The 204th edition of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup has arrived, covering the week up to September 8th, 2024, and bringing you the most critical updates from the Linux universe. If you missed the roundup from the previous week, you can get all caught up on the GNU/Linux and open-source news here.
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The past week was relatively quiet as many were savoring the final days of their summer vacation. However, the upcoming week promises to be exciting with new updates on KDE Plasma, Gear, and Frameworks, a significant new GNOME release, some updates for current users, and potentially a new kernel release.
This week has been exciting with several software updates and hardware releases, including a new version of Firefox, a Linux-powered laptop from Slimbook and KDE, and updates to Nitrux, QEMU, and Audacity, among others. Keep reading to discover the top news items this week, as collated in the 9to5Linux Linux weekly roundup dated September 8th, 2024.
Hot news of the week
- Nitrux 3.6.1 immutable and systemd-free distro improves language support
- Mozilla Firefox 130 is now available for download with various new features
- Firefox 131 Beta improves translations, adds temporary site permissions
- Audacity 3.6.2 audio editor adds Legacy effects section, fixes multiple bugs
- QEMU 9.1 improves ARM and RISC-V support, adds compression offload support
- KDE Slimbook Plasma VI Linux ultrabook launches with AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
- GNOME 47 Release Candidate is now available for public testing
Linux distributions released this week
- Live Raizo 15.24.09.08
- Manjaro Linux 24.0.8 Xfce
- Manjaro Linux 24.0.8 KDE Plasma
- Manjaro Linux 24.0.8 GNOME
- Alpine Linux 3.20.3
- rlxos 2.0
- Bluestar Linux 6.10.8
- KDE neon 20240905
- Peropesis 2.7
- Q4OS 5.6 KDE Plasma
- Q4OS 5.6 TDE
- TUXEDO 3-20240904
- AUSTRUMI 4.9.7
- Nitrux 3.6.1
- Linuxfx 11.22.04.1
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- Linux kernel 6.10.9
- Linux kernel 6.6.50 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.1.109 LTS
- MKVToolNix 87.0
- GNU Texinfo 7.1.1
- KiCad 8.0.5
- GTK 4.16.0
- Python 3.12.6
- Sigil 2.3.1
- Snapcraft 8.3.3
- Mesa 24.2.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird 130.0
- GNU nano 8.2
- Rust 1.81.0
- QEMU 9.1.0
- snapd 2.65.1
- OpenZFS 2.2.6
- xfsprogs 6.10.1
- Linux kernel 5.15.166 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.10.225 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.283 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.19.321 LTS
- Tor Browser 13.5.3
- SeaMonkey 2.53.19
- Audacity 3.6.2
- Calligra 4.0.1
- OpenSSL 3.2.3
- Ruby 3.3.5
- Chromium 128.0.6613.119
- Mozilla Firefox 130.0
- Samba 4.21.0
- ImageMagick 7.1.1-38 (GCC)
- ImageMagick 7.1.1-38 (Clang)
Coming up next week
- KDE Plasma 6.1.5
- KDE Gear 24.08.1
- KDE Frameworks 6.6
- KDE Plasma 6.2 beta
- Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
- GNOME 46.5
- GNOME 47
- Linux kernel 6.11
- and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases
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