The Full Circle Weekly News

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-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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://

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Canonical Chooses Flutter https://twitter.com/ubuntu/status/1367063203600031746?s=20 Linux Mint to Make System Updates a Priority https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4037 Steam Link Now Available on Linux https://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/10/31

Ubuntu Releases 20.04.2.0 After Regression https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2021-February/000265.html Hirsute Hippo Feature Freeze https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2021-February/001288.html Thunderbird Backported t

Ubuntu 20.04.2 and Flavors with HWE Stack Released https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2021-February/000264.html https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes#Official_flavours Ubuntu To Replace Ubiquity Installer https://discourse.ubuntu

Ubuntu Giving Wayland Another Shot https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/trying-wayland-by-default-again/20575 Networking and Touchpads Work in Linux on M1 Macs https://twitter.com/cmwdotme/status/1355660127433535490?s=20 Greg Kroah-Hartman Needs Commercial Buy

Ubuntu 21.04 Will Remain on Gnome 3.38 and GTK3 https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/staying-on-gtk3-and-gnome-3-38-this-cycle/20466 Corellium the First to Boot Linux on M1 Macs https://twitter.com/cmwdotme/status/1351838924621099008 Chromium Losing Access to

Full Circle Weekly News is now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AYBF3gfbHpYvhW0pnjPrK or search for ‘full circle weekly news’ in the Spotify app. Ubuntu Making Home Folders Private in 21.04 https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/private-hom

Qt 5.15 Fixes No Longer Open https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/05/qt_lts_goes_commercial_only/ The Linux port for Apple’s M1 Gets a Name https://asahilinux.org/about/ Firefox Gets a Visual Refresh https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/01/firefox-proton

Lubuntu 21.04 Artwork Contest Open https://lubuntu.me/lubuntu-hirsute-hippo-21-04-artwork-contest/ Ubuntu’s Switch to LZO in Snapd https://ubuntu.com//blog/why-lzo-was-chosen-as-the-new-compression-method Ubuntu’s Snap Theming Will See Change

The End of ZaReason https://news.itsfoss.com/zareason-shutdown/ CentOS Linux 8 End of Life Moved from 2029 to 2021, Stream Takes Over https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/048208.html New CentOS Replacement Lineups Spring Up ht

Linux Coming to Apple M1 Macs https://www.patreon.com/marcan New Ubuntu Members https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2020-December/002944.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2020-December/115268.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/

KDE Will Support Fingerprints https://www.debugpoint.com/2020/11/kde-plasma-5-21-fingerprint-manager/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/16/kde_maintainers_speak_on_why/ XFCE Shaping Up For a Strong Version 4.16 https://www.debugpoint.com/2020/11/xfce-4

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AWS Creates Its Own Docker Images https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-preps-its-own-library-of-public-docker-container-images/ Dell Adds Privacy Drivers to the Kernel https://www.debugpoint.com/2020/11/dell-privacy-driver-linux/ Elementary OS Is Making Pro

Valve’s Pressure Vessel Source Code Available https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/10/valve-put-their-pressure-vessel-container-source-for-linux-games-up-on-gitlab Looking to Abandon the X Server https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-

Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla and Flavors Released https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/groovy-gorilla-release-notes/15533 https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-groovy-gorilla-20-10-beta-released/ https://ubuntubudgie.org/2020/09/ubuntu-budgie-20-10-release-notes/ ht

Canonicals MicroK8s Gets High-Availability https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-introduces-high-availability-micro-kubernetes/ A Massive KDE Plasma 5.20 Released https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.20.0 Big Changes in the Nextcloud Hub 20 Release h

Linux GUI Apps Coming to Windows https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-graphical-apps-coming-to-windows-subsystem-for-linux/ Linux Mint 20.1 Will Arrive Mid-December https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3969 Ubuntu 20.10, Groovy Gorilla [beta], Out https://9to5li

Lenovo Releases 27 Thinkpads and Thinkstations with Ubuntu https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-launches-linux-ready-thinkpad-and-thinkstation-pcs-preinstalled-with-ubuntu/ Amnesia the Dark Descent, Without Assets, Now Open Source http

Gnome 3.38 Release https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/09/gnome-3-38-released/   Gnome 40 Is Next https://discourse.gnome.org/t/new-gnome-versioning-scheme/4235   Nvidia Buys ARM https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-arm-for-40-billion-creatin

WSL2 Now Mounts Linux Disks https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/09/wsl-2-access-ext4-from-windows-10   Linux Mint Planning a WebApp Manager https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3960   Fedora to Use BTRFS as Default Filesystem in Fedora 33 https://fedoramagazine.or

Groovy Gorilla Is In Feature Freeze https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2020-August/001279.html Ubuntu Beginning the Switch to NFTables in Groovy Gorilla https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2020-August/041142.html IP Fire 2

Ubuntu LTS Point Releases Are Here http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2020/08/06/ubuntu-20-04-1-lts-released/ http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2020/08/14/ubuntu-18-04-5-lts-released/ http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2020/08/14/ubuntu-16-04-7-lts-released/   Rolling Rhino Turns Ub

Serpent OS, a New Distro https://www.serpentos.com/blog/2020/06/30/first-post/ IPFire Will Discontinue Support for 32-Bit with PAE https://blog.ipfire.org/post/ipfire-2-25-core-update-146-released Ubuntu 19.10 Reaches End of Life https://lists.ubuntu.com

Linux Mint Confirms Snap Will Be Forbidden https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3906 TUXEDO Computers and System76 Now Have AMD Laptop Offerings https://9to5linux.com/tuxedo-computers-unveils-their-first-amd-only-linux-laptop https://9to5linux.com/system76-laun

Oracle’s Patch Reduces Boot Times By Almost Half https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-Faster-Linux-Boot-PADATA Inkscape 1.0 Released, Finally https://inkscape.org/news/2020/05/04/introducing-inkscape-10/ Ubuntu Studio 20.1

Ubuntu 20.04 Released https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/04/download-ubuntu-20-04 Ubuntu Survey Results https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-20-04-survey-results Fedora 32 Released https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-32/ Lenovo Now Shipping Fedora on Th