FOSS Weekly #13 - Ubuntu on RISC-V, Android 13, Linux 6.0, purchases on Flathub, and other updates from this week.

Here are all the new releases, announcements, (and two birthdays!) from the free and open source software world this week.

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📰 News

• Android 13 Released [android-developers.googleblog.com/.../android-13]

• Canonical brings .NET 6 to Ubuntu 22.04 [ubuntu.com/install-dotnet-on-ubuntu]

• Deno announces support for npm [deno.com/blog/changes]

• Firefox to get text recognition in next release [ghacks.net/.../text-recognition-support-firefox]

• StarFive and Canonical bring Ubuntu to the VisionFive RISC-V board [ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-on-starfives-visionfive-risc-v-boards]

🐧 Linux updates

• Flathub devs are bringing payments, logins, and other features to Flathub [codethink.co.uk/articles/2022/flathub-codethink-collaboration]

• Linux 6.0-rc1 released with new hardware support and other optimizations [phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.0-rc1-Released]

• deepin OS 23 preview: new package format and atomic updates [deepin.org/en/linux-system-distribution-deepin-23-preview-released]

• GNOME 43 Beta released [mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce...]

• Debian turns 29 [bits.debian.org/2022/08/debian-turns-29]

• GNOME turns 25 [happybirthdaygnome.org]

📝  Releases

• LZ4 lossless compression algorithm v1.9.4 [github.com/lz4/lz4/releases/v1.9.4]

• LibreOffice 7.4 [blog.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-7-4-community]

• KDE Apps 22.08 [kde.org/announcements/gear/22.08]

• Krita graphics editor 5.1 [krita.org/en/krita-5-1-release-notes]

• GCC 12.2 [gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-announce/2022/000174]

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 Beta [suse.com/c/suse-linux-enterprise...]

• KaOS 2022.08 [kaosx.us/news/2022/kaos08]

• Steam Proton 7.0-4 [github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/rele...]

🔗 Also read

• This Week in GNOME [thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/08/twig-57]

• This Week in KDE [pointieststick.com/this-week-in-kde...]

• Apache news round up [blogs.apache.org/..the-apache-news-round-up268]

• Fedora weekly round up [communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fridays-fedora-facts-33]

💡 Interesting Finds

• How playing Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” crashed laptops with 5400 rpm hard disks [devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/2022...]

• Quantum-Safe algorithm hacked by 10-Year-Old PC [spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-safe-encryption-hacked]

• The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN [ladbible.com/sport/world-excel-championship...] [YouTube stream]

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