672: The Kernel Is Not a Museum
21 June 2026
Your favorite open source projects have been busy. We round up the new releases worth knowing about, plus the big kernel changes headed your way soon.
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- KDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements - Phoronix
- Plasma 6.7 - KDE Community
- See what’s next for Firefox — Firefox.com
- systemd 261 Released With New systemd-sysinstall OS Installer
- Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop
- myna: Myna is a lightweight speech-to-text application for Ubuntu Desktop.
- Linux 7.1 Annouced by Linus on Sunday June 14th — Anyway, possible slight hiccups in the merge window aside, the newstoday is 7.1.
- Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New - 9to5Linux
- Linux 7.1 Features: New NTFS Driver, New Intel + AMD Hardware, Performance Optimizations & Modernization - Phoronix
- Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released with New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED, and Major Code Cleanup | Linux Journal
- The first half of the 7.2 merge window - LWN.net
- Linux 7.2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things - Phoronix
- Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2 - Phoronix
- XFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental With Linux 7.2 - Phoronix
- EXT4 Reworks Fast Commit Handling & Faster Directory Hash Computation - Phoronix
- Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More - Phoronix
- AF_ALG Deprecation Approved For Linux 7.2, Useless & Insecure Crypto Driver Code Removed - Phoronix
- Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support - Phoronix
- soltros/Cabinet — Cabinet is a lean, high-performance “File Locker” designed for self-hosting. It prioritizes a fast web experience, mobile-first design, and simple file management without the bloat of complex syncing engines.
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- Pick: Fluxcast — Stream your Linux desktop to a Smart TV via Miracast/WFD, DLNA, or Chromecast.
- Pick: audible-cli — A command line interface for audible package. With the cli you can download your Audible books, cover, chapter files.
- Pick: Import-To-AudioBookShelf — A utility to take books which you legally purchased from Audible and move them into Audio BookShelf
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