Hacker News with Generative AI: New Releases

Announcing Rust 1.85.0 and Rust 2024 (rust-lang.org)
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.85.0. This stabilizes the 2024 edition as well.
KiCad 9.0 Released (kicad.org)
The KiCad project is proud to announce the release of the next major version of KiCad. Version 9 is packed with new features, improvements, and hundreds of bug fixes. We hope you enjoy the new version! Head to the KiCad download page to get your copy of the new version (note that some packages may still be in the process of being released at the time this announcement is published).
Typst 0.13 is out now (typst.app)
With Typst 0.13, we wanted to improve the day-to-day experience of using Typst. We fixed some of the most long-standing bugs and made Typst even more flexible to use. And on top, we're shipping a first, experimental version of HTML export.
Apple Debuts iPhone 16e (apple.com)
Apple today announced iPhone 16e, a new addition to the iPhone 16 lineup that offers powerful capabilities at a more affordable price.
Deno v2.2 (deno.com)
Deno 2.2: OpenTelemetry, Lint Plugins, node:sqlite
Pi-hole v6 (pi-hole.net)
We’re excited to announce the general release of Pi-hole v6!
ArcaOS 5.1.1 released (modern OS/2) (arcanoae.com)
This document contains up-to-date issue resolution in the current ISO release of ArcaOS 5.1.
Go 1.24 (golang.org)
The latest Go release, version 1.24, arrives six months after Go 1.23.
Grok 3 release with live demo on Monday night at 8pm PT (twitter.com)
PHP 8.4.4 Released (php.net)
The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.4.4. This is a bug fix release.
New Firefox Features in Development (mozilla.org)
This forum is for sharing and voting for ideas to improve Mozilla products.
Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin (schoenitzer.de)
GIMP 3.0 is almost out, and I'm thrilled. Not only will this version bring new features and improvements, but it finally modernizes the technology stack in two important ways:
Go 1.24 Release Notes (golang.org)
The latest Go release, version 1.24, arrives six months after Go 1.23.
Go 1.24 Is Released (go.dev)
Today the Go team is excited to release Go 1.24, which you can get by visiting the download page.
FLAC 1.5 Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding (phoronix.com)
FLAC 1.5 is out today as the newest feature update to the software built around the Free Lossless Audio Codec.
Zonos – Apache 2.0 licensed, Multilingual, Text to Speech model (zyphra.com)
We are excited to announce the release of Zonos-v0.1 beta, featuring two expressive and real-time text-to-speech (TTS) models with high-fidelity voice cloning. We are releasing our 1.6B transformer and 1.6B hybrid under an Apache 2.0 license.
Gimp 3.0 RC3 Released (gimp.org)
We’re excited to share the third release candidate of GIMP 3.0 for what (we hope) is the final round of community testing before the stable version! This release follows the recent GIMP 3 and Beyond talk by Jehan at FOSDEM 2025.
Python 3.14 Getting New Interpreter (python.org)
This article explains the new features in Python 3.14, compared to 3.13.
What's New in Python 3.14.0a4 (python.org)
This article explains the new features in Python 3.14, compared to 3.13.
Docker Bake is now generally available (docker.com)
We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Docker Bake with Docker Desktop 4.38! This powerful build orchestration tool takes the hassle out of managing complex builds and offers simplicity, flexibility, and performance for teams of all sizes.
Gleam Gets ‟Rename Variable" (gleam.run)
Gleam is a type-safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v1.8.0 has been published. Let’s take a look!
Gleam v1.8.0 Released (gleam.run)
Gleam is a type-safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v1.8.0 has been published. Let’s take a look!
Ghidra 11.3 has been released (github.com/NationalSecurityAgency)
Nim Version 2.2.2 Released (nim-lang.org)
The Nim Team is happy to announce version 2.2.2, the first patch release for our stable release, Nim 2.2.
Asdf Version Manager Has Been Re-Written in Golang (stratus3d.com)
Over the last year I’ve rewritten asdf in Go. I’m excited to announce that the rewrite was released last Wednesday as asdf version 0.16.0!
OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release (openwrt.org)
The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the first stable release of the OpenWrt 24.10 stable series.
Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone (google)
In December, we kicked off the agentic era by releasing an experimental version of Gemini 2.0 Flash — our highly efficient workhorse model for developers with low latency and enhanced performance.
DuckDB 1.2.0 (duckdb.org)
The DuckDB team is happy to announce that today we're releasing DuckDB version 1.2.0, codenamed “Histrionicus”.
Jujutsu VCS: Introduction and patterns (kubamartin.com)
Jujutsu (jj), a new version control system written in Rust, has popped up on my radar a few times over the past year.
Ladybird browser update (January 2025) [video] (youtube.com)