The 153rd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on September 10th, 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.
Thank you!
Thank you for your continued support by following 9to5Linux on social media, posting comments, liking and sharing the articles, as well as for sending tips and suggestions. I would also like to thank all our current and past donors and sponsors for keeping the website alive.
This week brought us news about new major releases of the Linux Lite and Manjaro distributions, some exciting changes for the upcoming Fedora Asahi KDE Remix distribution for Apple Silicon, the first Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel, as well as more goodies for Linux gamers and for hardware support.
On top of that, fans of the KDE Plasma desktop and KDE apps got a new KDE Frameworks release, and LibreOffice 7.5 users have a new update to install. Below, you can read this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for September 10th, 2023.
Hot news of the week
- fwupd 1.9.5 arrives with support for more devices, optional Passim support
- Linux Lite 6.6 is out with support for 22 new languages and a new AI Helper tool
- DXVK 2.3 improves performance in Tomb Raider Anniversary and fixes many bugs
- Fedora Asahi KDE Spin is switching to the Calamares graphical installer
- Manjaro 23 brings Linux 6.5, KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS, GNOME 44.4, and Xfce 4.18
- Tails 5.17 anonymous Linux OS renames Tails Installer to Tails Cloner
- LibreOffice 7.5.6 office suite is out now with more than 50 bug fixes
- GNOME 45 Release Candidate arrives with last-minute changes
- KDE Frameworks 5.110 adds support for the QOI image format to all KDE apps
- Linus Torvalds announces first Linux kernel 6.6 Release Candidate
Linux distributions released this week
- SysLinuxOS 12.1 GNOME
- SysLinuxOS 12.1 MATE
- Zenwalk GNU/Linux 230909
- Manjaro Linux 23.0.1 Xfce
- Manjaro Linux 23.0.1 KDE Plasma
- Manjaro Linux 23.0.1 GNOME
- Fatdog64 900
- KDE neon 20230907
- Hyperbola GNU/Linux-Libre 0.4.3
- Tails 5.17
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- IceWM 3.4.2
- PPSSPP 1.16
- Mutt 2.2.12
- dxvk-nvapi 0.6.4
- Snapcraft 7.5.3
- systemd 253.10
- Calibre 6.26
- Linux kernel 6.5.2
- Linux kernel 6.4.15
- Linux kernel 6.1.52 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.15.131 LTS
- Mesa 23.1.7
- Chromium 116.0.5845.179
- Docker 24.0.6
- Telegram Desktop 4.9.5
- Cacti 1.2.25
- Samba 4.19.0
- fwupd 1.9.5
Coming up next week
- …hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
Last updated 3 weeks ago
