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The fifty installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on September 12th, 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 has been a great week, starting with the release of the Firefox 92 web browser and continuing with the latest HPLIP printer and scanner drivers with support for Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 operating systems, as well as a major Steam Client update for Linux gamers.
The KDE Project released a new maintenance update to their KDE Frameworks software suite for KDE Plasma users, and sysadmins now have a new version of the Finnix live system to play with, based on Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye.”
For those more adventurous, this week saw the release of Firefox 93 beta, as well as Release Candidates for the upcoming GNOME 41 desktop environment and Linux 5.15 kernel. You can enjoy these and much more in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for September 12th, 2021, below!
Hot news of the week
- Mozilla Firefox 92 is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes
- HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) drivers now support Linux Mint 20.2 and RHEL 8.4
- Finnix 123 Linux distro for system administrators is out based on Debian Bullseye
- Firefox 93 enters public beta testing with AVIF support enabled by default
- Tails 4.22 is out to improve the new Tor Connection assistant and update AMD GPU drivers
- GNOME 41 Release Candidate is out with last minute bug fixes and improvements
- Ubuntu users get another batch of important Linux kernel security updates
- LibreOffice 7.1.6 Community office suite arrives with 44 bug fixes
- Valve releases major Steam Client update with new Downloads page and Linux improvements
- KDE Frameworks 5.86 improves Plasma Wayland for NVIDIA GPUs, adds over 200 changes
- Linus Torvalds announces the first Linux 5.15 kernel Release Candidate for public testing
Linux distributions released this week
- ArcoLinuxD 21.09.11
- ArcoLinuxL 21.09.11
- ArcoLinuxS 21.09.11
- KDE neon 20210909
- Manjaro Linux 21.1.2 Cinnamon
- Kodachi Linux 8.11
- Mabox Linux 21.09
- Tails 4.22
- Finnix 123
- Live Raizo 12.21.09.05
- BunsenLabs Lithium 3
Linux apps, drivers, desktops and kernels released this week
- ImageMagick 7.1.0-7 GCC
- ImageMagick 7.1.0-7 Clang
- Linux kernel 5.14.3
- Linux kernel 5.13.16
- Linux kernel 5.10.64 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.145 LTS
- PeaZip 8.2.0
- GNU Wget 2.0.0
- GNU Bison 3.8.1
- Calibre 5.27
- Rust 1.55.0
- AMDVLK 2021.Q3.6 (RPM)
- AMDVLK 2021.Q3.6 (DEB)
- WordPress 5.8.1
- Mesa 21.1.8
- GStreamer 1.18.5
- Snort 3.1.12.0
- Tor Browser 10.5.6
- Mozilla Thunderbird 91.1.0
- GNU Wget 1.21.2
- OpenSSL 3.0
- Openshot 2.6.1
- Calamares 3.2.42
- Mozilla Firefox 92.0
- GIMP 2.10.26
Coming up next week
- GNOME 41
- New GNOME 40 point release
- …and hopefully many exciting Linux news and releases!
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