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The 254th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 24th, 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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It’s been a slow news week, but we got some nice gems, including major releases of the LibreOffice office suite, FFmpeg multimedia framework, Firefox web browser, and Thunderbird email client, as well as new updates to the Calibre e-book manager and CachyOS distribution.
On top of that, I tell you all about what’s coming in Firefox 143 and warn you about the end of life of Linux kernel 6.15, 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 24th, 2025.
Hot news of the week
- Firefox 142 web browser is now available for download with various changes
- Firefox 143 is now available for public beta testing, here’s what to expect
- Thunderbird 142 brings support for adding visual signatures to PDF attachments
- LibreOffice 25.8 office suite is now available for download with many new features
- Linux kernel 6.15 reaches end of life, it’s time to upgrade to Linux kernel 6.16
- Calibre 8.9 e-book manager adds support for embedded fonts to HTMLZ output
- FFmpeg 8.0 “Huffman” is out now with AV1 Vulkan encoder, VVC VA-API decoding
- CachyOS ISO snapshot for August 2025 introduces a new package dashboard
Linux distributions released this week
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- ImageMagick 7.1.2-2 (GCC)
- ImageMagick 7.1.2-2 (Clang)
- HandBrake 1.10.1
- Linux kernel 6.16.3
- FFmpeg 8.0
- Calibre 8.9
- Samba 4.22.4
- GNU nano 8.6
- Linux kernel 6.15.11
- Linux kernel 6.12.43 LTS
- Mesa 25.2.1
- BIND 9.20.12
- LibreOffice 25.8
- Blender 4.5.2 LTS
- Chromium 139.0.7258.138
- Mozilla Thunderbird 142.0
- Postfix 3.10.4
- Git 2.51.0
- Ventoy 1.1.07
- Mozilla Firefox 142.0
Coming up next week
- GNOME 49 Release Candidate
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
