News from the Planet

GeoServer 3.0 is now generally available. This post is not a feature announcement, those have been written, and the release notes cover the details. This is something we get to do less often: closing the loop on a promise. The modernisation work the community funded is finished and shipping, and we…

GeoServer 3.0.0 release is now available with downloads (bin, war, windows), along with docs and extensions. This is a stable release of GeoServer 3.0.x series. GeoServer 3.0.0 is made in conjunction with GeoTools 35.0, and GeoWebCache 2.0.0. Thanks to Andrea Aaime (GeoSolutions), Jody Garnett…

Some of you might have noticed that the recent (or rather: previous) version of libayatana-appindicator (v0.5.94) notified users and developers of the library being deprecated. This short post is to notify you, that with today's libayatana-appindicator v0.6.0 release [1] this deprecation warning…

This is a weekly update from my Google Summer of Code 2026 project with KDE, improving effect widgets in Kdenlive. Week 2 was about getting feedback and doing it right. After opening the draft MR for the Curves Widget, my mentor Jean-Baptiste reviewed the approach and suggested a cleaner…

The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of the latest stable version of GeoTools 35.0 : geotools-35.0-bin.zip geotools-35.0-doc.zip geotools-35.0-userguide.zip geotools-35.0-project.zip …

My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian. You can also support my work directly via Liberapay or GitHub Sponsors. OpenSSH I backported various security fixes from 10.3 to trixie, bookworm, bullseye, buster, and stretch. For trixie, I also backported several IPQoS fixes to…

Ooooh! This is a lovely treat of a book. Every time Lauren sends her husband into the loft, a different man comes down. Her past is rewritten and she has now been married to Dave/Gary/Bob/Whoever for a year, a month, a decade, a minute. This isn't like how Groundhog Day became On The Calculation of…

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @thisweekinrust.bsky.social on Bluesky or @ThisWeekinRust…

Terry Godier wrote a beautiful essay "The Boring Internet". The internet isn't dying, he argues, just the commercial veneer glued on top of it is. Underneath all the engagement metrics and algorithmic feeds, there's still an older, slower, more federated web. One built on protocols nobody owns. RSS…

Introducing GeoLibre 1.0, a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform that runs in your browser, as a desktop app, on your phone, and inside Jupyter notebooks.

Linux App Summit 2026 Social Media Retrospective This is my personal retrospective post – there will likely be some version of this that will go out to various stakeholders. I want to start off by giving huge praise to our organizing team that worked really hard this year in putting this event…

AI slop is invading the web. A recent story about disallowing LLM-generated submissions on Lobsters triggered a lot of debate. My personal worst offenders are LinkedIn articles with AI-generated images and uninspired articles filled with emojis from people trying to masquerade as experts on…

Gom is a very old object mapper I wrote to bridge GObject to SQLite. It made a lot of assumptions about the world based on when it was prototyped. The past couple years had me using it again for the documentation search in Manuals. Typically, I would have just built Manuals to parse all the XML…

Github Link The following changes have been pushed to bugzilla.mozilla.org: Bug 2043429 - Selenium test 1_test_bug_edit.t intermittently fails when attemtping to click on comment reactions Bug 1995467 - Show dependency tree on meta bugs by default Bug 2043322 - text/html attachments are downloaded…

By: Priya Sharma As a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) organization admin representing the Apache Software Foundation, I had the privilege of attending the GSoC Mentor Summit 2025, and it was an incredible experience! The Mentor Summit is a unique opportunity to connect with amazing mentors and discuss…

For a limited time, where the VPN is available, users can get unlimited VPN bandwidth in Firefox – up from the 50 gigabytes monthly limit — plus access to over 25 country locations to browse from. Don’t have Firefox yet? <a…

Official announcement European Voxit community strengthens digital sovereignty: shared codebase completed. Read the official announcement at: https://www.voxit.org/european-voxit-community-strengthens-digital-sover... The Voxit community and platform development The Voxit participation platform…

only bounds are going to be the most impactful change to Rust that you’ve never heard of. They are currently being designed and developed by the Arm team (David Wood, Rémy Rakic, et al.) as part of the Sized Hierarchy and Scalable Vector Extension project goal. This post explores the feature and…

Here’s another QField release, packed with the features that have been at the top of professional surveyors’ wish list! (hint: it’s in the title) — plus improvements across the board for our wide range of users.<Main highlights NTRIP &amp; Bluetooth Low Energy First up, NTRIP support has been added…

The RISC-V CPU architecture has been gaining a lot of popularity since it launched in 2014, and now that the industry is standardizing on the RVA23 level that includes vector support as a mandatory extension, we are likely to see a lot more edge- and IoT devices with the ability to run local LLMs at…

Many GNOME projects have adopted a policy banning all contributions generated by LLMs. This policy was originally developed by Sophie for Loupe, but is now used in many other notable places: This project does not allow contributions generated by large languages models (LLMs) and chatbots. This ban…

Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.15.2: bug 2004368 moz-phab patch -a here with jj says there is no source tree if jj config is broken bug 2035900 Investigate setting up CodSpeed.io for moz-phab bug 2044857 patch --raw leaks a global logger level, causing order-dependent test failures Discuss these…

Your browser tabs say a lot about your life: work projects, vacation plans, shopping carts and all the rabbit holes in between. Add the world’s biggest soccer tournament to the mix, and your browser is suddenly juggling scores to check, streams to watch, lineups to scan and group chats to keep up…

One of the many nice language features in Python are keyword arguments. They make some types of APIs  concise and readable. Like so:Unfortunately C does not have keyword arguments and, by extension, neither does C++. Adding them as a language feature would take 15-20 years of effort, most of which…

A seemingly simple question which sent me down into the murky depths of standards. How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name? It probably isn't sensible to name your online presence a----------hyphen.com - but is there anything technically stopping you? Table of ContentsHistoryTLD…