Las Jornadas de SIG Libre de Girona han sido siempre un referente para Geomatico … porque han sido también la cuna de nuestra empresa, allá en 2011. En estos más de 15 años de conferencias hemos presentado multitud de charlas que celebran la esencia del desarrollo abierto: colaborar, aprender y…
read more ➔The GNOME Foundation has selected the first recipients who will receive funding through its new Fellowship program, and is delighted to announce that Peter Eisenmann and Sophie Herold will begin work as our first Fellows in July. Sophie and Peter are both long-running GNOME contributors, with many…
read more ➔Recreating a design system manually in QML is a laborious task for a Qt developer. A typical Figma design system can include hundreds of design tokens for colors, typography, spacing, radii, shadows, and motion durations - plus dozens of UI components, each with multiple variants and states. Every…
read more ➔Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Suspicious AI activity in Fedora; fork() + exec(); splice() + vmsplice(); BPF loop verification; fanotify; trusted publishing. Briefs: CA age bill; Bundler cooldowns; insecure code completion; Asahi and macOS 27 beta;…
read more ➔I’ve been asked a few times if it would be possible to use virtnbdbackup as some kind of “replication” utility, to keep cold standby virtual machines on other libvirt hosts. Usually i would tell to use underlying filesystem features (such as zfs send/recv, with incremental snapshots) to keep cold,…
read more ➔Thursday, 11 June 2026 KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.27.0. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner. New in this version Baloo [Query] Make Query::exec() idempotent.…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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 Jody Garnett (GeoCat), and Peter Smythe…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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 …
read more ➔Seth Larson, the Python Software Foundation's security developer-in-residence, has written about the difficulty in classifying insecure code completion in the PyCharm IDE using its Full Line code completion plugin. Larson discovered that the plugin, which uses a local "deep learning module" to offer…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔Agentic AI systems can be used to do a variety of things autonomously on behalf of a human user: open or manage bugs, generate code, submit pull-requests, and (apparently) even complain about rejection. In May, a Fedora developer discovered that an allegedly rogue agent had been pestering the…
read more ➔Version 2026.05 of the Buildroot tool has been released. Buildroot simplifies and automates the process of building embedded Linux systems using cross-compilation. Notable changes in this release include support for Arm Neoverse cores, addition of XFS rootfs generation, as well as many package…
read more ➔Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (poppler), Debian (dnsmasq, mistral, okular, openssl, poppler, and strongswan), Fedora (exim, firefox, pcs, putty, and xorg-x11-server), Mageia (freeciv, golang-x-net, jq, libssh, libxmp, libxpm, minetest, ruby-net-ssh, tor, and wireshark), SUSE…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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.
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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…
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