The 277th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending February 1st, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, catch up with everything GNU/Linux/Open Source here.
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The end of January brought us new software releases, including GParted 1.8, Calibre 9.0, Transmission 4.1, GStreamer 1.28, OpenSSL 3…
The 277th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending February 1st, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, catch up with everything GNU/Linux/Open Source here.
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The end of January brought us new software releases, including GParted 1.8, Calibre 9.0, Transmission 4.1, GStreamer 1.28, OpenSSL 3.6.1, VirtualBox 7.2.6, Shotcut 26.1, TigerVNC 1.16, and Proton 10.0-4, as well as several distro releases, including Tails 7.4.1, AerynOS 2026.01, Linux Lite 7.8, GParted Live 1.8, and Emmabuntüs DE 5 1.05.
On top of that, I tell you all about Xfce’s upcoming Wayland compositor written in Rust and the new Linux laptop from TUXEDO Computers. 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 roundup for February 1st, 2026.
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Hot news of the week
- GParted 1.8 open-source partition editor brings many fixes and enhancements
- Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 5 gets new accessibility features, Debian 12.13 base
- Proton 10.0-4 is out with support for Drop Dead: The Cabin and Quantum Threshold
- OpenSSL 3.6.1 is now available with important security patches and bug fixes
- Xfce desktop environment is getting a Rust-based Wayland compositor
- TigerVNC 1.16 is now available with support for sharing Wayland desktops
- GStreamer 1.28 open-source multimedia framework is here as a major update
- Transmission 4.1 open-source BitTorrent client arrives as a massive update
- TUXEDO Computers unveils Intel-powered InfinityBook Max 15 Gen10 Linux laptop
- Debian-based GParted Live 1.8 is out with Linux kernel 6.18 LTS, GParted 1.8
- VirtualBox 7.2.6 adds initial support for Linux kernel 6.19 and improvements
- Calibre 9.0 open-source ebook manager now available with new Bookshelf view
- Tails 7.4.1 is out as an emergency release patching critical OpenSSL vulnerabilities
- AerynOS 2026.01 arrives with Linux kernel 6.18 LTS, GNOME 49.3, and more
- Linux Lite 7.8 is here based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and many apps ported to GTK4
- Shotcut 26.1 open-source video editor arrives with hardware video decoding
Other GNU/Linux news of interest
Linux distributions released this week
- Arch Linux 2026.02.01
- Parrot OS 7.1 Security
- Parrot OS 7.1 Home
- Linux Lite 7.8
- AerynOS 2026.01 GNOME
- Tails 7.4.1
- AUSTRUMI 5.1.8
- KDE neon 20260129
- Bluestar Linux 6.18.7
- GParted Live 1.8.0
- Alpine Linux 3.23.3
- CentOS Stream 10-20260126
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- DBeaver 25.3.4
- Shotcut 26.1
- Calibre 9.1
- Linux kernel 6.18.8 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.12.68 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.6.122 LTS
- Tor Browser 15.0.5
- AppArmor 4.1.4
- OpenLDAP 2.6.12
- MAME 0.285
- GNU gettext 1.0
- Qt 6.10.2
- Tor 0.4.8.22
- Mozilla Thunderbird 147.0.1
- VirtualBox 7.2.6
- Chromium 144.0.7559.109
- Transmission 4.1
- GStreamer 1.28
- CMake 4.2.3
- TigerVNC 1.16
- OpenSSL 3.6.1
- Mozilla Firefox 147.0.2
- Docker 29.2.0
- GParted 1.8
- Krita 5.2.15
Coming up next week
- LibreOffice 26.2
- GNOME 50 Beta
- GNOME 49.4
- KDE Gear 25.12.2
- Linux kernel 6.19
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!