This week was slow on news and releases due to the New Year’s holidays, so we only got new versions of the GNU Wget, Shotcut, VLC Media Player, IceWM, and Archinstall software, as well as new releases of the Devuan GNU+Linux, Arch Linux, and Manjaro Linux distributions.
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 weekly roundup for January 4th, 2026.
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