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TorchGeo 0.9.0 Release Notes TorchGeo 0.9 includes 13 new datasets and a number of improvements required for better time series support, encompassing 3 months of hard work by 15 contributors from around the world. We are now trying to make more frequent releases to get exciting new features out to…

I’m happy to announce that the SparkleShare project will receive a grant from the NLnet Foundation’s NGI0 Commons fund! SparkleShare and NGI0 Commons Sync files with Git SparkleShare is a Free and Open Source collaboration app. It allows people who are not software developers or otherwise…

The Skrooge Team announces the release 26.8.0 version of its popular Personal Finances Manager based on KDE Frameworks. Changelog Correction bug 518796: skrooge-boursorama.py stop to work for some values Correction bug 520749: Skrooge can't load skg file after org.kde.Platform update Correction:…

We’ve overhauled the project creation flow in QFieldCloud to make getting your field data campaigns off the ground faster than ever. Along with a clean new web interface, we are introducing two highly requested features to boost your team’s productivity: more advanced project creation, with native…

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.7.0beta2! Best Served with PostgreSQL 19 Beta2 and GEOS 3.15.0beta2. This version requires PostgreSQL 14 - 19beta2, GEOS 3.10 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.15+ is needed. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features…

Welcome to the July 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…

Maps in the Wild Mappery has been my side project for 8 years, for the last 5 or 6 years Arnaud Ferrand has been my co-editor and the tech brain that keeps the site running. Mappery is a large WordPress site with 2,500 posts and 3,500 images of Maps in the Wild (pictures of maps in the street, on…

In these turbulent times, one frequently needs to run some tooling in a sandbox. The goal is mainly to reduce the blast radius: make it so programs within the sandbox cannot damage the host system (e.g. delete or overwrite something unintended), but also, to a lesser extent, to hide most of the…

The new MovingPandas release 0.23 has just landed in pypi and conda-forge and I want to share with you two highlights: New HTML representations The new HTML representations for Trajectory & TrajectoryCollection objects aim to make interactive data exploration in notebooks more convenient by…

KStars v3.8.4 is released on 2026.08.09 for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. For Linux users, it's highly recommended to use the official KStars Flatpak hosted at Flathub. This release brings major improvements including the World's First AI powered Guider! Furthermore, KStars now ships with an MCP…

Another missing Oxygen icon, this time KTimer. The idea was simple enough… its a timer, lets make a digital watch. And having grown up in the 80's my brain obviously went directly to those old Casio watches we all had, wanted, lost, or somehow managed to keep alive for 20 years…

KDE has a little utility called ksshaskpass that is invoked by SSH to prompt the user for credentials. It can then store them in KDE Wallet so you don’t have to type them again next time. The other day I had to set up an elaborate SSH configuration with jump hosts and what not and found that it…

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. Combining two weeks here since the last post covered a lot of ground already. From research to implementationFollowing up from the last post, moved…

--> --> Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we merged a number of features and UI changes that focus on user-friendliness — in addition to a nice crop of bug-fixes and performance improvements:<Notable new features Plasma 6.8 If you try to print using a printer that’s…

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 31 to August 7. GNOME Core Apps and Libraries File Previewer ↗ A previewer companion for GNOME Files. Peter Eisenmann announces Since its “revival”, sushi, the previewer companion for nautilus, has seen a lot of activity. This…

Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-forty-fifth 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: [DSA 6402-1] hplip security update to fix two CVEs in Trixie related to privilege escalation…

Shortly after Apple launched the budget MacBook Neo, Dell announced their response, a new low-end XPS 13. Matching the Neo's current pricing, it starts at $699, or $599 with an educational discount. That discount is currently set to expire on November 2, and with the current component pricing…

Last chance to submit your KDE Goals proposal The call for submissions for the next KDE Goals cycle closes tomorrow, August 8. As of the time of writing we've received nineteen proposals, covering a variety of topics like enterprise, gaming, personal well-being, documentation, accessibility,…

Alright, this will be the last review of the Summer. I’ll take a break until September as I really need to unplug for a bit. The next edition will be at the end of the first week of September. See you then! But first… let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-32. Kill the Cookie Banner! Tags:…

On July 1st, the very first round of GNOME Fellowships started. This program finances contributors within the GNOME project through your donations. We, the fellows, will be giving you monthly updates about our work. This is the very first update from me. Short Introduction Hey, I’m Sophie. I have…

Week 28 This week's icon is for René Fouquet's project: Stencil: "Rename batches of files" Check out all weekly app icons created so far in the gallery and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including…

C API and Introspection I spent some time cleaning up the Rust C extension and the FFI layer to make it easier to consume from C and through GObject Introspection. One of the biggest changes was exposing the PitiviTimelineRuler instance type in the public headers instead of treating it as a generic…

For reports, presentations, and websites, I regularly need maps: a raster layer, contextual boundaries, a legend, and maybe a logo. Nothing requiring an elaborate page layout. And I often need more than one. For the COMBINED project, for example, I map the same study area in Rotterdam over and over.…

A Inteligência Artificial já está transformando a maneira como profissionais GIS analisam dados, automatizam processos e desenvolvem soluções geoespaciais. Neste curso, você aprenderá a aplicar IA generativa, agentes inteligentes e automação em ferramentas como QGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer e GeoNode,…

Hey, I’m Philipp. I’m a GNOME Design Team member and I have been contributing to GNOME design as a volunteer for several years. I’m excited to share with you that I have joined the Sovereign Tech Agency as a fellow for GNOME Design & Community Management. Check out the other fellows in the official…