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Firefox Tooling Announcements: Happy BMO Push Day! (20260922.1)

Mozilla Planet — September 22, 2026

Github Link The following changes have been pushed to bugzilla.mozilla.org: Thanks to Kohei for his work on the newly revised Guided Bug Entry form! If you want to check it out yourself, then click on the Switch to Bugzilla Helper link at the bottom of the enter bug product selection page. Normally…

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Release GCompris 26.2

KDE Planet — September 22, 2026

Today we are releasing GCompris version 26.2. It contains bug fixes and improvements on many activities. It is fully translated in the following languages: Arabic Bulgarian Breton Catalan Catalan (Valencian) Czech Greek Spanish Basque French Hebrew Croatian Italian Lithuanian Latvian Malayalam…

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Firefox Tooling Announcements: Firefox Profiler Deployment (September 22, 2026)

Mozilla Planet — September 22, 2026

The latest version of the Firefox Profiler is now live! Check out the full changelog below to see what’s changed: Highlights: [fatadel] Show a category breakdown in profiler-cli (#6256) [fatadel] Show allocation data in the cli (#6246) [Florian Quèze] profiler-cli: add a thread list command…

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GeoSolutions: Meet GeoSolutions at Smart City Expo World Congress 2026 (Hall 2, Stand C161): open source geospatial platforms for cities

OSGeo Planet — September 22, 2026

Dear Reader, From November 3 to 5, 2026, GeoSolutions will be at Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, Fira Gran Via, as part of the Italian Pavilion organised by ITA, the Italian Trade Agency. You will find Eleonora Fontana and the GeoSolutions team in Hall 2, Stand C161. If you are planning…

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Firefox Tooling Announcements: Firefox DevTools MCP 0.10.4 released

Mozilla Planet — September 22, 2026

Firefox DevTools MCP (firefox-devtools-mcp) 0.10.4 is out on npm. Changes This release only contains additional hooks and configuration files to register Firefox DevTools MCP on various third-party aggregators, as well as a new task to automatically register the mcp on…

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GIScussions: Geocoding 1000 posts on WordPress – 50% success

OSGeo Planet — September 22, 2026

After I had finished categorising all the posts on Mappery (see this post) it occurred to me that a similar strategy might be used for geocoding ungeocoded posts. If you have been following my vibe coding posts you will know that Arnaud and I built a geocoding and mapping plugin for our WordPress…

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Jackie Ng: For the price of a cup of coffee ...

OSGeo Planet — September 22, 2026

Our DeepSeek credit spend has yielded thus far:The MapGuide Windows installer successfully migrated over from Wix 3.x to Wix 6.xAdded missing support for rendering MultiGeometry/GeometryCollection instances in MapGuideAdded missing support for evaluating spatial predicates involving MultiGeometry…

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Are LLMs still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks?

Terence Eden — September 22, 2026

Last year I ran an experiment to test the ability of modern LLMs to correctly answer a relatively straightforward question. Every single one of them got it wrong. Some missed information, some made up false statements, none were right. Of course the fanbois variously claimed that I was holding it…

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The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing a Maintainer in Residence: Scott Schafer for the Cargo team

Mozilla Planet — September 22, 2026

At the end of August, we announced our first Maintainers in Residence, Rust Project contributors who are funded for their upstream contributions and maintenance work from the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund (RFMF). Since then, the Rust Leadership Council has dedicated more funds from its Project…

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Talk at LinuxDay 2026. Playing with Guix on foreign distributions.

Guix Planet — September 21, 2026

Three years after my last public appearance at a local FOSS event, my old friend Marco brought me on board again as a speaker for LinuxDay 2026 in October. While my latest speeches were mostly about the status and governance of the FOSS domain, this time I’ll present something more technical.

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Raspberry Pi locks down Pi 5 RAM upgrades in firmware

Jeff Geerling — September 21, 2026

Raspberry Pi added a feature in their firmware that restricts users from swapping RAM chips, sometimes even RAM chips of the same capacity from other Raspberry Pi boards. Apparently there were people buying cheap 1 or 2 gig Pi 5s, soldering in some cheap and sometimes unreliable 8 gig RAM chips,…

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The Mozilla Blog: Stay focused wherever you work with Firefox mobile browsers

Mozilla Planet — September 21, 2026

When it’s Monday morning and you’re on the subway, in a coffee shop, or squeezing in a few email replies after your morning workout, your phone becomes your digital office. But every time you open your browser, you risk getting struck with any combination of distracting ads, auto-playing videos, and…

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Akademy 2026

KDE Planet — September 21, 2026

This year’s Akademy is over - at least for me. I’m already on a train on my way back home, but there’s still plenty of people staying in Graz for more days of hacking and fun. Even though I haven’t contributed to KDE much in the past few years, I am really glad I decided to go. First, I want to…

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Carlos Garcia Campos: Skia compositor for WPE WebKit and WebKitGTK

Gnome Planet — September 21, 2026

WPE WebKit and WebKitGTK 2.54 have been released with a bunch of improvements and new APIs as usual, but there’s one point that kept the Igalia WebKit graphics team busy for the whole cycle: the new Skia-based compositor. The replacement of Cairo with Skia for content rendering has been a success…

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diffoscope 330 released

Debian Planet — September 21, 2026

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 330. This version includes the following changes: [ Chris Lamb ] * Don't Build-Depend on apksigcopier as it has been removed from testing. (Closes: #1146852) You find out more by visiting the project homepage.

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The Rust Programming Language Blog: GitHub Actions leaking secrets when Miri output is cached

Mozilla Planet — September 21, 2026

The Rust Security Response Team was notified that Miri stores all environment variables to target/, allowing secrets to persist in caches. While not necessary a vulnerability in and of itself, when paired with GitHub Actions caching behavior, it is possible for this to expose secrets to…

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Scheme Requests for Implementation: SRFI 285: Dates and Times

Scheme Planet — September 20, 2026

SRFI 285 is now in draft status. This SRFI details an API for storing and manipluating dates and times. This SRFI decomposes dates and times into dates (a count of days in the proleptic Gregorian calendar), clock times (time of day, independent of time zone), moments (instants in TAI),…

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Bot-free self-hosted analytics with GoatCounter on NixOS

Debian Planet — September 20, 2026

In 2016, I removed Google Analytics from this blog to avoid being complicit in feeding the biggest machine for harvesting personal data. Instead, I relied on GoAccess to analyze my server logs.1 For the past couple of years, the statistics have made no sense, despite my attempts to filter bots: AI…

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Debian 11 is at end of life from Long Term Support

Debian Planet — September 20, 2026

 Lots of posts in the debian-user mailing list complaining about updates with Debian 11.11 suddenly failing.See Debian 11 Long Term Support reaches end-of-lifeAugust 31st, 2026 The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team hereby announces that Debian 11 bullseye support has reached its end-of-life…

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New version of libccid: 1.8.4

Debian Planet — September 20, 2026

I have just released version 1.8.4 of libccid the Free Software CCID class smart card reader driver. Changes: 1.8.4 - 20 September 2026, Ludovic Rousseau Add support of THALES PKI Transaction Pad fix some minor issues found by an AI tool Some other minor improvements

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Book Review: How to Build a Space Station by Jonathan Morrison ★★★⯪☆

Terence Eden — September 20, 2026

This book, by The Times' former Architecture Correspondent, stands in direct opposition to A City on Mars. Whereas that book presented a (perhaps too) sceptical look at the realities of living on other planets, Jonathan Morrison's book goes (perhaps too far) in the opposite direction. How to…

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Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, August 2026 (by Thorsten Alteholz)

Debian Planet — September 20, 2026

The Debian LTS Team, funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering, is pleased to report its activities for August. Activity summary During the month of August, 19 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS (links to individual contributor reports are located below). The team released 58 DLAs…

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Jakub Steiner: Stolen!

Gnome Planet — September 20, 2026

Bombarded by the deception and lies of the AI industry I chose to sample boy Amodei for the ironic outrage about Chinese companies stealing their dataset. Thus the tune title. Usually I barely manage to finish up my weekly beats track on a Sunday night. This week I've somehow had some extra time…

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Fernando Quadro: GeoServer + LDAP: autenticação centralizada, grupos e roles na prática

OSGeo Planet — September 19, 2026

Prezado leitor, O intuito do post de hoje é que você aprenda como integrar o GeoServer a um servidor LDAP, autenticar usuários, transformar grupos LDAP em roles e preparar essas roles para utilização nas regras de segurança do GeoServer. O laboratório utiliza GeoServer 3, OpenLDAP e Docker…

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Michael Meeks: 2026-09-19 Saturday

Gnome Planet — September 19, 2026

Pleased by the somewhat quirky conference venue, good to meet lots of old friends & catch up with them; to hand out large numbers of beavers, and to hear various interesting updates on what is going on in Nextcloud the software. Gave a very compressed Lighting Talk for five minutes on what…

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