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The sixteenth installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here, for the week ending on January 17th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s Weekly Roundup, you can check it out here.
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This week has been quite interesting despite the fact that no major releases were planned. We saw the launch of a new PinePhone Linux phone edition, the release of the Flatpak 1.10 and Wine 6.0 software, and much more.
Website changes
I wanted to talk to you about the RSS feeds available on 9to5Linux. A few of you out there complained that the RSS feed (I use ATOM) is broken, but if you use the right client it isn’t. I don’t know why, but certain RSS clients sometime show new entries after a few hours, but other times they display them immediately.
If you follow my work via RSS, I highly recommend using Feedly as it shows new articles immediately after they’re published. These days Feedly is also the number one RSS client recommended by numerous websites who offer “the best RSS clients” lists. You can find both the native RSS and Feedly links in the “Follow Us” section.
Hot news of the week
- Tails anonymous Linux OS revealed they plans for 2021 wanting to migrate to Wayland
- The latest NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities were patched in all supported Ubuntu releases
- Raspberry Pi OS has been updated with support for Epson printers and latest software
- openSUSE Tumbleweed now offers support for Raspberry Pi 400 and Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module
- KeePassXC 2.6.3 password manager arrived with support for Argon2id KDF and XMLv2 key files
- GNOME 3.36.9 point release arrived with minor bug fixes
- Flatpak 1.10 Linux app sandboxing was released with many new features and improvements
- Wine 6.0 is finally here with Vulkan backend for WineD3D and numerous new features
- Alpine Linux 3.13 major series arrived with official cloud images, Linux kernel 5.10 LTS, and PHP 8.0
- Collabora announced that their Panfrost driver now supports desktop OpenGL 3.1 on Mali GPUs
- Valve’s Proton 5.13-5 improves support for Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout 76, and other games
- Another Linux kernel vulnerability was patched in all supported Ubuntu releases
- Xfce 4.16 desktop environments landed in openSUSE Tumbleweed
- KaOS Linux kicks off 2021 with a new ISO release powered by Linux kernel 5.10 LTS
- The Document Foundation readies LibreOffice 7.1 Release Candidate for public testing
- PinePhone Mobian Community Edition Linux phone is now available for pre-order
Linux distributions released this week
- GeeXboX 20210117
- Zeroshell 3.9.5
- ArcoLinux 21.03.1
- ArcoLinuxD 21.03.1
- KaOS Linux 2021.01
- KDE neon 20210114
- Bluestar Linux 5.10.6
- Raspberry Pi OS 2021-01-11
Linux apps, drivers, desktops and kernels released this week
- Linux-libre Firmware 1.4
- Inkscape 1.0.2
- Linux kernel 5.10.8
- Linux kernel 5.4.90 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.19.168 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.14.216 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.9.252 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.4.252 LTS
- MySQL 8.0.23
- DBeaver 7.3.3
- Postfix 3.5.9
- youtube-dl 2021.01.16
- iptables 1.8.7
- Snapcraft 4.5
- Opera 73.0.3856.344
- GNU nano 5.5
- GStreamer 1.18.3
- Tor Browser 10.0.8
- Mesa 20.3.3
- Atom 1.54.0
- Cinnamon 4.8.6
- PulseAudio 14.1
- CMake 3.19.3
Coming up next week
- New GNOME 3.38 point release
- GNOME 40 alpha release
- KDE Plasma 5.21 beta release
- … and hopefully many other exciting news!
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