9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: Highlights from September 14th, 2025

The 257th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for the week ending September 14, 2025, provides a comprehensive overview of significant developments in the Linux world. If you’re looking for the previous roundup, you can catch up here.

Highlights from This Week

The community has shown remarkable support through donations, greatly appreciated by the 9to5Linux team. This week saw numerous releases, including updates for KDE Plasma, KDE Gear, Steam Client, Puppy Linux BookwormPup64, and more.

Noteworthy Releases and Updates

• Kodi 22 “Piers” introduces HDR passthrough on OpenGL and HDR support on Wayland.
• KDE Plasma 6.4.5 resolves brightness flickering issues prevalent in AMD GPU drivers.
• The Steam Client has received advanced options for in-game overlays catering to both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs.
• Ubuntu 25.10 is now utilizing Linux kernel 6.17 ahead of its beta release.
• Puppy Linux BookwormPup64 10.0.12 is released based on Debian 12.12 “Bookworm”.
• Hyprland 0.51 adds fully configurable trackpad gestures to its Wayland compositor.
• Fwupd 2.0.15 now supports NVIDIA ConnectX-6, ConnectX-7, and ConnectX-8 NICs.
• Slimbook has updated its flagship Linux laptop lineup with the introduction of Slimbook Manjaro III.

Other updates include the release of KDE Gear 25.08.1, PipeWire 1.4.8, and VirtualBox 7.2.2, among several others.

Additional Linux News

• Samba 4.23 includes SMB3 Unix extensions by default and introduces SMB3 Over QUIC.
• The Bcachefs file system is transitioning to a DKMS kernel module for shipping.

Newly Released Distributions

• Voyager Live 13.1
• Exton PuppEX 250913
• Q4OS 6.1 (KDE Plasma and TDE versions)
• KDE neon 20250911
• CentOS Stream 10-20250908

Upcoming Releases

Next week promises exciting developments, including updates from Firefox, Fedora Linux, GNOME, and KDE Plasma, along with other announcements anticipated in the Linux community.

For more details and specific download links for the latest releases, check the relevant sections above.

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