Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 13.2, RHEL 10.1, Nitrux 5.0, Wine 10.19, Plasma 6.4.6, Docker 29, Proton 10.0, Canonical expands the LTS support to 15 years, and more.

LibrePods brings full AirPods support to Linux, including battery status, ANC modes, and gesture detection, all without relying on Apple’s ecosystem.

openSUSE's new Agama installer v18 introduces a redesigned storage page, enhanced DASD handling, and updates for upcoming SLE 16.1 installations.

NetworkManager 1.54.2 enhances SR-IOV handling by supporting the reapplication of VF settings and introduces new configuration options for the HSR protocol and interlink ports.

Marathon OS is a new, still-in-development mobile Linux system with a Qt6 Wayland compositor and a QML touch UI inspired by BlackBerry 10.

Git 2.52 introduces a high-performance method for identifying recent changes across entire directories, delivering significant speedups for large repositories.

AlmaLinux 9.7 arrives with toolchain upgrades and upcoming container, cloud, and live images across all supported architectures.

Systemd adds musl compatibility for the first time, reducing the glibc-only barrier and widening its reach across lighter Linux systems.

Solseek 0.3.2 introduces full Flatpak support for this Solus Linux eopkg TUI, along with faster caching and update checks upon launch.

GIMP 3.2 RC1 introduces native SVG export and a redesigned rasterize workflow for text, vector, and link layers.

Phosh 0.51 adds a location quick setting, smarter auto-brightness behavior, and multiple refinements across the GNOME-based mobile shell.

Valve’s latest Steam client update adds expanded chat reporting tools, suspicious message alerts, and new controller support, including fixes for PS5, Xbox 360, and Nintendo devices.

KDE Plasma 6.5.3 is now available, delivering fixes across KWin, Discover, and Breeze, improving stability, navigation, and desktop responsiveness.

The Debian Libre Live project releases its first free-only amd64 live ISOs, removing all non-free components from the installation media.

Systemd 259 RC1 previews the removal of SysV init script support and introduces major compatibility changes ahead of the v260 transition.

Blender 5.0 is out with a major UI redesign, a revamped Node Editor, new Closure and Bundle systems, and HDR color management support.

ClamAV will retire outdated signatures on December 16, reducing both databases by about 50% to improve performance and trim update costs.

Xubuntu confirms a malicious ZIP was served in October and is switching to the Hugo static site generator to prevent similar attacks.

Proxmox VE 9.1 debuts OCI-based LXC containers, Linux kernel 6.17, and upgrades to virtualization, security, and networking.

Xen 4.21 open-source type-1 hypervisor adds a new PDX compression algorithm, updated toolchain requirements, and improvements across x86, Arm, and RISC-V.

Immich 2.3, a self-hosted photo and video management platform, adds multilingual OCR models and introduces maintenance mode.