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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 18th, 2026

posted by Marius Nestor on Oct 18, 2026,
updated Oct 18, 2026

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup

This week, we got lots of cool releases, starting with KDE Plasma 6.8 and Ubuntu 26.10, and continuing with Firefox and Thunderbird 158, GNOME 51.1, a major new Steam Client, IPFire 2.29 Core Update 204, GNOME 50.6, Shelly 3.1.7, PeaZip 11.4, Mesa 26.2.5, Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1, and KDE Plasma 6.6.7.

On top of that, I take a look at the Devario OS distribution and tell you all about the release schedule of Ubuntu 27.04 and Linux Mint 27. 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 18th, 2026.

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