segment of a video. Press [ and ] to set start and stop markers.
You can rotate/flip/mirror/stretch/zoom the video
Menu > View > Pan&Scan
This is also easily done with hotkeys (see below).
There are lots of keyboard hotkeys and mouse actions to control the player. They can be customized as well.
Options > Player > Keys
Tip: there is a search box above the table.
You can hide GUI elements even in windowed mode
Options > User Interface > Hide Windowed Controls
That hides most GUI elements during playback. To show them simply move your mouse to bottom of window.
You can even hide everything except the video by pressing 1 (restore normal view with 3).
You can seek inside the playlist by simply typing text (when playlist window has the mouse focus).
MPC-HC also supports Blu-ray playback.
Only limitation is that you need to use a decrypting tool.
And it also does not support Blu-ray menus, but you can use the navigate menu in the player to select the content to play.
You can stream videos directly from Youtube and many other video websites
Put yt-dlp.exe in the MPC-HC installation folder.
Then you can open website URLs in the player: Menu > File > Open File/URL
You can even download those videos: Menu > File > Save a copy
Tip: to be able to download in best quality with yt-dlp, it is recommended to also put ffmpeg.exe in the MPC-HC folder.
Several YDL configuration options are found here: Options > Advanced
This includes an option to specify the location of yt-dlp.exe in case you don't want to put it in MPC-HC folder.
Note 1: You also need to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)
Note 2: For optimal Youtube support you may also need to put deno.exe in same folder as yt-dlp.
Note 3: yt-dlp nightly build (very latest version made daily)
Note 4: yt-dlp windows7 compatible build
Besides all these (new) features, there have also been many bugfixes and internal improvements in the player in the past years that give better performance and stability. It also has updated internal codecs. Support was added for CUE sheets, WebVTT subtitles, etc.
You should really take a few minutes to look through all the options pages if you are a new user or if you are upgrading from a very old version. Don't forget the advanced options page.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Univention team have published a new version of the project's Debian-based Univention Corporate Server. The latest release updates handling of group mailboxes and makes it easier to identify objects in the management interface. "The latest patch-level release of Univention Corporate Server bundles all new features and improvements....
26.2, the release of Chaos Cubed, is a game drop for Java Edition released on June 16, 2026. It focuses on the sulfur caves, a cave biome that is home to sulfur cubes, as well as the new sulfur and cinnabar blocks and their respective variants. This update also adds an experimental Vulkan renderer, and the friends list.
Full changelog: https://minecraft.wiki/Java_Edition_26.2
Firefox Settings features a brand-new look with streamlined organization, clearer groupings, and improved navigation for easier customization.
In Private Browsing windows, you can now temporarily disable tracker blocking for a tab if it's causing a site to break. When you reload a page where trackers were blocked, Firefox shows a message offering to reload without the stricter protections. All other tracking protections stay active.
You can now mute your browser from the address bar: type "mute" (or "shush" or "sssh") and use the address bar quick action to silence every tab currently playing sound across all Firefox windows.
Improved support for more advanced cursor movement commands, including those relating to paragraph boundaries, on macOS.
On Windows and Linux, you can now copy links via the tab context menu by right-clicking a tab and selecting Share > Copy Link, making it easy to copy a link without switching to the tab first. When multiple tabs are selected, you can copy all selected links at once. Windows users still retain access to Microsoft sharing options from the Share menu.
A "Send tab" toolbar button is now available which can be added via More Tools > Customize Toolbar.
The following languages are now available for Translations:
Basque
Galician
Firefox builds in Croatian, English (UK), Georgian, Persian, Slovenian, Tajik, Tamil, Tibetan, Turkish, Welsh, and Xhosa now come with a built-in dictionary for the Firefox spellchecker.
Firefox Labs
Firefox now offers experimental support for the new JPEG XL image format, which generally provides better compression than WebP, JPEG, PNG, and GIF and is designed to supersede them. You can enable it from the Firefox Labs panel in Settings.
Fixed
Fixed an issue where the Paste option could be missing from context menus when editing content on sites such as Squarespace, LinkedIn, and eBay.
Improved dragging images from Firefox to the desktop or Finder on macOS β images now save reliably and land where you drop them.
In multiple monitor situations, the About Firefox window now more reliably opens on the display with the most recently used Firefox window.
Fixed arrow-key text navigation and word selection commands that moved in the wrong direction in right-to-left text on macOS and Linux.
Site zooming via keyboard or mouse now offers more zoom levels in smaller increments than before.
When a PDF or other file that Firefox opens directly finishes downloading, it now opens in a background tab if you've switched tabs or closed the original page.
The Tabs from Other Devices panel in the sidebar now lets you open tabs in a new tab or a new container tab from the context menu.
Developer Tools now have an option in the Settings panel to toggle the display of comment nodes in the Inspector.
Web Platform
Web Notifications can now have action buttons via the actions option. They appear as buttons below the notification text or in the Options list on macOS.
The field-sizing property is now available, allowing form controls to adjust in size to fit their contents.
Firefox now supports the WebAuthn Related Origin Request feature, which simplifies login flows by making Passkeys usable from multiple domains.
The Pointer Lock API now supports the unadjustedMovement option, allowing sites to receive raw mouse-movement data unaffected by OS-level acceleration.
Community Contributions
With the release of Firefox 152, we are pleased to welcome the developers who contributed their first code change to Firefox in this release, 25 of whom were brand new volunteers! Please join us in thanking each of these diligent and enthusiastic individuals, and take a look at their contributions:
The next Ubuntu Touch major release is approaching rapidly, yesterday we reached a major step in the preparation of the upcoming Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 release: The branching-off (see below on what that is).
And additionally, find below some background information on how we maintain various Ubuntu Touch releases in parallel via Git(Lab). In fact, the release model of Ubuntu Touch has partially been adopted from how we in Debian maintains our various Debian versions in parallel, only that in Ubuntu Touch we use Git(Lab) for maintaining the different package versions and not, like in Debian, the APT archive itself.
What does 'Branching-Off' Mean?
Last Saturday, in the UBports Q&A, I explained Ubuntu Touch's "branching-off", an aspect of the Ubuntu Touch release workflow based on Git(Lab). To make this accessible to even more people, here it comes as a write-up:
We host many Git repositories on GitLab, and our primary work is done on the main branches, which contain the bleeding-edge code. When a merge request is deemed critical for stable versions of Ubuntu Touch, we cherry-pick it into a release series branch.
Currently, we land our changes in the main branches and then cherry-pick them to the ubports/24.04.1.x branches. The 'branching off' process for the upcoming 24.04-2.x release means that our current main branches will be copied over to create new branches for this release cycle, namely ubports/24.04-2.x.
This has two major implications. First, any item that hasn't been translated by the time of the branch-off will not receive any more translation updates during the 24.04-2.x cycle. This is why it is crucial that translation work is completed before the branching-off.
Warning of Breaking Changes arriving soon in 26.04-1.x Daily Development UT Images
Second, looking ahead to the release after 24.04-2.x, we will be approaching 26.04-1.x. The OS base will change to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, hopefully being ready for release to Ubuntu Touch users before the end of the year. We already have a list of features we want to land there. Because we plan to include various major changes, such as the switch from Mir 1 to Mir 2, new calendar and contacts backends, Qt6-based core apps and service components, etc., the likelihood of breaking changes at the beginning of the 26.04-1.x release cycle (which will become the next main branches' target) is very high.
The Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Release Schedule
The current release schedule is estimated to be:
25 May 2026 [done]
Platform stability freeze 24.04-2.x
25 May 2026 [done]
String freeze 24.04-2.x
15 June 2026 [done]
Branching-off (and unfreeze 26.04-1.x development), UT image release: 24.04-2.0 Beta
22 or 29 June 2026 [coming]
Final freeze for 24.04-2.x, UT image release: 24.04-2.0 RC
6 or 13 July 2026 [coming]
Release version 24.04-2.0
Inβ―2008, I landed my second job, in the network team at Orange
Portails1, the division behind the websites and search engine of the
French telecom operator Orange. The place ran like clockwork: a comprehensive
technical setup, a dedicated team for every part of the business, and room to
focus on what I do best. A few years later, none of that mattered: thanks to an
obsession with the numbers, we could no longer deliver new services on time.
Disclaimer
This is a story I like to tell to warn people about
Goodhartβs law.2 As these events happened almost 15 years ago, my
recollection is a bit fuzzy. I left in 2012.
The technical environment was excellent. We had many internal tools:3 a
ticket system, an RRD-based graphing tool, an IPAM, a reporting tool, and an
SNMP-based alerting tool.4 We deployed our Linux servers with
CFEngine. We installed systems and applications from internal Debian
repositories. We documented everything in a private MediaWiki instance.
Supervision was performed with an ancestor of Xymon. The network
architecture was clean and scalable with little legacy. We onboarded new people
in a day.
When we needed new servers, the on-site team would take a set from the
inventory, install our base Linux distribution on them, put them in the
datacenter, and cable them to the top-of-the-rack switches. We opened a ticket
describing the servers we needed, and one week later, our servers were
available. π«
Orange wanted to know if this team was performing well, so they asked for KPIs.
They decided to use the number of tickets completed in a year. They asked to
double this number. So instead of one ticket for a new service, we would open
six ticketsβone per server. By the end of the year, the KPIs had more than
doubled.
Everybody saw it as a success for performance management. So, they asked to do
the same for the next year. Now, we needed to open a ticket per server and per
step. Again, the KPIs doubled. Behind the scenes, the tickets went to different
people and were no longer handled in order. So, for the next year, it was decided to
have meta-tickets and meetings to follow the progress of these tickets. Of
course, all these extra steps pushed the KPI even higher.
This performance management method spread to the other teams.5
Everything became slower. Instead of a couple of weeks, a new service now took
six months. We built a Soviet nail factory. But the KPIs were good, and we
stopped caring.
Let me give you another example. We had to estimate the impact of each night
operation. We werenβt half bad: we declared most operations βwithout any
expected impact.β Most of the time, there was no impact. One time out of five,
there was a 5-second impact. We were told to try harder to meet our expected
impact. What did we do? We started declaring a 5-second expected impact. One
day, we got a 30-second impact and were told we failed to match the expected
impact. In the end, we declared most operations with a 10-minute expected
impact, and we stopped caring: instead of carefully shifting traffic around, we
allowed ourselves a 5-minute impact. And our KPIs were never better.
An artist's rendering of the evolution of impacts over the years.
KPIs are not bad, but they are easy to break. Use them carefully: let the people
doing the work help choose the metrics, and tie those metrics to the quality of
the serviceβfor example, with service level objectives. Otherwise, even
dedicated people stop caring, game the system, and eventually quit. π
We're excited to announce that the 1.60 updateforAmerican Truck Simulator has officially been released and is now available on Steam!
Before we head to the news, we would like to thank everyone who took part in the Open Beta and reported any issues or provided general feedback on our forum. This makes it much easier for our team to fine-tune everything and helps ensure a smooth transition to the full update release.
Game Radio
With the 1.60 update, we are introducing Game Radio, a brand-new in-game radio system designed to make every drive feel more immersive and authentic. Rather than just playing music, Game Radio gives you five stations with their own distinct sounds, identities, and moods, each one built to shape the atmosphere of your journey in a different way.
Players can tune into Rust FM, Escape, PUMP IT!, Pop Gear, and Roadio, spanning guitar-driven rock and American roots music to electronic, pop, and lo-fi. Each station features carefully curated tracks, handpicked to hold up across many hours on the road. Escape is also a radio station designed to help content creators, and we are committed to doing our best to keep it stream-safe.
Game Radio also introduces a new in-game widget displaying station info, track titles, and artist names while driving. Players can customize widget behavior through the Widget Options menu (F6). This update also brings a range of improvements to the existing radio and music player systems.
Game Radio arrives with its musical foundation in place, with more planned for future updates. You can find out more information about Game Radio in our dedicated blog post.
Improved Material System
The Improved Material System significantly improves the lighting and visual quality of vehicle interiors in selected trucks. Its main focus is to enhance how interior materials react to light, which will result in a more readable, detailed, and visually pleasing cabin environment.
During the development of Project Road Trip, we implemented a wide range of visual and technical improvements. One of the most significant changes was a redesign of the materials used in vehicle interiors. As a result, it makes differences between materials such as leather, fabric, plastic, and metal far more apparent, even in low-light conditions. The new solution uses multiple variants of dynamic cubemaps, allowing all materials to reflect their surroundings more naturally and respond to ambient light in a more realistic way.
The entire system was designed from the start with the interiors of trucks in both games in mind, so the base games and their existing fleets will gradually benefit from these improvements as well. The first trucks to benefit from the Improved Material System in ATS are the Mack Anthem and the Western Star 49X. With future updates, we will gradually add this technology for other trucks across both games. You can read more about this feature here.
Light Tweaks
We have carried out minor adjustments to the global lighting, primarily focused on exposure and contrast balancing, along with subtle visual refinements for bad weather conditions. The work mainly consisted of smoothing out and polishing the overall visuals to achieve a more consistent and refined look.
Players' Company Paint Jobs
Players are now able to customize their trucks and trailers with a brand-new collection of company-themed paint jobs inspired by the selectable company identities available when creating a driver profile. These designs bring a more cohesive and professional visual style to your fleet while fitting naturally into the world of ATS.
One of the biggest focuses during development was ensuring that every paint job feels unique, depending on the type of trailer it is applied to. Rather than simply using one design across all trailer models, our teams carefully adapted each company's paint scheme to match the shapes and details of different trailer types. Whether youβre hauling cargo with a tanker, transporting materials in a dumper, or pulling a traditional box trailer, each variant features its own tailored details and layout. You can find out more in our blog here.
Kenworth TourAmerica Paint Jobs
We're also pleased to introduce the TourAmerica paint jobs for the Kenworth W900 and Kenworth T680 2022 as free content for all players. Inspired by the iconic TourAmerica T600 livery from the 1990s, this special design was recently reimagined by Kenworth as part of the Freedom 250 initiative, a nationwide celebration marking the 250th anniversary of the United States and honoring the legacy of American trucking. You can see more in our blog here.
Job Details Widget
Based on feedback from our #BestCommunityEver and upcoming widget designs, the Job Details Widget is introduced with the 1.60 update. Its primary purpose is to enable a new, more immediate, and concise way of displaying the relevant job info. Also, in response to community feedback, the GPS now displays the estimated arrival day and time, along with the remaining travel time and distance.
You can enable the Job Details Widget through the Widget Options menu (F6). The widget displays key job information, including cargo type and weight, delivery location, job income (colour-highlighted), and the remaining time to complete the job, so players will have this info available immediately without the necessity to pause the game. You can read more about the feature here.
Expanded Rest Mechanic
This new feature gives players greater control over their rest periods by allowing them to choose how long they want to sleep and exactly when they want to wake up, instead of being limited to a predefined rest duration.
Alongside this change, the Fatigue system is now split into two separate values: Rest State and Mandatory Break, each represented by its own icon in the UI.
The Rest State, symbolised by a bed icon, now gradually depletes rather than recovers over time. Extended periods of driving will steadily reduce the Rest State, while resting will restore it at a faster rate.
The Mandatory Break system, indicated by a "P" icon along with the remaining hours before a required stop, functions more strictly. In American Truck Simulator, drivers can stay on the road for up to 14 hours before they must take a mandatory break, requiring 10 consecutive hours of rest afterward. You can read more about this feature here.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Colin Percival has announced the release of FreeBSD 15.1, the second release in FreeBSD's latest stable branch: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE. This is the second release of the stable/15 branch. Some of the highlights: the iwlwifi(4) and other....
I have proposed the deletion of an obsolete
script,
but it makes me feel complicated feelings so Iβm going to try and
express those. This particular script was written in 2014, but the
concept goes back much further β before git was invented.
When I started university in 2003, I seem to remember the computing
society used to run tutorials for first-year students on how to use
Apache Subversion for your group project β a vast upgrade on CVS (or
worse, no version control at all). Back then, the idea of viewing
your changesets in a web browser was relatively new β while it was
possible to look at an SVN repository through a web UI, features were
limited unless you installed something compicated like
Trac.
Figure 1: Data flow when distributing commits via a mailing list
Perhaps because reading email on your desktop computer (I donβt think
I could afford an IBM ThinkPad?) was the only vaguely real-time
notification system available at the time (except I guess SMS, which
cost 10p per text), a common pattern seemed to be to use a
post-commit
hook
to send every single commit to a mailing list, named something like
βfoo-commitsβ. Indeed, for a long time Fedora had an scm-commits list
which appears to be a topic of recent
discussion.
I canβt really explain why people wanted to have every commit sent
to a mailing list except as a way of getting notified of activity β I
canβt believe people would import raw patches from those lists, ala
LKML, rather than run actual version control commands to fetch the new
source directly. Maybe youβd have to go back to NNTP for this.
I do like the vendor-neutrality of the βeverything-as-textβ approach,
building on the open ecosystem of SMTP. But I doubt weβd see a
widespread resurgence of commit lists now β most code hosting must
allow anyone to subscribe to email notifications, I assume, and I
donβt see a huge benefit in a mailing list archive of commit messages.
In the case of seL4, Iβm even more confused about why this script was
committed in 2014, shortly after the kernel was put on GitHub. I can
only assume it was imported from previous infrastructure. I do know
that the implementation is quite Python 2 heavy, with the conversion
between unicode and bytes featuring heavily. So rather than risk
breaking its logic with patching, I think itβs time to βthank it for
its serviceβ and let go.
If you are upgrading from v0.16.x, replace the binary (or run docker pull). If you are upgrading from v0.15.x and below, please read the upgrading documentation for more information on how to upgrade from previous versions.
Added
ACME: Allow specifying a preferred certificate chain.
Changed
Fixed
JMAP: */changes methods leak ids of non-shared objects (reported by @5ud0er).
Sieve: Do not allow invalid certs in http_header function.
FoundationDB: Fix read version cache expiration logic.
MTA: Re-scheduling or editing a queued message reports success but persists nothing for recipients in a non-default virtual queue.
CardDAV: Version requests included in address-data are ignored.
ACME: Add freshness check when renewing certificates.
Autodiscover v2: Read email address from query parameters.
Sieve: Do not keep copies of redirected messages when keep is not specified.
A new SCS On The Road episode has just arrived! Buckle up and join us as we take you along for the amazing Volvo Days: Influencer Day event, where we were invited by Volvo Construction Equipment.
After the last one two years ago, Volvo CE once again hosted its well-known Volvo Days event at their Customer Center in Eskilstuna, Sweden, showcasing its latest products to customers and the public.
This year, Volvo invited us to attend the event and also approached us to help connect them with content creators from our community to take part in the Influencer Day, held on May 28. Together, we joined fellow influencers such asΒ Gamekeepers_cz, TheNorthernAlex, Polmanzan, Iwona Blecharczyk,Β and others for a day that began with an amazing machine show and continued with hands-on experience operating Volvo CE equipment and Volvo trucks. Now, let's watch the episode!
We would like to extend a huge thank you to Volvo Construction Equipment and their staff for inviting us to this incredible event, providing great hospitality, and giving us the opportunity to experience their vast product line hands-on! You can find more information about the Volvo Days event here.
And if you would like to transport some Volvo CE machines in our games, you can check out the Volvo Construction Equipment DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 here, and for American Truck Simulator here.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Barry Kauler has announced the release of EasyOS 7.4. The new version focuses on polishing classic software options, providing X11 support, fixes for the ROX-filer file manager, and improving video playback by swapping out Celluloid for SMPlayer. "Version 7.4 is a 'milestone' release, consolidating EasyOS as supporting 'legacy'....
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