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The sixty installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on November 21st, 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 a slow on Linux news, but exciting because we got a new Ubuntu Touch release on our Linux smartphones, a new Steam Client release with some goodies for Linux gamers (like me), and a new major Mesa graphics stack release that also brings good vibes for Linux gaming.
On top of that, I take a look at Collabora’s contributions to the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel and give you a heads up on the end of life on Linux kernel 5.14. You can enjoy these and much more in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for November 21st, 2021, below!
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Hot news of the week
- Rocky Linux 8.5 is out as a CentOS alternative with Secure Boot support
- Cinnamon 5.2 desktop environment arrives with new features and many improvements
- Mesa 21.3 graphics stack is here with Zink, RADV, and Panfrost improvements
- Collabora brings flicker-free multi GPU boot and Rockchip H.264 decoder to Linux 5.15
- Ubuntu Touch OTA-20 is rolling out now to all supported Linux phones
- Steam Client now supports VA-API hardware encoding and CEG DRM games on Linux
- Linux kernel 5.14 reached end of life, users urged to upgrade to Linux 5.15 LTS
- Pinta 1.7.1 open-source drawing and image editing app arrives with more improvements
Linux distributions released this week
- Q4OS 4.7 KDE Plasma
- Q4OS 4.7 Trinity
- SystemRescue 8.06
- Oracle Linux 8.5
- Proxmox 7.1 Virtual Environment
- CentOS Linux 8.5
- Rocky Linux 8.5
Linux apps, drivers, desktops and kernels released this week
- Linux kernel 5.15.4
- Linux kernel 5.14.21
- Linux kernel 5.10.81 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.161 LTS
- Pinta 1.7.1
- ImageMagick 7.1.0-15 (GCC)
- Calamares 3.2.47
- systemd 249.7
- xfsprogs 5.14.0
- Mozilla Thunderbird 91.3.2
- fwupd 1.7.2
- CMake 3.22.0
- Mozilla Firefox 94.0.2
- Latte Dock 0.10.4
- Docker 20.10.11
- Mesa 21.3.0
- Wireshark 3.4.10
- Snort 3.1.17.0
- Firebird 3.0.8
- BIND 9.16.23
- Opera 81.0.4196.54
- Blender 2.93.6
- Cinnamon 5.2.0
- exfatprogs 1.1.3
- PHP 8.0.13
- nginx 1.20.2
- Tor Browser 11.0.1
- Audacity 3.1.2
- Telegram Desktop 3.2.5
- SeaMonkey 2.53.10
- snapd 2.53.2
- Git 2.34
Coming up next week
- Thanksgiving
- …and hopefully many exciting Linux news and releases!
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