9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: Highlights from September 21st, 2025

The 258th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on September 21st, 2025, highlighting the latest developments in the Linux community. If you missed last week’s roundup, you can catch up with everything GNU/Linux/Open Source here.

We thank everyone who contributed donations, and appreciate your continued support through comments, sharing, and social media interactions. This week brought several exciting updates and releases, including the official launch of the GNOME 49 desktop environment and Tails 7.0 operating system. Notable software releases include Firefox 143, Giada 1.3 loop machine, PorteuX 2.3, IPFire 2.29 Core Update 197, and Thunderbird 143 email client.

Additionally, beta versions were released for Fedora Linux 43, LMDE 7, Ubuntu 25.10, Zorin OS 18, KDE Plasma 6.5, along with Firefox 144.

Hot news of the week

Upcoming Releases

Next week promises a lot of excitement with the anticipated releases of COSMIC Beta, Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta, and Linux kernel 6.17. Stay tuned for further updates in the Linux community.


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