# Linux Action News 145

URL: /show/linux-action-news/145/
> The week was packed with major project releases, we go through each of them and tell you what stands out.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 145
- Date: 2020-02-16
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 00:15:30
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/1c188f5c-fa9f-4dc1-a472-a778ee551c3b.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/6bGe2j_VeDQ





### Episode Links

  * [KDE Plasma 5.18 Released](https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.18.0 "KDE Plasma 5.18 Released")
  * [KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Released, This is What's New](https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/01/kde-plasma-5-18-lts-features "KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Released, This is What's New")
  * [MATE 1.24 released](https://mate-desktop.org/blog/2020-02-10-mate-1-24-released/ "MATE 1.24 released")
  * [OpenShot 2.5.0 Released](https://www.openshot.org/blog/2020/02/08/openshot-250-released-video-editing-hardware-acceleration/ "OpenShot 2.5.0 Released") — Perhaps one of the most exciting changes in OpenShot 2.5.0 is our experimental support for hardware acceleration.
  * [OpenShot Video Editor Just Got a Massive Update](https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/02/openshot-2-5-release-install-on-ubuntu "OpenShot Video Editor Just Got a Massive Update")
  * [Firefox 73.0 Released](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0/releasenotes/ "Firefox 73.0 Released") — Today’s Firefox release includes two features that help users view and read website content more easily, quickly. 
  * [Firefox ESR 68.5.0 Released](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.5.0/releasenotes/ "Firefox ESR 68.5.0 Released")
  * [Tor Browser 9.0.5 Released](https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-905 "Tor Browser 9.0.5 Released") — This release updates Firefox to 68.5.0esr, NoScript to 11.0.13, and on desktop, Tor to 0.4.2.6. We also added a new default bridge and backported a few improvements from the alpha series.
  * [Tails 4.3 is out](https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.3/index.en.html "Tails 4.3 is out")
  * [An Update from Essential](https://www.essential.com/blog/essential-update "An Update from Essential") — We have made the difficult decision to cease operations and shutdown Essential.
  * [Essential, Andy Rubin’s phone company, is shutting down](https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/12/21134985/essential-phone-shutting-down-andy-rubin-startup "Essential, Andy Rubin’s phone company, is shutting down")
  * [Andy Rubin’s smartphone startup, Essential, is dead](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/andy-rubins-smartphone-startup-essential-is-dead/ "Andy Rubin’s smartphone startup, Essential, is dead")
  * [After just one phone, Essential Products ends](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/13/essential_products_closed/ "After just one phone, Essential Products ends")
  * [NetBSD fundraiser](https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/fundraising_2020 "NetBSD fundraiser") — We are trying to raise $50,000 in 2020
  * [NetBSD 9.0 Released](https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_0_available "NetBSD 9.0 Released")