The 264th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on November 2nd, 2025, 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 the IPFire firewall distro, Shotcut video editor, Tor Browser anonymous web browser, KDE Plasma desktop environment, Qt Creator IDE, LibreOffice office suite, Kodi media center, as well as Arch Linux, Fedora Linux, and AerynOS distributions.

On top of that, I show you how to upgrade your Ubuntu 25.04 systems to Ubuntu 25.10. 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 November 2nd, 2025.

Hot news of the week

• MX Linux 25 Release Candidate arrives with various improvements and changes
• IPFire 2.29 Core Update 198 gives a major boost to the Intrusion Prevention System
• KDE Plasma 6.5.1 is out to fix compatibility issues with older AMD GPUs
• Fedora Linux 43 has been officially released, now available for download
• Tor Browser 15.0 anonymous web browser is out based on Firefox 140 ESR series
• Tutorial: Ubuntu 25.04 users can now upgrade to Ubuntu 25.10
• Qt Creator 18 open-source IDE arrives with experimental container support
• LibreOffice 25.2.7 is out as the last update in the series, upgrade to LibreOffice 25.8
• AerynOS 2025.10 rolls out with GNOME 49.1, KDE Plasma 6.5, and GNU libstdc++
• Kodi 21.3 improves Blu-ray playback on Linux, adds HDR support on Xbox One
• Kodi 22 “Piers” gets HEIF/HEIC and FFmpeg 8 support, Alpha 2 out now
• Shotcut 25.10 video editor is here with screen recording, Typewriter text effect
• Arch Linux’s November 2025 ISO and Archinstall 3.0.12 installer are out now

Other GNU/Linux news of interest

• Ubuntu maker Canonical announces Canonical Academy for Ubuntu certification
• Debian Project plans Rust requirements for APT package manager from May 2026

Linux distributions released this week

• Arch Linux 2025.11.01
• TheSSS 50.0
• AerynOS 2025.10
• KDE neon 20251030
• Fedora Linux 43 Workstation
• Fedora Linux 43 KDE Plasma
• Fedora Linux 43 Xfce
• Fedora Linux 43 Cinnamon
• Fedora Linux 43 Budgie
• Fedora Linux 43 LXQt
• Fedora Linux 43 LXDE
• Fedora Linux 43 SoaS
• Fedora Linux 43 MATE
• Fedora Linux 43 Sway
• Fedora Linux 43 i3
• Fedora Linux 43 Miracle
• Fedora Linux 43 COSMIC
• IPFire 2.29 Core Update 198
• CentOS Stream 10-20251027
• Live Raizo 16.25.10.26
• BakAndImgCD 50.0

Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week

• DBeaver 25.2.4
• Linux kernel 6.17.7
• Linux kernel 6.12.57 LTS
• Linux kernel 6.6.116 LTS
• Shotcut 25.10
• Kodi 21.3
• MAME 0.282
• Rust 1.91.0
• Qt Creator 18.0
• Mesa 25.2.6
• Linux kernel 6.1.158 LTS
• Linux kernel 5.15.196 LTS
• Linux kernel 5.10.246 LTS
• Linux kernel 5.4.301 LTS
• Dovecot 2.4.2
• OBS Studio 32.0.2
• Chromium 142.0.7444.59
• Tor Browser 15.0
• Squid 7.3
• Xwayland 24.1.9
• Xorg Server 21.1.20
• Blender 4.5.4 LTS
• Distrobox 1.8.2.0
• Exim 4.99
• SeaMonkey 2.53.22
• Mozilla Firefox 144.0.2
• Giada 1.3.1
• Git 2.51.2
• Postfix 3.10.5

Coming up next week

• KDE Plasma 6.5.2
• LXQt 2.3
• Blender 5.0
• KDE Gear 25.08.3
• …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!