The Full Circle Weekly News

Release of ncurses 6.4: https://www.mail-archive.com/info-gnu@gnu.org/msg03127.html Release of carbonOS 2022.3: https://carbon.sh/blog/2022-12-31-release.html Release of Rigs of Rods 2022.12: https://

Release of Shotcut 22.12: https://www.shotcut.org/blog/new-release-221221/ Release of Sway 1.8: https://swaywm.org/ AV Linux MX 21.2: http://www.bandshed.net/2022/12/15/avl-mxe-21-2-1-mxde-efl-21-2-2-

A new postmarketOS 22.12: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2022/12/18/v22.12-release/ The Overture Maps for open mapping data: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-overture-ma

Fedora 38 with Budgie desktop: https://www.mail-archive.com/devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/msg02946.html HTTP server hinsightd, using the Linux subsystem io_uring: https://tiotags.gitlab.io/hi

The brew creator now into tea? https://tea.xyz/ Release of FreeBSD 12.4: https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/12.4/ Armbian 22.11: https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-22-11/ Inks

Release of Rocky Linux 9.1: https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-9-1-ga-release/ Issue qBittorrent 4.5: https://www.qbittorrent.org/news.php Release of OpenRGB 0.8: https://gitlab.com/CalcProgramme

GIMP 2.99.14: https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/11/18/gimp-2-99-14-released/ SQLite DBMS 3.40: https://www.sqlite.org/changes.html Release of Oracle Linux 8.7: https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/oracle-

Shufflecake: https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2022/11/10/introducing-shufflecake-plausible-deniability-for-multiple-hidden-filesystems-on-linux/ Thunderbird will have a redesigned calendar: https

Release of Trinity R14.0.13: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/newsentry.php?entry=2022.10.30 Publication of Portmaster 1.0: https://docs.safing.io/portmaster/architecture/os-integration#linux Microsoft

Release of GNU Make 4.4: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-make/2022-10/msg00020.html Haiku implemented a layer for compatibility with Wayland: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-progress-in-wayl

Release of Rsync 3.2.7 and rclone: https://www.mail-archive.com/rsync-announce@lists.samba.org/msg00111.html Linus Torvalds proposed to stop supporting the i486 CPU in the Linux kernel: https://lore.k

Release of Ardour 7.0: https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html Updating Void Linux installation builds: https://voidlinux.org/news/2022/10/new-images.html Rhino Linux, a rolling distribution based on Ubuntu:

The Wayland-Protocols 1.27: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2022-October/042466.html Release of DRBD 9.2.0: https://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-announce/2022-October/000594.ht

Linux kernel release 6.0: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/10/2/255 Release of the Stellarium 1.0: https://stellarium.org/release/2022/10/01/stellarium-1.0.html Release of IceWM 3.0.0 with tab support: http

PeerTube 4.3: https://joinpeertube.org/en/news#release-4.3 The twenty-sixth alpha version of 0 A.D: https://play0ad.com/new-release-0-a-d-alpha-26-zhuangzi/ Release of CRUX 3.7: https://lists.crux.nu/

The PyTorch project part of the Linux Foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/meta-transitions-pytorch-to-the-linux-foundation LibreOffice paid via the Mac App Store: https://b

Continuation of GNOME Shell development for mobile devices: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2022/09/09/gnome-shell-on-mobile-an-update/ Performance and Retbleed: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/9/617 R

Ubuntu Unity will become an official flavour: https://twitter.com/ubuntu_unity/status/1565309779031236608 New version of the GNU Awk 5.2 interpreter: https://www.mail-archive.com/info-gnu@gnu.org/msg0

Based on Sway, a port of LXQt is being developed: https://cartaslinux.wordpress.com/2022/08/28/lxqt-sway-usando-lxqt-para-hacer-que-sway-sea-mas-amigable/ Fedora Linux 39 plans to disable SHA-1-based

HDDSuperClone code, software for copying information from faulty hard drives: http://www.hddsuperclone.com/sitev1/hddsuperclone/purchase Release of CrossOver 22: https://www.codeweavers.com/support/fo

Deepin Linux 23 preview https://www.deepin.org/en/linux-system-distribution-deepin-23-preview-released/ Valve has released Proton 7.0-4: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-7.0

Release of Ubuntu Sway Remix 22.04 LTS: https://github.com/Ubuntu-Sway/Ubuntu-Sway-Remix Release of nftables 1.0.5: https://www.mail-archive.com/netfilter-announce@lists.netfilter.org/msg00246.html Go

Release of ScummVM 2.6.0: https://www.scummvm.org/news/20220801/ Release of Slax 15: https://www.slax.org/blog/27433-Releasing-Slax-15.0-based-on-Slackware-again-after-9-years-and-11.4-based-on-Debian

NsCDE 2.2 Released: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE/releases/tag/2.2 D-Installer 0.4 for SUSE: https://yast.opensuse.org/blog/2022-07-19/yast-report-2022-5 Fedora intends to ban the supply of software

The xfwm4 window manager has been ported to work with Wayland: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2022-July/042273.html openSUSE provides full support for the Nim programming languag

SCALE19x returns to the Los Angeles area July 28-31. Join the Ubuntu and Linux community for 100+ sessions on all things opensource. Keynotes include Vint Cerf, Aeva Black, Demetris Cheatham, and more

SFC urges open source projects to stop using GitHub: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/ Porteus 5.0 distribution released: https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&#

Wifibox 0.10 - environment for using Linux WiFi drivers in FreeBSD: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox/releases/tag/0.10.0 Git 2.37 source control release: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqy1xinf00

nginx 1.23.0 release: http://nginx.org/#2022-06-21 New Qt project leader appointed: https://www.qt.io/blog/new-chief-maintainer-for-qt Rust support in the Linux 5.20 kernel: https://www.phoronix.com/s

Qt6 packages prepared for Debian 11: https://perezmeyer.com.ar/blog/2022/06/10/qt6-in-debian-bullseye/ Release of the MidnightBSD 2.2: https://www.midnightbsd.org/notes/ Cinnamon 5.4 desktop environme

Paragon Software has resumed maintenance of the NTFS3 module in the Linux kernel: https://github.com/Paragon-Software-Group/linux-ntfs3/commits/devel Release of Tails 5.1: https://tails.boum.org/news/

Release of LXLE Focal: https://lxle.net/articles/?post=lxle-focal-released OpenMandriva rock n roll: https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/new-lxqt-isos-for-rock-rolling/4476 PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0 Cachin

SIMH simulator license dispute: https://groups.io/g/simh/topic/new_license/91108560 Vulnerability in the Linux perf kernel subsystem: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/20/2 HP has an

NetworkManager 1.38.0 released: https://networkmanager.dev/blog/networkmanager-1-38/ iptables packet filter release 1.8.8: https://www.mail-archive.com/netfilter-announce@lists.netfilter.org/msg00241.

Release of Toybox 0.8.7: https://github.com/landley/toybox/releases/tag/0.8.7 Patches for the Linux kernel with Rust language support: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/5/7/13 The Weron project developing VP

Canonical introduces Steam Snap for easier access to games on Ubuntu: https://ubuntu.com//blog/level-up-linux-gaming-new-steam-snap Unity 7.6.0 Custom Shell Release: https://ubuntuunity.org/ fwupd 1.8

Mesas Rust implementation of OpenCL now supports OpenCL 3.0: https://twitter.com/neilt3d/status/1517541101648891906 Intel Opens PSE Block Firmware Code for Elkhart Lake Chips: https://github.com/intel

Release of the GNU Coreutils 9.1 set of core system utilities: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10158 LXQt 1.1 User Environment Released: https://lxqt-project.org/release/2022/04/15/l

New Release of Raspberry Pi OS: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-bullseye-update-april-2022/ Thunderbird 100 beta release integrates Matrix protocol support: https://www.thunderbird.net/e

Release of the Lutris 0.5.10 platform: https://github.com/lutris/lutris/releases/tag/v0.5.10 Release of Nitrux 2.1 with the NX Desktop: https://nxos.org/changelog/release-announcement-nitrux-2-1-0/ Re

Capyloon operating system based on Firefox OS: https://www.reddit.com/r/pinephone/comments/tnq22v/capyloon_now_available_for_the_pinephone_pro/ Debian 11.3 and 10.12 update: https://www.debian.org/New

rclone 1.58 backup utility released: https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-1-58-0-release/29784 First test release of Asahi Linux, a distribution for Apple devices with the M1 chip: https://asahilinux.org

Release of Blender 3.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCi0QRM1ADY TUF 1.0 is available, a framework for secure delivery of updates: https://github.com/theupdateframework/python-tuf/blob/v1.0.0/docs/

Chrome OS 99 released: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/03/stable-channel-update-for-chrome-os.html Budgie 10.6 desktop: https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop First release of LWQt

GNUnet P2P Platform Release 0.16.0: https://www.gnunet.org/en/news/2022-02-0.16.0.html Release of SQLite 3.38 and sqlite-utils 3.24: http://sqlite.org/ Release of MPlayer 1.5 media player: http://mpla

Debian offers fnt font manager: https://bits.debian.org/2021/12/2000-fonts-debian.html Ubuntu 22.04 theme switched to orange: https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/pull/3264 Debian 11.2 Update: https://www.d

Release of Ventoy 1.0.62: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases/tag/v1.0.62 ToaruOS 2.0 operating system released: https://github.com/klange/toaruos/releases/tag/v2.0.0 Intel Moves Cloud Hyperviso

Code removal in Mesa: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/10153 Blender 3.0 Release: https://www.blender.org/press/blender-3-0-a-new-era-for-content-creation/ Release of Endeavou

GhostBSD Release 21.11.24: https://ghostbsd.org/ghostbsd_21.11.24_iso_is_now_available Tux Paint 0.9.27 is released: https://tuxpaint.org/latest/tuxpaint-0.9.27-press-release.php SQLite 3.37 Released:

nftables Packet Filter 1.0.1: https://www.mail-archive.com/netfilter-announce@lists.netfilter.org/msg00234.html Release of PureOS 10: https://puri.sm/posts/true-convergence-is-here-pureos-10-is-releas