Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: 2026 Maintainers Summit; Rust goals; GCC and LLMs; GCC CFI; systemd; C types in Rust; LTTng; Swap showdown; KDE Linux. Briefs: 64-day certificates; Nix and Lix security; Asterinas 0.19.0; LineageOS 24; KDE 6.8; Python…
read more ➔Usually I blog about new additions to the GNOME wallpapers after a release, to give some behind the scenes look on how they were produced. This time I'm asking for some feedback beforehand. Pixels has shipped as a wallpaper before. The wallpaper landed back in 2021 and keeps getting refreshed as…
read more ➔The fact this movie tanked at the box office just makes the ride all the more enjoyable. I had a bad headache and had to call off the screening with a friend yesterday. Thursday is when the movies rotate in our part of the world where we use the un-American units, so I thought I'd missed yet another…
read more ➔The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.99.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.99.1 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don't have…
read more ➔AI now digitizes, scripts and runs whole QGIS tasks. US mapping jobs are still projected to grow to 2035. Here is what changes, task by task, and what to learn.
read more ➔How to do a spatial join in QGIS: join attributes by location or by nearest, count points in polygons, pick the right predicate, and avoid the CRS traps.
read more ➔How to digitize a map in QGIS: draw polygons by hand with snapping and tracing, trace a scanned map, convert a raster, or let AI outline every object at once.
read more ➔On September 22 we released systemd v262 into the wild. In the weeks leading up to that release (and since then) I have posted a series of serieses of posts to Mastodon about key new features in this release, under the #systemd262 hash tag. In case you aren't using Mastodon, but would like to read…
read more ➔Here's one that m2c usually gets right itself, but sometimes cannot: if (var_v1_7 != 1) { if (var_v1_7 < 2) { if (var_v1_7 != 0) { spF0 = 40; } else { vram_x = cmt46->vram_x; vram_y = cmt46->vram_y; …
read more ➔Hello, I am pleased to announce a new Cambalache release. Cambalache is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) tool that allows you to create and edit user interfaces for Gtk 4 and 3 applications. This new version depends on GNOME SDK 51 and includes all new properties and types from Gtk and…
read more ➔The twenty-second release of the qlcal package arrivied at CRAN yesterday, and has been built for r2u as well as on r-universe. qlcal delivers the calendaring parts of QuantLib. It is provided (for the R package) as a set of included files, so the package is self-contained and does not depend on an…
read more ➔Welcome to the September 2026 report from the Reproducible Builds project! In our reports, we try to outline the most important things that we have been up to over the past month. As a quick recap about what problem our project intends to solve, whilst anyone may inspect the source code of free…
read more ➔A few people have asked how the scoring works, and one or two have asked, a bit pointedly, why their pin 40 km from Lagos only got half marks. Here’s the longer version of the info box: how to play, how the points add up, and where it all comes from. The basics Every day you get 5 cities. For…
read more ➔Introducing Apache Auron™, Apache Reqsign™, and Apache ResilientDB™ Wilmington, DE – October 14, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home for open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apache Auron, Apache Reqsign, and Apache ResilientDB have become Top-Level…
read more ➔LTTng creator Mathieu Desnoyers seems a bit trapped in something of a catch-22. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), he led a discussion on the problem he is having in trying to collaborate with other tracing projects (e.g. ftrace, perf) in the kernel. The feedback he has gotten, both over…
read more ➔At the recently concluded Maintainers Summit, Linus Torvalds said that he had been using a large language model to work on a patch series addressing a longstanding problem; he has now posted that series for review. The fairly short series of ten patches basically enhances folio lookup by…
read more ➔Version 6.8 of the KDE Plasma desktop has been released. The The KDE project has timed the release to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Matthias Ettrich's email announcing the project: Unix popularity grows thanks to the free variants, mostly Linux. But still a consistent, nice looking free…
read more ➔After much deliberation, the GCC project recently came up with a policy on the use of large language models for development of the compiler suite. It is somewhat restrictive, but still leaves room for LLMs in the development process. At the 2026 GNU Tools Cauldron, Jeff Law and Kyrill Tkachov…
read more ➔New feature cuts local working-copy storage requirements by up to 50%, extending Subversion’s long-standing strength in version control for huge repositories and huge files Wilmington, DE – October 14, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world…
read more ➔Formlabs sent me a Form Studio 1 resin 3D printer to test after years of back-and-forth about their Form 4 printer. Like the Form 4, it's an SLA (stereolithography) printer, but unlike the Form 4 (which starts at $2,600), it's affordable for a hobbyist. It's not cheap, coming in at $699 (or $749…
read more ➔When I joined KDE in 1999 I already thought of it as a mature project. I used the KDE desktop every day, and I was delighted with what it could do and how it felt. I had no idea that this would be one of the most impactful decisions of my life, or where it would lead me. Today we are celebrating…
read more ➔Twelve years ago, I was complaining that IoT devices were too expensive. Last week I bought a colour changing Zigbee lighbulb for £4. Not a typo - less than a fiver. While the aipocalypse is devouring RAM with its insatiable appetite, Moore's Law appears to be keeping up its end of the bargain…
read more ➔So... a bit of news. KDAB have just published a video featuring me talking about design, QML, and something I keep coming back to: what happens when the tools we use to make software become more capable, while the interfaces we build with them seem to get increasingly…
read more ➔Exploring how Large Language Models can Improve Search in Spatial Data Infrastructures Every day, a huge amount of spatial data is produced by public agencies, research institutes, companies, and other data providers. Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) have been set up at local, national and…
read more ➔Stem op OSGeo.nl voor de Geo Prestige Award! TLDR; Direct stemmen via https://geomares.typeform.com/to/YUyu9jo8 . De vakvereniging Geo-Informatie Nederland (GIN) reikt jaarlijks vakprijzen uit, de Geo Prestige Awards. Er zijn drie categorieën: Professional, Startup en Organisatie.…
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