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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 13th, 2026

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for September 13th, 2026, brings news about Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS, NVIDIA 615, KDE Plasma 6.7.5, Debian 13.7, GIMP 3.2.6, Calamares 3.4.3, KDE Frameworks 6.30, MocaccinoOS 26.09, KDE Plasma 6.8 beta, Agama 24, KaOS Linux 2026.09, DietPi 10.7, Shotwell 0.33, Shelly 3.1.4, and more.

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Reminder: subscription price change coming

Just a reminder that prices for LWN subscriptions will increase after September 15. Until then, the older rate still applies. See this article for details on this change. Thanks, yet again, to all of our subscribers for your support โ€” that is what keeps LWN going.

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Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc3

The 7.3-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "Another fairly large rc release, and again one with a bigger filesystem footprint that we usually see."

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Shotwell 33 goes stable with its long-awaited GTK4 port

Shotwell 33 is out, the first stable version of the photo manager for GNOME desktops to use GTK4. A GTK4 port of Shotwell has been in the works since 2025. Itโ€™s the first big toolkit port the image tool has since since it migrated to GTK3 in 2012 (v0.12.0). Yet despite the leap, the user-facing result is just a plain port; itโ€™s not as visually transformative as gThumbโ€™s GTK4/libadwaita port (which looks like an entirely new app) A more substantive visual revamp using GTK4/libadwaita may follow. For now, Shotwell 33 looks like Shotwell v32 โ€“ the benefit is more in [โ€ฆ]

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Ubuntu 26.10 completes its transition to Rust-based coreutils

Ubuntu 26.10 completes the distroโ€™s move to Rust-based core utilities, with the commands previously held back due to security issues now migrated to memory-safe versions. cp, mv and rm were held back on their GNU versions in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS while TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) issues were addressed in the uutils versions. Wit those issues now resolved upstream, Ubuntu 26.10 has made the switch; the โ€˜Stonking Stingrayโ€™ ships with a full set of Rust core utilities, including ls, cat, chmod, chownand du. Canonicalโ€™s engineers began โ€œoxidisingโ€ the distro โ€“ replacing foundational software with Rust alternatives โ€“ in 2025, noting the security benefits of doing so (as Rust catches memory bugs at compile time, [โ€ฆ]