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The seventy-six installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on March 13th, 2022, 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 was a bit slow in Linux news and releases, but we got a few major ones like the Mozilla Firefox 98 web browser with new optimized download flow, a new VLC Media Player release with a bunch of goodies, as well as the Mess 22 graphics stack for better gaming.
On top of that, Blender 3.1 arrived with lots of performance improvements, Zorin OS and IPFire both received a new kernel for better hardware support, Kali Linux received file system snapshots, KDE fans got a few nice updates to their Plasma desktop and related apps, and Ubuntu users are now patched against “Dirty Pipe” flaw.
You can enjoy this and much more in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for March 13th, 2022, below!
Hot news of the week
- VLC 3.0.17 improves HW decoding for AMD GPUs, adds support for DTS LBR and DAV files
- Firefox 98 is now available for download with a new optimized download flow
- KDE Plasma 5.24.3 LTS improves the Plasma Wayland session for multi-GPU systems
- Canonical patches “Dirty Pipe” vulnerability in Ubuntu 21.10 and 20.04 LTS
- Blender 3.1 arrives with lots of Pperformance improvements and other changes
- Mesa 22.0 grahics stack brings Vulkan 1.3 support and improved support for many games
- Ubuntu-based Zorin OS 16.1 is here with LibreOffice 7.3 and Linux kernel 5.13
- Kali Unkaputtbar brings file system snapshots to Btrfs-based Kali Linux systems
- KDE Frameworks 5.92 improves Dolphin and KRunner, plugs memory Lleaks, and fixes bugs
- GNOME 42 Release Candidate brings back Fingerprint dialog in GNOME Control Center
- IPFire hardened open-source Linux firewall is now powered by Linux kernel 5.15 LTS
Linux distributions released this week
- Linuxfx 11.1.1108 (Win11 theme)
- Linuxfx 11.1.1108 (Win10 theme)
- Obarun 2022.03.12
- Robolinux 12.04 Xfce
- Robolinux 12.04 Cinnamon
- Robolinux 12.04 MATE
- IPFire 2.27 Core 164
- Zorin OS 16.1
- Zorin OS 16.1 Lite
- Zorin OS 16.1 Education
- Zorin OS 16.1 Education Lite
- KDE neon 20220310
- SmartOS 20220310
- ArcoLinuxL 22.03.08
- ArcoLinuxD 22.03.08
- ArcoLinuxS 22.03.08
- Tails 4.28
- SparkyLinux 2022.03 KDE Plasma
- SparkyLinux 2022.03 Xfce
- SparkyLinux 2022.03 LXQt
- SparkyLinux 2022.03 MATE
- SparkyLinux 2022.03 MinimalGUI
- SparkyLinux 2022.03 MinimalCLI
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- Mozilla Firefox 98.0.1
- IBus 1.5.26
- MKVToolnix 66.0.0
- Perl 5.34.1
- SQLite 3.38.1
- Sigil 1.9.2
- VLC 3.0.17.3
- systemd 250.4
- Telegram Desktop 3.6.0
- Ventoy 1.0.71
- Linux kernel 5.16.14
- Linux kernel 5.15.28 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.10.105 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.184 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.19.234 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.14.271 LTS
- Linux kernel 4.9.306 LTS
- WordPress 5.9.2
- OpenZFS 2.1.3
- Docker 20.10.13
- Mesa 22.0.0
- Mozilla Thunderbird 91.7.0
- Snort 3.1.25.0
- Blender 3.1
- DHCP 4.4.3
- SABnzbd 3.5.2
- Tor Browser 11.0.7
- dnf 4.11.0
- Atom 1.60.0
- NetworkManager 1.36.2
Coming up next week
- Linux kernel 5.17
- New GNOME 41 point release
- GNOME 40 end of life
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
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