The Full Circle Weekly News

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

AlmaLinux 8.5 is available: https://almalinux.org/blog/almalinux-os-85-stable-now-available/ Release of Lakka 3.6: https://www.lakka.tv/articles/2021/11/14/lakka-3.6/ LF Decentralized Storage Migrated

Cryptographic library wolfSSL 5.0.0 released: https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/releases/tag/v5.0.0-stable Release of Snoop 1.3.1: https://github.com/snooppr/snoop/releases System76 is working to cre

Apache OpenMeetings 6.2 available: https://blogs.apache.org/openmeetings/entry/openmeetings-v6-2-0-openapi Vaultwarden 1.23, released: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden Blender Community Rele

Muen 1.0, an open source microkernel: https://groups.google.com/g/muen-dev/c/mzd5E6lLomw OpenLDAP 2.6.0 released: https://www.openldap.org/software/release/announce.html Launch of ncspot, a console Sp

First release of Fosscords Discord-compatible communication platform: https://github.com/fosscord/fosscord-server/releases/tag/v0.0.3 Apache Foundation moves away from mirrors in favor of CDN: https:/

Geany 1.38 IDE: https://www.geany.org/news/geany-138-is-out/ Redo Rescue 4.0.0, backup and recovery distribution: https://github.com/redorescue/redorescue/releases/tag/4.0.0 Arkime 3.1 network traffic

Canonical introduced Ubuntu Frame shell: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/release-2-5-0/24489 Release of Lakka 3.5: https://www.lakka.tv/articles/2021/10/03/lakka-3.5/ Lumina Desktop 1.6.1 Release: http

The first stable release of GNU wget2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-09/msg00011.html PaSh shell script parallelization system moved under the wing of Linux Foundation: https://linu

Bespoke Synth 1.0 software sound synthesizer released: https://github.com/BespokeSynth/BespokeSynth/releases/tag/v1.0.0 Headscale develops an open server for Tailscale: https://github.com/juanfont/hea

Ultimaker Cura 4.11 released: https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/releases/tag/4.11.0 Revolt – alternative to Discord: https://revolt.chat/ Terraform Project news: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/t

Lakka 3.4 and RetroArch 1.9.9 emulators: https://lakka.tv/articles/2021/09/06/lakka-3.4/ ClamAV 0.104 Free Antivirus: https://blog.clamav.net/2021/09/clamav-01040-released.html Finnix 123 Linux Distro

Linux 5.14 kernel released: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/8/29/382 Beta version of Multitextor: https://github.com/vikonix/multitextor A completely free version of the Linux-libre 5.14 kernel is availabl

GTK 4.4 graphical toolkit: https://blog.gtk.org/2021/08/23/gtk-4-4/ GNOME 41 Beta Available: https://www.mail-archive.com/devel-announce-list@gnome.org/msg01058.html Release of the GNU Taler 0.8: http

Apache OpenMeetings 6.1 web conferencing server released: https://blogs.apache.org/openmeetings/entry/openmeetings-v6-1-0-webrtc The PINE64 project introduced the PineNote e-book: https://www.pine64.o

Latte Dock 0.10 released: https://psifidotos.blogspot.com/2021/08/latte-dock-v0100-official-stable-release.html Nmap 7.92 Released: https://seclists.org/nmap-announce/2021/3 Bottlerocket 1.2, isolated

Glibc 2.34 system library released: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-August/129718.html Third candidate for Debian 11 “Bullseye” installer: https://lists.debian.org/debian-