The 255th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 31st, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s9to5LinuxWeekly Roundup, catch up with everything GNU/Linux/Open Sourcehere.
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This week, we celebrated Linux’s 34th birthday and also got some cool updates for the Wireshark network analyzer, fwupd firmware updater, DXVK Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux, LibreOffice office suite, QEMU virtualization software, as well as Armbian and AerynOS distros.
On top of that, I take a look at KDE’s initial system setup wizard coming in KDE Plasma 6.5. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for August 31st, 2025.
Hot news of the week
- Happy 34th birthday, Linux!
- QEMU 10.1 is here with TDX support, many RISC-V and ARM improvements
- First Look at KDE’s Initial System Setup (KISS) OEM tool in KDE Plasma 6.5
- OBS Studio 32.0 enters public beta testing with a basic plugin manager
- Wireshark 4.4.9 protocol analyzer is out with updated protocols and bug fixes
- Fwupd 2.0.14 adds support for framework QMK devices, SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P
- Armbian 25.8 arrives with support for Linux kernel 6.16 and Debian Trixie
- LibreOffice 25.8.1 office suite is already out with more than 90 bug fixes
- DXVK 2.7.1 brings improvements for Team Fortress 2, Crysis 3, and other games
- AerynOS 2025.08 is here with GNOME 48.4 and Mesa 25.2, KDE Plasma support
Other GNU/Linux news of interest
Linux distributions released this week
- AerynOS 2025.08
- Mabox Linux 25.08
- Manjaro Linux 25.0.8 Xfce
- Manjaro Linux 25.0.8 KDE Plasma
- Manjaro Linux 25.0.8 GNOME
- Linux Lite 7.6
- Bluestar Linux 6.16.4
- Robolinux 14.1 Cinnamon
- Garuda Linux 250826 dr460nized
- Garuda Linux 250826 dr460nized gaming
- Garuda Linux 250826 GNOME
- Garuda Linux 250826 Mokka
- Garuda Linux 250826 KDE Lite
- Garuda Linux 250826 Xfce
- Garuda Linux 250826 Cinnamon
- Garuda Linux 250826 Hyprland
- Garuda Linux 250826 Sway
- Garuda Linux 250826 i3
- CentOS Steam 10-20250825
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- DBeaver 25.2.0
- IceWM 3.9.0
- MAME 0.280
- ImageMagick 7.1.2-3 (GCC)
- ImageMagick 7.1.2-3 (Clang)
- Apache SpamAssassin 4.0.2
- DXVK 2.7.1
- fwupd 2.0.14
- Wireshark 4.4.9
- Linux kernel 6.16.4
- Linux kernel 6.12.44 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.6.103 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.1.149 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.15.190 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.10.241 LTS
- Linux kernel 5.4.297 LTS
- PHP 8.4.12
- nftables 1.1.5
- Chromium 139.0.7258.154
- CMake 4.1.1
- Mozilla Firefox 142.0.1
- xfsprogs 6.16.0
- QEMU 10.1.0
- LLVM 21.1.0
- Mir 2.22.0
- Qt 6.9.2
- OpenZFS 2.3.4
Coming up next week
- GNOME 49 Release Candidate
- New Arch Linux ISO release
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
