Linux hardware vendor System76 announced today a refreshed version of its Serval WS laptop featuring important upgrades for engineering and gaming.

Powered by the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU featuring 24 cores and threads, the new Serval WS laptop features a brand-new 16-inch display with 2560x1600 (2K) resolution, 240Hz refresh rate, and 16:10 aspect ratio, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics, up to 96GB of DDR5 5600 MHz RAM, and up to 12TB PCIe 5.0 and 4.0 storage.

The new Serval WS laptop also features 2.5 GbE Ethernet, WiFi 7, and Bluetooth 5.4 connectivity, a multitouch touchpad, a multi-color backlit chiclet US QWERTY keyboard, Thunderbolt 4 and HDMI (with HDCP) video ports, a 5.0MP HD camera, a 2-in-1 audio Jack for headphone and microphone, and a microSD card reader.

As with all of System76's laptops, the new Serval WS comes pre-installed with the company's in-house Pop!_OS Linux 22.04 LTS distribution based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, or with the newer Ubuntu 24.04 LTS operating system. System76 is still working on the upcoming COSMIC desktop environment written in Rust and Pop!_OS Linux 24.04 LTS.

[su_quote]"System76 is working on COSMIC, their new open source desktop environment created for Pop!_OS. COSMIC is soon entering the beta phase. Once cleared for release, users can look forward to more battery life, cooler temperatures, more features, and an overall intuitive software experience," said System76.[/su_quote]

You can configure and buy the new Serval WS Linux laptop right now from System76's online store. The price starts from $2,999 USD for the basic configuration with 32 GB DDR5 5600 MHz RAM and 1 TB PCIe4 SSD storage. Shipping will begin in late May 2025.

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Linux Mint leader Clement Lefebvre revealed today the codename of the next release of the popular, Ubuntu-based Linux Mint distribution, Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara”, along with the codename for LMDE 7.

Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” will be based on Canonical’s long-term supported Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series, just like the Linux Mint 22 series. The Linux Mint project leader also unveiled the codename of the upcoming LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 distribution as "Gigi".

While Linux Mint 22.2 will pretty much look and feel exactly like Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia", the team plans to improve the default Mint-Y theme by adding a little bit of blue to "make grey slightly more metallic looking and appear more modern", according to Clement Lefebvre.

[su_quote]"Pure grey is neutral, it can be perceived as cold or warm based on its surroundings. By bumping the blue we force it to look cold," said Clement Lefebvre. "Another reason this makes the UI look more modern is because this is done a lot nowadays, but it wasn’t done so much 10 years ago. Like with all new trends, sticking to past standards can make things feel outdated."[/su_quote]

Also for Linux Mint 22.2, the devs plan to add support for accent colors to the XDG Desktop Portal XApp to change the accent color in Flatpak libAdwaita applications based on your current GTK theme. This is supposed to work not only in the flagship Cinnamon edition, but also on the MATE and Xfce editions. In addition, they added support for libAdwaita stylesheets in the Mint-X and Mint-Y themes.

Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" will probably be released in June or July 2025. It will probably still be powered by Linux kernel 6.8, just like its predecessors, Linux Mint 22.1 and Linux Mint 22. However, since Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS comes with Linux kernel 6.11 from Ubuntu 24.10, users will be able to install the newer kernel if they want to.

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The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 25.04.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 25.04 open-source software suite series to address various issues in your favorite KDE apps.

KDE Gear 25.04.1 is here to fix the session restore functionality and the background of the new status bar when using non-Breeze styles in the Dolphin file manager, fix a crash in the KOrganizer calendar and scheduling application, and fix a crash during logout in the NeoChat Matrix client.

The AudioTube YouTube client received support for finding audio tracks with an unknown codec, Cantor front-end to powerful mathematics and statistics packages received improved LaTeX typesetting support, and the Falkon web browser received a fix for a crash that occurred when creating the bookmarks toolbar.

Furthermore, KDE Gear 25.04.1 adds support for Qt 6.10 to the Gwenview image viewer for system integrators who want to build it from sources, prevents searching for rental vehicle journeys and improves geocoding in the Itinerary travel assistant app, and improves copy to X11 selection in the Konsole terminal emulator.

The KItinerary library, which is used by the Itinierary travel assistant app, received support for extracting a&o hostels pkpass files, support for extracting prices for generic UIC 918.3 tickets, support for finding more seat/berth information in ÖBB NightJet tickets, and an Gastronovi extractor.

As usual, the Kdenlive video editor received numerous changes to improve existing functionality, such as audio thumbnail generation, deleting multiple bin clips, pasting text with multiple lines in the notes widget, moving a single clip from a group as a standalone clip, background removal, and extracting the last clips in the timeline.

Apps like Elisa, Calligra, Angelfish, K3b, Kasts, Kate, KDevelop, Kleopatra, Koko, Kompare, Konqueror, KWalletManager, Marble, Merkuro, Okular, Skanpage, Tokodon, and Umbrello, as well as related libraries or other components, have also been updated in this release, so check out the full changelog for more details.

Meanwhile, keep an eye on the stable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distribution for the KDE Gear 25.04.1 packages and update your installations as soon as possible for the best KDE apps experience, especially if you’re using the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

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The Mesa 25.1 open-source graphics stack has been released today as a major update with new features, improvements for the built-in open-source graphics drivers, and better support for many video games.

Highlights of Mesa 25.1 include a fully mainlined Asahi driver as its UAPI was merged into the kernel, support for Mali G720/G925 GPUs in the Panfrost driver, YCbCr, dualSrcBlend, and Vulkan 1.2 support in the PanVK driver for Mali v10+ GPUs (Gxxx), and Zink/NVK as the default driver for NVIDIA GPUs, finally replacing the old nouveau driver.

Mesa 25.1 also improves the V3D graphics driver used for Raspberry Pi devices with support for the EXT_shader_framebuffer_image_fetch, EXT_shader_framebuffer_image_fetch_coherent, KHR_blend_equation_advanced, and KHR_blend_equation_advanced_coherent extensions.

On top of that, the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver received support for the VK_EXT_device_memory_report and VK_EXT_sample_locations Vulkan extensions, the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs received support for the VK_MESA_image_alignment_control Vulkan extension, and the Etnaviv driver for the Vivante GCxxx series of embedded GPUs received support for the KHR_partial_update extension.

PanVK, Collabora's open-source Vulkan driver for ARM Mali GPUs, received support for numerous new Vulkan extensions, including VK_KHR_depth_stencil_resolve, VK_KHR_separate_depth_stencil_layouts, VK_EXT_separate_stencil_usage, VK_KHR_imageless_framebuffer, VK_KHR_uniform_buffer_standard_layout, VK_EXT_border_color_swizzle, VK_KHR_display, VK_EXT_display_control, VK_KHR_line_rasterization, VK_EXT_line_rasterization, VK_KHR_shader_float_controls, VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read, VK_KHR_format_feature_flags2, and VK_EXT_direct_mode_display.

Only for Mali v10+ GPUs, the PanVK driver also received support for the VK_KHR_sampler_ycbcr_conversion, VK_EXT_ycbcr_2plane_444_formats, VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_uniform_control_flow, VK_KHR_shader_maximal_reconvergence, VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_extended_types, VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2, VK_KHR_spirv_1_4, VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control, and VK_EXT_ycbcr_image_arrays Vulkan extensions.

On top of that, PanVK also received support for storagePushConstant16, storageInputOutput16, shaderFloat16, shaderStorageImageExtendedFormats, shaderImageGatherExtended, textureCompressionBC, storageBuffer8BitAccess, storagePushConstant8, uniformAndStorageBuffer8BitAccess, shaderStorageImageReadWithoutFormat, shaderStorageImageWriteWithoutFormat, GL_ARB_shader_clock, and MSAA with 8 and 16 sample counts.

Numerous games received improvements in Mesa 25.1, including Avowed, Black Myth: Wukong, The Last of Us Part I and II, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Hunt: Showdown 1896, Tomb Raider IV - VI Remastered, Dota 2, WWE 2K23, Cyberpunk 2077, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, Sniper Elite: Resistance, Ghost of Tsushima, Final Fantasy XIV, Marvel Rivals, Elden Ring, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, and Fort Solis.

The list of video games that received improvements in the Mesa 25.1 release continues with Ninja Gaiden II, The Headliners, Satisfactory, OCTOPATH TRAVELER II, Tales of Arise, The Last of Us, Eve Online, Pacific Drive, Star Citizen, Assassin's Creed Origins, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Immortals Fenyx Rising, A Game About Digging A Hole, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Hogwarts Legacy, and Company of Heroes 3.

Last but not least, Mesa 25.1 also improves support for the Resident Evil 2 Remake, DOOM 2016, Total War: Warhammer III, Grand Theft Auto V, Steel Rats, and Dynasty Warriors: Origins video games, as well as for apps like Firefox, Thunderbird, and Blender. For more details about the changes included in this release, check out the release notes on the official website, where you can download the source tarball.

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Fwupd 2.0.9 is out today as the ninth maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility with support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.

Coming a month after fwupd 2.0.8, this release introduces support for Intel Arc 'Battlemage' GPUs, the ability to allow installing multiple database certificate updates at the same time, support for showing what certificate signed the EFI authenticated variable, new documentation about updating the KEK and database, as well as the ability to use readline to look up inputs from user, and make it optional.

Fwupd 2.0.9 also adds several devices with broken firmware to the UEFI dbx blocklist, revamps the MEI code to allow devices to use multiple interfaces, rewrites the ModemManger plugin to be simpler and more supportable, simplifies the parsing of USB descriptors, and includes more output when using the fwupdtool get-devices --json command.

On top of that, this release also fixes a crash that occurred when installing some Wacom firmware types, a crash that occurred when parsing uevents that aren't KEY=VALUE, a parsing issue with the DFU descriptor when not using the libusb library, a PK and KEK enumeration failure on some systems, and SMBIOS parsing for ROM sizes equal to or larger than 16MiB.

Starting with this release, fwupd no longer enumerates non-updatable OptionROM devices, no longer exports Redfish backup partitions as devices, includes a resolution for more of the HSI failures, no longer allows updating updatable-hidden devices with the fwupdtool command.

It also now requires a reboot after updating Intel CVS devices, properly constructs the authenticated URI when using FirmwareBaseURI, recognizes very old dbx hashes to allow upgrades, and properly handles Redfish location redirects when installing firmware.

Check out the release notes on the project’s GitHub page for more details about the changes included in fwupd 2.0.9, which you can download as a source tarball from the same location. Of course, it is recommended that you install fwupd from the stable software repositories of your GNU/Linux distribution.

Image credits: fwupd project

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The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced today a new version of their Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS Linux distribution for Raspberry Pi computers that introduces some new features, better touchscreen handling, and various Wayland improvements.

The new Raspberry Pi OS release improves screen locking by adding a custom front end that gives them a bit more feedback as to what is happening, while allowing them to lock the screen by pressing Ctrl+Alt+L, or by via the 'Lock Screen' option in the ‘Shutdown…’ dialog.

There's also a new Printers app that lets you connect to and control printers, as a replacement for the system-config-printer application. Moreover, the new Raspberry Pi OS release promises better handling of touchscreens in a Wayland environment by allowing users to choose between mouse emulation or native touchscreen behaviour via Touchscreen > Mode in the Screen Configuration app.

[su_quote]"The main disadvantage of no longer using mouse emulation is that it isn’t possible to double-click by tapping the screen twice, and this makes navigation in the file manager rather difficult," said Simon Long. "There are a couple of workarounds specific to the file manager: you can enable ‘Open files with single click’ in the file manager preferences, or use a tap-and-hold to open the context-sensitive menu and then choose ‘Open’."[/su_quote]

Moreover, touchscreen users will get an updated Squeekboard virtual keyboard that lets them choose the screen on which it is shown when using multiple monitor configurations via the Display tab on the Raspberry Pi Configuration app.

Among other noteworthy changes, the new Raspberry Pi OS release separates console (CLI) and desktop auto login options, allowing users to choose between them in the Raspberry Pi Configuration and raspi-config apps, updates the default Labwc window manager for Wayland to a newer release (v0.8.1), and bumps the kernel to the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS series.

This release also optimizes the startup of the wf-panel-pi application that's in charge of the taskbar in the Wayland session, which leads to faster boot times, and prevents the zenity tool from creating prompts and dialogs from the command line, which leads to faster startup times.

You can download the new Raspberry Pi OS release right now from the official website. Raspberry Pi OS supports all Raspberry Pi models, including Raspberry Pi 1A+, 1B+, 2B, 3B, 3B+, 3A+, 4B, 400, CM1, CM3, CM3+, CM4, CM4S, Zero, Zero W, and Zero 2 W.

Existing Raspberry Pi OS users need only to update their installations by running the sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade commands below in a terminal emulator or by using the built-in graphical package updater. If you're system is up-to-date, you're running the latest Raspberry Pi OS version (2025-05-06).

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UE-based Linux hardware vendor Slimbook announced today the launch of Kymera Black as the next generation of their Linux desktop computer designed for creators, gamers, and hardware enthusiasts.

Slimbook Kymera Black is designed to adapt to the needs of every user, offering them a high level of customization and configurability, without compromising power and reliability. It features a versatile and innovative modular design ideal for professional or gaming use.

The Kymera Black features a high-density matte black metal chassis with removable panels, washable dust filters, front-accessible ports, and a solid structure that combines tempered glass and metal side panels, along with the option to add an 8-inch front display for monitoring temperature, speed, or component performance in real time.

[su_quote]"At Slimbook, we believe every creation should speak for itself. This desktop stands out thanks to its vertical engraving inspired by circuit patterns, a small emperor penguin, and our signature phrase: “Be one of us.” A subtle signature that connects with our community."[/su_quote]

Slimbook Kymera Black comes with AMD or Intel configurations featuring up to AMD Ryzen 9 and up to Intel Ultra 9 processors, and supports up to 192GB 6000 MHz DDR5 RAM, up to 4TB NVMe 5.0 SSD storage, up to 80TB HDD storage, up to Wi-Fi 7 and 2.5G Ethernet connectivity, and up to 1200W Platinum power supply.

The system comes pre-installed with either the Ubuntu-based Slimbook OS featuring the GNOME or KDE Plasma desktop environments, or Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, KDE neon, Debian GNU/Linux, elementary OS, Pop!_OS Linux, Linux Mint, Fedora Linux, openSUSE Linux, Manjaro Linux, Endeavour OS, and Lliurex.

The price starts from 749.00 € (~$851 USD) for the AMD configuration with AMD Ryzen 5 7600X, 16GB 6000Mhz DDR5, 500GB NVMe 4.0 SSD storage, medium-range cooling, and 500W 80 Bronze power supply, or from 779.00 € (~$885 USD) for the Intel configuration with Intel Core i5 14600K.

You can configure and buy the Slimbook Kymera Black desktop computer right now from the official website.

Image credits: Slimbook (edited by Marius Nestor)

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As of May 1st, 2025, Canonical has officially opened the development of Ubuntu 25.10 (codename Questing Quokka), and now they have published the first daily build ISO images for early adopters, application developers, and general public testing.

As expected, the first Ubuntu 25.10 daily builds are based on the previous Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin), which arrived last month on April 17th, which means that they include the same core components and software versions as the Plucky Puffin release, such as Linux kernel 6.14 and GNOME 48 desktop.

During the six-month-long development cycle, the Ubuntu 25.10 daily build ISOs will be updated with many highly anticipated GNU/Linux technologies, such as the upcoming Mesa 25.1 graphics stack and Linux 6.17 kernel series, as well as the upcoming GNOME 49 desktop environment.

The toolchain will be updated to recent technologies like GCC 15, GNU Binutils 2.45, Python 3.13, LLVM 20, Boost 1.88, and others. Also, it looks like Ubuntu 25.10 will be the first major Linux distribution to adopt sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo.

You can download the first Ubuntu 25.10 daily build ISO images from the official website. Daily builds of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, and the rest of the official Ubuntu flavors are also available for download here with the same desktop environments used by default in Ubuntu 25.04.

However, you should keep in mind that these are pre-release versions that may contain bugs and other issues preventing you from having a stable Ubuntu experience. Therefore, DO NOT install them on a production machine!

The final release of Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) is expected on October 9th, 2025. Until then, the beta version of Ubuntu 25.10 is expected on September 18th, and the Release Candidate (RC) version should arrive on October 2nd, 2025.

Two “Ubuntu Testing Week” events are also scheduled for June 26th and August 21st, 2025, respectively. During these “Ubuntu Testing Week” events, Canonical expects the community to test drive the upcoming Ubuntu release and report bugs.

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Today, the KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.3.5 as the fifth and last maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series to address more bugs, crashes, and other issues reported by users during the five weeks since KDE Plasma 6.3.4.

KDE Plasma 6.3.5 is here to fix a black or flickering lock screen issue for NVIDIA GPU users, a visual glitch with window shadows when using Night Light on certain hardware, a KWin crash caused by GPU resets, and a regression with the Activity Switcher sidebar being mis-positioned on multi-monitor setups.

KDE's window and composite manager, KWin, received quite the attention as this release also fixes a crash that occurred when disconnecting a laptop from certain docking stations, an issue causing it to schedule constant screen repaints while the screen was dimmed, which wasted resources, and several other crashes.

In addition, KDE Plasma 6.3.5 improves support for multi-screen setups by addressing an issue where the UI would inappropriately show the settings of a different screen when reverting a change to the other screen's settings, as well as a Plasma crash related to power-cycling screens.

This release also improves printing support by offering users the option to set a new printer as the default one when adding multiple printers, adds support for Qt 6.8.3 and Qt 6.9 for the Meta+P shortcut for opening the screen chooser overlay, and fixes several bugs related to notifications not moving to new positions.

Moreover, KDE Plasma 6.3.5 fixes a bug that caused notifications that included the < character to cut off all the following text, fixes a visual glitch on the Recent Files page in System Settings to highlight grid items when the whole grid view is disabled, and fixes a bug causing the Sticky Notes widgets to forget their custom size when resizing them.

The Plasma Discover package manager was improved as well in this release by addressing an issue with the “Still looking…” message being displayed un-centered, an issue with the header text for offline upgrades being displayed incorrectly at very narrow window widths, and a semi-common yet random-seeming crash.

KDE Plasma 6.3.5 also improves the Task Manager widget so that the group dialog pop-ups no longer rotate 180° when using reversed mode on a vertical panel, and makes the "audio is playing" icons less blurry when using a fractional scale factor.

Last but not least, KDE Plasma 6.3.5 fixes a bug that could cause the relevant numbers in a newly created Weather widget to show the wrong values until restarting, as well as an issue where the tooltip text in Plasma could be unreadable when using certain non-default color schemes.

Check out the full changelog for more details about the changes included in this release. Meanwhile, keep an eye on the stable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distributions for the KDE Plasma 6.3.5 packages and update your installations as soon as possible for a more stable and reliable Plasma desktop experience.

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Clonezilla Live maintainer Steven Shiau released today Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-28 as the latest stable version of this partition and disk imaging/cloning tool based on Debian/Ubuntu.

Coming two months after Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-9, the Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-28 release is based on the Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) operating system series and it's powered by Linux kernel 6.14 to offer users the best possible hardware support when running Clonezilla Live to backup their data.

This release also ships with new packages that are installed by default and therefore available on the live system to use as you need, including libfsapfs-utils, usb-modeswitch, and fscrypt, along with a new ocs-find-live-key tool that can be used with the ocs-put-log-usb tool to copy Clonezilla Live's log files when running from RAM.

On top of that, Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-28 updates the ocs-live-repository package with a new dev=///OCS_LIVE_USB option to allow users to assign the Clonezilla Live USB drive as the image repo, especially when running Clonezilla Live USB drive from RAM.

[su_quote]"The Clonezilla live USB drive has to be vFAT file system since it's used to boot in both UEFI and MBR mode. Hence, it is not a good choice for an image repo since vFAT file system has many restrictions. Better to use UUID or LABEL to assign the image repo. Improved the saving dialog menu and prompt," said developer Steven Shiau.[/su_quote]

Other than that, this release introduces a new mechanism for mitigating the random order of block devices via the ocs_1_cpu_udev boot parameter, enables support for the Btrfs file system in the drbl-ocs.conf file for compatibility with Partclone 0.3.36, and disables the devices list cache mechanism to improve performance.

Check out the release announcement for more details about the changes included in this new Clonezilla Live release. You can download Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-28 right now from the official website as a live ISO image or a USB image archived as a zip file. Clonezilla Live is only supported on 64-bit machines.

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The 238th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on May 4th, 2025, keeping you updated 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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May the 4th be with you! This week, we got new stable releases of the Firefox web browser, Thunderbird email client, qBittorrent torrent client, Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) desktop environment, LibreOffice office suite, and the 4MLinux distribution.

On top of that, I tell you what's coming to the openSUSE Leap 16 distribution and the Firefox 139 web browser. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for May 4th, 2025.

Hot news of the week

• Mozilla Firefox 138 is now available for download with various new features
• qBittorrent 5.1 open-source BitTorrent client arrives as a major update
• Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.4 is out with support for Ubuntu 25.04
• 4MLinux 48.0 is now available for download, powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS
• Firefox 139 is now available for public beta testing with various changes
• Thunderbird 138 adds new default color override for High Contrast mode on Linux
• LibreOffice 25.2.3 office suite is now available for download with 68 bug fixes
• openSUSE Leap 16 enters public beta testing with Agama installer, Linux 6.12 LTS

Linux distributions released this week

• Voyager 25.04.2
• KDE neon 20250501
• Arch Linux 2025.05.01
• Tails 6.15
• Mabox Linux 25.04
• Volumio 3.804
• Linuxfx 11.25.04.3
• CentOS Stream 10-20250429
• 4MLinux 48.0
• 4MLinux 48.0 Core
• Obarun 2025.04.28

Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week

• DBeaver 25.0.4
• GTK 4.18.5
• BleachBit 5.0.0
• man-db 2.13.1
• Linux kernel 6.14.5
• Linux kernel 6.12.26 LTS
• Linux kernel 6.6.89 LTS
• Linux kernel 6.1.136 LTS
• Linux kernel 5.15.181 LTS
• Linux kernel 5.10.237 LTS
• Linux kernel 5.4.293 LTS
• OpenZFS 2.3.2
• Mozilla Firefox 138.0.1
• Mesa 25.0.3
• Wordpress 6.8.1
• LibreOffice 25.2.3
• Chromium 136.0.7103.59
• AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 (DEB)
• AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 (RPM)
• LLVM 20.1.4
• Blender 4.4.3
• MAME 0.277
• Mozilla Thunderbird 138.0
• Ghostscript 10.05.1
• Deluge 2.2.0
• qBittorrent 5.1.0

Coming up next week

• KDE Plasma 6.3.5
• KDE Gear 25.04.1
• …and hopefully, many other exciting Linux news and releases!

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The openSUSE project released today the beta version of the upcoming openSUSE Leap 16 operating system series for public testing, giving users a first glimpse of what will be included in the final release later this year.

Based on the next-generation solutions from SUSE called Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) and powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, openSUSE Leap 16 is designed to offer users a balanced operating system that includes cutting-edge software on top of a traditional Linux-based operating system and uses the new Agama installer.

Agama is a new installer developed by the same team that created the YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) setup and configuration tool for openSUSE. The Agama installer is designed to offer re-usability, integration with third-party tools, and can also be used to install the openSUSE Tumbleweed, Slowroll, and MicroOS editions.

The installer will currently offer you three installation options, including Base (default), GNOME, and KDE. This means that you can either install Leap 16 as a server without a graphical user interface, or as a workstation with either the GNOME 47 or KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environments, both Wayland-only.

openSUSE also replaced AppArmor with SELinux as the default mandatory access control (MAC) system for Leap 16, which was also adopted for new Tumbleweed installations. SELinux appears to have a larger community, has a much better upstream development story, and it's better accepted for higher security environments.

Among other changes, openSUSE Leap 16 promises RIS-based repository management split per architecture for smaller metadata and faster refreshes, support for parallel package downloads in Zypper to speed up installs and updates, Cockpit for system management, and Myrlyn as a drop-in replacement for YaST.

You can download the beta version of openSUSE Leap 16 right now from the official website, keeping in mind that it's a pre-release version not to be used for production work. I recommend downloading the Network image because offline installation is not supported at this time.

As mentioned before, the final release is planned for sometime later this year, probably in October 2025. The openSUSE project plans to offer a smooth upgrade for existing openSUSE Leap users, as well as a clear migration path for Leap Micro users. More details are available in the release announcement.

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The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.2.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series to fix various bugs and other issues.

LibreOffice 25.2.3 is here a little over a month after LibreOffice 25.2.2 to address various bugs, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users in an attempt to improve the overall stability and reliability of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite.

In numbers, this maintenance update addresses a total of 68 bugs. Details about these bugs can be found in the RC1 and RC2 changelogs. Meanwhile, you can download LibreOffice 25.2.3 right now from the official website as binaries for DEB and RPM-based GNU/Linux distributions, or as a source tarball.

Those of you who have LibreOffice 25.2 installed from the software repositories of your GNU/Linux distribution should wait until the LibreOffice 25.2.3 point release arrives there before updating your installations.

LibreOffice 25.2 was released on February 6th, 2025, introducing major changes like a new privacy feature that removes all personal information associated with any document, such as author names and timestamps, editing time, printer name and configuration, document template, author and date for comments, and tracked changes.

The LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series will be supported with seven maintenance updates until November 30th, 2025. The next point release, LibreOffice 25.2.4, is planned for early June 2025. Meanwhile, all LibreOffice 25.2 users are urged to update their installations to the new point release as soon as possible.

Once again, The Document Foundation reminds us that this is the “Community” edition of LibreOffice, supported by volunteers. For enterprise-class deployments, they recommend using the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners.

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