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admin@opensuse.org (Douglas DeMaio) — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. This community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from August 14 to 20.

This week highlights KDE Gear 26.08, KDE Frameworks 6.29, openSUSE Asia Summit 2026 publishing its pre-schedule, a Google Summer of Code 2026 final report on modernizing openSUSE’s OBS status service and much more.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

Released KDE Gear 26.08, “Enjoy Shiny Stuff” Edition

The KDE Blog announces KDE Gear 26.08, the second major update of the KDE application suite this year, focusing on improving the small everyday tasks users perform. The release spans Okular, Dolphin, Konsole, Kdenlive, Minuet and more than a dozen other applications, with full changelogs available for those eager to explore every detail.

Reverse clock for your desk

The KDE Blog presents Girosur Clock, an analog clock plasmoid that rotates in the opposite direction to what Northern Hemisphere users are accustomed to. Created by teovisaires, this widget turns the clock face and its hands in reverse as a playful addition to the desktop, marking entry number 38 in the blog’s ongoing Plasma 6 plasmoid series.

Recycling an interview. Is it worth being a blogger?

Victorhck recycles a set of interview questions originally posed on Tecnoysoft and answers them from his own perspective as a long-time GNU/Linux blogger. He reflects on why maintaining a personal blog still matters in an era of short-form video and what keeps him publishing despite modest readership numbers.

Circular Alt-Tab Window Switch for Plasma 6

The KDE Blog introduces Circular Alt-Tab, a window switcher for Plasma 6 that arranges open windows in circular sectors around the cursor. Created by Lubdhak7414, it features live window thumbnails, multi-ring layouts for more than eight windows, middle-click close, and a “Desktop Peek” option that minimizes all applications for a quick look at the desktop.

Twenty-nine-year update of KDE Frameworks 6 and KConfig

The KDE Blog covers the 29th update to KDE Frameworks 6, the foundational library layer that supports the entire KDE ecosystem. This installment also dives into KConfig.

openSUSE Asia Summit 2026 Pre-Schedule Is Now Available

openSUSE News announces the preliminary schedule for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026, set for October 3–4 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The organizing committee received 114 proposals from 85 speakers, and attendees can now browse sessions and plan which talks and workshops to attend ahead of the conference.

Towards a true LTS support of the entire KDE ecosystem (again)

The KDE Blog reports on a new initiative to bring true long-term support to the entire KDE ecosystem, not just the Plasma desktop. A partnership between Kubuntu Focus and Techpaladin Software under the Bullet-Proof KDE Initiative will fund bug fixes and CI infrastructure for Plasma 6.6, KDE Frameworks 6.24, and KDE Gear 25.12, the versions shipped in Kubuntu 26.04.

Integration of NFC in Plasma Mobile

The KDE Blog details KDE developer Volker Krause’s investigation into the state of NFC technology in the Linux ecosystem and his plans to integrate it into Plasma Mobile. He examines shortcomings in current drivers, middleware and Qt NFC APIs, and presents an initial Plasma applet and session daemon for NFC management.

Linux Saloon 216 | Open Mic Night

CubicleNate hosts another community episode of Linux Saloon with an open mic format, featuring live discussions about Fedora user experiences, job openings at Epic Games focused on Linux security, and IBM’s new chip architecture advancements. The post also covers Dell surpassing HP in U.S. PC sales amid a shrinking market.

openSUSE Kudos Recognitions for July 2026

openSUSE News publishes a new monthly Kudos recognition report for July 2026. It spotlights four users who received kudos and three contributors who earned badges.

GSoC 2026 Final Report: Enhancing openSUSE Git Workflow

Mario’s Blog shares the final Google Summer of Code 2026 report about modernizing openSUSE’s obs-status-service under mentor Daniel García Moreno. The project replaced legacy SVG string concatenation with Go templates, added Gitea-native theming, introduced real-time polling for live badge updates, and contributed reputation label prototypes upstream to Gitea.

Two-way synchronization of clipboard in RDP – This week in Plasma

The KDE Blog translates Nate Graham’s weekly Plasma report, which highlights bidirectional clipboard sharing in remote desktop sessions via KRDP. Other notable changes include scroll speed sliders with numeric inputs in System Settings, Discover showing external application links, and numerous bug fixes across Plasma 6.6.7, 6.7.5 and 6.8.

Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/33

Victorhck and Dominique Leuenberger summarizes four Tumbleweed snapshots (0806, 0809, 0811, and 0812) that delivered KDE Plasma 6.7.4, GDM 50.2, Mesa 26.2.0, OpenSSH 10.5p1 and OpenVPN 2.7.5. Critical security patches included a root code execution fix in dracut and an RSA decryption fix in python-cryptography, while GCC 16.2.0 and Linux kernel 7.1.8 rounded out the updates.

How a rural region beat the tech giants

The KDE Blog promotes the third episode of the podcast “La era de las distros,” which tells the story of LinEx, the Linux distribution deployed by the regional government of Extremadura, Spain. The episode explores how a rural region challenged the dominance of proprietary software through a bold public technology initiative.

Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-08-14)

The Open Build Service team publishes its weekly roundup of fixed issues, small features and security updates. Highlights include lowering the threshold for the “Mark all” notifications button, restoring the Show more/less link on user profiles, and fixing osc copypac to error out when copying a package with an empty name.

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openSUSE Asia Summit Pre-Schedule Is Now Available

admin@opensuse.org (openSUSE Asia Summit Team) — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Pre-Schedule Is Now Available

Hello Geeko!

After a long selection process, the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that the Pre-Schedule is now available!

This year, we received 114 proposals from 85 speakers, making the selection process both exciting and challenging. We are grateful to everyone who shared their ideas and contributed to the program.

Curious about what will be presented at the summit? Explore the sessions and start planning which talks and workshops you would like to attend.

View the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Schedule

Important Note

This is a preliminary schedule. Some changes to session times, rooms, speakers, or the overall program may still occur before the conference. We will share further updates as the schedule is finalized.

We look forward to welcoming the openSUSE and open source communities to Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on 3–4 October 2026.

See you at the summit!

openSUSE Kudos Recognitions for July 2026

admin@opensuse.org (openSUSE Kudos Team) — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Welcome to our monthly report from the openSUSE Kudos recognition platform, where we take a moment to put a spotlight on the people who stepped up, helped others, and made this community a little brighter.

During 1-31 July 2026, 4 users received 4 kudos, and 4 badges were awarded to 3 contributors.

Badges

Got First Kudo: @bmwiedemann, @dgarcia, @voztuzun
First Kudos Given: @voztuzun

Congrats on your badges!

Kudos

@lkocman -> @bmwiedemann for Code & Engineering “Thank you for your quick help with Leap 16.0 respin torrents Bernhard! strong” (view recognition)

@lkocman -> @dgarcia for Code & Engineering “Many thanks for your work and creativity at fixing the beets CVE. Thanks to your extra steps we could avoid update of the problematic python-numpy. Community really appreciates your help Daniel!” (view recognition)

@lkocman -> @voztuzun for Code & Engineering “Many thanks for helping me out with the cecpes and python-requests-gssapi updates Volkan! Your quick help was very much appreciated!” (view recognition)

@voztuzun -> @lkocman for Code & Engineering “Thank you Lubos!!!! Please come to the next concert!” (view recognition)

Thank you to everyone who made this period so active and welcoming. The community is strongest when we notice each other’s work and celebrate it openly.

Generated by kudos-bot-news-o-o from https://kudos.opensuse.org/api/reports/monthly for the period 1-31 July 2026.

Planet News Roundup

admin@opensuse.org (Douglas DeMaio) — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. This community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from August 7 to 13.

This week highlights Tumbleweed’s five snapshots. Podman 6.0.0, which now defaults rootless networking to pasta and drops legacy components like slirp4netns and CNI, was a key change. On the KDE side, registration opened for Akademy-es 2026 in Madrid and KStars 3.8.4 arrived with what the project calls the world’s first AI-powered guiding assistant. The openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 also announced a change of venue in Yogyakarta, and the Agama Installer showed how any distribution can restyle the installer without touching a line of its code.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

A Mix of New Features in Plasma 6.7

The KDE Blog closes out its Plasma 6.7 series with the traditional grab-bag of smaller changes that never got their own post. Highlights include duplicating network connections, syncing mouse and stylus pointers, setting a preferred calendar application, shortcuts for push-to-talk mic muting, and mixed skin-tone emoji selection.

Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B: Raising the Stakes in Frontier AI

Alessandro examines Alibaba’s newly released open-weights model, which pairs 2.4 trillion total parameters with roughly 95 billion active per token thanks to a Mixture of Experts design. His conclusion is that the real contest is shifting from who builds the biggest model to who turns that capacity into efficient, private, genuinely useful systems.

Registration Opens for Akademy-es 2026 in Madrid

The KDE Blog announces that free but mandatory registration is now open for Akademy-es 2026, held Oct. 23–25 at Camping Arco Iris in Villaviciosa de Odón. Key deadlines include Sept. 5 for accommodation assistance requests, Sept. 30 for booking a spot at the campsite, and Oct. 20 for general registration. The Call for Papers is still open until Sept. 3.

Help Number Research Find Numbers With This Bash Script

Victorhck shares a Bash script he wrote to automate submissions to Number Research Inc., a site attempting to catalogue every positive integer. The script asks where to start, submits numbers sequentially, skips ahead by 100 when a number is already claimed, and saves your position and statistics when you stop it with Ctrl+C.

KStars 3.8.4 Arrives With an AI Guiding Assistant

The KDE Blog covers the latest release of KDE’s planetarium and astrophotography suite, which introduces what the project calls the world’s first AI-powered guiding. The release also adds an MCP server for connecting any large language model to KStars, though currently with a limited subset of functions.

H.264 Playback Works, but CPU Usage Is High

The Geeko Blog of the Japanese openSUSE user group explains why high-resolution, high-framerate H.264 video can pin a CPU at 100 percent on a default install. openSUSE ships OpenH264, but the official gstreamer and VLC packages are built with x264 and hardware-decoder paths for H.264 disabled to avoid patent-related IP risk.

Get Agama Dressed for Success

The Agama Installer blog explains how any distribution can restyle the whole installer without touching a line of Agama code. A single CSS file named after the product id, plus logos, is enough to apply your colors, typeface and other styles across light and dark schemes while keeping the accessibility floor intact.

Venue Update for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026

openSUSE News announces that the summit moves to the Convention Hall at Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta, replacing the previously announced TILC venue at Universitas Gadjah Mada. The change was made for technical and logistical reasons, and the same hall hosted the very first openSUSE.Asia Summit in Indonesia back in 2016. Dates remain Oct. 3–4, 2026, and already-registered participants need to take no action.

How to Blur Your Wallpaper in Plasma

The KDE Blog walks through blurred wallpaper by 2N-r, a wallpaper plugin that blurs or dims the desktop background whenever an application is not fullscreen. Options cover blur radius, dimming color, transition time, and disabling the effect for slideshows, and installation is a matter of picking Active Blur from Get New Stuff in the wallpaper settings.

An Alternative Taskbar for Your Desktop, Punchi Dock – Plasmoids for Plasma 6 (37)

The KDE Blog reaches widget number 37 in its plasmoid series with Punchi Dock by punchipunchi, a native launcher and task dock for Plasma 6 aimed primarily at Wayland. It works either as a floating dock or integrated into a Plasma panel, and offers window cards, live thumbnails, configurable folders, MPRIS media cards, and an optional PipeWire audio visualizer.

Linux Saloon 215 | Odyssey Linux

CubicleNate recaps another community episode of Linux Saloon, with participants trading experiences and opinions on various distributions, Void Linux in particular. The post gathers links to the resources mentioned during the stream. It also points to upcoming events such as Open Mic Night and to participant project links.

Linux Saloon 214 | Early Edition August

CubicleNate covers an early-edition episode ranging over hardware projects like the War Thunder sim rig and the perennial question of font management on Linux. News topics included the retirement of the “Father of the Internet,” Firefox updates, and the Steam Machine launch. Fedora governance changes also came up, alongside the usual list of resources and upcoming events.

UI Improvements Galore – This Week in Plasma

The KDE Blog translates Nate Graham’s weekly Plasma report, which this time leans heavily on usability polish. Plasma 6.8 now tells you when you try to print to an unavailable printer instead of silently doing nothing, and new user account creation warns clearly about invalid username characters.

Measuring Binary Function Coverage of openSUSE Integration Tests

Zoltán Balogh opens by being explicit about what his measurement is and is not. A typical Tumbleweed install carries roughly 2,600 ELF executables in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, while the test repository holds 2,343 test modules. Coverage is measured on 141 of those binaries using 98 test modules, which he stresses is a fraction of the picture rather than the distribution’s total test coverage.

Diagonal Icons for Your PC

The KDE Blog presents Diagonal Icon theme by tamascsabi, a colourful set built around two-tone backgrounds split by a diagonal line. The design takes inspiration from popular sets such as Yaru, Evolvere and WhiteSur. It ships with an interactive POSIX-compliant installer that auto-detects distribution and window manager, works on Linux and BSD, supports customisable folder colours, and includes matching light and dark cursor themes.

Tumbleweed – Review of the Week 2026/32

Dominique Leuenberger and Victorhck report on five snapshots (0731, 0802, 0803, 0804, 0805), headlined by Podman 6.0.0 defaulting rootless networking to pasta and dropping cgroups v1, slirp4netns and CNI. shadow 4.20.0 removed the PASS_MIN_DAYS setting and the associated –mindays flags outright, so automated user-management scripts relying on them will now fail intentionally. Plasma 6 Workspace also switched SDDM to default to the Wayland session, while glibc 2.44, LibreOffice 20.2.5.2 and kernel 7.1.7 wait in staging.

Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-08-07)

The Open Build Service team publishes its weekly roundup of fixed issues, small features and minor releases. Shipped last week were OBS 2.10.34 with two security updates and osc 1.27.3, along with a long-awaited move to Rails 8.0.5.1. Other changes include dropping the updating and deleting BsRequest API, a fix to the /trigger API, and osc now erroring out on the deprecated apisrv option.

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Venue Update for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026

admin@opensuse.org (openSUSE Asia Summit Team) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

The openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Organizing Committee would like to announce an important update regarding the summit venue.

After careful consideration, openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 will now take place at:

Convention Hall Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia

This replaces the previously announced venue at the Teaching Industry Learning Center (TILC), Vocational School, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM).

This change has been made due to technical considerations identified during the event preparation process. Our priority is to ensure the summit runs smoothly and provides the best possible experience for attendees, speakers, sponsors, exhibitors, and volunteers.

We would like to express our sincere appreciation to Universitas Gadjah Mada for their support and cooperation throughout the planning process. The venue change was made solely due to technical and logistical considerations as we worked to ensure the best possible experience for all participants.

Interestingly, the Convention Hall at UIN Sunan Kalijaga also hosted the very first openSUSE.Asia Summit in Indonesia back in 2016. We are excited to return to a venue that has become part of the summit’s history.

The summit dates remain unchanged:

- October 3-4 2026 - Yogyakarta, Indonesia

The new venue provides the facilities needed to accommodate summit sessions, sponsor exhibitions, community activities, and networking opportunities throughout the two-day event.

Participants who have already registered do not need to take any action. Registration, tickets, and all scheduled activities will continue as planned, with only the venue being updated.

We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga for welcoming openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 and supporting this year’s summit.

Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to welcoming the openSUSE community from across Asia to Yogyakarta this October.

Planet News Roundup

admin@opensuse.org (Douglas DeMaio) — Mon, 10 Aug 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 July 31 to August 6. This week highlights the winner of the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 logo competition ahead of the October summit in Yogyakarta, and Tumbleweed reached a major milestone with GCC 16 becoming the default system compiler. On the KDE side, Plasma 6.7.4 arrived as the fourth bugfix release, work moved forward on making KIO dramatically faster at copying small files, and the Call for Papers opened for Akademy-es 2026 in Madrid.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

3 Native Platformer Games for Linux

The KDE Blog continues its series on native Linux games with three platformers highlighted by the Planeta Tecno channel. The picks are Cow’s Revenge, a comedic run about a genetically enhanced cow taking revenge on butchers, Cave Story, an RPG-flavoured classic of the genre, and Frogatto & Friends, praised for its polished art and quest-driven story.

Submit Your Talk to Akademy-es 2026 in Madrid

The KDE Blog announces that the Call for Papers is open for Akademy-es 2026, held Oct. 23–25 at Camping Arco Iris in Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid. The venue was chosen deliberately to emphasise the community side of KDE, marking both KDE’s 30th and Akademy-es’s 20th anniversary. Proposals for 45-minute talks or 10-minute lightning talks are accepted until September 3 at akademy-es-org@kde-espana.org.

openSUSE Asia Summit 2026 Logo Competition Winner Announced

openSUSE News reveals that A. Thalida won the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 logo competition. The design becomes the official visual identity of this year’s conference. Nine entries arrived from contributors across several countries. The winner was chosen by a vote of the openSUSE.Asia Committee and the local organising team. The summit takes place Oct. 3–4, 2026 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Fourth Plasma 6.7 Update

The KDE Blog covers the fourth bugfix release of Plasma 6.7. The post also recaps the headline features of the 6.7 series, including per-screen virtual desktops, a microphone volume test, and a quick light/dark theme switcher.

KDE Will Be Faster at Copying Small Files

The KDE Blog reports on Méven Car’s work fixing a long-standing KIO slowdown when copying thousands of small files. The bug was first filed back in 2014. The fix replaces the socket pair still used between KIO workers and applications with a zero-copy in-memory transport, and cuts redundant filesystem checks on the destination.

Victorhck translates and summaries the FSF’s monthly supporter bulletin for August. Highlights include a call to oppose the GUARD Act and age-verification laws that could make anonymous use of machine learning tools impossible, and news that the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has moved around 5,000 employees to Nextcloud.

Geeko Magazine 2026 Summer Edition Announced

The Geeko Blog of the Japanese openSUSE user group announces the Summer 2026 special edition. Articles cover upgrading to Leap 16.0, making Samba servers browsable, terminal-based Linux desktops with bcon, KDE Plasma, and building with the Open Build Service.

This July in KDE Linux

The KDE Blog has a July report that highlights the community’s immutable “OS of the future”. New this month is an integrated QA system that catches critical performance and login regressions before they reach users, alongside kernel security tweaks, faster boot from trimmed modules, and on-demand CUPS.

Emoji Resizing – This Week in Plasma

The KDE Blog looks at Plasma 6.8 and the ability to make emojis in the picker larger or smaller. Other changes include pixel-by-pixel screen positioning with arrow keys in Display Configuration, QR code detection in Spectacle, and a modernised system tray widget.

Linux Saloon 213 | News Flight Night

CubicleNate recaps a wide-ranging community episode of Linux Saloon covering VPN usage and how people manage user accounts on their machines. News topics included Arch Linux disabling AUR package adoption as a countermeasure against malware and upcoming features in Ubuntu 26.10.

How Extremadura Changed Free Software Forever – Episode 2 of “La era de las distros”

The KDE Blog promotes the second episode of Lorenzo Carbonell’s podcast on Spain’s regional educational distributions, this time telling the story of LinEx. Guest Jesús Rubio, joined by Jesús González Barahona, explains how a largely rural region took on Microsoft in the early 2000s and turned technological sovereignty into something actually installed on thousands of machines.

openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of Week 31

Victorhck and Dominique Leuenberger report on the five snapshots released this week, headlined by GCC 16 landing as Tumbleweed’s new default system compiler in snapshot 0726. The full-repository rebuild made that snapshot exceptionally large, and linux-glibc-devel 7.1 followed in 0728 alongside the return of multipath-tools 0.15~1 after last week’s revert.

My Plasma Desktop for July 2026 #viernesdeescritorio

The KDE Blog shares the 74th installment of its monthly desktop showcase. This time on a new Slimbook Evo ultrabook running KDE Neon with Plasma 6.7.3 on Wayland. The vertical left-hand panel holds a digital clock, virtual desktop switcher, icons-only task manager, system tray, desktop view and application launcher.

Creating the Ultimate Vertical Monitor Workspace

CubicleNate chronicles a home office upgrade that began with a six-monitor rig built from inadequate screens. An LG DualUP monitor proved a step forward, which led to settling on a dual INNOCN display setup aimed at maximising productivity. Despite some connection trouble and mismatched pixel density, the new vertical layout markedly improved both usability and desk efficiency.

Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-07-31)

The Open Build Service team publishes its weekly roundup of small fixes, minor features and new external contributions. Shipped items include de-grouping when filter_search_text sits on top of filter_labels, fixed overlapping labels on image template radio buttons, clearer visual cues that attributes are expandable, and rejection of release targets pointing back at the same repository.

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openSUSE Asia Summit 2026 Logo Competition Winner Announced

admin@opensuse.org (openSUSE Asia Summit Team) — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

The votes are in! The openSUSE Asia Summit Committee is pleased to announce that **A. Thalida has been selected as the winner of the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Logo Competition.

Congratulations, A. Thalida! 🎉

The winning logo will become the official visual identity of openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026, representing this year’s conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. As the winner, A. Thalida will receive a special appreciation gift from the organizing committee.

This year, we received nine logo submissions from contributors across several countries. The quality and creativity of all the entries made the selection process both exciting and challenging. The final decision was made through a voting process involving the openSUSE.Asia Committee and the local organizing team.

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s competition:

Haruo Yoshino - Japan
Lubos Kocman - Czechia
Subhasis Chakraborty - India
Edmon Fuerte - Philippines
Rhesa Prawedha - Indonesia
Melchias Ari Setiadji - Indonesia
Raden Neomy Lusie Ratna Deseina Budy Putri - Indonesia
A. Thalida

Your creativity, passion, and support continue to strengthen the openSUSE community, and we truly appreciate every submission.

Finally, thank you to everyone who participated in the voting process. We look forward to welcoming you to openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026, taking place on 3–4 October 2026 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. See you there!

Planet News Roundup

admin@opensuse.org (Douglas DeMaio) — Fri, 24 Jul 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 July 17 to 23. This week opened Call for Proposals for two 2027 Open Developers Summits (Barcelona and Dallas), and KDE published its Akademy 2026 schedule for Graz. A blog also confirms Akademy-es will be in Madrid. On the technical side, a PortProtonQt Polkit flaw (CVE-2026-59678) was fixed in 1.3.1, and Tumbleweed shipped five snapshots.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

Slimbook OS 26 Released, Slimbook’s Own Operating System

The KDE Blog covers the launch of Slimbook OS 26, which jumps from the previous release to a base of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and GNOME 50. Although tuned for Slimbook hardware, it works on any machine and bundles the Slimbook Control Panel and Service alongside Alpaca for optional, private local AI chat.

Thunderbird 153 Released, the New Extended Support Version of the Free Software Mail Client

Victorhck reports that Thunderbird 153 becomes the new ESR release replacing Thunderbird 140. It gathers up everything that has landed month by month in the monthly release channel, including a new design, new features and bugfixes.

Flying Cursors for Your PC

The KDE Blog introduces Volantes, a clean and minimal cursor theme for Linux desktops created by x-varlesh-x. Available in light and dark variants with sizes from 24 to 64 pixels, the cursors can be installed directly through KDE Plasma’s cursor theme settings via the “Get New Themes” option.

Syslog-ng Journald Source: How to Avoid Log Bombs on Errors

Peter Czanik’s Blog explains a behavior change in syslog-ng regarding error handling when jumping to a saved systemd journal position. Up until version 4.12, syslog-ng would read the journal from the beginning upon encountering an error, but the latest version allows users to configure what happens in such cases.

Open Developers Summits Head to Barcelona and Dallas in 2027

openSUSE News announces two Open Developers Summits planned for 2027, with calls for proposals now open. The first summit takes place Feb. 18 in Barcelona alongside SUSECON, while the second is scheduled for April 14 in Dallas, Texas.

PortProtonQt: Custom Polkit Rule Allows Escalation of NetworkManager and UDisks2 Privileges

The SUSE Security Team discloses CVE-2026-59678, a vulnerability in PortProtonQt where a custom Polkit rule allows arbitrary local users to modify NetworkManager connections or UDisks2 mounts. The issue, introduced in version 0.1.12, was fixed in version 1.3.1 by restricting elevated privileges to users in an active local session who are members of a dedicated portprotonqt group.

You Are the Asset: Carles Tamayo’s Documentary at GNU/Linux València Event

The KDE Blog announces an event organized by GNU/Linux València featuring a debate on the documentary “El Activo Eres Tú” by Carles Tamayo, preceded by an Install Party on July 31.

Evaluating TOON in a Real-World Scenario

Christian Goll presents real-world experiments testing Token-Oriented Notation (TOON) in the systemd-mcp server to reduce token usage in AI inference. The study found that TOON performs superiorly for complex multi-step tasks, keeping LLMs more focused by increasing information density and reducing distracting overhead.

Updating the Signing Key on Leap Micro

openSUSE News explains how to resolve repository signature errors on Leap Micro following the recent signing key expiration. Users can force a refresh of the repository metadata by running zypper ref -f within a transactional-update shell.

GSoC Update 2: Visual Redesign and Responsive SVGs

openSUSE News shares Mario Marín’s Google Summer of Code progress on the obs-status-service SVG generation, focusing on visual consistency with Gitea’s UI. The update introduces native Gitea colors, a responsive compact mode for large project matrices, and dynamic layout calculations to prevent text overflow.

The Case for Sponsoring openSUSE

openSUSE News makes the case for companies to sponsor the openSUSE Project, highlighting the infrastructure value of Open Build Service, openQA, Tumbleweed, Leap, and Uyuni. Sponsorship takes three forms—money, hardware, or services—and helps maintain the development ecosystem that hardware vendors and enterprises rely on for Linux compatibility.

Akademy 2026 Talk Schedule Published for Graz, Austria

The KDE Blog announces the published talk schedule for Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria, taking place Sept. 19-24 as a special 30th anniversary edition. Talks will be held on Saturday and Sunday, covering topics such as KDE Linux, Dolphin, Plasma, QA, and community matters.

Real-Time Weather Information with Meteoclimatic Feeds – Plasmoids for Plasma 6 (36)

The KDE Blog presents Meteoclimatic Feeds, the 36th entry in its Plasma 6 plasmoid series, connecting to the Meteoclimatic network of amateur weather stations for real-time data. Created by Victorhck, this plasmoid is based on the RSS feeds plasmoide and can be installed by copying the folder to ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids.

Linux Saloon 211: Open Mic Night

Nathan’s Blog covers discussions about user experiences with Fedora, job openings at Epic Games focused on Linux security, and IBM’s new chip architecture advancements. The episode also touches on Dell surpassing HP in U.S. PC sales amid a shrinking market.

Linux Saloon 210: Early Edition July

Nathan’s Blog discusses AI and the possibility of the bubble bursting. The episode also has discussions involving the Open Build Service and some joking about Tumbleweed.

Shadows for Steam and Discord – This Week in Plasma

The KDE Blog translates Nate Graham’s weekly Plasma development update, highlighting KWin’s new automatic shadow, outline, and corner rounding effects for client-side decorated windows like Steam and Discord.

openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of Week 29 of 2026

Victorhck and Dominique review five Tumbleweed snapshots published during the week. Highlights including SELinux Toolchain 3.11, KDE Frameworks 6.28.0, QEMU 11.0.2, GStreamer 1.28.5, and Rust 1.97. The reversion of gvim’s GTK4 build back to GTK3 was notable due to clipboard deadlocks in the current GTK4 port.

Akademy-es 2026 Will Be Held in Madrid

The KDE Blog announces that Akademy-es 2026 will take place from Oct. 23-25 in Madrid. The event celebrates KDE’s 30th anniversary and Akademy-es’s 20th anniversary.

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Open Developers Summits Head to Barcelona and Dallas in 2027

admin@opensuse.org (Douglas DeMaio) — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000

The openSUSE community is planning two Open Developers Summits in 2027, and organizers are calling for proposals for both events now.

The first summit is scheduled to take place on Feb. 18, 2027, in Barcelona, Spain, held alongside SUSECON. The second is scheduled to take place on April 14, 2027, in Dallas, Texas. Both are one-day summits that bring together SUSE partners, openSUSE contributors, open-source community projects and enthusiasts for a day of shared ideas and collaboration. Whether you’re deep in the code or just passionate about open source, there’s a place for you at each.

Open Developers Summit — Barcelona

The Open Developers Summit in Barcelona is scheduled to take place Feb. 18, 2027, and align with SUSECON. The call for proposals is open until Nov. 20, 2026.

Talks can cover operating systems, new technologies, cloud, infrastructure, edge, IoT, AI, data, programming languages, toolchains, security, DevOps, automation and more. If you have insights to share or a project worth spotlighting, this is your invitation to take the stage.

Submit your talk and join us in Barcelona. Come to learn, connect and help shape where open development goes next.

Open Developers Summit — Dallas

The Open Developers Summit is scheduled to take place in Dallas, Texas, on April 14, 2027. The call for proposals is open until Jan. 20, 2027.

As in Barcelona, talks can cover operating systems, new technologies, cloud, infrastructure, edge, IoT, AI, data, programming languages, toolchains, security, DevOps, automation and beyond. If you have insight to share or a project worth spotlighting, this is your invitation to take the stage.

Submit your talk and join us in Texas. Come to learn, connect and help shape where open development goes next.

Both summits are free community events made possible thanks to the generous support of sponsors and community donors. Sponsorship keeps the events accessible to all and fosters collaboration and knowledge-sharing across open-source communities.

Companies interested in sponsoring can review the prospectus for each event and reach out to Douglas DeMaio at ddemaio@opensuse.org:

Barcelona: ODSB Prospectus
Dallas: ODSD Prospectus

Sponsorship levels for the events include a Diamond, Emerald and Jade sponsorship donation, each offering logo placement, event recognition and promotion. Individuals and small organizations can also contribute through community donations.

More details are available at events.opensuse.org.

Updating the Signing Key on Leap Micro

admin@opensuse.org (Lubos Kocman) — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000

openSUSE Leap Micro was the last to the party to receive the extended openSUSE signing key following its recent expiration. We’re deeply sorry for the inconvenience. The underlying issue has now been resolved everywhere.

If your system still encounters repository signature errors, you can refresh the repository metadata and fetch the updated signing key manually.

The zypper ref -f command forces a refresh of the repository metadata, including the new GPG signing key. Normally this should happen automatically, but the current version of libzypp may not always retrieve the updated key correctly. Forcing a refresh resolves the problem. Just to note that the zypper ref -f will force new key on any openSUSE distribution.

Run the following commands:

transactional-update shell
zypper ref -f
zypper dup
exit # from tu shell

After rebooting into the new snapshot, your system should be using the updated signing key and repository refreshes should work normally again.

Have a lot of fun!

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