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The forty-four installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 1st, 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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It’s August already, and this means that we’re getting new releases of Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux. But, until then, this past week brought us new releases of the PulseAudio sound server, KDE Plasma 5.22 desktop environment, as well as the Arch Linux and 4MLinux distributions.
On top of that, I published another awesome monthly roundup of Xfce app updates, and, if you have the time, you can test drive the upcoming releases of MX Linux 21 and Linux Lite 5.6 distributions. You can enjoy these and much more in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for August 1st, 2021, below!
Hot news of the week
- DXVK 1.9.1 improves support for Far Cry 5, GTA IV, Risen 3, Roblox, and other games
- KDE Plasma 5.22.4 brings more Plasma Wayland and System Monitor improvements
- PulseAudio 15.0 arrives with support for LDAC and AptX codecs, improved hardware support
- Linux Lite 5.6 is out for public testing based on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
- MX Linux 21 enters public beta testing based on Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye” and Xfce 4.16
- 4MLinux 37.0 arrives with Linux kernel 5.10 LTS and support for new apps
- First Arch Linux ISO powered by Linux kernel 5.13 is now available for download
- Xfce’s Apps Update roundup for July 2021 brings new releases of Catfish, Mousepad, and more
Linux distributions released this week
- Arch Linux 2021.08.01
- 4MLinux 37.0
- 4MLinux 37.0 Core
- 4MServer 37.0
- Freespire 7.7
- Absolute Linux 20210730
- siduction 21.2.0 KDE Plasma
- siduction 21.2.0 Xfce
- siduction 21.2.0 Cinnamon
- siduction 21.2.0 LXQt
- siduction 21.2.0 LXDE
- KDE neon 20210729
- Artix Linux 20210726 OpenRC
- Artix Linux 20210726 Runit
- Grml 2021.07
- Obarun 2021.07.26
Linux apps, drivers, desktops and kernels released this week
- GNU C Library 2.34
- DBeaver 21.1.4
- GNU Diffutils 3.8
- Ventoy 1.0.48
- Nuvola Player 4.23.0
- MKVToolnix 60.0.0
- Linux kernel 5.13.7
- Linux kernel 5.10.55 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.137 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.19.200 LTS
- Snapcraft 5.0.1
- XOrg Server 1.20.13
- Calibre 5.24
- Telegram Desktop 2.9.0
- PHP 8.0.9
- Rust 1.54.0
- Mesa 21.1.6
- VirtualBox 6.1.26
- NetworkManager 1.32.6
- MAME 0.234
- GCC 11.2
- Linux kernel 4.14.241 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.9.277 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.4.277 LTS
- PulseAudio 15.0
- e2fsprogs 1.46.3
- IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2
- CMake 3.21.1
- OpenLDAP 2.5.6
- Atom 1.58.0
- Audacity 3.0.3
- VueScan 9.7.60
- GNU Automake 1.16.4
- DXVK 1.9.1
- Postfix 3.6.2
Coming up next week
- Hopefully many exciting Linux news and releases!
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