The today released version 1.8 brings the following changes:

• faster spell checker, based on a more recent hunspell version,
• inverse search will no more launch a new instance of Texmaker because now it can be started only once per user,
• brace matching again,
• improved autocompletion, \begin{…} completed with \end{…},
• improved error detection.

Texmaker is a free LaTeX IDE running under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows and is published under the GPL 2.

For features, documentation and download visit the Texmaker homepage.

The new version KOMA-Script 3 by Markus Kohm et al. has been released today.

Some of the new features are:

• possibility to change almost all settings, even the paper or font size, after loading the class and even after \begin{document},
• arbitrary base font size, not only in pt, also in other units of measure like pica (pc),
• new key=value interface, backward compatible,
• new package tocbasic for generation of table of contents and other lists, supporting the multilingual babel package,
• arbitrary choice where chapters are allowed to start,
• improved documentation.

To download KOMA-Script 3, visit http://developer.berlios.de/projects/koma-script3/.

There are release notes in English and more extensive in German.

edit Nov 11: KOMA-Script 3 is available now also as MiKTeX package. I’ve installed it with TeX Live on Ubuntu Linux by the MiKTeX package manager.

On Oct 30 2008 the Ubuntu team announced the release of Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop and Server. You can read about its features in the press release.

To download Ubuntu 8.10, or obtain CDs, see: Get Ubuntu. For instructions on upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10, visit: Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10.
Upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge as always.

Check out the release notes and look at the new features.

To get more information, visit www.ubuntu.com.