The 184th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup has concluded for the week ending on April 21st, 2024. This is your summary of the major happenings in the Linux world. If you didn’t get a chance to read last week’s 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, you can get all the GNU/Linux/Open Source news from this link.
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The pace this week was a bit relaxed as we prepare our systems for the upcoming Fedora Linux 40 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS operating systems, likely to be launched next week. Yet, we received some exciting news, including the release of the Firefox 125 web browser and LXQt 2.0 desktop environment. Additionally, we had news about the Volla Tablet that runs Ubuntu Touch and the Firefox Nightly binaries designed for ARM64 Linux systems.
KDE Plasma 6 users receive a new point release packed with many bug fixes. Additionally, VirtualBox’s latest release now supports Linux 6.8 and 6.9 kernels. Clonezilla Live also introduced a new release pathed against the recent XZ backdoor. Take a look at this week’s most essential news and access all the distro and package downloads released over the past week in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for April 21st, 2024.
Hot news of the week
- Mozilla Firefox 125 is now available with the URL paste suggestion feature
- KDE Plasma 6.0.4 is out to improve Plasma Wayland, System Monitor, and more
- Firefox 126 enters beta testing with a revamped dialog for clearing user data
- Calamares 3.3.6 Linux installer improves support for Plymouth splash screens
- VirtualBox 7.0.16 arrives with initial support for Linux 6.8 and 6.9 kernels
- Lubuntu 24.04 LTS to include Snap installation monitor for a smoother experience
- LXQt 2.0 desktop environment officially released fully ported to Qt 6
- Volla Tablet launches on Kickstarter with support for Ubuntu Touch
- Clonezilla Live is now patched against the XZ backdoor, powered by Linux 6.7
- Mozilla seeks feedback for Firefox Nightly ARM64 (AArch64) binaries on Linux
Other GNU/Linux news of interest
- openSUSE Factory enabled bit-by-bit reproducible builds
- Fedora Linux 41 aims for reproducible package builds
- Gentoo Linux becomes a SPI (Software in the Public Interest) associated project
Linux distributions released this week
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- ImageMagick 7.1.1-31 (GCC)
- ImageMagick 7.1.1-31 (Clang)
- Pinta 2.1.2
- DBeaver 24.0.3
- Mozilla Thunderbird 115.10.1
- Calibre 7.9
- GTK 4.14.3
- Docker 26.0.2
- Flatpak 1.14.6
- MPV 0.38.0
- ClamAV 1.3.1
- BIND 9.18.26
- NVIDIA 550.76
- xfsprogs 6.7.0
- Linux kernel 6.8.7
- Linux kernel 6.6.28 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.1.87 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.15.156 LTS
- Tor Browser 13.0.14
- LLVM 18.1.4
- Chromium 124.0.6367.60
- Telegram Desktop 4.16.8
- VirtualBox 7.0.16
- Blender 4.1.1
- Mozilla Firefox 125.0.1
- Calamares 3.3.6
- Usermin 2.010
- Webmin 2.111
- FileZilla 3.67.0
- SQLite 3.45.3
Coming up next week
- Fedora Linux 40
- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- GNOME 46.1
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
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