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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 conference 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 conference 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 conference dates remain unchanged:

- October 3-4 2026 - Yogyakarta, Indonesia

The new venue provides the facilities needed to accommodate conference 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 conference.

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!

The Case for Sponsoring openSUSE

admin@opensuse.org (Douglas DeMaio) — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Infrastructure runs on Linux, and Linux hardware is only as good as the software that builds, packages, signs and distributes its drivers and libraries, work that has to happen across dozens of distributions and several CPU architectures, every single day.

That work has a home. The openSUSE Project has spent years assembling a development structure that hardware vendors and enterprises now lean on:

Open Build Service compiles a single source tree into signed packages for nearly any distribution or architecture;
openQA boots and tests the results the way a real user would;
The rolling release Tumbleweed and stable Leap distributions serve as both upstream and supporting structure for Enterprise as a proving ground and downstream anchor;
Uyuni Project, the upstream of SUSE Multi-Linux Manager pioneers the space that keeps deployed fleets patched and accounted for long after the packages ship.

Together, these answer the question every hardware maker eventually faces; build once, validate everywhere and deliver with confidence.

Companies whose revenue depends on silicon “just working” in Linux data centers may evaluate funding this layer as an investment, not as charity. It is one of the highest-leverage, lowest-cost investments available. But communities like openSUSE depend on sponsors so that the contributing community can grow, support and thrive.

SUSE is the primary sponsor of openSUSE, and the project has other companies that sponsor the project. The project welcomes additional backers. Sponsorship takes three practical forms; money, hardware, or services. Sponsorship has historically been organized into tiers: Platinum, Gold, and Silver. The sponsors gain visibility and developer reach. Hardware sponsors sign an Equipment Donation Agreement. Services provided to contributing developers make development more efficient. And the Geeko Foundation, a not-for-profit, acts as fiscal steward, receiving and administering funds on the project’s behalf to support contributors, travel and events.

The return on a sponsorship

1. The whole ecosystem, not just one distro

OBS builds on the order of 140,000 packages for more than a dozen base distributions across many architectures. A vendor that donates silicon and sponsors build capacity gets its drivers and libraries built and validated across that entire matrix; Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, the SUSE family and more.

This is not a static archive. In a typical week, Tumbleweed absorbs on the order of 500 accepted change requests, moving Mesa, the Linux kernel, QEMU, GCC, LLVM, Rust, GNOME and KDE forward in lockstep. Paying engineers to chase each target distribution independently is expensive; the same result comes far more cost-effectively from developers already working inside the openSUSE ecosystem. Hardware that works on Linux ships and sells faster.

2. Silicon QA at scale

Packaging is only half the problem; the other half is testing. That is where openQA comes in; openSUSE’s automated OS-testing service, which boots real images and drives real installs.

Pair it with sponsored hardware and a vendor’s drivers get exercised continuously: every snapshot, every architecture, in front of tens of thousands of real users doing unpredictable things. The value shows in the ordinary weekly record; compiler transitions caught in dedicated staging projects before they reach users, individual test failures tracked down to a specific step in a specific run, unresolvable dependencies counted and driven back down. Regressions surface on actual silicon earlier, and far more cheaply, than any internal lab could manage.

3. Growing the architecture your chips are trying to sell

openSUSE does not treat arm as an afterthought. Tumbleweed on arm rolls continuously alongside x86, with its own openQA coverage, and a dedicated ARMv9 project rebuilds the core of the distribution to take advantage of the newer baseline. s390x is maintained in parallel. A chipmaker sponsoring arm build capacity is directly cultivating the soil its own products grow in. And would be doing it where the architecture is already a first-class citizen rather than a port.

4. Faster driver delivery, fewer support tickets

The model already exists: openSUSE’s NVIDIA driver packages are maintained by SUSE engineers, with spec files living in OBS and coordinated with NVIDIA. A factory first policy, where development happens upstream, deepens that relationship. Dedicated hardware, closer coordination and sponsored maintainer time all shorten the lag between a driver release and users actually being able to install it. Every week shaved off that cycle is support load a vendor never has to absorb.

5. Strategic influence on neutral ground, without lock-in

OBS, openQA and Uyuni are deliberately vendor-neutral. None is tied to a single vendor’s product line; all three build, test and manage systems well beyond the SUSE family. For a chipmaker, neutrality is the point; sponsorship keeps the packaging pipeline healthy and open, so no single competitor ends up controlling how silicon reaches Linux.

Uyuni is upstream of SUSE Multi-Linux Manager, and that relationship cuts the way a sponsor should want: the upstream project sets direction and the commercial product follows, not the reverse. It’s the same arrangement that governs most of the Linux stack a vendor already ships on. A sponsor influences the open project and gets the benefit downstream, without buying into any vendor’s roadmap.

6. Developer mindshare, ISV reach, and recruiting

Sponsorship has always carried visibility in front of the developers and independent software vendors who decide what runs where. In a labor market where kernel, driver and systems talent is scarce, presence in the openSUSE community is a recruiting channel and a credibility signal to the wider open-source world.

The bottom line

Put these together and you get a flywheel of mutual benefit. The technology gets built by the community at a fraction of what in-house enablement would cost, and it gets built continuously, in public, with the failures visible and tracked rather than discovered by a customer. The community gets what it needs to keep going: travel to the conferences where the work gets shared, hardware to test on, and infrastructure that grows as fast as the ideas do.

For a business valued in the hundreds of billions, an equipment donation or a sponsored service is a rounding error. It is also one of the cleanest ways a company can fund the building of the technology it sells build on open-source. Donations acknowledging community efforts are also encouraged.

If you are interested in sponsoring openSUSE, we are open to options or suggestions.

Providing space for hosting an openSUSE event or sponsoring the openSUSE Conference provides a unique opportunity to connect with open source users, system administrators, developers, designers, and community leaders. Sponsoring the conference also provides an opportunity to showcase your brand to the open-source knowledge.

For more information, email ddemaio@opensuse.org.

Planet News Roundup

admin@opensuse.org (Douglas DeMaio) — Fri, 17 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 10 to 16.

Blogs this week cover the third Plasma 6.7 bugfix release, a SUSE security advisory on SELinux userspace utilities, a call for host proposals for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2027, syslog-ng packages for Ubuntu 26.04, a keynote recap on open source trust and the Cyber Resilience Act, audio recording arriving in Spectacle, a Meteoclimatic desktop plasmoid, a Krita June development report, Slimbook’s local AI workstation and more.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

Display the Meteoclimatic data on your desktop with this Plasmoid for Plasma 6 from KDE

Victorhck shares information about Plasma 6 plasmoid that visualizes Meteoclimatic weather station data directly on the desktop. Building on an earlier text-mode plasmoid and terminal scripts, this version presents the data with emoji icons for a more elegant and visually appealing display. Victorhck invites users to share screenshots of their configurations on Mastodon.

Nexus AI Workstation, the proposal to have local AI free on Slimbook

The KDE Blog presents Slimbook’s Nexus AI Workstation, a server family designed for running local AI workloads without relying on cloud token subscriptions. The goal is to offer a platform prepared for executing and developing AI workloads locally, combining high performance with the flexibility professionals, companies, researchers and developers demand.

Krita Report June 2026

The KDE Blog covers the June 2026 Krita development report, highlighting releases 5.3.2.1 and 6.0.2.1 that fix severe regressions related to layer selection and crashes when working with wait frames. Krita Plus for Android replaces old contributor badges with downloadable resource packs and a Google Play subscription, along with improved interface scaling, transform tool fixes with multiple layers, and crash fixes when undoing text operations.

Third Bugfix Update for Plasma 6.7

The KDE Blog announces the third bugfix release for Plasma 6.7, delivering stability improvements, better translations, and error resolution across the desktop environment. The post also recaps the major new features of Plasma 6.7, including per-monitor virtual desktops, a microphone volume test tool, quick theme switching, a Vietnamese lunar calendar, and a new print queue manager.

SELinux Userspace Utilities: Local Denial-of-Service Attack Vectors in seunshare

The SUSE Security Team discloses two local denial-of-service vulnerabilities in the seunshare program from SELinux userspace utilities version 3.10. A symlink race condition in rm_rf() allows deletion of root-owned files, while the killall() function can be exploited to kill root-owned processes running in the unconfined SELinux domain. Both issues were independently fixed upstream in version 3.11.

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2027: Call for Host

openSUSE News invites local openSUSE communities across Asia to submit proposals to host the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2027. The proposal deadline is August 10 with the host announcement scheduled for October 31 following presentations at the 2026 summit in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Proposals should cover venue, transportation, budget, catering, and the local organizing team’s experience.

Syslog-ng 4.12.0 Available for Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute)

Peter Czanik’s Blog confirms that syslog-ng now supports Ubuntu 26.04 with ready-to-use packages alongside the 4.12.0 release. The post fills a gap in his usual coverage, which tends to focus on FreeBSD, Fedora and openSUSE.

Bare Weather – Weather Information on Your Desktop with Plasmoids for Plasma 6 (35)

The KDE Blog presents Bare Weather, the 35th entry in its Plasma 6 plasmoid series, which delivers interactive weather data directly on the desktop. The widget by corral76 offers two layouts: a card design with animated icons and color-coded headers, and a graph design with scrollable temperature and precipitation curves.

Bash and Fish Scripts to Display Meteoclimatic Weather Station Data

Victorhck shares Bash and Fish terminal scripts that display real-time weather data from Meteoclimatic amateur stations. The scripts use curl and awk with emoji icons to present the information, and the first run prompts for a station ID which is saved to a config file.

This Month in KDE Linux: June 2026

The KDE Blog translates Nate Graham’s monthly progress report on KDE Linux, the community’s upcoming operating system. The project has reached 78 percent completion toward its beta milestone. Updates include Audex replacing the old CD ripping tool, a built-in log collection utility, and UEFI-only boot support.

When the Code Remains Clean but Trust Collapses: The New Era of Open Source

Efstathios summarizes the openSUSE Conference 2026 keynote by Hans de Raad on the intersection of open source security, the Cyber Resilience Act, and AI tooling risks. The post examines the GSD framework incident where clean code masked a collapsed trust chain, drawing parallels to the xz-utils backdoor.

Audio Recording in Spectacle – This Week in Plasma

The KDE Blog translates Nate Graham’s weekly Plasma development update, which highlights audio recording arriving in Spectacle for screen captures in Plasma 6.8. The update also covers VRAM usage display in System Monitor, the Ethiopian calendar addition, improved combobox theming, tablet stylus support for Overview overlays, and numerous bugfix releases across Plasma 6.6.6, 6.7.3, and Frameworks 6.29.

Linux Saloon 209 | Fedora 44

Nathan’s Blog covers the latest Linux and technology news, including the Warthunder Sim Rig hardware build, font management in Linux, and the retirement of the “Father of the Internet.” The episode also discusses Firefox updates, the Steam Machine launch, and Fedora governance changes alongside the Fedora 44 release.

KDE Frameworks 6.28.0 Update

The KDE Blog announces KDE Frameworks 6.28 and continues its series describing each library in the framework collection. This month focuses on KCodecs, a Tier 1 library responsible for character set detection, XML entity translation, and email address validation across KDE applications.

Colors, Graphics, and Performance in Plasma 6.7

The KDE Blog covers the under-the-hood improvements in Plasma 6.7 related to color management, graphics rendering, and energy efficiency. Users can now use ICC color profiles and HDR content simultaneously. There is a new toggle to control reddish tinting at low brightness on AMD laptops. The team also achieved performance gains and reduced power consumption for CPU-rendered applications and Intel integrated GPUs.

openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of Week 28 of 2026

Victorhck and Dominique Leuenberger provide a Spanish and English language review of four Tumbleweed snapshots (0702, 0703, 0707, and 0708) published during the week. Highlights include the removal of Python 3.11 modules while keeping the interpreter and pip, KDE Gear 26.04.3, Plasma 6.7.2, Linux kernel 7.1.2 and 7.1.3, Mesa 26.1.4, and systemd 260.3. Upcoming packages include GStreamer 1.28.5, SELinux toolchain 3.11, and GCC 16 as the default compiler.

View more blogs or learn to publish your own on planet.opensuse.org.

openSUSE Asia Summit 2027 Call For Host

admin@opensuse.org (openSUSE Asia Summit Team) — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2027: Call for Host

The openSUSE.Asia Summit is an annual conference that brings together openSUSE contributors, users, and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiasts from across Asia. It provides a unique opportunity for the community to meet in person, exchange ideas, share technical knowledge, and strengthen collaboration.

As the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, the openSUSE.Asia Organization Committee is now inviting local openSUSE communities to submit proposals to host the 2027 summit.

Hosting the summit is a rewarding opportunity to showcase your local community, promote open source technologies, and connect with contributors from across Asia. The organizing committee will work closely with the selected team, providing guidance and sharing experiences from previous events throughout the planning process.

Important Dates

10 August 2026 — Proposal submission deadline
4 October 2026 — Host proposal presentation during openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
31 October 2026 — Announcement of the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2027 host

Applicants are encouraged to join our regular online meetings before the summit. This is a great opportunity to learn about the event organization process, ask questions, and interact with organizers from previous years.

How to Submit

Please send your proposal to both:

summit@lists.opensuse.org
opensuseasia-summit@googlegroups.com

Since summit@lists.opensuse.org does not accept email attachments, please upload your proposal to a file-sharing service (such as Nextcloud, Google Drive, or Dropbox) and include the download link in your email.

Proposal Guidelines

Your proposal should include at least the following information:

Host city and venue
Transportation
- International access to your city
- Local transportation to the venue
Estimated budget
- Venue
- Catering (coffee break, lunch, dinner)
- Conference dinner
- Conference tour (optional)
- T-shirts and event materials
- Other operational expenses
Local organizing team
- Introduction to your local openSUSE community
- Experience organizing conferences or community events
- Expected volunteers and organizing structure
Tentative event schedule
Potential local sponsors or partners (optional but recommended)

Before preparing your proposal, please read the openSUSE.Asia Summit Tips for Organizers:

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Asia_Summit_Tips_for_Organizers

We look forward to receiving your proposal and welcoming a new host community for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2027. We hope to see your community become the next destination for the openSUSE community in Asia!

openSUSE News

Planet News Roundup

Tumbleweed – Review of the Week 2026/32

Venue Update for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026

Planet News Roundup

openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of Week 31

openSUSE Asia Summit 2026 Logo Competition Winner Announced

Planet News Roundup

openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of Week 29 of 2026

Open Developers Summits Head to Barcelona and Dallas in 2027

Open Developers Summit — Barcelona

Open Developers Summit — Dallas

Sponsor a Summit

Updating the Signing Key on Leap Micro

The Case for Sponsoring openSUSE

The return on a sponsorship

1. The whole ecosystem, not just one distro

2. Silicon QA at scale

3. Growing the architecture your chips are trying to sell

4. Faster driver delivery, fewer support tickets

5. Strategic influence on neutral ground, without lock-in

6. Developer mindshare, ISV reach, and recruiting

The bottom line

Planet News Roundup

openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of Week 28 of 2026

openSUSE Asia Summit 2027 Call For Host

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2027: Call for Host

Important Dates

How to Submit

Proposal Guidelines