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Parrot OS 7.4 Released with AnonSurf 6.0, Updated Raspberry Pi Images

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Latest Debian 13 “Trixie” Kernel Security Update Patches More Than 1300 CVEs

Yes, you’re reading it right, the new Debian 13 Linux kernel security update is a massive one, probably the biggest kernel security release ever, and it patches no less than 1313 security vulnerabilities in the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series that powers Debian Trixie.

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Efinix Sapphire RV64 brings 64-bit RISC-V and Linux to FPGAs

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Banana Pi BPI-CM7 with Allwinner H618, Wi-Fi 5 and Armbian support

Featuring the quad-core Allwinner H618, the BPI-CM7 is a compact compute module with onboard LPDDR4 memory, eMMC storage, Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0. The module uses two 100-pin board-to-board connectors and is intended for use with Banana Pi’s BPI-CM7IO carrier board, which exposes multiple peripheral interfaces.

Four-port IO-Link module for Raspberry Pi and embedded Linux systems

Pinetek Networks has developed the IOL Core4, a compact IO-Link-compatible master module for embedded systems. It connects up to four industrial sensors or actuators over IEC 61131-9 SDCI and is intended for integration into custom control, monitoring and IIoT hardware.

schestowitz.com

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 4th, 2026

posted by Marius Nestor on Oct 04, 2026

This week, we got lots of cool software and distro releases, including Firefox 157, OpenMandriva Lx 26.09, Thunderbird 157, Shotcut 26.9, Parrot OS 7.4, OpenShot 4.0.1, antiX Linux 26.1, Audacity 4.0.1, Emmabuntüs DE6 1.03, qBittorrent 5.2.4, Nitrux 7.0, LibreOffice 26.8.1, Darktable 5.6.2, Git 2.56, and Flatpak 1.18.4.

On top of that, I show you how to upgrade your Ubuntu 24.04 LTS installations to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. 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 October 4th, 2026.

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