The 297th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending June 21st, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Kent Overstreet says Bcachefs is no longer experimental, while broader production use still calls for careful judgment.

Nordic Semiconductor has introduced the nRF54L15 Tag, a compact battery-powered prototyping platform built around the company’s nRF54L15 SoC. The 33 mm dual-antenna board is designed for developing low-power wireless products such as asset tags, Bluetooth trackers, remote controls, smart wearables, and devices targeting Apple Find My and Google Find Hub networks. The nRF54L15 Tag combines […]

postmarketOS 26.06 was released today as the latest version of this Alpine Linux-based operating system for mobile devices, bringing new features, support for new devices, and updated components.

Darktable 5.6 adds optional AI tools, object masks, neural denoise, image upscaling, HEIF export, and a new color harmonizer module.

The LCD7-PANEL-LIME2 is a ready-to-mount Linux touch panel computer from Olimex, based on the company’s A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 open hardware SBC. The unit combines a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen, a plastic panel-mount frame, mounting brackets, ribbon cable, and an assembled A20-based Linux board into a single package. The computer board is the A20-OLinuXino-LIME2-e16Gs16M, an open-source ARM Linux SBC […]

Liberated systemd is a fork that reverts systemd’s new optional birthDate support in user records, citing privacy concerns.

PorteuX 2.7 has been released today as the latest snapshot of this Slackware-based distribution inspired by Slax and Porteus and designed to be super fast, small, portable, modular, and immutable.

Eternal is an open-source project that runs Linux on a tiny virtual machine designed for long-term software preservation.

With the code merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel, the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is capable of handling Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) with modern game titles running on Linux / Steam Play...

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.10 brings Pi Connect for Organizations, CM5 secure boot re-provisioning, accessibility updates, and write fixes.

The ESP32 Bus Pirate project has been renamed ESP32 Bit Pirate as part of its continued development as an ESP32-S3-based multi-protocol firmware platform. The open-source project, developed by Geo-tp, turns supported ESP32-S3 boards into debugging and experimentation tools for wired protocols, radio interfaces, scripting, and browser-based interaction. The project remains inspired by the original Bus […]

KDE Plasma 6.8 development begins with color-coded monitor badges, UI refinements, and several usability improvements.

Raspberry Pi engineers have released their first update to Raspberry Pi OS since April. With this new version comes the upgrade to the latest Linux 6.18 LTS kernel...

NVIDIA has announced JetPack 7.2 for Jetson edge AI platforms, adding new deployment tools for agentic AI workloads, official Yocto Project support, and performance updates for Jetson Orin and Jetson Thor systems. The release is aimed at robotics, industrial automation, vision AI, and other edge applications that rely on local AI processing. One of the […]

SparkyLinux 2026.06 updates its semi-rolling Tiamat ISOs with Debian Testing Forky packages, Linux kernel 7.0, and Calamares 3.4.2.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced today a new version of its Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS Linux distribution for Raspberry Pi computers, introducing Linux 6.18 LTS, artwork updates, and various bug fixes.

It looks like AMD's next-gen SoCs not only will be exciting on the CPU side with the much anticipated Zen 6 cores but the AMD Audio Co-Processor "ACP" IP looks to be going through some significant updates...

IETF’s RFC 10008 standardizes QUERY, giving APIs a formal method for safe requests with content bodies.

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.10 has been released today as the latest stable release of this user-friendly tool for creating bootable media for Raspberry Pi devices, introducing support for Raspberry Pi Connect for Organizations.