9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 10th, 2021

The fifteenth installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here, for the week ending on January 10th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things that have happened in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s Weekly Roundup, you can check it out here.

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It’s been a great first week of 2021 with lots of awesome news and releases. We have the release of Linux Mint 20.1, KDE’s first Apps update in 2021, a new Slackware-based Puppy Linux release, KDE Plasma 5.20’s latest update, new Linux kernel security patches for Ubuntu, new KDE Frameworks release, and much more.

Hot news of the week

• Puppy Linux 7.0 Slacko arrived with UEFI Boot Support and latest Slackware updates
• Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 4 alpha 2 brought the Xfce 4.16 desktop and latest Debian 11 updates
• KDE Plasma 5.20.5 update launched as the last in the series
• Tux Paint 0.9.25 added export of animated GIFs and other improvements
• Canonical released new Ubuntu Linux kernel security updates to fix 14 vulnerabilities
• Linux Mint 20.1 “Ulyssa” finally arrived with new features and improvements
• KDE Applications 20.12.1 introduced the NeoChat app and better integration of remote files
• Nvidia 460.32.03 display driver added support for RTX A6000 GPUs and many Vulkan improvements
• 9to5Linux’s First look at the brand new Kickoff applications menu in KDE Plasma 5.21
• KDE Frameworks 5.78 arrived with support for the AV1 image format to all KDE apps and other 200 changes
• Linux Mint project opened the upgrade path from Linux Mint 20 to Linux Mint 20.1

Linux distributions released this week

• Live Raizo 12.21.01.04
• Snal Linux 1.2
• KDE neon 20210106
• Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon
• Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon (EDGE)
• Linux Mint 20.1 MATE
• Linux Mint 20.1 Xfce
• Puppy Linux 7.0 “Slacko64”
• Puppy Linux 7.0 “Slacko32”
• Manjaro Linux 20.2.1 Xfce
• Manjaro Linux 20.2.1 KDE Plasma
• Manjaro Linux 20.2.1 GNOME
• ExTiX 21.1

Linux apps, drivers, desktops and kernels released this week

• Lzip 1.22
• Feh 3.6.2
• KeePass 2.47
• Duplicity 0.8.18
• Linux kernel 5.10.6
• Linux kernel 5.4.88 LTS
• Linux kernel 4.19.166 LTS
• Linux kernel 4.14.214 LTS
• Linux kernel 4.9.250 LTS
• Linux kernel 4.4.250 LTS
• GNU Wget 1.21.1
• GTK 4.0.1
• Doxygen 1.9.1
• PeaZip 7.7.0
• Calibre 5.9
• LVM2 2.03.11
• youtube-dl 2021.01.08
• PHP 8.0.1
• PHP 7.4.14
• PHP 7.3.26
• GNU Tar 1.33
• Chromium 87.0.4280.141
• Ventoy 1.0.32
• OpenZFS 2.0.1
• Mozilla Firefox 84.0.2
• Webmin 1.970
• FileZilla 3.52.0.1
• Opera 73.0.3856.329
• Lutris 0.5.8.2
• Dovecot 2.3.13
• MKVToolnix 52.0.0
• ppp 2.4.9
• LyX 2.3.6.1

Coming up next week

• New GNOME 3.36 point release
• New GNOME 3.38 point release
• GNOME 40 alpha release
• … and hopefully many other exciting news!

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