The biggest new feature in the OpenShot 3.5.1 release is Optimize Preview, a built-in proxy editing workflow for creating or linking lower-resolution preview files, which should make it easier to work with large, high-resolution, or demanding video clips.

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GStreamer 1.28.2 multimedia framework fixes security issues and improves playback, streaming, and stability across the multimedia framework.

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COSMIC Desktop 1.0.9 improves performance, hardens greeter security, and delivers fixes and enhancements across Files, Settings, Store, and more.

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Flatpak 1.16.4 addresses a critical sandbox escape vulnerability that could allow host file access and code execution, along with three additional security issues.

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Immich 2.7 enhances duplicate management, introduces CSP support, improves the asset viewer, and resolves Safari live photo download issues.

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The biggest new feature in the APT 3.2 release is the long-anticipated rollback and history functionality that other package managers like DNF for Red Hat-based distros. This change was actually implemented in the development version 3.1.7, but it’s now part of the stable APT 3.2 release.

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Coming two weeks after Firefox 149, the Firefox 149.0.2 point release is here to address an issue on Linux systems, when using a Wayland session, where the browser toolbar could become unresponsive to mouse clicks after dragging a tab.

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OpenSSL 3.6.2 is here two and a half months after OpenSSL 3.6.1 to address several important security vulnerabilities, including incorrect failure handling in RSA KEM RSASVE encapsulation (CVE-2026-31790) and an out-of-bounds read in AES-CFB-128 on x86-64 CPUs with AVX-512 support (CVE-2026-28386).

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Coming three weeks after KDE Plasma 6.6.3, the KDE Plasma 6.6.4 release is here to reduce CPU and GPU load for full-screen windows (a.k.a. “direct scan-out”) on displays where the cursor is not present.

KDE Plasma 6.6.4 also lets you drag recent items from launcher menus onto the desktop, makes the update count in Plasma Discover’s notifications more accurate, updates Konsole’s blur to play nicely with the Wobbly Windows effect, and hardens Plasma against crashing while trying to load a broken widget.

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Alacritty 0.17, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, adds TOML 1.1 support, Wayland resize increments, mouse wheel bindings, and more.

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Soul Player is a modern desktop music player focused on local-first playback and user privacy. It’s designed for people who want to manage and listen to their own music collection without cloud uploads, telemetry, ads, or mandatory subscriptions.

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Getting a startup through a SOC 2 audit has long meant months of manual evidence collection, policy writing, and repeated back-and-forth with auditors. A growing number of compliance platforms have moved to automate parts of that process, and Comp AI is now doing it with an open-source codebase that organizations can inspect, modify, and self-host.

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PacHub gives Arch Linux users a sleek GTK4 app for browsing, installing, and managing packages from official repos and the AUR.

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PaddleOCR is an open-source OCR and document-parsing toolkit. It’s used to extract text and document structure from images and PDFs. It supports model training, inference, and deployment for production use.

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KDE officially removed the Air desktop theme with the release of the Plasma 6 desktop environment series in early 2024, but thanks to Filip Fila, Nuno Pinheiro, and Marco Martin, it is making a major comeback with widget transparency with a blur effect behind windows, which improves contrast and legibility.

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Red Hat has launched RHEL Extended Life Cycle Premium, a stand-alone subscription that extends major-version support to 14 years.

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Coming two months after PeaZip 10.9, the PeaZip 11.0 release introduces a faster file browser by enabling virtual mode by default over 16K items for the GTK2 version, support for dropping items to the Breadcrumb bar and to the Tab bar, and improved zoom and fractional scaling.

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OpenShot 3.5 is here with major speed and smoothness upgrades that make video editing feel much more responsive and enjoyable.

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This week’s roundup talks about the release schedule of the upcoming GNOME 51 desktop environment, the new features in the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment, the return of Elive Linux, Artix Linux’s first stable ISO release in 2026, and Arch Linux’s new Archinstall text-mode installer.

On top of that, we got new distro releases, including 4MLinux, Netrunner, and AerynOS, and new software releases, including Coreboot, OpenVPN, and OBS Studio. 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 April 5th, 2026.

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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Netrunner 26, AerynOS, OpenSSH 10.3, Archinstall 4.0, Wine 11.6, Linux hits 5% on Steam, Debian addresses age verification, and more.

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