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Taking a good group photo consists of multiple aspects: hardware scouting organization preparation execution processing publishing I can say with confidence that nearly everything here comes from having failed to do these things right at least once, even on the latest attempts, so this is an ideal…

Ok, the title is slightly click-baity but hear me out. So nearly 2 weeks ago, after writing a lot of code for making the font subsetting work for annotations, I found a flaw in my approach. I was never deleting the old original font after embedding it's subset version. So what happened is…

Each year, Mozilla welcomes interns who work alongside our engineering teams on projects that ship to production and improve the experience for contributors around the world. This year, Ayush joined the Firefox Localization team to work on Pontoon, Mozilla’s open source localization platform, where…

OpenSSH 10.4 has been released. In addition to a number of security and bug fixes, there are a few notable changes; this release adds experimental support for a composite post-quantum signature scheme combining ML-DSA 44 and Ed25519 as described in this IETF draft. With 10.4, if OpenSSH is compiled…

Conversations about the kernel's filesystem implementations often involve a layer called "iomap", but relatively few people can reliably say what iomap actually is. That is just the kind of gap that LWN exists to fill. In short, iomap handles the mapping between data in the filesystem…

The last maintenance release of the 26.04 series is out, bringing the usual batch of bug fixes and workflow and stability improvements. Highlights include fixes for crashes when undoing sequence creation and recording audio without an audio device, as well as improvements to Rectangular Alpha Mask…

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, ruby:2.5, and ruby:3.3), Debian (bird3, chromium, kernel, linux-6.1, mediawiki, nginx, openvpn, php-phpseclib, php8.2, php8.4, and sympa), Fedora (7zip, buildah, chromium, clamav, freerdp, leptonica,…

We are preparing version v4.0.0 of the QGIS Plugins Website (https://plugins.qgis.org), a planned milestone release scheduled for 13 July 2026. Below is a summary of what is coming and how it may affect plugin developers, so you can review ahead of time. Highlights This will be our first major…

I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is. Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first time? Listening to a stoner ramble on about their mystic crystal revelations is amusing for the first…

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. Gradient widget: switched to Qt-Color-WidgetsJulius Künzel suggested last week that the Gradient widget be built with an eye toward upstreaming to…

Hi Mozillians, welcome to another Mozilla community roundup! This month, we’re taking a look at what’s next for Firefox. From an upcoming visual refresh and a peek behind the new design system to hidden features you may never have used before. We’re also highlighting a recent Reddit AMA on the new…

Review: The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks Series: Culture #2 Publisher: HarperPrism Copyright: 1989 Printing: February 1987 ISBN: 0-06-105356-2 Format: Trade paperback Pages: 295 The Player of…

This is a bug fix and minor feature release over INN 2.7.3, and the upgrade should be painless. You can download the new release from ISC or my personal INN pages. The latter also has links to the full changelog and the other INN documentation. For the full list of changes, see the INN 2.7.4 NEWS…

The 7.2-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "It's Sunday afternoon, and rc2 is out. Things look very normal - it's not a small rc2, but it's in line with recent releases, and slightly smaller than rc2 was in 7.1. Let's see how that all continues, but so far so good."

I couldn't remember something for weeks. It popped into my head during a run — a relief, even though the memory itself was not pleasant. This episode of my flaky mind reminded me of this movie.<I won't give you even a hint of what the movie is about. The strength of it is not the premise, but the…

Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 26.08 releases to themNext Dates: July 16, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 Freeze and Beta (26.07.80) tarball creation July 17 2026: 26.08 Beta (26.07.80) release July 30, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 RC (26.07.90) tarball creation July 31,…

After I published my map of defence spending a friend suggested that it would be interesting to see how things had changed since the end of the Cold War in 1990/91. I knew that the data I had covered a longer time period so I asked Claude if we could update the map and it checked the data and…

After a long development cycle, we are thrilled to announce the official release of Rolisteam v1.10. This version brings a wave of brand-new tools for Game Masters, a major technical overhaul of the whole project, and a much healthier codebase for the years to come. Download it now:…

Debian Related Work Uploaded wofi 1.5.3-1 to unstable Uploaded wob 0.16-1 to unstable Uploaded labwc 0.20.0-1 and 0.20.1-1 to unstable; these releases come with support for wlroots-0.20, which made labwc reenter testing Uploaded swaylock 1.8.5-2 to unstable to make it use the common-auth directive…

Week 24 This week's icon is for Jiří Eischmann's project: Meshy: "Meshcore mesh network client" Check out all weekly app icons created so far over here and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including…

Updated KDE content snaps with Qt 6.11.1, KF6 6.27.0, and Applications 26.04.3, critical bug fixes, Debian packaging of Rust crates for Plasma 6.7.0, and what's on the horizon.

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.7.0alpha1! Best Served with PostgreSQL 19 Beta1 and GEOS 3.15 which will be released soon. This version requires PostgreSQL 14 - 19beta1, GEOS 3.10 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.15+ is needed. To take advantage of…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.3, 6.18.38, 6.12.95, 6.6.144, 6.1.177, 5.15.211, and 5.10.260 stable kernels. Several kernels in this batch include a fix for a vulnerability introduced in the 6.0 kernel in IPv6 (CVE-2026-53362), which could allow an attacker to escape a…

As previously mentioned, I am leaving Chrome; my last work day was yesterday. (Sorry to those with July 3rd off that I didn't get to say goodbye to!) But I'm staying in Google, on more internal projects :-) After 1100+ commits it's hard to pick out one thing that I love the most; as a team, we…

I am somewhat jet-lagged, having returned from Washington DC just before the 250th anniversary celebrations which will be happening today. I was part of a delegation sent by my employer to the AWS Summit there this week, partly to kindle interactions between PA Consulting and Jacobs who have…