Shelly 3.1.3 Arch Linux Package Manager Adds AUR Cache Cleanup
Shelly 3.1.3 improves AUR package handling, expands PKGBUILD compatibility, and adds new cleanup and automation features.
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Shelly 3.1.3 improves AUR package handling, expands PKGBUILD compatibility, and adds new cleanup and automation features.
Recently, Framework announced their new Laptop 12, which optionally comes with the KDE Edition of Fedora Linux pre-installed. Frameworkโs modular hardware has long captured the hearts of tinkerers, and many Framework users were already running Fedora Linux. Giving community members the option to unbox a hardware-validated, pre-installed Fedora KDE system is the culmination of months [โฆ]
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for September 6th, 2026, brings news about Firefox 155, Audacity 4.0, Thunderbird 155, Linux 7.1 EOL, Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 3, Grml 2026.09, LibreOffice 26.2.6, Shelly 3.1.3, new Steam Client update, Audacity 3.7.9, Firefox 156 beta, new Arch Linux ISO release, OpenVPN 2.7.7, and more.
OpenVPN 2.7.7 is now available for download as the seventh maintenance update to the OpenVPN 2.7 series with various improvements, as well as bug and security fixes.
Shelly 3.1.3 graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with improved AppImage and Flatpak support, improved package builder, and other changes.
The 7.3-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: This didn't *feel* like a particularly busy rc2, but it clearly was. rc2 is usually the quietest time when people take a breather after the merge window and it takes a while to start finding bugs. But not this time - this is a "full fat" rc release. [...] Nothing looks particularly odd, even if the rc2 timing is a bit unusual. It might be just random, but we'll obviously all blame it on AI, because whether that's really the cause or not, it's an easy thing to blame ;)
Linux isn't magic. It's how the developers choose a distro's apps and desktop that matters.
Firefoxโs new โNovaโ redesign will be enabled for all users in Firefox 157, due the end of September โ barring any last minute hiccups, of course. Mozillaโs engineers have been working on Nova since March. The original pitch used a lot of rounded UI elements, floating toolbars, framed web content that no longer sat flush to the edge of the browser window and, more noticeably, a lot of pastel gradients. Those changes have been refined and dialled down over the past few months. The roundness has been lightly reigned in, โgapsโ to segment and float toolbars from content quietly closed [โฆ]
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Arch 2026.09, LFS 13.1, Audacity 4.0, OpenShot 4.0, Noctalia 5 Shell, Firefox 155, Debian 13 takes over 2,2K CERN control systems, and more.
Break out of Microsoft-imposed limits with Linux.
This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers.
It turns disk wiping into a dedicated job!
After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of October...
Ikey Doherty is back with Barney, a new Linux build project that arrives with bold ideas and familiar questions about long-term commitment.
Following the recent Shotcut stable release with a stock asset library and other improvements, Shotcut 26.9 Beta is out today with yet more improvements for this open-source video editing application for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems...