News from the Planet

Kdenlive development for the 26.12 release is very active, and we would like to request some feedback regarding two of the upcoming features. Title Editor One of the feature is related to the title editor. Our title editor has always been functional but rather limited. A new feature was recently…

As I alluded to in my previous post, I've got a new job. I'm a research associate at Colorado State University, working at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA). For the first time in over 20 years, I'm working for a local organization, the biggest local institution, in…

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 334. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Fix a crash when using the latest versions of Androguard. Thanks, hc! (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#434) You find out more by…

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.6.7. Plasma 6.6 was released in February 2026 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds three months’ worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes…

Say you see this lovely chunk of decompiled code: var_v1 = &sp10 var_v0 = D_80010040; temp_s4 = var_v1; sp110 = &sp2C sp114 = &sp30 do { var_v1->unk0 = (s32) var_v0->unk0; var_v1->unk4 = (s32) var_v0[1]; var_v1->unk8 = (s32) var_v0[2]; …

Epic just announced the upcoming version 2 of their Linux implementation of Easy Anti-Cheat. It’s based on using the Linux eBPF security module to monitor what’s happening, and then a bunch of extra infrastructure to make sure this can’t be bypassed. The core part of this is requiring secure boot be…

Epic just announced the upcoming version 2 of their Linux implementation of Easy Anti-Cheat. It’s based on using the Linux eBPF security module to monitor what’s happening, and then a bunch of extra infrastructure to make sure this can’t be bypassed. The core part of this is requiring secure boot be…

SRFI 275 is now in final status.This SRFI proposes a programming interface for working with RFC 3986 universal resource identifiers (URIs), as well as RFC 3987’s generalization to internationalized resource identifiers (IRIs). This document defines record types, normalization procedures, and…

SRFI 287 is now in draft status.This SRFI proposes a programming interface for working with graphs, based on Martin Erwig’s functional graph library design. The FGL design takes a rather different view of graphs from most graph presentations, in that the data structures are persistent, which is a…

It all started with a question: What does Firefox sound like to you?Over the past year, Mozilla developed a small but meaningful set of sounds to add a sonic dimension to the Firefox experience. When we started this process, we knew we wanted something warm, human, and representative of our open…

One of my favourite things in the Python standard library is the ThreadPoolExecutor. It is a very simple way to run a bunch of tasks in parallel, such as converting or repacking a whole bunch of image files from one format to another. You write a pure function that takes two arguments, the input and…

Since Android's inception, the kernels it has used have diverged significantly from the mainline. While many of those differences have been resolved over time, and the move to the generic kernel image has helped to bring Android closer, current devices still carry a lot of out-of-tree changes. The…

For more than 20 years, I’ve been part of the KDE community, one of the largest and most impactful Free and Open Source software community world-wide. Yesterday, KDE turned 30 and this went accompanied with the premiere of the KDE documentary.As former release manager, Plasma core developer and KDE…

After my mother passed away I ended up with a big box full of old film negatives containing photos from childhood family trips and similar. So I decided to buy a negative photo scanner and found that the Plustek 8200i was supported under Linux so I bought that. Only to discover that the chipset in…

As part of KDE's 30th anniversary celebration, the project has released The KDE Documentary — A Story of Free Software Underdogs (YouTube video): The story starts in 1996, when Matthias Ettrich, a student at the University of Tübingen, posted to a Usenet group asking for programmers to help build…

Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu 26.10 ("Stonking Stingray"): Ubuntu 26.10 advances enterprise security features, completes the rollout of the Rust-based uutils coreutils, and strengthens integrations for user authentication using Microsoft Entra ID. [...] Ubuntu 26.10 also ships…

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (environment-modules, flatpak-builder, kernel, kernel-rt, librabbitmq, libreoffice, libsoup, mod_auth_openidc:2.3, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, OpenEXR, opentelemetry-collector, pki-core:10.6, postgresql:12, python-tornado, python36:3.6, ruby:3.3, tftp, and…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.11, 6.18.57, 6.12.113, 6.6.159, 6.1.190, 5.15.223, and 5.10.272 stable kernels. This series includes, among other things, a fix for a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-99999). The flaw in skb_checksum_help() would allow an IPv4 packet with bad…

Creating a direct connection between any two computers (not just from client to server) over the internet is notoriously difficult. Many home networks are behind NATs which prevent new inbound connections. Sometimes these NATs are from the ISP (carrier-grade NATs) which are impossible to work around…

Tagoross published its first open content package, one day after KDE turned thirty. Two good days in a row Yesterday was a great day for me. KDE turned thirty years old. The KDE documentary, published to celebrate the anniversary, was delightful. Today is no less special for me. The first Tagoross…

The gedit text editor version 51 has been released! A previous blog post, News, April-May 2026 already covers most of the changes. A reminder that gedit is still alive and is available to install, as an alternative. Progress has been made since May, but it's mostly…

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 21 Beta2.

Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.22.1: bug 2078299 Allow overriding base url and repo call sign for development purposes Discuss these changes in #engineering-workflow on Slack or #Conduit Matrix. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.22.0: bug 1501077 moz-phab does not update the reviewers list in Phabricator to match local changes bug 2074122 moz-phab --apply-to here --no-branch changed my tree and branch without prompting bug 2077318 moz-phab should block submitting patches that still contain…