Full Circle Weekly News 485 11 Oct 2026 · 1 minutes

• Canonical’s revenue reached $345 million in 2025:

• The first beta release of GoZen:

• WSL 3.0:

• Beta release of f4 0.3:

• antiX 26.1:

• OpenMandriva ROME Release 26.09:

• Ubuntu 26.10 Beta:

• The Argon Forge project optimized builds:

• Qubes 4.3.2 OS:

• Pop!_OS and COSMIC projects & AI:

• Netherlands and France & NixOS:

• OpenCourant:

Full Circle Weekly News 432 28 Sep 2025 · 1 minutes

• Want to get into FOSS, now’s your chance!

• Jonathan Riddell leaves KDE:

• AMD has discontinued AMDVLK:

• Release of fheroes2 1.1.11:

• Java SE 25 LTS and OpenJDK 25:

• GNOME 49, “Brescia”:

• StartWine-Launcher:

• Systemd 258:

• The creator of Blender steps down as head of the Blender Foundation:

• GNUnet 0.25:

• Vivaldi 7.6:

• Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Release:

• KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta Release:

• Multikernel project:

• FLX1s smartphone:

Full Circle Weekly News 263 29 May 2022 · 1 minutes

• NetworkManager 1.38.0 released:

• iptables packet filter release 1.8.8:

• Release of TrueNAS 13.0:

• Serious Sam Classic game engine updated for Linux:

• Release of Rocky Linux 8.6:

• Release of Inkscape 1.2:

• FreeBSD 13.1 release:

• Qt Company’s CTO and Qt Lead Maintainer leave the project:

• First release of the openSUSE Leap Micro distribution:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Available for Download:

• Oracle Linux 8.6 Release and Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 7 Beta:

• Release of Mesa 22.1:

• MyBee 13.1.0, has been published:

• Apache OpenMeetings 6.3 web conferencing server available:

Full Circle Weekly News 258 23 Apr 2022 · 1 minutes

• New Release of Raspberry Pi OS:

• Thunderbird 100 beta release integrates Matrix protocol support:

• Custom Material Shell 42:

• MX Linux release 21.1:

• Release of OpenSSH 9.0 with transfer of scp to the SFTP protocol:

• Minimal web browser links 2.26:

• Utilities for managing SSD drives - nvme-cli 2.0:

• EndeavorOS 22.1 released:

• RHVoice 1.8.0 speech synthesizer released:

• Release of LXD 5.0:

• Qt 6.3 framework released:

• Progress in the development of open firmware for the Raspberry Pi:

• Plans for the next generation of SUSE Linux:

• Release of Turnkey Linux 17:

• CENO 1.4.0 censorship-focused web browser available:

• Fedora plans to replace DNF package manager with Microdnf:

• Release of Neovim 0.7.0, a modernized version of the Vim editor:

Full Circle Weekly News 230 3 Oct 2021 · 1 minutes

• The first stable release of GNU wget2

• PaSh shell script parallelization system moved under the wing of Linux Foundation

• Fedora Linux 35 has entered beta testing

• OBS Studio 27.1 Released

• SuperTuxKart 1.3 released

• Firezone - create VPN servers based on WireGuard

• New version of Exim mail server

• PostgreSQL 14 released

• Free Software Foundation Introduces JShelter Browser Add-on to Restrict JavaScript API

• Crashes in OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD and Electron due to deprecation of the IdenTrust root certificate

• Google donates a million dollars to improve the security of open source software

Full Circle Weekly News 229 26 Sep 2021 · 1 minutes

• Bespoke Synth 1.0 software sound synthesizer released

• Headscale develops an open server for Tailscale

• Samba 4.15.0 Released

• Sysvinit 3.0 released

• Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 support time extended to 10 years

• Google publishes HIBA

• A kernel module that can speed up OpenVPN

• Apache NetBeans IDE 12.5 Released

• Ubuntu Touch Nineteenth Firmware Update

• Release of the GNOME 41 user environment

• The Waydroid project develops a package to run Android on GNU / Linux distributions

• Release of CRIU 3.16

• MidnightBSD 2.1 released

• Ubuntu 21.10 beta release

• HackerOne pays for identifying vulnerabilities in Open Source Software

• GNU Coreutils 9.0 released

Full Circle Weekly News 226 6 Sep 2021 · 1 minutes

• Linux 5.14 kernel released

• Beta version of Multitextor

• A completely free version of the Linux-libre 5.14 kernel is available

• NTFS-3G Releases with Vulnerability Elimination

• ONLYOFFICE Docs 6.4 online editor

• New version of SMPlayer

• Armbian 21.08 Released

• Linux From Scratch 11 and Beyond Linux From Scratch 11 Released

• Nitrux 1.6.0 Releases with NX Desktop

• Release of KDE Plasma Mobile 21.08

• Release yt-dlp

• OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released

• Wayland-based KDE session is stable

Full Circle Weekly News 225 29 Aug 2021 · 1 minutes

• GTK 4.4 graphical toolkit

• GNOME 41 Beta Available

• Release of the GNU Taler 0.8

• Linux kernel turns 30

• Release of QEMU Emulator 6.1

• SeaMonkey 2.53.9

• Free OpenShot Video Editor 2.6.0 Released

• The GNOME Project has launched an Application Web Directory

• Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS Release with Graphics Stack and Linux Kernel Updates

• DogLinux Build Update

• Qt Creator 5.0 Released

• LibreELEC 10.0

• New releases of anonymous network I2P 1.5.0

• Delta Chat 1.22 messenger is available

Full Circle Weekly News 206 19 Apr 2021 · 1 minutes

• OpenToonz 1.5, an open source 2D animation package

• Sway 1.6 environment using Wayland released

• Xen 4.15 hypervisor released

• FPGA Open Source Development Initiative

• NVIDIA Invests $ 1.5M in Mozilla Common Voice Project

• Slackware 15 entered beta testing

• Amazon Introduces OpenSearch, Forked Elasticsearch Platform

• FreeBSD 13.0 released

• System76 has announced the development of a custom COSMIC environment

• X.Org Server 1.20.11 update with vulnerability fix

• Nginx 1.19.10 released

• Patches for randomizing Linux kernel stack addresses for system calls introduced

• Google unveils multi-level LRU patches for Linux

• Release of LXQt 0.17

• Console file manager nnn 4.0 available

Full Circle Weekly News 204 6 Apr 2021 · 1 minutes

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• DigiKam 7.2 released

• 4MLinux 36.0 released

• Malicious changes detected in the PHP project Git repository

• New version of Cygwin 3.2.0, the GNU environment for Windows

• SeaMonkey 2.53.7 Released

• Nitrux 1.3.9 with NX Desktop is Released

• Parrot 4.11 Released with Security Checker Toolkit

• Systemd 248 system manager released

• GIMP 2.10.24 released

• Deepin 20.2 ready for download

• Installer added to Arch Linux installation images

• Ubuntu 21.04 beta released

Full Circle Weekly News 203 2 Apr 2021 · 1 minutes

• Ubuntu Testing Week Is Here

• 7zip Sees its First Official Linux Port

• openSUSE Virtual Conference in June

• Richard Stallman Returns to the Free Software Foundation

• Collabora Releases PanVk

• Ubuntu Touch OTA 16 Out

• Manjaro 21.0 Ornara RC1 Out

• Debian 10.9 Out

• Fedora 34 Beta Out

• Gnome 40 Out

• LibreELEC Matrix 10.0 Beta 1 Out

• Firefox 87 Out

• Audacity 3.0 Out

• Krita 4.4.3 Out

• All-AMD Pangolin Available from System76

• Nvidia Graphics Driver 460.67 Out

Full Circle Weekly News 200 14 Feb 2021 · 1 minutes

• Ubuntu 20.04.2 and Flavors with HWE Stack Released

• Ubuntu To Replace Ubiquity Installer

• Apache Project Hoping for New Rust Cryptography Module, with Help from Google

• Martin Wimpress to Leave Post at Canonical

• Ubuntu Core 20 Out

• AlmaLinux 8.3 Beta Out

• EndeavourOS’s first 2021 Update Release Out

• Solus 4.2 Out

• Ubuntu’s Yaru Theme with GTK4 Support Out

• Ubuntu 21.04 Artwork Out

• KDE’s Februrary App Update Out

• LibreOffice 7.1 Out

• Darktable 3.4.1 Out

• Feral Interactive Have Announced Linux Support for Warhammer III