Real Dev News for Ubuntu 13.04
This is way better than the stuff you'll find on
OMGUbuntu!gvfs updates with MTP Support (you can now connect your Android 4 device and it just works)- LibreOffice 4.0; a huge number of bugfixes went in to this
cups updates to now auto-detect shared printers on your network, and auto-share them with other devices including iPads/iPhones etc.- Much of the backend has been ported to Python 3 in hopes of totally removing Python 2.
- Lots of work has gone in to sandboxing applications from one another (most likely due to the phone release)
- A potential new feature (if it makes it in time) is automatic removal of old kernels, which can take up a few gigs of space over the course of six months if not cleaned manually.
- New
upstart version allowing userspace (beta) jobs, and launch on file/folder change, hopefully meaning fewer background services and less clunky code. - Fixes for quite a few RAM hogs that persist across sessions.
Web
- jQuery 2.0 has been released it drops support for IE 6-8, it looks like old Android (2x) is going to get the chop next.
- Chrome forked WebKit to form Blink, they say they were able to drop about 2.5 million lines of code right off the bat, hopefully it'll speed up their iteration time.
- Firefox has released it's baseline compiler tl;dr version, it cuts down on complexity, and does a much better job of supporting IonMonkey being it's based on the same backend giving a huge speed boost.
- ASM.js promises a good future for porting C/C++ apps to the browser with support from Firefox, and Chrome in the works.
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