A few weeks ago, we conducted hour-long conversations with 10 of our users to dig deep into how you manage your preferences and configurations in Thunderbird desktop. While this specific research cycle focused on the desktop experience, our ultimate goal is a holistic strategy that ensures our…
read more ➔Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-forty-fourth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [DLA 4615-1] exim4 security update to fix one CVE related to information disclosure in…
read more ➔William Woodruff, better known online as "yossarian", has published a blog post to make the case that users should not place their trust in trusted publishing: Trusted Publishing is a mechanism for establishing trust between an external machine identity (like a CI/CD workflow) and one or…
read more ➔Puranjay Mohan shared some of the work he's been doing recently on improving the performance of read-copy-update (RCU) at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit; his talk would have been nice context to have earlier in the day when Harry Yoo and Alexei Starovoitov…
read more ➔Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (nodejs22 and nodejs24), Fedora (clamav, hplip, kernel, kernel-headers, librabbitmq, mingw-expat, mir, perl-Imager, podman-tui, prometheus-podman-exporter, python-rpds-py, rust-ashpd, rust-busd, rust-gtk4-macros, rust-inferno, rust-quick-xml,…
read more ➔Welcome to FOSS4G The Romanian city of Timișoara provided the perfect relaxed setting for this year's European Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G-EU) conference. GeoCat was excited to attend ...
read more ➔July is Disability Pride Month. I want to use the occasion to speak about my perspective on accessibility in GNOME and what I think we should do. For disabled people, computers are often even more important than for abled (non-disabled) people. Many areas of everyday life are currently only…
read more ➔On July 1st 2026, the INSPIRE Geoportal (the European Union's central discovery point for geospatial datasets) was officially decommissioned. For many in the geospatial community, this marked the end ...
read more ➔Hasta ahora hemos cargado capas que ya existían (locales o publicadas como servicio). En este sexto vídeo damos el paso de crear y editar nuestra propia cartografía dentro de gvSIG Desktop, recorriendo los tres tipos básicos de geometría: puntos, líneas y polígonos. Es el flujo más habitual cuando…
read more ➔I attended my first KDE sprint in Graz, Austria, travelling abroad for the first time. In this late blog post, I discuss the things I did and my thoughts on travel.
read more ➔Week 25 This week's icon is for Val Packett's project: Demostage: "Perform live demos from a virtual desktop" Check out all weekly app icons created so far over here and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen…
read more ➔Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.6.6. Plasma 6.6 was released in February 2026 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds two months’ worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes are…
read more ➔Sourcepole attended FOSS4G Europe 2026 in Timișoara and contributed to the programme with presentations on SensorThings and QGIS Web Client.
read more ➔Taking a good group photo consists of multiple aspects: hardware scouting organization preparation execution processing publishing I can say with confidence that nearly everything here comes from having failed to do these things right at least once, even on the latest attempts, so this is an ideal…
read more ➔Ok, the title is slightly click-baity but hear me out. So nearly 2 weeks ago, after writing a lot of code for making the font subsetting work for annotations, I found a flaw in my approach. I was never deleting the old original font after embedding it's subset version. So what happened is…
read more ➔Each year, Mozilla welcomes interns who work alongside our engineering teams on projects that ship to production and improve the experience for contributors around the world. This year, Ayush joined the Firefox Localization team to work on Pontoon, Mozilla’s open source localization platform, where…
read more ➔OpenSSH 10.4 has been released. In addition to a number of security and bug fixes, there are a few notable changes; this release adds experimental support for a composite post-quantum signature scheme combining ML-DSA 44 and Ed25519 as described in this IETF draft. With 10.4, if OpenSSH is compiled…
read more ➔Conversations about the kernel's filesystem implementations often involve a layer called "iomap", but relatively few people can reliably say what iomap actually is. That is just the kind of gap that LWN exists to fill. In short, iomap handles the mapping between data in the filesystem…
read more ➔The last maintenance release of the 26.04 series is out, bringing the usual batch of bug fixes and workflow and stability improvements. Highlights include fixes for crashes when undoing sequence creation and recording audio without an audio device, as well as improvements to Rectangular Alpha Mask…
read more ➔Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, ruby:2.5, and ruby:3.3), Debian (bird3, chromium, kernel, linux-6.1, mediawiki, nginx, openvpn, php-phpseclib, php8.2, php8.4, and sympa), Fedora (7zip, buildah, chromium, clamav, freerdp, leptonica,…
read more ➔We are preparing version v4.0.0 of the QGIS Plugins Website (https://plugins.qgis.org), a planned milestone release scheduled for 13 July 2026. Below is a summary of what is coming and how it may affect plugin developers, so you can review ahead of time. Highlights This will be our first major…
read more ➔I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is. Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first time? Listening to a stoner ramble on about their mystic crystal revelations is amusing for the first…
read more ➔This is a weekly update from my Google Summer of Code 2026 project with KDE, improving effect widgets in Kdenlive, a free and open source video editor. Gradient widget: switched to Qt-Color-WidgetsJulius Künzel suggested last week that the Gradient widget be built with an eye toward upstreaming to…
read more ➔Hi Mozillians, welcome to another Mozilla community roundup! This month, we’re taking a look at what’s next for Firefox. From an upcoming visual refresh and a peek behind the new design system to hidden features you may never have used before. We’re also highlighting a recent Reddit AMA on the new…
read more ➔Review: The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks Series: Culture #2 Publisher: HarperPrism Copyright: 1989 Printing: February 1987 ISBN: 0-06-105356-2 Format: Trade paperback Pages: 295 The Player of…
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