A roundup of notable Linux application releases from April 2026. Highlights include Zed text editor reaching v1.0 with DeepSeek AI model support and improved Git integration; Shotcut 26.4 adding Vulkan GPU acceleration for speech-to-text; PeaZip 11.0 with up to 94% faster large archive pre-parsing; Scribus 1.7.3 gaining real-time spell checking in a separate thread; BleachBit 6.0 launching a new cookie manager; VirtualBox 7.2.8 adding Linux 7.0 kernel support; and Kdenlive 26.04 introducing monitor mirroring and animated transition previews. Other minor updates include LibreOffice 26.2.3, OpenShot proxy workflow, and Rio terminal v0.4.0.
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Zed text editor reaches 1.0Shotcut’s speech to text goes VulkanPeaZip gets faster (kinda)Scribus scores real-time spell checkBleachBit’s big updateVirtualBox supports Linux 7.0Kdenlive gets collab-edit friendlyHear app news? Let me knowSort: