The 301st installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending July 19th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

If you are looking for a reason to celebrate today, the last of the MPEG-4 Part 2 patents expired today...

M5Stack has introduced three compact products addressing wireless IoT development, industrial automation, and portable embedded control. The lineup includes the Stamp-C5 module with dual-band Wi-Fi 6 and IEEE 802.15.4 connectivity, the isolated StamPLC IO expansion module, and the lower-cost StickC Plus SE handheld development kit. The Stamp-C5 is based on Espressif’s ESP32-C5HF4 and measures 17.6 […]

Thanks to the work of the open-source community, more ASUS desktop motherboards for Intel Core and AMD Ryzen systems are seeing working sensor monitoring under Linux. With the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle, several additional ASUS motherboards will now enjoy working sensor monitoring...

GNOME Calendar developer has revived a months-old dispute with Linux Mint over outdated packages, support links, and branding.

KDE Plasma 6.8 is coming later this year as the next major update to the beloved desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions, and it’s a special release as it will coincide with KDE’s 30th anniversary on October 14th, 2026.

The fourth weekly release candidate of the Linux 7.2 kernel is now available for testing...

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.

The Legion Y700 Gen4 is an Android tablet that debuted last year and powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. This 8.8-inch tablet is now seeing patches for enabling Linux support outside the confines of Android and will hopefully end up in the mainline kernel...

Gitea 1.27 arrives with first-class reusable workflow jobs, Markdown job summaries, Jupyter Notebook rendering, and an extensive collection of security fixes.

A new open-source Linux driver announced today by Arm is the Arm Core Local Accelerator "CLA" driver as a CPU-local interface for programming attached accelerators. This is an agnostic interface for attached accelerators with the initial target focusing on an attached compute engine...

Kitty 0.48 introduces vertical tabs on the left or right side, plus Wayland fixes, macOS enhancements, and performance improvements.

The performance of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver continues to improve each feature release in its quest toward better competing with NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver with its proprietary Vulkan driver...

Mozilla AI developers have released a new version of Llamafile, their solution for easy-to-use LLMs as a single file that work across hardware and operating systems. With Llamafile 0.10.4 is now Transcribefile, as a new piece built off their recently announced Transcribe.cpp project...

FreeBSD removes its last remaining GPL-licensed component from the base system and retires the now-empty GNU source subtree.

The GNU Hurd project recently issued their Q2'2026 status report to outline recently development efforts. The Hurd is still happening!..

The open-source Vocalinux app lets Linux users dictate text into almost any application while processing their speech locally.

Microsoft releases Visual Studio Code 1.129 with an experimental modern UI that refreshes the editor’s overall look and feel.

Following the release of AMD's ZenDNN 6.0 earlier this month, there is a new feature release of the oneDNN neural network library that used to be developed by Intel as part of oneAPI and is now under the UXL Foundation umbrella. Even so, oneDNN feature releases continue to be heavy on new Intel optimizations and future hardware support...

As part of Valve's upcoming Qualcomm-powered Steam Frame headset, Valve has been collaborating with Collabora on the Arch Linux AArch64 base for their platform. Published today are the initial sources and binaries of this "Holo Core" base of Arch Linux AArch64 to be used by the Steam Frame...