Clonezilla Live maintainer Steven Shiau released today Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-28 as the latest stable version of this partition and disk imaging/cloning tool based on Debian/Ubuntu.

Coming two months after Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-9, the Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-28 release is based on the Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) operating system series and it's powered by Linux kernel 6.14 to offer users the best possible hardware support when running Clonezilla Live to backup their data.

This release also ships with new packages that are installed by default and therefore available on the live system to use as you need, including libfsapfs-utils, usb-modeswitch, and fscrypt, along with a new ocs-find-live-key tool that can be used with the ocs-put-log-usb tool to copy Clonezilla Live's log files when running from RAM.

On top of that, Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-28 updates the ocs-live-repository package with a new dev=///OCS_LIVE_USB option to allow users to assign the Clonezilla Live USB drive as the image repo, especially when running Clonezilla Live USB drive from RAM.

[su_quote]"The Clonezilla live USB drive has to be vFAT file system since it's used to boot in both UEFI and MBR mode. Hence, it is not a good choice for an image repo since vFAT file system has many restrictions. Better to use UUID or LABEL to assign the image repo. Improved the saving dialog menu and prompt," said developer Steven Shiau.[/su_quote]

Other than that, this release introduces a new mechanism for mitigating the random order of block devices via the ocs_1_cpu_udev boot parameter, enables support for the Btrfs file system in the drbl-ocs.conf file for compatibility with Partclone 0.3.36, and disables the devices list cache mechanism to improve performance.

Check out the release announcement for more details about the changes included in this new Clonezilla Live release. You can download Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-28 right now from the official website as a live ISO image or a USB image archived as a zip file. Clonezilla Live is only supported on 64-bit machines.

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Today, the KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.3.5 as the fifth and last maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series to address more bugs, crashes, and other issues reported by users during the five weeks since KDE Plasma 6.3.4.

KDE Plasma 6.3.5 is here to fix a black or flickering lock screen issue for NVIDIA GPU users, a visual glitch with window shadows when using Night Light on certain hardware, a KWin crash caused by GPU resets, and a regression with the Activity Switcher sidebar being mis-positioned on multi-monitor setups.

KDE's window and composite manager, KWin, received quite the attention as this release also fixes a crash that occurred when disconnecting a laptop from certain docking stations, an issue causing it to schedule constant screen repaints while the screen was dimmed, which wasted resources, and several other crashes.

In addition, KDE Plasma 6.3.5 improves support for multi-screen setups by addressing an issue where the UI would inappropriately show the settings of a different screen when reverting a change to the other screen's settings, as well as a Plasma crash related to power-cycling screens.

This release also improves printing support by offering users the option to set a new printer as the default one when adding multiple printers, adds support for Qt 6.8.3 and Qt 6.9 for the Meta+P shortcut for opening the screen chooser overlay, and fixes several bugs related to notifications not moving to new positions.

Moreover, KDE Plasma 6.3.5 fixes a bug that caused notifications that included the < character to cut off all the following text, fixes a visual glitch on the Recent Files page in System Settings to highlight grid items when the whole grid view is disabled, and fixes a bug causing the Sticky Notes widgets to forget their custom size when resizing them.

The Plasma Discover package manager was improved as well in this release by addressing an issue with the “Still looking…” message being displayed un-centered, an issue with the header text for offline upgrades being displayed incorrectly at very narrow window widths, and a semi-common yet random-seeming crash.

KDE Plasma 6.3.5 also improves the Task Manager widget so that the group dialog pop-ups no longer rotate 180° when using reversed mode on a vertical panel, and makes the "audio is playing" icons less blurry when using a fractional scale factor.

Last but not least, KDE Plasma 6.3.5 fixes a bug that could cause the relevant numbers in a newly created Weather widget to show the wrong values until restarting, as well as an issue where the tooltip text in Plasma could be unreadable when using certain non-default color schemes.

Check out the full changelog for more details about the changes included in this release. Meanwhile, keep an eye on the stable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distributions for the KDE Plasma 6.3.5 packages and update your installations as soon as possible for a more stable and reliable Plasma desktop experience.

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As of May 1st, 2025, Canonical has officially opened the development of Ubuntu 25.10 (codename Questing Quokka), and now they have published the first daily build ISO images for early adopters, application developers, and general public testing.

As expected, the first Ubuntu 25.10 daily builds are based on the previous Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin), which arrived last month on April 17th, which means that they include the same core components and software versions as the Plucky Puffin release, such as Linux kernel 6.14 and GNOME 48 desktop.

During the six-month-long development cycle, the Ubuntu 25.10 daily build ISOs will be updated with many highly anticipated GNU/Linux technologies, such as the upcoming Mesa 25.1 graphics stack and Linux 6.17 kernel series, as well as the upcoming GNOME 49 desktop environment.

The toolchain will be updated to recent technologies like GCC 15, GNU Binutils 2.45, Python 3.13, LLVM 20, Boost 1.88, and others. Also, it looks like Ubuntu 25.10 will be the first major Linux distribution to adopt sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo.

You can download the first Ubuntu 25.10 daily build ISO images from the official website. Daily builds of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, and the rest of the official Ubuntu flavors are also available for download here with the same desktop environments used by default in Ubuntu 25.04.

However, you should keep in mind that these are pre-release versions that may contain bugs and other issues preventing you from having a stable Ubuntu experience. Therefore, DO NOT install them on a production machine!

The final release of Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) is expected on October 9th, 2025. Until then, the beta version of Ubuntu 25.10 is expected on September 18th, and the Release Candidate (RC) version should arrive on October 2nd, 2025.

Two “Ubuntu Testing Week” events are also scheduled for June 26th and August 21st, 2025, respectively. During these “Ubuntu Testing Week” events, Canonical expects the community to test drive the upcoming Ubuntu release and report bugs.

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UE-based Linux hardware vendor Slimbook announced today the launch of Kymera Black as the next generation of their Linux desktop computer designed for creators, gamers, and hardware enthusiasts.

Slimbook Kymera Black is designed to adapt to the needs of every user, offering them a high level of customization and configurability, without compromising power and reliability. It features a versatile and innovative modular design ideal for professional or gaming use.

The Kymera Black features a high-density matte black metal chassis with removable panels, washable dust filters, front-accessible ports, and a solid structure that combines tempered glass and metal side panels, along with the option to add an 8-inch front display for monitoring temperature, speed, or component performance in real time.

[su_quote]"At Slimbook, we believe every creation should speak for itself. This desktop stands out thanks to its vertical engraving inspired by circuit patterns, a small emperor penguin, and our signature phrase: “Be one of us.” A subtle signature that connects with our community."[/su_quote]

Slimbook Kymera Black comes with AMD or Intel configurations featuring up to AMD Ryzen 9 and up to Intel Ultra 9 processors, and supports up to 192GB 6000 MHz DDR5 RAM, up to 4TB NVMe 5.0 SSD storage, up to 80TB HDD storage, up to Wi-Fi 7 and 2.5G Ethernet connectivity, and up to 1200W Platinum power supply.

The system comes pre-installed with either the Ubuntu-based Slimbook OS featuring the GNOME or KDE Plasma desktop environments, or Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, KDE neon, Debian GNU/Linux, elementary OS, Pop!_OS Linux, Linux Mint, Fedora Linux, openSUSE Linux, Manjaro Linux, Endeavour OS, and Lliurex.

The price starts from 749.00 € (~$851 USD) for the AMD configuration with AMD Ryzen 5 7600X, 16GB 6000Mhz DDR5, 500GB NVMe 4.0 SSD storage, medium-range cooling, and 500W 80 Bronze power supply, or from 779.00 € (~$885 USD) for the Intel configuration with Intel Core i5 14600K.

You can configure and buy the Slimbook Kymera Black desktop computer right now from the official website.

Image credits: Slimbook (edited by Marius Nestor)

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The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced today a new version of their Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS Linux distribution for Raspberry Pi computers that introduces some new features, better touchscreen handling, and various Wayland improvements.

The new Raspberry Pi OS release improves screen locking by adding a custom front end that gives them a bit more feedback as to what is happening, while allowing them to lock the screen by pressing Ctrl+Alt+L, or by via the 'Lock Screen' option in the ‘Shutdown…’ dialog.

There's also a new Printers app that lets you connect to and control printers, as a replacement for the system-config-printer application. Moreover, the new Raspberry Pi OS release promises better handling of touchscreens in a Wayland environment by allowing users to choose between mouse emulation or native touchscreen behaviour via Touchscreen > Mode in the Screen Configuration app.

[su_quote]"The main disadvantage of no longer using mouse emulation is that it isn’t possible to double-click by tapping the screen twice, and this makes navigation in the file manager rather difficult," said Simon Long. "There are a couple of workarounds specific to the file manager: you can enable ‘Open files with single click’ in the file manager preferences, or use a tap-and-hold to open the context-sensitive menu and then choose ‘Open’."[/su_quote]

Moreover, touchscreen users will get an updated Squeekboard virtual keyboard that lets them choose the screen on which it is shown when using multiple monitor configurations via the Display tab on the Raspberry Pi Configuration app.

Among other noteworthy changes, the new Raspberry Pi OS release separates console (CLI) and desktop auto login options, allowing users to choose between them in the Raspberry Pi Configuration and raspi-config apps, updates the default Labwc window manager for Wayland to a newer release (v0.8.1), and bumps the kernel to the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS series.

This release also optimizes the startup of the wf-panel-pi application that's in charge of the taskbar in the Wayland session, which leads to faster boot times, and prevents the zenity tool from creating prompts and dialogs from the command line, which leads to faster startup times.

You can download the new Raspberry Pi OS release right now from the official website. Raspberry Pi OS supports all Raspberry Pi models, including Raspberry Pi 1A+, 1B+, 2B, 3B, 3B+, 3A+, 4B, 400, CM1, CM3, CM3+, CM4, CM4S, Zero, Zero W, and Zero 2 W.

Existing Raspberry Pi OS users need only to update their installations by running the sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade commands below in a terminal emulator or by using the built-in graphical package updater. If you're system is up-to-date, you're running the latest Raspberry Pi OS version (2025-05-06).

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Fwupd 2.0.9 is out today as the ninth maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility with support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.

Coming a month after fwupd 2.0.8, this release introduces support for Intel Arc 'Battlemage' GPUs, the ability to allow installing multiple database certificate updates at the same time, support for showing what certificate signed the EFI authenticated variable, new documentation about updating the KEK and database, as well as the ability to use readline to look up inputs from user, and make it optional.

Fwupd 2.0.9 also adds several devices with broken firmware to the UEFI dbx blocklist, revamps the MEI code to allow devices to use multiple interfaces, rewrites the ModemManger plugin to be simpler and more supportable, simplifies the parsing of USB descriptors, and includes more output when using the fwupdtool get-devices --json command.

On top of that, this release also fixes a crash that occurred when installing some Wacom firmware types, a crash that occurred when parsing uevents that aren't KEY=VALUE, a parsing issue with the DFU descriptor when not using the libusb library, a PK and KEK enumeration failure on some systems, and SMBIOS parsing for ROM sizes equal to or larger than 16MiB.

Starting with this release, fwupd no longer enumerates non-updatable OptionROM devices, no longer exports Redfish backup partitions as devices, includes a resolution for more of the HSI failures, no longer allows updating updatable-hidden devices with the fwupdtool command.

It also now requires a reboot after updating Intel CVS devices, properly constructs the authenticated URI when using FirmwareBaseURI, recognizes very old dbx hashes to allow upgrades, and properly handles Redfish location redirects when installing firmware.

Check out the release notes on the project’s GitHub page for more details about the changes included in fwupd 2.0.9, which you can download as a source tarball from the same location. Of course, it is recommended that you install fwupd from the stable software repositories of your GNU/Linux distribution.

Image credits: fwupd project

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The Mesa 25.1 open-source graphics stack has been released today as a major update with new features, improvements for the built-in open-source graphics drivers, and better support for many video games.

Highlights of Mesa 25.1 include a fully mainlined Asahi driver as its UAPI was merged into the kernel, support for Mali G720/G925 GPUs in the Panfrost driver, YCbCr, dualSrcBlend, and Vulkan 1.2 support in the PanVK driver for Mali v10+ GPUs (Gxxx), and Zink/NVK as the default driver for NVIDIA GPUs, finally replacing the old nouveau driver.

Mesa 25.1 also improves the V3D graphics driver used for Raspberry Pi devices with support for the EXT_shader_framebuffer_image_fetch, EXT_shader_framebuffer_image_fetch_coherent, KHR_blend_equation_advanced, and KHR_blend_equation_advanced_coherent extensions.

On top of that, the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver received support for the VK_EXT_device_memory_report and VK_EXT_sample_locations Vulkan extensions, the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs received support for the VK_MESA_image_alignment_control Vulkan extension, and the Etnaviv driver for the Vivante GCxxx series of embedded GPUs received support for the KHR_partial_update extension.

PanVK, Collabora's open-source Vulkan driver for ARM Mali GPUs, received support for numerous new Vulkan extensions, including VK_KHR_depth_stencil_resolve, VK_KHR_separate_depth_stencil_layouts, VK_EXT_separate_stencil_usage, VK_KHR_imageless_framebuffer, VK_KHR_uniform_buffer_standard_layout, VK_EXT_border_color_swizzle, VK_KHR_display, VK_EXT_display_control, VK_KHR_line_rasterization, VK_EXT_line_rasterization, VK_KHR_shader_float_controls, VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read, VK_KHR_format_feature_flags2, and VK_EXT_direct_mode_display.

Only for Mali v10+ GPUs, the PanVK driver also received support for the VK_KHR_sampler_ycbcr_conversion, VK_EXT_ycbcr_2plane_444_formats, VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_uniform_control_flow, VK_KHR_shader_maximal_reconvergence, VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_extended_types, VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2, VK_KHR_spirv_1_4, VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control, and VK_EXT_ycbcr_image_arrays Vulkan extensions.

On top of that, PanVK also received support for storagePushConstant16, storageInputOutput16, shaderFloat16, shaderStorageImageExtendedFormats, shaderImageGatherExtended, textureCompressionBC, storageBuffer8BitAccess, storagePushConstant8, uniformAndStorageBuffer8BitAccess, shaderStorageImageReadWithoutFormat, shaderStorageImageWriteWithoutFormat, GL_ARB_shader_clock, and MSAA with 8 and 16 sample counts.

Numerous games received improvements in Mesa 25.1, including Avowed, Black Myth: Wukong, The Last of Us Part I and II, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Hunt: Showdown 1896, Tomb Raider IV - VI Remastered, Dota 2, WWE 2K23, Cyberpunk 2077, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, Sniper Elite: Resistance, Ghost of Tsushima, Final Fantasy XIV, Marvel Rivals, Elden Ring, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, and Fort Solis.

The list of video games that received improvements in the Mesa 25.1 release continues with Ninja Gaiden II, The Headliners, Satisfactory, OCTOPATH TRAVELER II, Tales of Arise, The Last of Us, Eve Online, Pacific Drive, Star Citizen, Assassin's Creed Origins, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Immortals Fenyx Rising, A Game About Digging A Hole, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Hogwarts Legacy, and Company of Heroes 3.

Last but not least, Mesa 25.1 also improves support for the Resident Evil 2 Remake, DOOM 2016, Total War: Warhammer III, Grand Theft Auto V, Steel Rats, and Dynasty Warriors: Origins video games, as well as for apps like Firefox, Thunderbird, and Blender. For more details about the changes included in this release, check out the release notes on the official website, where you can download the source tarball.

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