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The 159th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on October 22nd, 2023, 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, catch up with everything GNU/Linux/Open Source here.
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This week has been really slow on news and releases. However, we got some important software updates for VirtualBox, which now supports the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel, Geany IDE with a major release in two years, and qBittorrent with a major update in a year.
On top of that, KDE fans got a new KDE Frameworks release with some small fixes and music producers have an improved Ardour release to try on their computers. Below, you can read this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for October 22nd, 2023.
Hot news of the week
- VirtualBox 7.0.12 adds initial support for Linux 6.6 and openSUSE 15.5 kernels
- KDE Frameworks 5.111 is out and KDE Plasma 6 now has a release schedule
- Geany 2.0 open-source IDE released with UI improvements, initial Meson support
- Ardour 8.1 open-source DAW improves Launchpad Pro support, fixes bugs
- Raspberry Pi Imager gets new tabbed OS customization UI, Raspberry Pi 5 support
- qBittorrent 4.6 arrives with initial I2P support, torrent tags editing, and more
Linux distributions released this week
- openmamba GNU/Linux 20231021
- Bluestar Linux 6.5.7
- SparkyLinux 2023.10 GameOver
- SparkyLinux 2023.10 Multimedia
- SparkyLinux 2023.10 Rescue
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- qBittorrent 4.6.0
- DBeaver 23.2.3
- ImageMagick 7.1.1-21 (GCC)
- ImageMagick 7.1.1-21 (Clang)
- PeaZip 9.5.0 (GTK)
- PeaZip 9.5.0 (Qt)
- Telegram Desktop 4.10.4
- btrfs-progs 6.5.3
- Lutris 0.5.14
- Calibre 6.29.0
- Linux kernel 6.5.8
- Linux kernel 6.1.59 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.15.136 LTS
- Raspberry Pi Imager 1.8.1
- Geany 2.0
- nftables 1.0.9
- PipeWire 0.3.83
- Blender 3.6.5
- Apache 2.4.58
- Mozilla Thunderbird 115.3.3
- Chromium 118.0.5993.88
- Node.js 21.0.0
- DNF 4.18.0
- VirtualBox 7.0.12
- LLVM 17.0.3
- QEMU 8.1.2
- Snort 3.1.72.0
- snapd 2.61
- Samba 4.19.2
Coming up next week
- Firefox 119
- GNOME 45.1
- Fedora Linux 39
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
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