GNU/Linux Leftovers
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Linuxiac ☛ Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 9 (Feb 24 – Mar 2, 2025)
Catch up on the latest GNU/Linux news: NVIDIA Display Driver 570, Plasma 6.3.2, Fish Shell 4, IceWM 3.7, Docker Engine 28, Nextcloud Hub 10, VLC sends videos to the Moon, and more.
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Applications
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SANS ☛ Wireshark 4.4.5 Released, (Sun, Mar 2nd)
Wireshark release 4.4.5 was released soon after 4.4.4 : it fixes a bug that makes Wireshark crash when clicking on a column title/header.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Debian Family
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Chiark ☛ Colin Watson: Free software activity in February 2025
Most of my Debian contributions this month were
OpenSSH upstream released 9.9p2 with fixes for CVE-2025-26465 and CVE-2025-26466. I got a heads-up on this in advance from the Debian security team, and prepared updates for all of testing/unstable, bookworm (Debian 12), bullseye (Debian 11), buster (Debian 10, LTS), and stretch (Debian 9, ELTS). jessie (Debian 8) is also still in ELTS for a few more months, but wasn’t affected by either vulnerability.
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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Ubuntu Handbook ☛ New GnuCash PPA for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04 & Ubuntu 24.04
For GnuCash users who prefer the native .deb package format, here I made a new unofficial PPA for all current Ubuntu releases. GnuCash is a popular personal and small-business financial-accounting software. It’s available in the Ubuntu system repositories, but always old.
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