The 192nd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on June 16th, 2024, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, catch up with everything GNU/Linux/Open Source here.
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This week we got a new Firefox release with some small changes, a new openSUSE Leap release with updated components, a new Proton release with support for more Windows games, a new IPFire release with experimental support for the Btrfs file system, and a new postmarketOS release with support for more devices.
On top of that, AlmaLinuxOS got Raspberry Pi 5 support, Firefox 128 entered public beta testing, Ubuntu’s App Center received support for installing externally downloaded DEB packages, and the Cinnamon 6.2 desktop is coming soon to a distro near you. Below you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for June 16th, 2024.
Hot news of the week
- Mozilla Firefox 127 is now available for download with various improvements
- TUXEDO Computers are working on an ARM Linux laptop running KDE Plasma
- AlmaLinux OS now officially supports the Raspberry Pi 5 computer
- openSUSE Leap 15.6 is out based on SUSE Enterprise Linux 15 Service Pack 6 (SP6)
- Firefox 128 enters beta testing with a revamped dialog for clearing user data
- Proton 9.0-2 brings support for Alpha League, Helldivers 2, and other games
- KDE Gear 24.05.1 improves Elisa, Spectacle, KCalc, and other KDE apps
- IPFire Linux firewall gets experimental Btrfs support, Intel RFDS mitigations
- Ubuntu’s App Center now finally supports installation of local DEB packages
- postmarketOS 24.06 Linux mobile OS brings KDE Plasma 6, GNOME Mobile 46
- Cinnamon 6.2 desktop environment released ahead of Linux Mint 22
Linux distributions released this week
- IPFire 2.29 Core Update 186
- KDE neon 20240613
- Fatdog64 902
- AUSTRUMI 4.9.5
- Endless OS 6.0.1
- openSUSE Leap 15.6 KDE Plasma
- openSUSE Leap 15.6 GNOME
- openSUSE Leap 15.6 Xfce
- Daphile 24.06
- SparkyLinux 7.4 LXQt
- SparkyLinux 7.4.1 Xfce
- SparkyLinux 7.4.1 MATE
- SparkyLinux 7.4 KDE Plasma
- SparkyLinux 7.4 MinimalGUI
- SparkyLinux 7.4 MinimalCLI
- Manjaro Linux 24.0.2 Xfce
- Manjaro Linux 24.0.2 GNOME
- Linuxfx 11.4.7 KDE Plasma
- Manjaro Linux 24.0.2 KDE Plasma
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- Linux kernel 6.9.5
- Linux kernel 6.6.34 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.1.94 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.15.161 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.10.219 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.278 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.19.316 LTS
- Cinnamon 6.2.0
- IceWM 3.6.0
- Scribus 1.6.2
- Sigil 2.2.0
- man-pages 6.9
- Telegram Desktop 5.1.7
- Chromium 126.0.6478.61
- Rust 1.79.0
- Proton 9.0-2
- Apache Eclipse IDE 2024-06
- Tor Browser 13.0.16
- Ruby 3.3.3
- systemd 256
- CUPS 2.4.9
- ALSA 1.2.12
- QEMU 9.0.1
- Mozilla Firefox 127.0
- Perl 5.40.0
Coming up next week
- KDE Plasma 6.1
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
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