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The forty-first installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 11th, 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 week has been great on distro releases, we got the final release of Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” and Solus 4.3, as well as a new release of the educational oriented Escuelas Linux. In addition, we got a new release of the Nextcloud Hub, KDE Plasma 5.22 desktop, KDE Frameworks software suite, and Tor Browser.
You can enjoy these and much more in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for July 11th, 2021, below!
Hot news of the week
- Educational distro Escuelas Linux 7.0 arrives with new apps, based on Bodhi Linux 6.0
- Nextcloud Hub 22 launches with approval workflows, integrated PDF signing, and more
- KDE Plasma 5.22.3 improves support for Flatpak apps, Plasma Wayland, and more
- Tor Browser 10.5 adds Wayland support, further improves the UX for censored users
- Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” is officially out with Cinnamon 5.0 and Xfce 4.16 desktops
- Ubuntu Touch OTA-18 is coming July 14th with performance improvements, various changes
- KDE Frameworks 5.84 arrives with expandable tooltips, performance improvements
- Solus 4.3 launches with Linux kernel 5.13, KDE Plasma 5.22, and GNOME 40.2
- Linus Torvalds announces first Linux 5.14 kernel Release Candidate
Linux distributions released this week
- Solus 4.3 Budgie
- Solus 4.3 KDE Plasma
- Solus 4.3 GNOME
- Solus 4.3 MATE
- Bluestar Linux 5.12.15
- ExTiX 21.7
- Robolinux 12.07 Xfce
- Robolinux 12.07 Cinnamon
- Robolinux 12.07 MATE
- T2 SDE 21.7
- Endess OS 3.9.5
- Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon
- Linux Mint 20.2 Xfce
- Linux Mint 20.2 MATE
- KDE neon 20210708
- Berry Linux 1.35
- Proxmox 7.0 Virtual Environment
- VzLinux 8.4
Linux apps, drivers, desktops and kernels released this week
- Linux kernel 5.12.16
- Linux kernel 5.10.49 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.131 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.19.197 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.14.239 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.9.275 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.4.275 LTS
- digiKam 7.3.0
- MKVToolnix 59.0.0
- Less 590
- VueScan 9.7.59
- FileZilla 3.55.0
- AMDVLK 2021.Q3.1 (DEB)
- AMDVLK 2021.Q3.1 (RPM)
- LLVM 12.0.1
- Calibre 5.23
- Xorg Server 1.20.12
- XnConvert 1.92
- IceWM 2.6.0
- systemd 249
- snapd 2.51.2
- Opera 77.0.4054.203
- Linux kernel 5.13.1
- Linux kernel 5.12.15
- Linux kernel 5.10.48 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.130 LTS
- Ruby 3.0.2
- Tor Browser 10.5
- MariaDB 10.6.3
- Juju 2.9.7
- Cacti 1.2.18
- DBeaver 21.1.2
Coming up next week
- Mozilla Firefox 90
- Tails 4.20
- Ubuntu Touch OTA-18
- … and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
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