The 183rd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on April 14th, 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 some cool news starting with the refined APT interface for the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian 13 releases, the merge of explicit sync into Xwayland and KDE Plasma’s KWin window and composite manager, and a new version of the GParted Live utility all patched against the latest XZ backdoor.
Canonical announced the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS beta for public testing and a new Ubuntu Pro subscription for IoT devices, EndeavourOS devs need a maintainer (or more) for their ARM branch, OpenSSL 3.3 brings more security features, and TUXEDO Computers announced a new all-AMD Linux gaming laptop.
On top of that, Arch Linux’s installer got a new major release, KDE’s Gear and Frameworks apps suite have new updates, and Ardour 8.5 improves Linux support. 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 April 14th, 2024.
Hot news of the week
- EndeavourOS devs say “Goodbye” to their ARM branch, maintainers needed
- Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Devices subscription for IoT deployments
- GParted Live is now patched against the XZ backdoor, powered by Linux kernel 6.7
- OpenSSL 3.3 arrives with support for QLog for tracing QUIC connections
- Explicit GPU synchronization for Xwayland is now finally merged into XOrg Server
- KDE Gear 24.02.2 brings bugfixes for Spectacle, Okular, Gwenview, and other KDE apps
- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Beta is now available for download with GNOME 46, Linux kernel 6.8
- TUXEDO Sirius 16 Gen2 all-AMD Linux gaming laptop gets faster Ryzen 7 CPU
- Ardour 8.5 open-source DAW improves Linux and AAF import support
- KDE Frameworks 6.1 is here ahead of the KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment
- Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian Trixie are getting a refined APT command-line interface
- Arch Linux installer archinstall 2.8 increases ESP size to 1 GB, fixes more bugs
Linux distributions released this week
- KDE neon 20240411
- Archman Linux 20240411 Xfce
- PCLinuxOS 2024.04 KDE Plasma
- PCLinuxOS 2024.04 Xfce
- PCLinuxOS 2024.04 MATE
- OviOS Linux 5.0
- GParted Live 1.6.0-3
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- archinstall 2.8.0
- PipeWire 1.0.5
- OpenTTD 14.0
- Linux kernel 6.8.6
- Linux kernel 6.6.27 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.1.86 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.15.155 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.10.215 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.274 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.19.312 LTS
- lighttpd 1.4.76
- XOrg Server 21.1.13
- Snort 3.1.84.0
- CMake 3.29.2
- Docker 26.0.1
- Lutris 0.5.17
- Chromium 123.0.6312.122
- Mesa 24.0.5
- Tor 0.4.8.11
- PHP 8.3.6
- WordPress 6.5.2
- GStreamer 1.24.2
- Rust 1.77.2
- Python 3.12.3
- Telegram Desktop 4.16.6
- OpenSSL 3.3.0
- Xwayland 23.2.6
- snapd 2.62
- ImageMagick 7.1.1-30 (GCC)
- ImageMagick 7.1.1-30 (Clang)
Coming up next week
- KDE Plasma 6.0.4
- Mozilla Firefox 125
- GNOME 46.1
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
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