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Full Circle Weekly News #261
May 17, 2022
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
Full Circle Weekly News #260
May 08, 2022
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
Full Circle Weekly News #259
May 05, 2022
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
Full Circle Weekly News #258
April 23, 2022
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
Full Circle Weekly News #257
April 15, 2022
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
Full Circle Weekly News #256
April 08, 2022
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
Full Circle Weekly News #255
April 02, 2022
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
Full Circle Weekly News #254
March 27, 2022
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/
Full Circle Weekly News #253
March 20, 2022
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
Full Circle Weekly News #252
March 13, 2022
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
Full Circle Weekly News #242
December 28, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #241
December 25, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #240
December 21, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #239
December 10, 2021
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:
Full Circle Weekly News #238
December 04, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #237
November 24, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #236
November 18, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #235
November 15, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #234
November 09, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #233
October 26, 2021
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:/
Full Circle Weekly News #232
October 22, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #231
October 12, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #230
October 05, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #229
September 27, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #228
September 23, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #227
September 17, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #226
September 07, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #225
August 31, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #224
August 26, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #223
August 17, 2021
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
Full Circle Weekly News #222
August 09, 2021
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-
Full Circle Weekly News #221
August 03, 2021
Haiku R1 beta 3: https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2021-07-26_media_release_the_haiku_project_celebrates_the_release_of_beta_3/ Release of nDPI 4.0 deep packet inspection system: https://www.ntop.org/ndpi
Full Circle Weekly News #220
July 28, 2021
GNU Binutils 2.37 Released: https://www.mail-archive.com/info-gnu@gnu.org/msg02923.html HandBrake 1.4.0 Released: https://handbrake.fr/news.php?article=47 Linus Torvalds commented on the situation wit
Full Circle Weekly News #219
July 20, 2021
Solus 4.3 released: https://getsol.us/2021/07/11/solus-4-3-released/ Microsoft has published CBL-Mariner distribution: https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/releases/tag/1.0-stable RHEL-compatible
Full Circle Weekly News #218
July 14, 2021
The second edition of patches for the Linux kernel with support for Rust: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/7/4/171 Release of Virtuozzo Linux 8.4: https://www.virtuozzo.com/blog-review/details/blog/view/vir
Full Circle Weekly News #217
July 07, 2021
Linux 5.13 kernel release: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/27/202 LTSM proposed: https://github.com/AndreyBarmaley/linux-terminal-service-manager Release of Mixxx 2.3, the free music mixing app: http://m
Full Circle Weekly News #216
June 28, 2021
Network Security Toolkit 34: https://sourceforge.net/p/nst/news/2021/06/nst-version-34-12743-released/ Min 1.20 Published: https://minbrowser.org/releases/index.html?n=5 Linux kernel vulnerability aff
Full Circle Weekly News #215
June 21, 2021
PHP 8.1 alpha testing has begun: https://www.php.net/index.php#id2021-06-10-1 rqlite 6.0, a distributed fault-tolerant SQLite-based database management system: https://www.philipotoole.com/rqlite-6-0-0-building-for-the-future/ New stable Tor 0.4.6 branch
Full Circle Weekly News #214
June 14, 2021
Rescuezilla 2.2 Backup Distribution Released: https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla/releases/tag/2.2 Lakka 3.1, a distribution for creating game consoles: http://www.lakka.tv/articles/2021/06/05/lakka-3.1/ Blender 2.93 LTS released: https://www.blen
Full Circle Weekly News #213
June 07, 2021
Apache NetBeans 12.4 Released: https://blogs.apache.org/netbeans/entry/announce-apache-netbeans-12-4 Electron 13.0.0: https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-13-0 NGINX Unit 1.24.0 Released: https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/unit/2021-May/000265.html
Full Circle Weekly News #212
May 31, 2021
AV Linux 2021.05.22: https://www.bandshed.net/2021/05/22/avl-mxe-2021-05-22-iso-update/ Qmmp Music Player 1.5.0 Released: http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/index.php Inkscape 1.1 released: https://inkscape.org/ OSGeo-Live 14.0 is out: https://www.osgeo.org/foun
Full Circle Weekly News #211
May 24, 2021
Bodhi 6 64-bit release https://www.bodhilinux.com/2021/05/12/bodhi-linux-6-0-0-released/ KDE Plasma 5.22 testing has begun: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.90 Zabbix 5.4 release: https://www.zabbix.com/rn/rn5.4.0 NetBSD 9.2 released: https://
Full Circle Weekly News #210
May 16, 2021
Interface for smartwatches added to postmarketOS: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/2124 New Releases of GNUstep Components: https://www.mail-archive.com/info-gnu@gnu.org/msg02888.html Armbian Distribution Release 21.05: https://f
Full Circle Weekly News #209
May 12, 2021
The Muse Group acquired the Audacity project https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/muse-group-formed-to-support-musescore-ultimate-guitar-acquires-audacity/ GParted 1.3 Partition Editor released: https://gparted.org/news.php?item=238 Wayland-protocols 1.21 r
Full Circle Weekly News #208
May 09, 2021
Release of Godot 3.3: http://www.godotengine.org/ Linux kernel 5.12 released: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/25/225 Release of Akira 0.0.14: http://akiraux.org/ Finit 4.0 init system available: https://github.com/troglobit/finit/releases/tag/4.0 Fedora 34
Full Circle Weekly News #207
April 25, 2021
EndeavourOS 2021.04.17 https://endeavouros.com/news/our-april-release-is-available/ OpenSSH 8.6 Release with Vulnerability fix https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2021-April/039306.html Nginx 1.20.0 released http://nginx.org/ Node.js 16.
Full Circle Weekly News #206
April 19, 2021
OpenToonz 1.5, an open source 2D animation package: https://github.com/opentoonz/opentoonz/releases/tag/v1.5.0 Sway 1.6 environment using Wayland released: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.6 Xen 4.15 hypervisor released: https://www.xenproje
Full Circle Weekly News #205
April 11, 2021
Proxmox Mail Gateway 6.4 released https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-mail-gateway Haruna 0.6.0 video player available https://github.com/g-fb/haruna TeX Live 2021 released https://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-announce@cygwin.com/msg09615.html IceWM 2.3 wi
Full Circle Weekly News #204
April 06, 2021
Please welcome new host, Moss Bliss . DigiKam 7.2 released https://www.digikam.org/news/2021-03-22-7.2.0_release_announcement/ 4MLinux 36.0 released https://4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com/2021/03/4mlinux-360-stable-released.html Malicious changes detected
Full Circle Weekly News #203
April 02, 2021
Ubuntu Testing Week Is Here https://popey.com/blog/2021/03/ubuntu-21.04-testing-week/ 7zip Sees its First Official Linux Port https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/cec5e63147/ openSUSE Virtual Conference in June https://events.opensu