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Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) reaches End of Life on July 28 2016

The Ubuntu Release Team recently announced the End of Life of Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) which was released almost 9 months ago, on October 22, 2015. All security related updates wil no longer be made available after the scheduled date “July 28, 2016. According to the announcement posted by Adam Conrad (A member of the release team): As a non-LTS release, 15.10 has a 9-month month support cycle and, as such, the support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 15.

Duplicity 0.7.08 Released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

<li class="bbli"> Fixed bug #1573957 with patches from Dmitry Nezhevenko: <ul> <li> upload last chunk with files_upload_session_finish to avoid extra request </li> <li> upload small files using non-chunked api </li> </ul> </li> <li class="bbli"> Fixed bug #1586934 with patches from Dmitry Nezhevenko: <ul> <li> fixes error handling in wrapper </li> </ul> </li> <li class="bbli"> Fixed bug #1586992 with patches from Dmitry Nezhevenko: <ul> <li> Patch adds _delete_list to Par2Backend. And _delete_list fallbacks to </li> <li> _delete calls if wrapped backend has no _delete_list.

Kodi v17 “Krypton” Alpha 2 released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

<pre style="text-align: justify;">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install kodi<p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install the encode addon</strong></span> </p> <pre>sudo apt-get install kodi-audioencoder-* kodi-pvr-*</pre> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Remove Kodi v17</strong></span> </p> <pre>sudo apt-get remove kodi*</pre>

FileZilla 3.19.0 released with bug fix

<li class="bbli"> Bugfixes and minor changes: <ul> <li> Fixed context menu in search dialog if not connected to server </li> <li> OS X, *nix: Fix displayed text in file list status bar if selecting a single item in the file list out of multiple already selected items </li> </ul> </li>