Welcome to Week 38 of Linuxiac’s 2026 Weekly Roundup, your source for Linux and open-source news. Below are the key Linux and FOSS highlights from September 14 to 20.
Linux Distributions
This week brought seven updates in the Linux world, and I’ve covered each one in the articles below.
- MX Linux 25.3 Released with Debian 13.7 Updates
- Garuda Linux Launches Garuda Nix for NixOS Users
- Fedora 45 Beta Released with Linux 7.2, GNOME 51, and KDE Plasma 6.7
- Raspberry Pi OS September Update Adds New Dock, Revamped Desktop Controls
- Arch-Based Omarchy 4.0.4 Makes Its Custom Linux Kernel the Default
- Tails 7.13 Anonymous OS Released with Faster Shutdowns
- Clonezilla Live 3.3.3-37 Adds HTTP Boot and LUKS2 Support
Software Updates
Additionally, here is a summary of the latest open-source software updates featured this week.
- GNOME 51 “A Coruña” Released with Offline Maps, Faster Desktop Performance
- VirtualBox 7.2.18 Released with More Fixes and Improvements
- RustFS 1.0 S3-Compatible Object Storage Reaches GA
- Mozilla Firefox 156 Released with Up to 45% Faster PDF Viewer
- Thunderbird 156 Released with Custom OAuth for POP3, IMAP Improvements
- Wine 11.18 Improves Windows Kernel Driver Support
- VLC 3.0.24 Multimedia Player Upgrades to FFmpeg 8.1.2, Adds Flatpak Support
- Dash to Panel v74 Is Ready for GNOME 51
- Krita 5.3.4 and 6.0.4 Are Out with Android and Qt 6 Updates
- Java 27 Released with G1 as the Default Garbage Collector
- Miracle-WM 0.11 Wayland Compositor Adds a New Workspace Overview Mode
- Calibre 9.15 E-Book Manager Released with New AI Storytelling Feature
- Rust Coreutils 0.12 Improves Ubuntu Compatibility
- GNU Coreutils 9.12 Released with Faster sort, cut, and uniq Commands
- PipeWire 1.6.9 Multimedia Framework Released with Better Resampling Quality
- Navidrome 0.64 Music Server & Streamer Adds Experimental Jellyfin Music API Support
- Pangolin 1.23 Tunneled Reverse Proxy Makes High Availability Easier to Deploy
- MariaDB 13.0 Goes Stable with New SQL and InnoDB Features
- Unicode 18.0 Released with 13,007 New Characters
- DXVK 3.1.1 Brings Fixes for Skyrim SE, Rayman 3, and More
- Mojo 1.1 Programming Language Opens Its Compiler to External Contributions
Must-Reads You Can’t Miss
The Linux and FOSS community also saw several notable developments. Key highlights include:
- KDE Plasma 6.8 Enters Final Polishing Ahead of October 14 Release
- LibreOffice 26.8 Sets Download Record as TDF Says “No AI” Is a Feature
- 113 Void Linux Packages Orphaned Following AI Policy Dispute
- NVIDIA Introduces CUDA Rust for Writing GPU Kernels
- Portainer 3.0 Goes Kubernetes-First, Leaving Docker Secondary
- Talos Enterprise Linux Launches for Kubernetes Infrastructure
That’s all for this week. If you missed our previous wrap-up from Week 37 of 2026 (September 7 to 13), you can catch up here, where you’ll find Debian 13.7, Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS, KaOS 2026.09, COSMIC Desktop 1.8, Noctalia 5.1 Wayland Shell, GIMP 3.2.6, NVIDIA 615.71, Jellyfin 12.0 Media Server, KDE Plasma 6.7.5, Immich 3.2, OpenRGB 1.0, KDE Plasma 6.8: Here’s What’s Coming, Linux Mint Is Getting New Calendar and Book Reader Apps, and many more.
Keep an eye on Linuxiac for the latest updates from the Linux and open-source world.
Have a great week ahead!
