The 275th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 18th, 2026, keeping you updated with the most important things happening 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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This week, we got new releases of Mozilla Firefox, Wine, KDE Plasma, Mozilla Thunderbird, NVIDIA graphics driver, GRUB bootload…
The 275th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 18th, 2026, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, catch up with everything GNU/Linux/Open Source here.
Thank you!
I would like to thank everyone who sent us donations; your generosity is greatly appreciated. I also want to thank all of you for your continued support by commenting, liking, sharing, and boosting the articles, following us on social media, and, last but not least, sending us feedback.
This week, we got new releases of Mozilla Firefox, Wine, KDE Plasma, Mozilla Thunderbird, NVIDIA graphics driver, GRUB bootloader, Wireshark, GNOME, Amarok, PipeWire, Raspberry Pi Imager, Tails, EndeavourOS, and more.
On top of that, I tell you all about Ubuntu 25.04’s end of life, Debian on OpenWrt One, and upcoming releases of KDE Plasma, Firefox, and MX Linux. 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 January 18th, 2026.
Hot news of the week
- Firefox 147 is now available for download with new features and improvements
- MX Linux 25.1 Beta brings back dual-init support, based on Debian 13.3
- Firefox 148 enters public beta testing with improved support for screen readers
- NVIDIA 580.126.09 arrives to improve compatibility with recent Linux kernels
- KDE Plasma 6.5.5 is out, improves support for older Valve Index VR headsets
- Wine 11 officially released with NTSync support, Vulkan H.264 decoding, and more
- KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment is now available for public beta testing
- Thunderbird 147 adds “Show Full Path” folder pane option for compact view modes
- Wireshark 4.6.3 is out with updated protocol and capture file support
- GRUB 2.14 arrives with EROFS, Argon2 KDF, and Shim loader protocol support
- OBS Studio 32.1 promises new audio mixer & WebRTC simulcast support, beta out now
- Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” reached end of life, upgrade to Ubuntu 25.10
- Tails 7.4 anonymous Linux OS is here with persistent language and formats
- You can now run Debian GNU/Linux on the OpenWrt One open-source router
- EndeavourOS Ganymede Neo is out with Linux kernel 6.18 LTS and KDE Plasma 6.5.4
- GNOME 49.3 desktop released with more improvements and bug fixes
- GNOME 50 Alpha is now available for public testing as a Wayland-only release
- Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.4 improves handling for files larger than 4GB
- PipeWire 1.4.10 backports filter-graph channel support and fixes more bugs
- Fedora Games Lab spin to switch from Xfce to KDE Plasma with Fedora Linux 44
- Amarok 3.3.2 brings improvements to user interface, audio backend, and more
Linux distributions released this week
- EndeavourOS Ganymede Neo
- KDE neon 20260115
- Tails 7.4
- Manjaro Linux 26.0.1 Xfce
- Manjaro Linux 26.0.1 KDE Plasma
- Manjaro Linux 26.0.1 GNOME
- CentOS Stream 10-20260113
- TUXEDO OS 20260113
- Q4OS 6.5 KDE Plasma
- Q4OS 6.5 TDE
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- Distrobox 1.8.2.3
- Mozilla Firefox 147.0.1
- Docker 29.1.5
- PipeWire 1.4.10
- Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.4
- Chromium 144.0.7559.59
- Wireshark 4.6.3
- GRUB 2.14
- Mozilla Thunderbird 147.0
- Wine 11.0
- Tor Browser 15.0.4
- NVIDIA 580.126.09
- ALSA 1.2.15.3
- Snort 3.10.1.0
- Ruby 4.0.1
- Linux kernel 6.18.5 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.12.65 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.6.120 LTS
- Linux kernel 6.1.160 LTS
Coming up next week
- …hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!