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The twenty-ninth installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on April 18th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, you can check it out here.
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This has been a very interesting week as we saw new releases of the LXQt desktop environment, Nuvola Player web-based music player for popular music streaming services, as well as the Escuelas Linux and EndeavourOS Linux distributions. In addition, the OpenMandriva team teased us with their upcoming OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 release and openSUSE Tumbleweed devs added the latest GNOME 40 desktop environment in their repos.
Linux hardware vendors System76 and Star Labs also teased us with their upcoming COSMIC desktop environment for Pop!_OS Linux and the Coreboot Configurator tool, and the Metro Exodus FPS game arrived on Steam for Linux. Security-wise, there were new Linux kernel updates for all supported Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 releases, as well as for CentOS Linux 7.
You can enjoy these and much more in the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for April 18th, 2021, below!
Hot news of the week
- Nuvola Player 4.21 arrived with official support for Linux Mint and Anghami support
- RHEL 7 and CentOS Linux 7 systems received an important kernel update
- OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 distro promises Linux kernel 5.11 and the official AMD Vulkan driver
- System76 unveiled COSMIC as their GNOME-based desktop environment for Pop!_OS Linux
- Canonical published new Ubuntu Linux kernel updates to fix 20 vulnerabilities
- Metro Exodus first-person shooter finally arrived on Steam for Linux
- LXQt 0.17.0 desktop environment arrived with many improvements
- Star Labs launched a Coreboot Configurator tool for its Linux laptops
- Zorin OS 16 entered public beta testing with a stunning new look and faster performance
- GNOME 40 desktop laded in openSUSE Tumbleweed’s repositories
- Escuelas Linux 6.13 educational distro introduced the OBS Studio and Kolibri apps
- EndeavourOS Linux’s ISO release for April 2021 added the BSPWM and Sway tilling WMs
Linux distributions released this week
- Manjaro Linux 21.0.2 Xfce
- Manjaro Linux 21.0.2 KDE Plasma
- Manjaro Linux 21.0.2 GNOME
- EndeavourOS 2021.04.17
- Ultimate Edition 6.7.1 Developer
- Amarok Linux 3.1
- Escuelas Linux 6.13
- SystemRescue 8.0.2
- KDE neon 20210415
- Pisi Linux 2.2
- Proxmox Backup Server 1.1
- AcademiX 2.6
- Regata OS 20.1.12
- Alpine Linux 3.13.5
Linux apps, drivers, desktops and kernels released this week
- DBeaver 21.0.3
- Calibre 5.16
- youtube-dl 2021.04.17
- Linux kernel 5.11.15
- Linux kernel 5.10.31 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.113 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.19.188 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.14.231 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.9.267 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.4.267 LTS
- LLVM 12.0.0
- Joomla! 3.9.26
- Seamonkey 2.53.7.1
- QCAD 3.26.2
- WordPress 5.7.1
- IceWM 2.3.2
- XWayland 21.1.1
- Chromium 90.0.4430.72
- NVIDIA 460.73.01
- Calamares 3.2.39.3
- cURL 7.76.1
- Atom 1.56.0
- Opera 75.0.3969.171
- X.Org Server 1.20.11
- fwupd 1.5.9
- tmux 3.2
- Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.6
- Nuvola Player 4.21.0
- Postfix 3.5.10
Coming up next week
- Mozilla Firefox 88
- Tails 4.18
- KDE Gear 21.04
- Ubuntu 21.04
- Linux kernel 5.12
- … and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
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