First up in the news Linux Mint is ready for the facelift, Snaps get an upgrade, Kernel 5.14 is out, and 5.15 is looking good, and Ubuntu gets a release date

In security cache flushing and Bluetooth flaws

Then in our Wanderings Joe pines a phone with plasma, Tony walks 500 miles, and I search for a keyboard

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

The News

• Linux Mint Monthly News, August (Thanks Londoner)
• Snapcraft 6.0
• Kernel 5.14 Contains an Upgraded AMDGPU Driver
• Next Gen “Bz” Wireless and 6GHz Hidden SSID support landing in 5.15
• Linux on Apple M1 gets Rudimentary Graphics Support                                 
• Ubuntu 22.04 Gets a Release Date (Thanks Dale)
• Firefox. At least we’re not Opera (Thanks Londoner)

Security Update

• L1 Cache Flushing Available in Kernel 5.15
• Bluetooth flaw, BrakTooth, in the Wild (Thanks Londoner)

Bi-Weekly Wanderings

• Joe
  • Pinephone
• Tony
  • Debian 11
    • Non-free Firmware Image
• Leo
  • Keychron K3
  • Cooler Master SK630

Announcements

• Next Episode – 2 pm US Central time on Sunday September 19, 2021
• Get mintCast converted to your time zone
• Next Live Stream –  2 pm US Central time on September 11, 2021
• Get the livestream converted to your time zone

Wrap-up

• Joe – www.Tllts.org, www.linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, jb@mintcast.org
• Bo – Crowbar Kernel Panic, crowbarkernelpanic@pm.me
• Tony Hughes – HPR – http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338, Twitter @TonyH1212, th@mintcast.org, distrohoppersdigest@gmail.com
• Josh Hawk – joshontech@mintcast.org, @joshontech on Twitter and most other social sites, Crowbar Kernel Panic
• Leo – leochavez.org and @leochavez on Twitter, leo@mintcast.org, linuxuserspace.show. Buy me a coffee!

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

• Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo, and Londoner for our time sync
• Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
• Archive.org for hosting our audio files
• HPR for our backup Mumble room
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>