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A new hardware enablement (HWE) will roll out to users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS this month, ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS point release due on February 12. Ubuntu’s engineers periodically backport the Linux kernel and graphics drivers included in interim releases to the current long-term support (LTS) version. The next update delivers components from Ubuntu 25.10, released in October 2025. This means the Ubuntu 24.04.4 HWE brings the Linux 6.17 kernel and Mesa 25.2.7, a sizeable leap over the 25.0.x series that was delivered in the 24.04.3 HWE update last August. New versions of Intel VAAPI driver (2.4.1), libva, […]

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Hello community, here we have another set of package updates.

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• Get the latest Gaming Laptop by Slimbook powered by Manjaro: Slimbook Manjaro III
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Recent News NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal support (click for more details)

• Manjaro 26.0 Anh-Linh released
• Manjaro Summit public Alpha now available
• As of Linux 5.4.302, the 5.4 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 5.10 LTS (Long Term Support) or 5.15 LTS.
• As of Linux 6.16.12, the 6.16 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.18 stable and/or 6.12 LTS (Long Term Support).
• As of Linux 6.17.13, the 6.17 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.18 stable and/or 6.12 LTS (Long Term Support).

Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository (click for more details) Previous News Finding information easier about Manjaro (click for more details) Notable Package Updates

• Some Kernels got updated
• KDE Gear 25.12.1
• Haskell 2.2.0
• Mesa 25.3.3

Additional Info Python 3.13 info (click for more details) Info about AUR packages (click for more details)

Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.

Our current supported kernels

• linux54 5.4.302 [EOL]
• linux510 5.10.247
• linux515 5.15.197
• linux61 6.1.159
• linux66 6.6.119
• linux612 6.12.64
• linux617 6.17.13 [EOL]
• linux618 6.18.4
• linux619 6.19.0-rc3
• linux61-rt 6.1.158_rt58
• linux66-rt 6.6.116_rt66
• linux612-rt 6.12.57_rt14
• linux617-rt 6.17.5_rt7

Package Changes (1/8/26 21:25 CET)

• testing core x86_64: 16 new and 16 removed package(s)
• testing extra x86_64: 1295 new and 1300 removed package(s)
• testing multilib x86_64: 22 new and 21 removed package(s)

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The post 60 Must-Have Free and Open-Source Linux Tools for 2026 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

It’s time once again to share a list of the best free and open-source software I’ve come across, updated for

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Canonical's ARM64 Steam Snap brings x86 gaming to Ubuntu ARM systems via FEX emulation. Early testing shows 200+ FPS in Cyberpunk 2077. You can help test it.

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The API documentation opens the door for developers to build their own control apps (hopefully open source ones).

Study of 20 years of kernel history finds bugs hide for 2+ years on average, some for decades.

Keep on learning in, keep on Linux-ing. 2026 is your year of Linux.

I don't need to tell you that this application is for the people who enjoy the free and open knowledge provided by Wikipedia.

Ubuntu 25.04 'Plucky Puffin' reaches end of life on January 15, 2025. Users must upgrade to Ubuntu 25.10 to keep receiving critical security updates.

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Elecrow's CrowView Note 15.6 addresses complaints from the original with a larger screen, USB-C charging, and expanded SBC support. Priced at $169.

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The move replaces SDDM but means giving up on custom login themes.

With no one left to handle data protection requests, the project is looking for new volunteers.

Bazaar Flatpak manager adds permission warnings showing app safety, Flathub account sync, verified-only filtering, and a neat new 'market stall' app icon.

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GitHub Desktop is not officially available for Linux. But there are alternative ways to install GitHub Desktop fork on Ubuntu.

Proposals for both GNOME and Firefox would disable the feature by default, but the final decision is still pending.

Dell revives XPS brand with redesigned 14 and 16-inch laptops. Ubuntu 24.04 support coming to XPS 14 later this year. Details and specs inside.

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Actually, these are mostly based on my New Year resolutions, and not all of these will be applicable to you, but you will surely find one or two to add to your new year resolution as a desktop Linux user.

Previously proprietary, this game engine is now fully open source.

Manjaro 26.0

Since we released Zetar in April 2025 we worked hard to get the next release of Manjaro out there. We call it Anh-Linh.

The GNOME edition has received several updates to Gnome 49 series. This includes a lot of fixes and polish when Gnome 49 originally was released in September 2025. You can find find release dates of each upcoming point-release here: Release Calendar. Weekly updates around GNOME can be found here.

Highlights of 49 release series are:

Calendar sees a number of improvements in GNOME 49. The most visible change is the reorganized interface, which is now more flexible, and allows the window to adapt to different window sizes. It also makes it possible to manually hide the sidebar, which is ideal for smaller screens or tiled windows.

Version 49 of the Software app focuses heavily on performance improvements. One major bottleneck has been how the app store parses large amounts of data from Flatpak repositories like Flathub. This release introduces optimizations that greatly reduce memory usage and speed up the parsing process. The result is a snappier, more responsive experience when browsing and searching for apps, especially on systems with limited resources.

GNOME 49 introduces a vibrant new wallpaper catalog that’s specifically engineered for high‑dynamic‑range (HDR) displays and the Display P3 color space. These HDR beautiful wallpapers are possible due to enhanced color-management in GNOME’s window manager (Mutter), which allows it to render wallpapers with their full 16‑bit‑per‑channel RGB depth, giving an unprecedented range of colors and contrast. Image loading backend (Glycin) has also been improved with regard to performance of the color-managed pipelines.

GNOME’s built-in remote desktop capabilities have been extended for version 49, providing more capabilities for those connecting to their GNOME desktops from elsewhere.

The Plasma edition comes with the latest Plasma 6.5 series, Frameworks 6.21 and KDE Gear 25.12. It brings exciting new improvements to your desktop.

Plasma 6.5 includes a number of highly-requested features:

First up: rounded bottom window corners! Breeze-themed windows will now have the same level of roundness in all four corners. If you don’t like this, you can un-round them, too. Another one is automatic light-to-dark theme switching based on the time of day. You can configure which global themes it switches between, and also which themes are shown on the manual toggles on System Settings’ Quick Settings page. As a part of this feature, you can also configure whether you want the wallpaper to switch between its light and dark versions based on the color scheme, the time of day, or be always light or dark.

The Flatpak Permissions page got transformed into a general Application Permissions page, where you can configure apps’ ability to do things like take screenshots and accept remote control requests.

Plasma’s built in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server now lets you share the clipboard. You’re also no longer required to manually create separate remote desktop accounts; now the system’s existing user accounts work as expected, and you can just supply their credentials to the RDP client app.

The utility that reads the level of ink or toner from your printer now informs you when it’s running low or empty.

And finally, you can now hibernate your system from the login screen.

With our XFCE edition, we have now Xfce 4.20. Here some highlights: A new file highlighting feature (accessed from the file properties dialog) in Thunar file manager lets you set a custom colour background and a custom foreground text colour – an effective way to call attention to specific file(s) in a directory laden with similar-looking mime types. On the subject of finding files, Thunar includes recursive search.

The panel picks up a pair of new preferences. First, panel length is now configured in pixels rather than percentages, as before. Second, there’s a new “keep panel above windows” option. This allows maximised app windows to fill the area behind the panel rather than maximise its bottom or top edge to sit flush against it.

Control Centre groups all of the desktop’s various modules for managing the system into one easy-to-use window. New options are present in many of these. For example you can disable header bars in dialogs from the Appearance module; show or hide a ‘delete’ option in file context menus from Desktop; and pick a default multi-monitor behaviour before you attach an additional screen – dead handy, that.

Kernel 6.18 is used for this release, such as the latest drivers available to date. With 6.12 LTS and 6.6 LTS we offer additional support for older hardware as needed.

We hope you enjoy this release and let us know what you think of Anh-Linh.

Anh-Linh 26.0 (2026-01-04)

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