Linux NewsMozilla Firefox 153 ESR Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Mozilla Firefox 153 ESR open-source web browser is now available for download as the new Extended Support Release series with various new features and enhancements.
Linux 7.2 Improves Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Arc B390 Graphics Performance
My testing of the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel continues in the lab. One of the latest promising findings from this kernel that will be released as stable in August is faster Intel Xe3 graphics performance on Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware.
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 203 Brings a Major DNS Overhaul
The latest IPFire update replaces Unbound with Knot Resolver, adding DNS-over-TLS forwarding, domain filtering, and local DNS overrides.
Linux Patches Introduce "KNOD" For In-Kernel Network Offloading Directly To AMD GPUs
Some extremely cool patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list on Sunday. The patches for "KNOD" allow for in-kernel network offloading to GPUs with an initial focus on AMD GPU support. What makes this all the more nifty is that it doesn't depend upon any user-space libraries like AMD ROCm but is all handled in-kernel with driving the GPU directly...
Hyprland 0.56 Improves Lua Scripting and Window Layouts
Hyprland’s latest release enhances its scrolling and master layouts while expanding the available Lua APIs.
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 203 Firewall Distro Replaces Unbound with Knot Resolver
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 203 hardened Linux firewall distro is now available for download with Knot Resolver, 6 GHz Wi-Fi band support, and other changes.
Firefox 153 Available With Support For Vulkan Video Decoding, Experimental JPEG-XL
Mozilla has uploaded the Firefox 153.0 release binaries today for the newest monthly update to this cross-platform web browser. Making Firefox 153 exciting is that it's the newest Extended Support Release "ESR" as well as introducing Vulkan Video decode support...
openSUSE Seeking Additional Corporate Sponsors
While openSUSE is closely aligned with SUSE as a company, they aren't the exclusive sponsor of this free and open-source Linux distribution with its rolling-release Tumbleweed and Leap stable releases. AMD has been a longtime major supporter of openSUSE and the Fastly content delivery company has been another platinum sponsor too besides SUSE. There are also various other lower-tier sponsors while today the openSUSE Project put out a call for further corporate sponsorship...
AMD Posts AVX10_V2_AUX ISA Support Patches For GCC Compiler
Earlier this month Intel compiler engineers posted initial GCC compiler patches for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE" that was born out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group to augment AVX and scalar code with new capabilities for AI/ML workloads. Now as part of that an AMD compiler engineer posted patches over the weekend for AVX10_V2_AUX ISA support...
Linux's Qualcomm Crypto Accelerator Driver "Harmful" And Being Disabled: Slower Than CPU, History Of Bugs
The Qualcomm Crypto Engine Accelerator "QCE" driver is being disabled within the Linux 7.3 kernel over a number of issues, including being slower than having the CPU cores handling cryptographic work and a history of different driver bugs. Plus race conditions causing security issues and other challenges...
Hyprland 0.56 Released With Many Enhancements To This Wayland Compositor
Out today is Hyprland 0.56 as the newest feature update to this unique Wayland compositor and incorporating just under three months worth of improvements...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 19th, 2026
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 19th, 2026, brings news about Blender 5.2 LTS, COSMIC 1.3, KDE Plasma 6.7.3, Arch Linux's official ARM64 port, Wayland 1.26, System76's new Adder Pro Linux laptop, MKVToolNix 100, Clonezilla Live 3.3.3, KDE Plasma 6.8's new features, DXVK 3.0.2, and more.
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 29, 2026 (July 13 – 19)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Clonezilla Live 3.3.3, COSMIC 1.3, Plasma 6.7.3, Blender 5.2 LTS, Kitty 0.48, Microsoft gives Visual Studio Code a modern UI preview, and more.
Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc4
The 7.2-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "This whole week I had the feeling that people were starting to go on summer vacation, but running the numbers shows that I must have been wrong - it all looks pretty normal."
Ubuntu’s desktop icons extension completes its GTK4 port
The Desktop Icons NG (aka DING) GNOME Shell extension Ubuntu uses to put icons on your literal desktop, has been busy – it finished its port to GTK4, patched memory leaks and improved a few of its lesser-known features. The GTK4 port landed in v51.0.0, released this month, alongside early support for GNOME 51 (since that’s the GNOME version Ubuntu 26.10 will ship with in October). Prior to that, there were other, smaller in June with fixes for memory leaks and buffs to usability. DING’s GTK4 port – not to be confused with a separate GTK4 fork I covered back in […]