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--> --> Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we released Plasma 6.7, and the reviews are overwhelmingly positive so far! But the team didn’t sit on its laurels; instead we spent the week fixing a few issues that snuck past our beta testers or that developers didn’t manage to…

From 2021 to 2023, I was really motivated to write articles regularly, but that is no longer the case. Most of my energy goes into programming nowadays. Whenever I try to write about a complicated topic in a digestible manner, I quickly lose motivation and don’t publish it. For half a year, I’ve…

Systemd v261 has been released with a long list of changes, including a new cloud "Instance Metadata Service" (IMDS) subsystem, "boot secret" functionality for use on systems that lack a physical TPM, as well as support for the kernel's Live Update Orchestration (LUO) / Kexec Handover (KHO) systems…

BPF programs can be used to extend many aspects the Linux kernel, but BPF programs must run to completion in the same context that they began. Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi is working on changing that by allowing BPF programs to be expressed as coroutines. He spoke about his work at the 2026 Linux…

The Arch User Repository (AUR) has been subjected to a sustained attack recently. The attacker, or attackers, have spun up a series of new accounts then used them to adopt orphaned packages and push malicious updates that would install malware on users' systems. It is unclear how many users were…

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dracut), Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, firefox, nss, ocserv, ongres-scram, ongres-stringprep, perl-Archive-Tar, perl-GD, perl-HTTP-Daemon, perl-Net-Statsd, restic, singularity-ce, util-linux, and vorbis-tools),…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.1, 7.0.13, 6.18.36, 6.12.94, 6.6.143, 6.1.176, 5.15.210, and 5.10.259 stable kernels. As usual, each contains important fixes. Users are advised to upgrade.

Through work, I have paid license to windsurf (recently renamed to "devin"), an application for LLM-based (aka, "Agentic") development. I hadn't been using it that much, but in an effort to more clearly understand how this whole AI development thing works, I decided to give it a closer look…

A brief summary of Lutra Consulting's key takeaways from State of the Map US 2026, featuring open-source market trends, community highlights, and Mergin Maps.

Discover the highlights from FOSS4G:HU 2026 in Budapest, featuring open source GIS insights, QGIS and Mergin Maps field data workflows, and community networking.

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-25. Open Source vs the Invisible Hand Tags: tech, foss, commons, economics Or why modern economics mostly loose the plot when you try to factor Open Source in there simplistic…

looking for last. I realized it's gone. what's my replacement?

The Software Freedom Conservancy has yesterday published recommendations for using large language models / generative AI for free and open source contributions. It's better than I thought it was, based on initial reactions from my peers, but I am disappointed. They make 14 recommendations. I have…

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 321. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Fix compatibility with Ocaml 5.4.1. You find out more by visiting the project homepage.

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 320. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Support androguard 4 and previous versions. Thanks, linsui! (Closes: #1140016) * Use --long-form arguments when calling apktool in order to…

Week 22 This week's icon is for Krafting's project: Hex Colordle: "Find the color" Check out all weekly app icons created so far over here and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including sketches) on …

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has announced the release of its recommendations for using LLM-backed generative AI systems for FOSS contributions. The recommendations were created by the SFC and volunteers from the free-software community. The recommendations reflect the extremely…

The 7.2 merge window started with the 7.1 kernel release on June 14. As of this writing, just over 7,000 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline for the next kernel release. Many of the core subsystems have been pulled at this point, meaning that most of the changes that can be…

This is the most overwritten book I've ever read. Unfortunately, Alan Moore knows exactly how much polysyllabic pressure it takes to transmogrify base coal into precious gems. With lines like "his shaved suede skull made him look like a wilted thistle" and "There was a rumour of pink lipstick…

This month I’m mostly listening to music by Nu Genea, Danalogue and Noon Garden. I’m going to tell you about a big change I’m proposing for folks using Freedesktop SDK to build operating systems. And I’m also going to talk a bit about the GNOME Foundation elections. Maybe I’ll do that first. GNOME…

There has been a video blog post recently published with a review of Ubuntu Touch as an option to opt out of the Android world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTK6TS3pXgc Thanks to @SwitchandClick for spending time on this and publishing that video. Much appreciated. Many Issues amended in…

Over the years, QField has gained a number of ways through which authors can share their mapping projects. This post looks at the multiple ways this can be achieved and what scenarios fit each method best. Leveraging QFieldCloud Sharing maps to the public QFieldCloud users all have the ability to…

Hello GNOME, This is a progress report on the Pitivi Timeline Ruler Rust rewrite. Progress We are rewriting the Pitivi Ruler in Rust and gtk4 snapshot logic to improve performance and memory safety. At its current stage the ruler is being constructed as a standalone widget in a personal repo that…

Penpot WebGL and Bugfixes Penpot and WebGL Penpot released their WebGL rendered (beta) for all users to test. This brought speed gains in rendering content on page and less lag when navigating. Frame rate was worked on and the overall interface appears faster. Pages load much faster than…

This year Qt Contributor Summit will be held in Oslo during late October. If you are a Qt contributor (developer, forum question answerer, promoter, etc) you should think of attending, it's always a great experience :) More info in the announcement at…