{"id":238773,"date":"2026-05-03T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-may-3rd-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:35:08","slug":"9to5linux-weekly-roundup-may-3rd-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-may-3rd-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 3rd, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-may-3rd-2026\">9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 3rd, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-may-3rd-2026\">https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-may-3rd-2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-03 21:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"9to5linux.com\">9to5linux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>COPYRIGHT 9to5linux.com &#8211; DO NOT COPY WITHOUT PERMISSION<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 290th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending May 3rd, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world. If you missed last week\u2019s 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, catch up with everything GNU\/Linux\/Open Source here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-92a676e0fc4eeade691e57f250075093\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Thank you!<\/h2>\n<p>I want to thank everyone who sent us donations; your generosity is greatly appreciated. I also want to thank all of you for your continued support by commenting, liking, sharing, and boosting the articles, following us on social media, and, last but not least, sending us feedback.<\/p>\n<p>This week, we got plenty of new distro releases, including Arch Linux 2026.05.01, Fedora Linux 44, AerynOS 2026.05, EndeavourOS Titan Neo, Grml 2026.04, Linux Mint 22.3 HWE, and IPFire 2.29 Core Update 201, as well as new versions of beloved apps like LibreOffice, Wireshark, Shotcut, Calibre, Shelly, and qBittorrent.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, I tell you all about the dangers of the Copy Fail kernel vulnerability and Canonical\u2019s plans for LLM integration in Ubuntu. Below, you can check out this week\u2019s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux roundup for May 3rd, 2026.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1b938b979877d8b1562e31c93805bd67\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Hot news of the week<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-77ea676e54c0fbac9476e3227f5be5d6\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Linux distributions released this week<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-dc3ccfa810bf6e7f107dc1019302b72e\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4498f4d9e797d141b56a8748a800ff66\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Coming up next week<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>KDE Gear 26.04.1<\/li>\n<li>KDE Frameworks 6.26<\/li>\n<li>\u2026and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 0;\">Enjoyed the article?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"286\" height=\"73\" style=\"border:0px; height:36px; width:auto; display: block; margin: 0 auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kofi3.webp\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Buy Me a Coffee at ko-fi.com\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\">You might also like<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-may-3rd-2026\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 3rd, 2026 https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-may-3rd-2026 Publish Date: 2026-05-03 21:00:00 Source Domain: 9to5linux.com COPYRIGHT&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wr290.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,97,71,110,79,27],"class_list":["post-238773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-arch-linux","tag-fedora","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint","tag-ubuntu","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238775,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238773\/revisions\/238775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}