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The next version of QField is here. While this time of the year is a well-deserved holiday period for many, we’ve dedicated ourselves to improving the stability and refining of your favorite field mapping tool. We’re calling this effort the “summer of stability”, a sprint we will undertake on a…

The following contributor got their Debian Developer account in the last two months: Nicolas Peugnet (nicolasp) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Antoine Lassagne Ivan Hu Jesse Rhodes Haolin Xue Léo Haf Rony João de Sousa Luke Yasuda Darshaka…

My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian. You can also support my work directly via Liberapay or GitHub Sponsors. Personal note This month, my Dad unexpectedly passed away after a short illness. As a result I obviously got less work done than usual, and I still have a lot…

We are excited to announce the first release of Guix-Science channel: v20260907.

The European Laboratory for Particle Physics, usually just called CERN, is not only the birthplace of the World Wide Web, it is home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. As such, its computing environment is both truly unique and of great…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.4, 6.18.50, and 6.12.109 stable kernels. Each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.

The restartable sequences feature is one of the stranger corners of the kernel's user-space interface; it provides a way for user space to carry out simple lockless operations and be informed if it is preempted over the course of an operation (and must, thus, restart). Work merged in the 6.19…

Version 2026.08 of the Buildroot embedded Linux system builder has been released. Buildroot 2026.08 includes nearly 1,000 changes from 100 contributors; some of the notable changes include support for Linux 7.1.x, Binutils 2.46.1, GCC 16.2.0, glibc 2.44, as well as adding the M68K and IBM Power…

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, freerdp, gegl04, go-fdo-client, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, and pipewire), Debian (aom, chromium, libde265, libssh2, thunderbird, and tryton-server), Fedora (chromium, composer, cosmic-greeter, gegl04, greetd, ibus-table, jss, libheif,…

The Asahi Linux project has announced that support for Apple's M3-series chips has been added to the Asahi installer. Linux support for M3 series SoCs and the machines powered by them is now in a state where almost everything supported on the M1 and M2 series machines just works. This includes the…

The AVIF image format gets more and more popular in the web dev community, so I needed to teach XFCE4's thunar (file manager) and Ristretto (image viewer) to thumbnail these. Luckily that is not too hard: Debian Trixie separates its gdk-pixbuf libraries slightly differently than previous versions.…

I’m getting old (though, not as old as the image below), and I miss the good old days when using Linux was more difficult, but when every system in a Linux desktop session was simple. Excalibur (1981) This was before polkit, systemd, … Even before DBus and PulseAudio. All of these systems are…

I am a heavy user of sidenotes:1 they keep optional content next to the text instead of sending the reader to the bottom of the page and back. Tufte CSS renders them without JavaScript but only accepts inline content. CSS anchor positioning, now supported by recent browsers,2 is an elegant…

Gwenview has been KDE’s flagship image viewer for over 25 years. It works, it’s feature-packed, and it’s been modernized repeatedly. Gwenview has served generations of KDE users faithfully and well. So… why build a replacement?</ Well, over the years Gwenview has fallen behind in some areas that…

The 7.3-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: This didn't *feel* like a particularly busy rc2, but it clearly was. rc2 is usually the quietest time when people take a breather after the merge window and it takes a while to start finding bugs. But not this time - this is a "full…

Contributor: Jugal Patel (Jugal59) Organization: Debian Project: Provide debuginfod server Mentor: Colin Watson About the project and me Your program crashes. You open gdb and get ?? instead of a stack trace. So you go find the right -dbgsym package, for the right version, for the…

Hello again! A few weeks ago, I wrote about the work I've been doing this summer adding Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) support to GJS as part of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026. If you haven't read that post, start there for the background on what GJS and DAP are and why this matters. As my GSoC is…

This is a weekly update, which means I did a week of things and now I’m going to tell you about them, and I should say up front that most of the week went on two problems that sound small when you write them down. You had to own the exact harmonica a chart was written for. And the chart had to be in…

One of the biggest challenges Rust developers report in our annual surveys is a subpar debugging experience. So, back in February, we ran our first Rust Debugging Survey, in the hopes of identifying how Rust developers are using debuggers and what problems they are facing when doing so. We received…

SRFI 277 is now in final status. Cyclic ports are like infinite string and bytevector input ports: they produce the elements of a given sequence repeatedly, forever. While their intended use is as reusable seeds for SRFI 271 random ports, they are also useful whenever a…

Looking at the reactions to the Debian AI vote, I think some people still think the clock can be turned back, as if that ever worked in history. Rather than cry about spilled milk, I prefer to find a path forward in the new world. There are many ways to use LLMs, some of them are straightforward,…

Another minor maintenance release of the RcppFarmHash package is now on CRAN as version 0.0.4. RcppFarmHash wraps the Google FarmHash family of hash functions (written by Geoff Pike and contributors) that are used for example by Google BigQuery for the FARM_FINGERPRINT digest. This releases updates…

I imagine everyone here has received an unsolicited message telling them that their tax is overdue and that they urgently need to visit Genuine-Tax-Payment-Website.fart or that a parcel is delayed at customs and you can pay a small sum for its release at Almost-The-Right-Acronym.ak You know it is a…

I have just tried CoMaps, a free mapping program released under the Apache license [1]. I have tried it on Android on a Pixel 6a but it also runs on Linux so I’ll try it on a PinePhone or similar at some convenient time. On Android it is in the F-Droid repository among others and for Linux there’s a…

After having witnessed how easy it is for good people to lose a .org domain over a fascist tantrum (you can follow the Autistici/Inventati story here and here), I've started moving all my infrastructure to differently managed TLDs. enricozini.org and enricozini.com will keep being functional for the…