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Quantum-Resilient Cryptography in the openSUSE Ecosystem

admin@opensuse.org (Alessandro de Oliveira Faria) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

It is with great joy that I officially announce the release in the openSUSE family (Leap and Tumbleweed) of the new package focused on cryptography resistant to the post-quantum era.

The libzupt library is designed to offer encryption and decryption of files and binary data in memory using a hybrid approach based on ML-KEM-768 + X25519.

libzupt is a modern SDK that simplifies the adoption of post-quantum cryptography in real-world applications. Currently, it has initial support for C++, Python, and Java, with support for Node.js (under development). Its goal is to make the implementation of advanced cryptographic mechanisms accessible without compromising usability for developers.

libzupt, created by Alessandro de Oliveira Faria, is a modern SDK that simplifies the adoption of post-quantum cryptography in real-world applications. Currently, it has initial support for C++, Python, and Java, with Node.js support (under development). Its goal is to make the implementation of advanced cryptographic mechanisms accessible without compromising usability for developers.

The project originates from the Zupt initiative, conceived by Cristian Cezar Moisés. As a tribute, the library inherited the name of the original project. Zupt, in turn, is a compression and backup tool that already incorporated advanced concepts such as authenticated AES-256 encryption and post-quantum key encapsulation.

The motivation behind libzupt is directly linked to the evolution of modern cryptography. The ML-KEM algorithm was standardized by NIST on August 13, 2024, as a secure key encapsulation mechanism for post-quantum scenarios. It allows for the secure establishment of keys even in insecure channels, anticipating future threats.

Below is a simple example of using libzupt in Python:

import zupt
encryptor = zupt.Encryptor(keypair.public_key)
message = b"Hello, Post-Quantum World! This is a secret message."
ciphertext, enc_header = encryptor.encrypt(message)

The main benefit of natively providing this library in openSUSE, is that it allows current applications to be prepared for a scenario where quantum computing could compromise classical algorithms, such as Shor’s Algorithm.

By combining traditional cryptography with mechanisms resistant to quantum computing, libzupt adds a strategic layer of protection. This enables the development of more resilient systems, ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of data in the long term, even in the face of technological evolution.

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Planet News Roundup

admin@opensuse.org (Douglas DeMaio) — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org.

The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from April 17 to 23.

Blogs this week cover a Tumbleweed weekly review delivering seven snapshots with notable updates including GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.4, and Linux kernel 6.19.12. The week also features the venue announcement for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 in Yogyakarta, a SUSE Security Team winter spotlight, performance tuning improvements in syslog-ng, a hands-on look at Cockpit as a YaST replacement, and more.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

Kookbook Updates to Version 0.3.0

The KDE Blog covers the 0.3.0 release of Kookbook, a recipe management application created by KDE developer Sune Vuorela. The update brings minor bug fixes along with a migration to Qt6. The application stores recipes as Markdown files and offers ingredient indexing, tag-based organization, and flexible synchronization through external tools like Git or Nextcloud.

Testing Cockpit, the YaST Replacement in openSUSE Tumbleweed

Victorhck in the Free World explores Cockpit, the web-based system management tool that is replacing YaST in openSUSE. After installing the cockpit-client-launcher and resolving missing GTK dependencies, the author found the interface clean and well-organized with familiar configuration options alongside modern features for managing storage, networks, and software repositories.

New Performance Tuning Possibilities in syslog-ng

Peter Czánik’s Blog discusses performance enhancements coming to syslog-ng 4.12 that achieved seven million events per second under laboratory conditions. While the figure represents a benchmark rather than a real-world deployment number, Peter explains that the underlying technologies are already available on the development branch or have existed for some time but lacked sufficient promotion and testing.

Best JPG to PDF Converters for Speed and Ease

The KDE Blog evaluates a range of JPG to PDF conversion tools, from desktop options like KDE Plasma’s Service Menus to online platforms such as Adobe Acrobat Online and iLovePDF. The post weighs each tool’s strengths regarding conversion speed, ease of use, and privacy, and also covers mobile solutions like CamScanner for document digitization.

AI Workshop at Linux Center Valencia

The KDE Blog announces a free AI-focused event organized by Slimbook at their Linux Center facility in Paterna, Valencia on April 25, 2026. The workshop features three sessions: an overview of current AI tools, a hands-on tutorial for running AI locally using Ollama and Fox, and an advanced session on creating autonomous AI assistants for personal computers.

From Virtual Desktop Deployment to Running Local AI – New Barcelona Free Software Talk

The KDE Blog announces a Barcelona Free Software talk on Tuesday April 28, 2026 at 19:00 at Akasha Hub in Barcelona, featuring Alberto Larraz, co-founder of IsardVDI. The talk traces IsardVDI’s 14-year journey from a Free Software alternative to Citrix and VMware Horizon in educational settings to a versatile platform that now leverages GPU management to run local AI inference workloads. Attendees will learn how IsardVDI can be used to generate images, run LLM chats, and power local code assistants using sovereign AI models.

SUSE Security Team Spotlight Winter 2025/2026

The SUSE Security Team winter report documents code review activities across multiple software projects. The team examined systemd releases v258 through v260, snapd transparency features, various D-Bus services including bootkitd and rtkit, and investigated SteamOS and Deepin desktop components. A revisit of Deepin software revealed persistent vulnerabilities in the accounts service, prompting the team to deprioritize future Deepin reviews.

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Announces Venue at Universitas Gadjah Mada

openSUSE News announces that the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 will be held October 3–4 at the Teaching Industry Learning Center of Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Organizers anticipate around 350 participants over two days of talks, workshops, and community activities. The venue was selected for its modern facilities and the university’s strong reputation as a leading Indonesian institution focused on education, research, and innovation.

Per-Screen Virtual Desktops and Wayland Session Restore – This Week in Plasma

The KDE Blog covers the latest This Week in Plasma highlights, including a major new feature in Plasma 6.7 that allows each monitor to independently switch between virtual desktops. KWin has also gained support for the Wayland session management protocol, paving the way for applications to remember their size and position after a system restart. The edition also rounds up numerous UI improvements, such as drag-and-drop support for app launchers, a new standard Badge component in Kirigami, and a range of bug fixes across Plasma 6.6.4, 6.6.5, and 6.7.

Hello Old New ‘Projects’ Directory!

Matthias Klumpp’s Blog introduces the xdg-user-dirs 0.20 release, which now enables a Projects directory by default in Linux home folders. The folder offers a standardized location for project files that do not cleanly belong in existing categories like Documents or Music. Users who prefer the old layout can simply delete the folder and the utility will adjust accordingly, while administrators can customize default locations through configuration files.

Tumbleweed – Review of the Week 2026/16

Victorhck and dimstar cover a busy week with seven Tumbleweed snapshots delivered in seven days across snapshots 0410 through 0416. Major updates included GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.4, Samba 4.23.6, PHP 8.4.20, GStreamer 1.28.2, and Linux kernel 6.19.12, along with improvements to transactional-update’s soft-reboot functionality. Looking ahead, the team is preparing significant upgrades such as Linux kernel 7.0, LLVM 22, and GCC 16 as the system compiler.

Episode 72 of KDE Express: Plasma 6.6.4, Gear 26.04 and More News

The KDE Blog shares the latest episode of KDE Express, a Spanish-language podcast covering the KDE community and open source software. The episode highlights significant releases including Plasma 6.6.4 and KDE Gear 26.04, along with developments across various KDE applications and distributions.

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openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Announces Venue at Universitas Gadjah Mada

admin@opensuse.org (openSUSE Asia Summit Team) — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:30:00 +0000

The openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 team is excited to announce the official venue for this year’s conference. The summit will be held at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

The event will take place at the Teaching Industry Learning Center (TILC) of the Vocational School, a modern facility designed to support collaboration, learning, and industry engagement. The summit is expected to welcome around 350 participants over two days of talks, workshops, and community activities.

Date & Venue

Dates: 3–4 October 2026
Venue: Teaching Industry Learning Center (TILC), Vocational School
Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM)
Jl. Blimbingsari No.37, Caturtunggal, Depok, Sleman
Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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We look forward to welcoming you to the UGM campus — a place where academic excellence meets a vibrant student and technology community.

About Universitas Gadjah Mada

Founded in 1949, Universitas Gadjah Mada is one of Indonesia’s leading universities and a symbol of national education and cultural identity. Starting with just six faculties, UGM has grown into a comprehensive institution with 18 faculties, a graduate school, and a vocational school. Today, UGM continues to play a key role in education, research, and innovation, making it an ideal setting for the openSUSE.Asia Summit.

Who Should Attend

We expect more than 350 participants, including:

openSUSE contributors and users
ICT professionals and industry representatives
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiasts
Students interested in open-source technologies and development

We can’t wait to welcome you to Yogyakarta — see you on campus at Universitas Gadjah Mada! 🦎🌏

Planet News Roundup

admin@opensuse.org (Douglas DeMaio) — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org.

The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from April 10 to 16.

Blogs this week cover a combined two-week Tumbleweed review delivering 10 snapshots with notable updates including the Linux kernel, Qt 6.11.0, and GIMP 3.2.2. A follow-up on the growing ARMv9 build infrastructure, an updated version of OpenVINO, KDE Akademy 2026 in Graz, and more.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

OpenVINO 2026.1: More Models, Performance and a Real Jump in Multimodal AI

Alessandro’s Blog covers the release of OpenVINO 2026.1. The post highlights expanded support for large and multimodal models like GPT-OSS 120B running on CPU and Qwen3-VL across CPU and GPU while pointing out improvements to the OpenVINO Model Server. Alessandro emphasizes the practical value of dynamic LoRA for vision-language models, which lets teams swap adapters at runtime without reloading the base model, which helps cut memory overhead and latency in production.

Discussing RTO in My Genesi T-Shirt

Peter Czánik’s Blog reflects on a conversation with friends about return-to-office policies, prompted by wearing a t-shirt from Genesi, the US company where he first experienced fully remote work in the early days of his career. The post contrasts that flexible, asynchronous work culture with the rigid schedules of other professions like teachers.

New Configurator for Plasma 6.6

The KDE Blog highlights the new Plasma Setup wizard introduced in Plasma 6.6, which is a first-run tool that creates and configures user accounts independently of the operating system installation process. The separation of technical installation steps from user setup steps makes it easier to hand off a device. It is part of Plasma 6.6’s broader focus on improving usability and accessibility for new and reconditioned hardware.

Streaming syslog-ng Data to Your Lakehouse Using OpenTelemetry

Peter Czánik’s Blog explains how Databricks contributed OAuth2 authentication improvements to syslog-ng 4.11.0, which enables customers to stream logs to data lakehouses via the OpenTelemetry protocol. The contributions extended OAuth2 support to gRPC-based destinations including OpenTelemetry, Loki, BigQuery, and ClickHouse.

LibreCan 2026: The meeting of free software in the Canary Islands grows

Victorhck in the Free World promotes the second edition of LibreCan, a free software and hacker culture meetup taking place in the Canary Islands in May 2026. The event has grown since its first edition in 2025 and brings together free software enthusiasts from across the islands.

La Palma Tech Tagoror regresa este 2026

The KDE Blog discusses a series of meetups of the group “San Miguel de la Palma Tech”. The event is planned for April 23, 2026, from 18:00 to 20:00 (Canary time) and is being nicknamed “La Palma Tech Spring 2026”.

eQuest Icon Theme – Elegant Grey and Orange (or Blue or Green) Icons for Your PC

The KDE Blog presents the eQuest icon theme by Thalic with a set of elegant desktop icons combining grey with a vivid accent color such as orange, blue, or green. The pack is designed to complement desktops with matching wallpaper tones and is available through the KDE Store.

120+ Icons and Counting

Jakub Steiner’s Blog celebrates the milestone of over 120 completed app icon requests through the GNOME app-icon-requests project on GitLab. Each icon represents a collaborative design process between a contributor and an app developer following the modern GNOME icon style introduced in 2019.

Magic Folder – Automatically Sort Files with This Plasmoid for Plasma 6 (28)

The KDE Blog presents Magic Folder, the 28th entry in their Plasma 6 plasmoid series, which automatically moves files dropped onto its panel icon into predefined folders. The widget is aimed at users who want to bring order to a cluttered desktop without manual file management. It is a practical addition to the growing library of Plasma 6-native widgets available in the KDE Store.

Following Up on ARMv9 Build Infrastructure

openSUSE News provides an update on the native ARMv9 build capacity added to the Open Build Service following the arrival of NVIDIA Grace Hopper hardware last June. OBS worker dashboards now show active ARMv9 builds across a wide range of packages including the Linux kernel, LLVM, GCC, Python, and Qt. The post also invites hardware vendors to donate or lend equipment to expand multi-architecture coverage further.

release.gnome.org Refactor

Jakub Steiner’s Blog describes porting the GNOME Release Notes website from Jekyll to Zola after his successful migration of his personal blog. The move unlocks two long-missing features: a native RSS feed for GNOME releases and a fully navigable archive of release notes going all the way back to GNOME 2.x. The site now runs as a single binary with zero dependency management, making it far easier for contributors who just want to write markdown.

Submit Your Talk for Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria

The KDE Blog encourages readers to submit talk proposals for KDE community conference Akademy 2026, which will be held in Graz, Austria from September 19 to 24 as a special edition marking KDE’s 30th anniversary. The event follows a hybrid format, with in-person and online participation. The talks will take place on the first two days with the remainder reserved for working sessions and BoFs. .

Linux Saloon 195 | Open Mic Night

CubicleNate’s Blog recaps episode 195 of the Linux Saloon podcast, which covered a range of tech topics. The episode also touched on critical security flaws in Telegram, and discusses Android malware. The open mic format allowed contributors to share their own perspectives on the week’s developments.

25th Update of KDE Frameworks 6 and the BluezQt Library

The KDE Blog announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.25. As part of an ongoing series, the post also profiles the BluezQt library, which provides Bluetooth management for KDE Plasma and enables everyday tasks like connecting wireless headphones and monitoring peripheral battery levels.

openSUSE Tumbleweed Weekly Review – Week 14 & 15

Victorhck and dimstar publish a combined two-week Tumbleweed review covering weeks 14 and 15. Ten snapshots were released during the fortnight, delivering updates including the Linux kernel 6.19.10 and 6.19.11, Mozilla Firefox 149.0, Qt 6.11.0, Mesa 26.0.4, GIMP 3.2.2, and LibreOffice 26.2.2.2. Looking ahead, the post previews upcoming changes such as GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.4, GCC 16 as the default compiler, and LLVM 22.

Moving to Zola

Jakub Steiner’s Blog details the migration of his personal blog from Jekyll to the Rust-based static site generator Zola, driven by frustration with Ruby dependency management. Key benefits highlighted include near-instant build times, a single binary with no external dependencies, and native support for asset colocation keeping images alongside their posts. The post also notes CSS-only dark mode theming and improved font legibility as welcome side effects of the overhaul.

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Following Up on ARMv9 Build Infrastructure

admin@opensuse.org (Douglas DeMaio) — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000

The arrival of NVIDIA Grace Hopper in the Open Build Service (OBS) infrastructure last June signaled more than new hardware; it launched a new era of native ARMv9 build capacity for the openSUSE Project.

The results are becoming visible and more meaningful months later.

The OBS worker monitoring dashboards shows a picture that tells the story better than any changelog. Across dozens of build workers spanning architectures from x86_64 and aarch64 to ppc64le, s390x, and the newer armv9-class machine is humming with activity.

Projects have been underway rebuilding a subset of Tumbleweed packages for ARMv9, and the worker dashboard reflects these efforts.

The dashboard reveals not only the heavy load on aarch64 and armv9 workers but also the remarkable diversity of packages building for the target. From the Linux kernel and compiler toolchains like LLVM and GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), Python packages, Qt frameworks, and more, the workers are compiling these complex workloads with good success rates.

This activity is instrumental to ARMv9, demonstrating that it is evolving beyond its proof-of-concept into an active development distribution path alongside the main Tumbleweed tree.

NVIDIA Grace uses high-performance arm-based CPU cores with the Hopper GPU architecture, linked by NVIDIA’s NVLink™-C2C (Chip-to-Chip) interface. The architecture allows both processors to access data in place, which results in significantly faster compilation and reduced latency for complex workloads. It provides better efficiency across OBS pipelines.

The architectural difference is not an abstract specification point. It translates directly into shorter queue times for contributors, faster feedback loops for package maintainers, and the ability to handle the kinds of large, parallel builds that a rolling-release distribution like Tumbleweed demands.

Integrating native ARMv9 hardware within OBS was essential to unlock maximum performance gains and successfully validate builds optimized for the architecture.

Native builds eliminate the risks of emulated cross-compilation, which often masks critical Application Binary Interface mismatches, instruction scheduling errors, and performance regressions. Deploying the Grace Hopper in production ensures ARMv9 targets are validated on actual silicon, guaranteeing real-world reliability and peak performance.

Collaboration that made this possible is a model worth repeating in its structure, a template. The efforts reflect a shared commitment to open-source and the need for cutting-edge build capabilities. This isn’t just a philosophical framing but a practical argument other hardware companies across the industry can consider.

The openSUSE Project actively welcomes hardware vendors who may want to lend or donate hardware to enable openSUSE on their systems, test openSUSE on their systems, or add more build power to the build system.

Consider what lent or donated hardware to OBS actually achieves for a company. When a vendor’s silicon appears in OBS as a native build target, thousands of open-source packages begin being compiled, tested, and validated continuously and automatically against that architecture. It’s a hardware vendors QA dream!

Every successful build validates software readiness on contributed hardware, while every failure proactively resolves compatibility issues before impacting end users. Continuous integration coverage delivers critical risk mitigation for new processor launches at a negligible infrastructure cost.

The OBS worker pool has comprehensive multi-architecture coverage as seen with Intel/AMD handling the bulk load alongside dedicated ARM, POWER, and Z Systems nodes. The diverse infrastructure, secured through partnerships and community contributions, ensures validation across a large hardware spectrum.

A machine lent, donated or co-located with the project becomes a continuous, automated test bed for software compatibility, running 24 hours a day, maintained by the community, and producing results visible to every Linux developer who watches the Tumbleweed package feed.

The NVIDIA collaboration demonstrates this in practice. OBS’ thriving build farm benefits every distribution user, every application developer, and every hardware vendor whose products run Linux.

If your company makes chips, accelerators, or servers and you want your products to run on Linux, get your hardware into the hands of the people who build the software. The openSUSE Project is ready to put it to work.

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Planet News Roundup

admin@opensuse.org (Douglas DeMaio) — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org.

The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from April 3 to 9.

Blogs this week cover the fourth bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6.6, Slimbook’s refreshed Creative ultrabook featuring the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 with a dedicated AI NPU, and the promotion of Slimbook Days 2026, which the sales help support donations to KDE. Blogs also highlight two new Plasmoids for Plasma 6. One is the Aero Weather weather viewer and the other is Battery Plasmoid Boero. There were also practical tips for openSUSE users on using Rufus in DD mode when writing USB install media.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

Use DD Mode When Creating an openSUSE DVD Image with Rufus

The Geeko Blog warns openSUSE users that writing a DVD image to a USB drive using Rufus in ISO mode can silently skip files, resulting in a broken installer that fails to boot mid-installation. The author discovered this when attempting a fresh install of openSUSE 16.0 on physical hardware and confirmed the issue across multiple machines. Switching Rufus to DD mode resolved the problem entirely, and readers are advised to always use DD mode when creating openSUSE USB media.

The KDE Blog presents Aero Weather; it’s a desktop weather viewer widget for KDE Plasma. The plasmoid displays current conditions and a multi-day weather forecast directly on the desktop. It also has support for automatic IP-based location detection or manual coordinates along with customizable font colors.

New Slimbook Creative, Renewing its High-End Model

The KDE Blog covers Slimbook’s 2026 refresh of its Creative ultrabook that features the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 processor with a dedicated NPU designed for local AI workloads. The updated model also brings improvements in performance, design, personalization, and portability.

Fourth Update of Plasma 6.6

The KDE Blog announces the fourth bugfix update of KDE Plasma 6.6, released on April 7, 2026, continuing the project’s regular maintenance cadence following the feature release. The post recaps the major new features introduced in the full Plasma 6.6 release, including the new Plasma Keyboard on-screen keyboard, OCR text extraction in Spectacle, and a new Plasma Setup configuration wizard. As with all bugfix updates, the release is strongly recommended for all users.

Battery Plasmoid Boero – Visual Plasmoids for Plasma 6 (27)

The KDE Blog presents Battery Plasmoid Boero, which is a widget that provides detailed battery monitoring including charge/discharge graphs and power mode settings. The plasmoid is aimed at laptop users who want more granular control over battery status than the default widget provides. Users interested in energy-efficient computing should visit eco.kde.org.

Interface and Stability Improvements – This Week in Plasma

The KDE Blog translates and summarizes the latest “This Week in Plasma” development report, covering ongoing work on interface refinements and stability fixes headed toward Plasma 6.7. The post highlights improvements across several Plasma components aimed at making the desktop feel more polished and reliable for daily use. This is part of the blog’s ongoing series of Spanish-language translations of Nate Graham’s weekly KDE development updates.

Linux Saloon 194 | News Flight Night

CubicleNate’s Blog recaps episode 194 of the Linux Saloon podcast, which focused on a range of current tech topics including Google’s Android ecosystem changes and sideloading restrictions. Participants also discussed the Claude Code source leak, critical security vulnerabilities in Telegram, and a notable increase in Steam’s reported Linux usage share. Yay!

Japan

Jakub Steiner’s Blog shares a personal travel post about a return trip to Japan. This time focused on Tokyo and a short excursion to Kawaguchiko during cherry blossom season. The post reflects on shooting with a Fuji X-T20 camera rather than relying solely on a smartphone, and includes a link to a full photo gallery on the author’s photo website.

Slimbook Days 2026

The KDE Blog announces the arrival of Slimbook Days 2026, which is a promotional sale period for the GNU/Linux hardware brand happening between April 8 to 12. The post encourages readers to take advantage of the event, noting that Slimbook devices come fully pre-configured for GNU/Linux and come with a portion of each sale supporting the KDE community.

Screenshots and Screen Recording in Plasma 6.6

The KDE Blog examines the screenshot and screen recording improvements in KDE Plasma 6.6, with a particular focus on Spectacle’s new ability to recognize and extract text from captured images using OCR. This addition is highlighted as a significant usability and accessibility improvement and makes it easier to create alt text for visual content.

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Planet News Roundup

admin@opensuse.org (Douglas DeMaio) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0000

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org.

The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from March 27 to April 2.

Blogs this week highlight the end of the nearly eight-year openSUSE Leap 15 era with Leap 15.6 reaching end of life, the March 2026 Tumbleweed monthly update covering three Plasma 6.6 point releases and kernel advances to 6.19.9, and the switch to systemd-boot as the default bootloader for fresh Tumbleweed installations. Blogs also cover the Claude Code source leak and its supply chain security lessons, syslog-ng benchmarks hitting 7 million events per second, accessibility improvements in Plasma 6.6, progress on Thunderbird’s Linux system tray integration and more.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

Victorhck compiles and translates highlights from the Free Software Foundation’s April 2026 newsletter, which marks the FSF’s 40th anniversary this month. Topics include Discord’s controversial age verification policies, Google’s friction-heavy process for installing unverified Android apps, and payment provider Nexi terminating its contract with the FSFE after the organization refused to hand over donor data without explanation.

Tumbleweed Monthly Update - March 2026

The openSUSE News publishes its March 2026 Tumbleweed monthly summary. The month saw three Plasma 6.6 point releases, kernel updates from 6.19.5 to 6.19.9, Mesa 26.0.2 fixing RDNA 4 visual corruption, and significant CVE attention for FreeRDP, curl, and the kernel.

The KDE Blog presents Aero Weather, a desktop weather viewer widget for KDE Plasma created by XcurcX. The plasmoid displays current conditions and multi-day forecasts with customizable font colors and supports automatic IP-based location or manual coordinates.

Tahoe Launcher – A macOS-Style Launcher for KDE Plasma – Plasmoids for Plasma 6 (25)

The KDE Blog showcases Tahoe Launcher, which is a minimalist macOS-style application launcher for KDE Plasma featuring a grid layout with transparency and blur effects. The widget is built natively in QML for low resource consumption and allows users to customize the grid dimensions, icon sizes, and search bar design.

Quick Update on the Package Version Tracking Feature in OBS

The Open Build Service Blog shares updates to the package version tracking feature as part of the Foster Collaboration beta program. The API now allows querying upstream and local package versions, and individual packages can opt out of version tracking when upstream monitoring is not relevant.

Closing Out a Roughly 8-Year Era

The openSUSE News announces that the openSUSE Leap 15 series is reaching its end of life after nearly eight years, starting with 15.0 on May 25, 2018. Leap 15.6 will stop receiving maintenance and security updates at the end of this month.

My New Toy: April 1 syslog-ng Performance Tests

Peter Czánik’s Blog presents benchmark results showing syslog-ng reaching 7 million events per second, though he immediately clarifies this is a synthetic lab measurement that does not represent real-world production performance. The post introduces sngbench, his open-source benchmarking tool for comparing syslog-ng performance across architectures and operating systems.

This Month in KDE Linux: March 2026

The KDE Blog summarizes Nate Graham’s March 2026 progress report on Adventures in Linux and KDE. Key improvements include better automatic rollback after failed updates, improved memory management to prevent total system freezes, and easier iPhone/iPad connectivity for photo transfers.

Thunderbird and the System Tray on Linux

Victorhck highlights progress from Thunderbird’s March 2026 development digest regarding the long-requested system tray integration for Linux. Contributor Christophe Henry has been working on a cross-platform approach spanning JavaScript, C++, and Rust to unify unread mail indicators and tray icon behavior.

Automating Test Management with QASE

Zoltán Balogh’s Blog breaks from his usual open-source focus to review QASE, a cloud-based test management tool, finding its API to be its strongest feature. He explains why the open-source world generally lacks dedicated test management tools, which he notes that community-driven projects like openSUSE and Debian tend to crowdsource quality engineering through staged releases rather than formal test plans.

Claude Code Leak: Exposes Half a Million Lines of AI

Alessandro’s Blog analyzes the March 31 incident in which a source map file accidentally published to npm exposed the entire Claude Code codebase, which was roughly 1,900 files and over 512,000 lines of TypeScript. Alessandro frames the incident as a cautionary lesson about build pipeline security and supply chain risks, arguing that the future of AI lies in mastering the orchestration layer around models, not just the models themselves.

My New Toy: Back to High-End Audio

Peter Czánik’s Blog shares how installing software synthesizers and connecting his HP Z2 Mini AI workstation to his HiFi system reminded him of how much better high-end audio sounds compared to the laptop speakers and meeting-oriented headphones he had been using for months. The post is part of his ongoing series about adventures with his AI mini workstation.

KDE Express Episode 71: esLibre2026 – Digital Self-Defense Guide with Enxeñería Sen Fronteiras

The KDE Blog covers episode 71 of the KDE Express podcast featuring Laura Salgueiro Sánchez from Enxeñería Sen Fronteiras promoting a talk at esLibre2026. The session will present a digital self-defense guide aimed at helping anyone improve their online security and recover digital sovereignty without requiring prior cybersecurity knowledge.

What is Better, Windows or Linux? My Experience 1 Year Later

The KDE Blog highlights a video by content creator GCtech sharing his experience after a full year of using Linux as his primary operating system. He praises Linux’s resource efficiency for reviving older hardware, its transparency and security model, while acknowledging gaps in professional software like Adobe and some limitations with AAA gaming.

Accessibility Improvements in Plasma 6.6

The KDE Blog details the accessibility enhancements in Plasma 6.6, including a new grayscale filter joining three existing color blindness correction filters. The magnification feature gains a new tracking mode that keeps the pointer centered on screen, and Slow Keys returns on Wayland to help users with motor difficulties avoid accidental keypresses.

Easy Microphone Sensitivity Adjustment – This Week in Plasma

The KDE Blog translates and covers the latest “This Week in Plasma” development report. Plasma 6.7 gains a microphone test-and-adjust feature, notification portal support for Flatpak apps, and a multi-GPU swapchain implementation in KWin.

openSUSE Tumbleweed Weekly Review – Week 13 of 2026

Victorhck and dimstar report on a slow week for Tumbleweed with only two snapshots (0324 and 0326) reaching the mirrors due to the transition from grub2-bls to systemd-boot as the default bootloader for fresh installations. Notable updates delivered include KDE Plasma 6.6.3, ffmpeg 8.1, FreeRDP 3.24.1, Linux kernel 6.19.9, and qemu 10.2.2. Upcoming changes in the pipeline include GNOME 50, Qt 6.11.0, Mozilla Firefox 149.0, GCC 16, and glibc 2.43.

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Tumbleweed Monthly Update - March 2026

admin@opensuse.org (Douglas DeMaio) — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000

There were several software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed during March.

Tumbleweed saw three Plasma 6.6 updates bringing progressive bugfixes to KWin, the system tray, Spectacle, and the Kicker launcher. KDE Frameworks advanced to 6.24.0 with nanosecond-precision timestamps in KIO and a new Kirigami StyleHints API. The Linux kernel moved from 6.19.5 to 6.19.9 with broad fixes across audio, display, and filesystem drivers. Both the Linux Kernel and FreeRDP fixed several Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, and Mesa 26.0.2 resolved visual corruption on RDNA 4 hardware and a Counter-Strike 2 regression on Intel Arc.

As always, be sure to roll back using snapper if any issues arise.

For more details on the change logs for the month, visit the openSUSE Factory mailing list.

New Features and Enhancements

Plasma 6.6.1, 6.6.2 & Plasma 6.6.3: Version 6.6.3 finished the month with the third update. Application launcher Kicker receives several fixes for the sidebar, icon display, and expanded root list width calculations. The Task Manager now keeps thumbnails properly aligned in horizontal group tooltips. Spectacle resolves a crash on quick region selection and fixes a pixel-off error in the magnifier tool. The system tray sees improved popup placement on Wayland. PowerDevil restores the battery badge for 100 percent charge and syncs the manual inhibition switch with external changes. Plasma 6.6.2 has KWin resolve crashes in DRM output handling, improves mouse tracking with caret-based zoom, and fixes input region gaps in window decorations. The Kicker applet sees refinements in visual search, scrollbar behavior, and hover logic. Spectacle fixes a crash when exporting via KDE Connect, and System Settings now correctly navigates to subcategories from search results. In version 6.6.1, KWin sees the most changes with fixes for corner rounding applying to both decorations and window surfaces, zoom now works correctly on rotated outputs, and software brightness dimming on external screens on screens were enhanced. The tile editor no longer triggers on key repeat, and interactive move-resize no longer unconditionally raises windows. Clipboard and drag-and-drop teardown under XWayland is improved, and*Wine/Proton color management gains better compatibility. The Kicker application launcher for the Plasma Desktop receives multiple fixes for the icon display, layout margins, and search field behavior. The Task Manager corrects tooltip sizing. The digital clock now properly localizes digits, and the media controller fixes premature label truncation. Plasma Network Manager improves icon accuracy for Wi-Fi disabled states and now responds to external configuration changes. Discover improves Flatpak app resolution and exposes proper star count ratings. Powerdevil adds a power level check before executing critical actions that prevent premature shutdowns.

GNOME Control Center 49.5: The Display and Power panels now handle a missing UPower service instead of failing. An infinite loop when switching battery charge modes on systems with multiple batteries was fixed. Sound and Bluetooth device switching regressions are resolved through an updated libgnome-volume-control.

libxml2 2.15.2: A significant version jump that removes the built-in HTTP client and LZMA compression support, and the parser option XML_PARSE_UNZIP is now required to read compressed data. HTML serialization and character encoding handling are brought more in line with the HTML5 specification, and additional accessors for xmlParserCtxt were added for developers. Several previously patched CVEs are now resolved upstream, including fixes for attribute normalization and standalone checks. Python bindings are no longer built as they are scheduled for removal in 2.16, and Schematron support has similarly been dropped.

Xfce 4.20.2: This update covers the screensaver, session manager, and display settings. xfce4-screensaver fixes a wrong conditional in the lock plug, improves theme preview rendering, and switches from pidof to pgrep for more reliable process detection. The overlay window handling is reworked to use a single permanent window, improving device reliability. xfce4-session fixes an idle function and prevents multiple logout dialogs from being created. It also adds gnome-keyring as a Secret portal provider and improves keyboard layout detection on Wayland. xfce4-settings improves display management by checking EDID to detect output list changes, adds a missing condition for new Wayland outputs, and falls back to output name when EDID data is duplicated.

KDE Frameworks 6.24.0: This updates see KIO gain nanosecond-precision timestamps across file operations, improved paste dialogs with proper titles, and refined trash handling. KCodecs overhauls encoding with safer memory management (using unique_ptr) and Kirigami introduces a new StyleHints API to unify theme behavior. Baloo fixes database access mode issues and KTextEditor adds search history clearing and safer clipboard handling.

7-Zip 26.00: The file manager now uses the file name as a secondary sorting key for more intuitive file list ordering, and the benchmark tool supports systems with more than 64 CPU threads. A bug preventing correct extraction of TAR archives containing sparse files is fixed.

KDE Gear 25.12.3: Kdenlive addresses numerous stability and usability issues, including crashes in the curve editor, audio scrubbing with “Pause on Seek” disabled, and provides better handling of multi-stream clips and improved effect management. Itinerary and Kitinerary expand travel support with new extractors for ferry tickets. NeoChat refines room list navigation, fixes emoticon editor layout issues, prevents timeline scrolling during reactions, and resolves a crash. KMail restores proper rendering of plain-text emails and Tokodon fixes alt-text editing and account switching after login failures.

ImageMagick 7.1.2.16 - 7.1.2.18: The image editor update for version 7.1.2.18 improves the reliability of animated image handling by fixing frame delay parsing and resolves a visual artifact where the -dissolve composite operation introduced random noise. Version 7.1.2.17 focused on addressing multiple vulnerabilities and security advisories are resolved along with out-of-band data handling improvements. Version 7.1.2.16 hardens security and adds overflow checks to several image write paths including JXL, PS3, sixel, SGI, and BMP/DIB. It fixes a heap over-read in BilateralBlurImage with even-dimension kernels, a NULL pointer dereference in HEIC NCLX color profile allocation, and a double-free in SVG gradientTransform parsing.

Ruby 4.0.2: This update fixes a YJIT bug. A segfault with argument forwarding combined with splat and positional arguments is resolved, along with a GC crash in String#% and a crash on signal raise. A 20 percent performance regression in Rails related to global allocatable slots and empty pages is addressed. Several Prism parser issues were corrected including misparsing of standalone in pattern matching and the and? predicate being confused with the and keyword.

FreeRDP 3.24.1: This update sees the API comprehensively marked with [[nodiscard]] to surface unchecked function return values. Smartcard support is improved including ECC key handling in PKCS#11 enumeration, proxy support is extended to RFX and NSC graphics modes, and SDL3 multi-monitor scaling is introduced. Numerous memory leaks across connection setup, settings copying, and smartcard paths were resolved.

libavif 1.4.0: This update adds support for Sample Transform schemes from the AVIF 1.2 specification, which enables 16-bit AVIF file handling and grid-based derived image items. Data behind a document for the software handles picture files was made with avifenc, which can now read PNG or JPEG files through stdin via --stdin-format and supports converting JPEG files with Apple-style gain maps. PNG decoding now respects cICP chunks for color information as per the PNG Third Edition specification. Encoding defaults have been refined; AOM_TUNE_IQ is now used for still color samples with libaom v3.13.0+, while AOM_TUNE_PSNR is used for alpha to avoid ringing artifacts from SSIM tuning. Support for libaom versions 2.0.0 and earlier is removed.

Key Package Updates

Linux kernel 6.19.5 - 6.19.9:: The 6.19.9 update improved audio with a speaker pop fix for Star Labs StarFighter hardware and the Btrfs filesystem resolves a space info lock issue during periodic reclaim. NFS3 now correctly returns EISDIR when a create operation encounters a directory alias. The 6.19.8 kernel was dominated by a major batch of AppArmor fixes and multiple CVE-tracked fixes that were backported. The 6.19.7 release receives multiple corrections for CFS/EEVDF scheduler including fixes for zero_vruntime tracking, lag clamping, and slice protection timing. The AMD XDNA accelerator driver resolves several issues including a crash when destroying suspended hardware contexts. The 6.19.6 kernel had fixes led by extensive perf tooling corrections including reference count leaks, srcline printing with inlines, and Zen 5 vendor event definitions for AMD. Btrfs replaces a BUG() call with proper error handling for unexpected delayed ref types, adds fallback to buffered IO for data profiles with duplication, and improves user interrupt handling in btrfs_trim_fs(). The 6.19.5 releases sees Btrfs correct a block_group_tree dirty list corruption and a chunk allocation abort caused by non-consecutive gaps. GFS2 resolves quota handling and an inline data write path. The SMB client fixes a potential use-after-free and double free in smb2_open_file(). A netfilter nf_tables fix adds an abort skip removal flag for set types to address tracked security-relevant issues.

GStreamer 1.28.1: This update includes a new whisper-based speech-to-text transcription element and the speechmatics element now supports detecting audio events like applause, laughter, and music. Reverse playback and gap handling are improved across multiple components. The V4L2 subsystem gains support for AV1 stateful decoding, and CUDA/GL interop copy paths in cudaupload and cudadownload are fixed. WebRTC components gain the ability to specify custom headers for signalling servers and negotiate H.264 profile and level for encoded input. Various memory leaks, build issues, and race conditions were resolved.

curl 8.19.0: This release addresses four security vulnerabilities and provides new features like initial support for MQTTS and fractional values for --limit-rate and --max-filesize. Support for OpenSSL-QUIC was dropped. A potential NULL dereference in Curl_h1_req_parse_read() was fixed along with a potential out-of-bounds read in OpenSSL debug logging. The build now enables NTLM authentication for compatibility with certain Exchange Server endpoints.

systemd 259.3 & 259.5: The 259.5 update had a notable fix and corrected systemd-update-helper from incorrectly skipping systemctl disable during package removal. A new clean-state command is introduced and triggered automatically at the end of any transaction installing unit files. The systemd-container subpackage now requires libarchive instead of tar for archive handling. Additional systemd-update-helper fixes address do_install_units() incorrectly returning an error when no units need preset, and the clean-state command itself is corrected to remove the full state directory rather than just a subdirectory. The 259.3 was a major version upgrade. The libcap dependency was removed entirely, with its system call wrappers reimplemented directly in systemd.

GnuPG 2.5.18: This update adds support for deleting composite secret keys in gpg-agent and fixes armor parsing when no CRC is found. A recent regression in pkdecrypt with TPM RSA keys is resolved, and scdaemon adds support for D-Trust Card 6.1/6.4. The dirmngr key server search now prints all UID records for a key, which fixes a regression dating back to 2015.

Mesa 26.0.2: The release fixes visual corruption on RDNA 4 in DX11/DXVK titles like Mafia III, a GPU hang with PS epilogs and secondary command buffers, and missing L2 cache invalidation with streamout on GFX12. A Counter-Strike 2 visual glitch regression on Intel A770 is resolved. The Panfrost Bifrost compiler fixes a failure from incorrect vectorization and spill placement issues. An OpenGL VRAM memory leak when setting uniform variables is corrected. X11 shared memory attachment checks are added across drisw, EGL, GLX, and Vulkan WSI paths to prevent allocation failures.

GTK3 3.24.52: This update fixes a Firefox crash at gdk_wayland_drag_context_manage_dnd() when a toplevel Wayland surface is missing, and resolves wild strobing in multi-window mode. A refresh rate calculation overflow on 32-bit targets is corrected, and recolored icon images are no longer constantly reloaded. Accessibility events for unfocused GtkTreeView widgets are fixed, and XKB initialization failures on Wayland are now handled more gracefully.

libtpms 0.10.2: This update fixes a memory leak by freeing the KDF context and resolves incorrect IV retrieval when using OpenSSL 3.0 or later. A build fix for compatibility with newer glibc is also included. For Tumbleweed users running TPM-based virtualization with QEMU or swtpm, this is a security-relevant update.

xfsprogs 6.18.0: This update spans three releases. The mkfs.xfs tool gains several improvements including the ability to configure desired maximum atomic write sizes, AG size alignment based on atomic write capabilities, autodetection of log stripe unit for external log devices, and new default features enabled out of the box with a 2025 LTS config file. Zoned filesystem support is refined with fixes for zone capacity checks on sequential zones and improved default maximum open zones. The proto subsystem adds the ability to populate a filesystem directly from a directory. xfs_scrub removes its EXPERIMENTAL warnings and fixes a null pointer crash in scrub_render_ino_descr. Cross-architecture log CRC mismatches between i386 and other architectures are corrected, and libxfs gains support for reproducible filesystems using deterministic time and seed values. Deprecated sysctl knobs and mount options are removed. The Python dependency is also dropped from the main package since the xfs_protofile script is not essential.

Security Updates

Python 3.11.15:

CVE-2025-11468: Fixes a header injection flaw in email header folding where long comments with unfoldable characters could allow injecting headers into email messages.
CVE-2025-12084: Addresses quadratic complexity that could lead to denial of service when processing deeply nested documents.
CVE-2025-6075: Resolves a performance degradation in os.path.expandvars() when user-controlled values are passed for environment variable expansion.
CVE-2026-2297: Fixes an issue where CPython’s import hook for legacy .pyc files did not trigger sys.audit handlers and could potentially allow a security monitoring bypass.

bind 9.20.21:

CVE-2026-1519: Fixes a flaw that could potentially lead to denial of service.
CVE-2026-3104: Addresses a memory leak that could cause unbounded memory growth and an out-of-memory condition.
CVE-2026-3119: Resolves an issue where an authenticated query could cause a termination unexpectedly.
CVE-2026-3591: Fixes a use-after-return flaw that could allow an attacker to bypass ACL restrictions via crafted DNS requests.

Linux kernel 6.19.8::

CVE-2026-23230: Fixes a vulnerability in the ksmbd kernel SMB server.
CVE-2026-23220: Addresses an infinite loop caused by next_smb2_rc in ksmbd.
CVE-2026-23226: Resolves a missing lock to protect ksmbd channel list.
CVE-2026-23228: Fixes a leak of active_num_conn in the ksmbd SMB server.
CVE-2025-71231: Addresses an out-of-bounds index in the crypto IAA driver.
CVE-2026-23222: Fixes a memory allocation issue in the crypto OMAP driver.
CVE-2026-23229: Resolves a missing spinlock protection in the crypto virtio driver.
CVE-2025-71237: Fixes a potential block overflow in nilfs2 that could cause corruption.
CVE-2025-71230: Addresses an issue where HFS superblock info was not always cleaned up properly.
CVE-2025-71229: Resolves an alignment fault in the rtw88 WiFi driver.
CVE-2025-71236: Fixes missing validation before freeing resources in the qla2xxx SCSI driver.
CVE-2025-71235: Addresses a module unload race condition in the qla2xxx SCSI driver.
CVE-2025-71232: Resolves a memory leak in an error path in the qla2xxx SCSI driver.
CVE-2026-23225: Fixes an incorrect CID ownership assumption in the scheduler mmcid subsystem.
CVE-2026-23221: Addresses a use-after-free in the fsl-mc bus driver override handling.
CVE-2026-23224: Resolves a use-after-free in erofs for file-backed mounts.
CVE-2026-23223: Fixes a use-after-free in XFS btree block owner checking.
CVE-2026-23227: Addresses a missing lock protection in the Exynos VIDI DRM driver.
CVE-2025-71233: Resolves an issue with asynchronous sub-group creation in PCI endpoint.
CVE-2025-71234: Fixes a slab out-of-bounds access in the rtl8xxxu WiFi driver.
CVE-2025-71238: Addresses a double-free in the qla2xxx SCSI driver’s bsg_done handler.
CVE-2026-23236: Fixes improper ioctl memory copy in the smscufx framebuffer driver.
CVE-2026-23235: Resolves an out-of-bounds access in f2fs sysfs attribute handling.
CVE-2026-23234: Addresses a use-after-free in f2fs write end I/O handling.

libtpms 0.10.2:

CVE-2026-21444: Fixes a flaw in libtpms that weakened encryption and decryption.

LibVNCServer:

CVE-2026-32853: Fixes a vulnerability where a crafted message could lead to information disclosure or denial of service.
CVE-2026-32854: Addresses an issue where crafted requests could cause a denial of service.

freeipmi 1.6.17:

CVE-2026-33554: Resolves improper memory handling and data validation that could lead to stack buffer overflows and acceptance of malformed payloads.

nghttp2 1.68.1:

CVE-2026-27135: Addresses a vulnerability that fixes an assertion failure from missing state validation.

inkscape 7.1.2.15:

CVE-2026-24481: Fixes a heap information disclosure when processing malformed PSD files.
CVE-2026-25794: Addresses a heap buffer overflow via integer overflow when writing images with large dimensions.
CVE-2026-25796: Resolves a memory leak that could be exploited for denial of service.
CVE-2026-25637: Fixes a memory leak in the ASHLAR image writer that could lead to denial of service.
CVE-2026-25576: Addresses a heap buffer over-read in multiple raw image format handlers potentially disclosing sensitive information.
CVE-2026-26983: Fixes a NULL pointer dereference in the MSL interpreter that could cause a crash.
CVE-2026-26284: Resolves a use-after-free that could lead to denial of service or code execution.
CVE-2026-26283: Addresses an infinite loop in the JPEG encoder that could cause denial of service.
CVE-2026-25965: Fixes a path traversal that could allow reading arbitrary files on the system.
CVE-2026-25967: Addresses improper encoding or escaping of output that could allow arbitrary command execution.
CVE-2026-25989: Fixes an integer overflow in the internal SVG decoder that could cause denial of service.
CVE-2026-25968: Resolves a memory leak in coders that write raw pixel data potentially leading to denial of service.
CVE-2026-24485: Addresses an out-of-bounds read that could cause a crash.
CVE-2026-25985: Fixes unbounded resource allocation in the SVG decoder that could lead to denial of service.
CVE-2026-25987: Resolves an integer overflow in the SVG decoder potentially causing denial of service.
CVE-2026-25966: Addresses a security policy bypass via fd: pseudo-filenames allowing stdin/stdout access.
CVE-2026-25799: Fixes an out-of-bounds read that could disclose memory contents.
CVE-2026-25798: Resolves an out-of-bounds read potentially leading to information disclosure or a crash.
CVE-2026-25795: Fixes a NULL pointer dereference that could cause a denial of service.
CVE-2026-26066: Addresses resource exhaustion when writing IPTCTEXT that could lead to denial of service.
CVE-2026-25638: Resolves a memory leak that could be exploited for denial of service.
CVE-2026-25797: Fixes a code injection issue that could allow arbitrary code execution.
CVE-2026-25897: Addresses a heap buffer overflow in the sun decoder potentially causing a crash.
CVE-2026-25970: Resolves a memory leak that could lead to denial of service via image processing.
CVE-2026-25982: Fixes a use-after-free that could lead to denial of service or code execution.
CVE-2026-25983: Addresses an out-of-bounds read in the PCD coder that could disclose memory contents.
CVE-2026-25898: Resolves an out-of-bounds read that could cause a crash or information disclosure.
CVE-2026-25971: Fixes a memory leak in the text coder that could lead to denial of service.
CVE-2026-25988: Addresses a use-after-free in the meta coder potentially allowing code execution.
CVE-2026-25969: Resolves a memory leak that could lead to denial of service via image processing.
CVE-2026-25986: Fixes a vulnerability that could lead to denial of service when processing crafted images.

expat 2.7.5:

CVE-2026-32776: Fixes a NULL pointer when handling empty external parameter entity content.
CVE-2026-32777: Addresses an infinite loop that could lead to denial of service.
CVE-2026-32778: Resolves a NULL pointer after an earlier out-of-memory condition.

TigerVNC:

CVE-2026-34352: Fixes incorrect permissions that could allow other users to observe or manipulate screen contents, or cause a crash.

clamav 1.5.2:

CVE-2026-20031: Fixes an error handling bug that could crash the program and cause a denial of service.

FreeRDP 3.24.1:

CVE-2026-29774: Fixes a client-side heap buffer overflow.
CVE-2026-29775: Addresses an off-by-one boundary check in the bitmap cache subsystem that could cause out-of-bounds read/write.
CVE-2026-29776: Resolves an integer underflow that could lead to a crash.
CVE-2026-31806: Fixes a heap buffer overflow caused by unchecked bitmap dimensions from a malicious server.
CVE-2026-31883: Addresses a size_t underflow leading to a heap buffer overflow via the RDPSND channel.
CVE-2026-31884: Resolves a division-by-zero in the ADPCM decoders when nBlockAlign is 0, causing a crash.
CVE-2026-31885: Fixes an out-of-bounds read in the ADPCM decoders due to missing predictor and step_index bounds checks.

giflib:

CVE-2026-23868: Fixes a double-free vulnerability from a shallow copy that could lead to memory corruption.

curl 8.19.0:

CVE-2026-1965: Fixes bad reuse of HTTP Negotiate connections that could lead to authentication bypass with wrong credentials.
CVE-2026-3783: Addresses a token leak when following redirects with netrc credentials.
CVE-2026-3784: Resolves wrong proxy connection reuse with different credentials, potentially exposing authenticated sessions.
CVE-2026-3805: Fixes a use-after-free in SMB connection reuse that could lead to a crash or potential code execution.

QEMU 10.2.2:

CVE-2026-2243: Fixes an out-of-bounds read in QEMU’s VMDK image handling that could lead to information disclosure or denial of service.
CVE-2026-3196: Addresses an integer overflow that could allow a malicious guest to cause unbounded memory allocation and denial of service on the host.

udisks2:

CVE-2026-26104: Fixes a missing authorization check that allowed unprivileged users to back up LUKS encryption headers and potentially expose sensitive cryptographic metadata.
CVE-2026-26103: Addresses a missing authorization check that allowed unprivileged users to restore LUKS encryption headers, which could potentially render encrypted volumes inaccessible.

GVFS 1.58.2:

CVE-2026-28296: Fixes a CRLF injection flaw in the FTP backend that could allow a remote attacker to inject arbitrary FTP commands via crafted file paths.

python-tornado6

CVE-2026-31958: Fixes a denial-of-service vulnerability where requests with thousands of parts could cause excessive CPU consumption.

libjxl 0.11.2:

CVE-2026-1837: Fixes a memory corruption issue when processing crafted grayscale images with LCMS2 that could potentially lead to code execution or information disclosure.

util-linux:

CVE-2026-3184: Addresses improper hostname canonicalization that could allow bypass of host-based PAM access control rules.

sdbootutil:

CVE-2026-25701: Fixes an insecure temporary file vulnerability that could allow local users to access private information or manipulate boot configuration data.

ImageMagick 7.1.2.17:

CVE-2026-32259: Fixes a stack-based buffer overflow when a memory allocation fails that could potentially allow writes past the end of a buffer.

GraphicsMagick:

CVE-2026-25799: Provides a fix that could lead to a crash and denial of service.
CVE-2026-28690: Fixes a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to a crash or potential code execution.
CVE-2026-30883: Addresses a heap overflow when encoding a PNG image with an extremely large image profile.

libsoup2:

CVE-2026-1760: Fixes improper handling of HTTP requests combining certain headers that could lead to HTTP request smuggling and potential denial of service.
CVE-2026-1467: Addresses a lack of input sanitization that could lead to unintended or unauthorized HTTP requests.
CVE-2026-1539: Resolves proxy authentication credentials being leaked via the Proxy-Authorization header when handling HTTP redirects.
CVE-2026-0716: Fixes a flaw in WebSocket frame processing that could cause out-of-bounds memory reads, potentially leading to memory exposure or a crash.

freetype2 2.14.2:

CVE-2026-23865: Fixes an integer overflow in the FreeType library that could allow an out-of-bounds read when parsing OpenType variable fonts.

exiv2 0.28.8:

CVE-2026-25884: Fixes an out-of-bounds read in the CRW image parser when processing crafted image files.
CVE-2026-27631: Addresses an integer overflow causing an uncaught exception that could lead to a crash and denial of service.
CVE-2026-27596: Resolves an out-of-bounds read in preview handling that could cause a crash when processing crafted image files.
CVE-2025-54080: Fixes an out-of-bounds read triggered when writing metadata into a crafted image file, potentially causing a crash.
CVE-2025-55304: Addresses quadratic performance in ICC profile parsing that could lead to denial of service.
CVE-2025-26623: Resolves a heap buffer overflow when writing metadata into a crafted image file, potentially allowing code execution.

Salt:

CVE-2026-31958: Fixes a denial-of-service vulnerability where requests could cause excessive CPU consumption.

openexr 3.4.6:

CVE-2026-27622: Fixes an out-of-bounds write that could potentially lead to code execution when processing crafted EXR files.

Users are advised to update to the latest versions to mitigate these vulnerabilities.

Conclusion

March 2026 was a month defined by refinement and security hardening across the openSUSE Tumbleweed stack. The three Plasma 6.6 point releases demonstrated KDE’s steady cadence of desktop polish, while the kernel’s progression from 6.19.5 to 6.19.9 kept hardware support and filesystem reliability moving forward. Security was a clear theme throughout the month, with FreeRDP, curl, libsoup2, and the kernel itself all receiving significant CVE attention alongside a broad sweep of image processing fixes across GraphicsMagick, ImageMagick, and exiv2. Under the hood, the jump to libxml2 2.15.2 marked a meaningful step forward in web standards alignment, and GStreamer 1.28.1 pushed multimedia capabilities forward with speech-to-text transcription and AV1 decoding support.

Slowroll Arrivals

Please note that these updates also apply to Slowroll and arrive between an average of 5 to 10 days after being released in Tumbleweed snapshot. This monthly approach has been consistent for many months, ensuring stability and timely enhancements for users. Updated packages for Slowroll are regularly published in emails on openSUSE Factory mailing list.

Contributing to openSUSE Tumbleweed

Stay updated with the latest snapshots by subscribing to the openSUSE Factory mailing list. For those Tumbleweed users who want to contribute or want to engage with detailed technological discussions, subscribe to the openSUSE Factory mailing list . The openSUSE team encourages users to continue participating through bug reports, feature suggestions and discussions.

Your contributions and feedback make openSUSE Tumbleweed better with every update. Whether reporting bugs, suggesting features, or participating in community discussions, your involvement is highly valued.

Closing Out a Roughly 8-Year Era

admin@opensuse.org (Douglas DeMaio) — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The series for openSUSE Leap 15 is coming to an end after nearly eight years of providing a consistent community distribution that’s upgradable to SUSE’s enterprise product. Leap 15.6 will reach End of Life (EOL) at the close of this month closing out an end of an era as it will no longer receive maintenance or security updates going forward.

The Leap 15 journey began it journey on May 25, 2018, when 15.0 was released as a fresh community build on top of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15. It brought a huge variety of new software along with a easy migration to SLE, transactional updates, server roles, scalable cloud images, and more.

What followed was an impressively long run of incremental releases from Leap 15.1 to 15.6 as each stable release aligned with its twin, which is source and binary compatible, and delivered maintenance and security updates to users over several years.

The series far exceeded promises and ultimately spanned nearly eight years of active support. With Leap 15.6 going EOL, users who wish to continue receiving maintenance and security updates should upgrade to Leap 16. Leap 16 is expected to go to 16.6 in Fall 2031 and will have 24 months of support for a point release.

Running an unsupported release means your system will no longer receive patches for vulnerabilities, which poses a real security risk over time. The upgrade path to Leap 16 is the recommended way to stay protected and supported.

You can download openSUSE Leap 16 and use the migration tool to upgrade.

Leap 15.6 itself received nearly 24 months of support, which extended the traditional support period of 18 months by about six months. With Leap 16, users can expect a full 24 months of community support per point release, which is a commitment that reflects the significant effort from maintainers to keep users protected.

Thank you to all the contributors, packagers, and users who made the Leap 15 series such a long-lasting and reliable platform. Here’s to the next chapter with Leap 16!

Planet News Roundup

admin@opensuse.org (Douglas DeMaio) — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org.

The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from March 13 to March 19.

Blogs this week highlight Agama 19’s major architectural overhaul and new installation modes, the simultaneous release of Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0, and Hyprland arriving on Tumbleweed with an official installation pattern. Blogs also cover Peter Czánik’s first steps running hardware-accelerated AI on Linux, animation smoothness improvements coming in Plasma 6.7, Mozilla’s new official RPM repository for Firefox Beta on openSUSE, the Himmelblau Workshop for Linux and Entra ID integration in Germany, an offline AI-powered child protection system for Linux using PAM, and more.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

My New Toy: OpenWebUI First Steps

Peter Czánik’s Blog continues his AI mini workstation series by documenting his first steps with Open WebUI on Fedora. He settled on running Ollama directly from the Fedora package repository after upgrading to Fedora 44 beta.

Install Firefox Beta on openSUSE

Victorhck explains how to add Mozilla’s new official RPM repository to install Firefox Beta on openSUSE alongside the stable and Nightly versions. Installing from the official Mozilla repository offers advantages including advanced compiler optimizations, faster updates, and hardened security binaries. The post provides the exact zypper commands needed to import the GPG key and install the package.

The New Features of Plasma 6.6

The KDE Blog takes a detailed look at the new features introduced in the Plasma 6.6 desktop release. The blog highlights a new global theme that automatically switches between light and dark mode by time of day, easier emoji skin tone selection via Meta+., and quick Wi-Fi connection by scanning a QR code with the device’s camera.

Trying Hyprland for the First Time on openSUSE Tumbleweed

Victorhck shares his first hands-on experience with the Hyprland tiling window manager on openSUSE Tumbleweed, which was made much easier by a new official installation pattern contributed by Lubos Kocman. The pattern bundles a minimal but functional setup including waybar, greetd, hyprpaper with an openSUSE wallpaper, and sensible keyboard defaults.

Compiling syslog-ng on an Old Mac

Peter Czánik’s Blog addresses the problem of Homebrew dropping full support for older Intel-based Macs and explains how to compile the latest syslog-ng release on these aging but still functional machines.

My New Toy: First Steps with AI on Linux

Peter Czánik’s Blog documents his first attempts at running hardware-accelerated AI workloads on his HP Z2 Mini under Linux, covering both Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43. While Ubuntu proved difficult due to ROCm packaging limitations, Fedora’s Heterogeneous Computing SIG wiki provided a clear path to getting AMD ROCm working, with both llama-cpp and PyTorch successfully detecting and using the GPU.

Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0 Released

The KDE Blog announces the simultaneous stable releases of Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0. Krita 5.3 introduces a fully rewritten text tool with direct canvas editing and advanced OpenType support. Krita 6.0 builds on all of 5.3’s additions while completing the migration to Qt6.

Animation Improvements Coming in Plasma 6.7

The KDE Blog reports on work by KWin developer Vlad Zahorodnii to smooth out animation in the upcoming Plasma 6.7. The fix addresses the “jump” effect that occurs when a brief system stall causes an animation to skip several frames to catch up. The change affects compositor-managed animations such as window open/close effects and desktop transitions.

Himmelblau Workshop – Hands-On Integration on April 21 in Germany

Just Another Tech Blog announces the first official Himmelblau Workshop taking place on April 22 in Göttingen, Germany, which is the day after sambaXP 2026. The hands-on session targets Linux system administrators and IT professionals managing hybrid environments, covering Entra ID authentication, multi-factor authentication, Intune-based device management, and policy enforcement using the current stable Himmelblau release.

Agama 19 – A New Start for the SUSE and openSUSE Installer

Victorhck provides a thorough Spanish-language overview of the Agama 19 release and its significance for SUSE and openSUSE users. The post walks through the architectural renovation, the redesigned web interface with dynamic network configuration, the rewritten user and software management subsystems, and newly added features such as LVM volume group installation and SSH key authentication.

3 Top Features of Plasma 6.6

The KDE Blog spotlights three standout features from the Plasma 6.6 release. The completely redesigned “Plasma Keyboard” on-screen keyboard offers instant appearance, automatic window repositioning, and a mobile-style layout with emoji support and cursor control via the spacebar.

3 Sports Games for Linux

The KDE Blog continues its native Linux games series with three free and open-source sports titles. Freetennis is a realistic tennis simulator featuring advanced AI and LAN/internet multiplayer; Tux Football is a fast-paced 2D arcade football game inspired by Sensible Soccer; and Foobillard++ is a 3D OpenGL billiards simulator supporting 8-ball, 9-ball, snooker, and carom modes. All three games are natively available on Linux at no cost.

VLM + CNN + Agents: Solving Digital Child Protection on Linux Without the Cloud

Alessandro’s Blog presents a technical proposal for implementing Brazil’s “Digital Statute for Children and Adolescents” (ECA Digital) on Linux using a fully offline AI pipeline. The system combines Vision-Language Models, convolutional neural networks for facial age estimation, and intelligent agents integrated directly into Linux’s PAM authentication layer to block privilege escalation by minors.

Linux Saloon 192 – Storm OS Distribution Exploration

The CubicleNate Blog recaps a Linux Saloon podcast episode focused on Storm OS, a new Arch-based Linux distribution created by contributor Ben. Participants discussed what productivity applications the distro would need to attract intermediate users and shared their own experiences testing distributions including openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Time Zone Offsets and Type-Ahead on the Desktop – This Week in Plasma

The KDE Blog translates and covers the latest “This Week in Plasma” development report. Plasma 6.7 gains time zone offset display in the Digital Clock widget, type-ahead file selection on the desktop when KRunner is disabled, and the ability to reverse the system tray item order. Performance improvements include reduced OpenGL context creation per application (saving 10–15 MB RAM each) and optimized direct scanout on fullscreen windows.

I Installed Linux on an Apple Silicon MacBook – No Going Back!

The KDE Blog highlights a video by content creator Guillem Cortés documenting his experience running Fedora Asahi Remix natively on a MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro chip. Battery life, audio, and display brightness perform comparably to macOS, though the screen is currently limited to 60 Hz instead of the original 120 Hz.

openSUSE Tumbleweed Weekly Review – Week 12 of 2026

Victorhck and dimstar report on a very active week for Tumbleweed with seven consecutive snapshots (0312 through 0318) delivered without any issues reaching users. Major updates include Mesa 26.0.2, cURL 8.19.0, Linux kernel 6.19.7 and 6.19.8, KDE Frameworks 6.24.0, GIMP 3.2.0, systemd 259.5, Ruby 4.0.2, and pipewire 1.6.2. Upcoming changes include switching the default UEFI bootloader to systemd-boot, GCC 16 as the default compiler, GNOME 50, glibc 2.43, and LLVM 22.

Agama 19 Released – A New Beginning

The Agama Installer Blog announces Agama 19. The release features a major architectural overhaul that establishes a clean, stable API as the foundation for the web UI, command-line tools, and unattended installs alike. Internal components for user and software management have been rewritten from scratch to replace aging YaST modules, and the web UI has been reorganized around a new overview page.

Passing of bear454

The openSUSE project mourns the passing of long-time community member James Mason. James, who is also known amongst the community as bear454, has a long connection with the project that stretches back to its beginnings. He was a member since 2009, an openSUSE Ambassador and dedicated much of his life’s work to open-source. He was often at LinuxFest Northwest helping several in attendance. He will be deeply missed.

James pictured at LinuxFest Northwest in 2014. left to right: Peter Linnell, Bryan Lunduke, Jon Hall (with the SUSE Chameleon), James Mason, and Michael Miller at LinuxFest Northwest 2014

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