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DimStarTumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/43
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week saw the release of 5 snapshots (1016, 1017, 1018, 1020, and 1021).
Big desktop milestones and unblocked migrations took center stage across Tumbleweed this week. However, the biggest headlines in the broader tech landscape revolved around security—specifically the critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in PHP dubbed “PHP2Shell” (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). Tumbleweed users were protected promptly when snapshot 1021 delivered PHP 8.5.12 addressing both flaws. Security was a prominent theme across other snapshots as well: snapshot 1016 rolled out curl 8.23.0 with multiple CVE fixes, snapshot 1020 brought Mozilla Firefox 158.0, and polkit 128 arrived to fix authentication-helper vulnerabilities while dropping previous temporary service memory caps.
Alongside security responses, major desktop and foundational transitions landed. Snapshot 1016 delivered KDE Plasma 6.8.0, accompanied by swift packaging adjustments in SDDM and the lockscreen footer to ensure smooth logins and proper virtual keyboard behavior. Complementing the desktop, snapshot 1018 rolled out both Qt 6.12.0 and Mesa 26.2.5. Snapshot 1018 also marked the completion of the containerd 2.x migration, shipping containerd 2.3.3 after an update to open-vm-tools resolved the build conflict tracked in boo#1284086.
Under the hood, Linux Kernel stepped up to 7.2.11 in snapshot 1017. Other notable deliveries included systemd 261.4, CUPS 2.4.20 (fixing an upstream mailto notification regression), SQLite 3.54.1, LVM2 2.03.43, and Memtest86+ 9.00, which adds native AArch64 (ARM64) support and Secure Boot signing.
These 5 snapshots delivered the following updates:
- 7zip 26.04
- containerd 2.3.3
- cups 2.4.20
- curl 8.23.0
- freetype2 2.15.0
- gedit 51.0
- GraphicsMagick 1.3.49
- KDE Plasma 6.8.0
- libaom 3.15.2
- Linux Kernel 7.2.11
- lvm2 2.03.43
- memtest86+ 9.00
- Mesa 26.2.5
- MozillaFirefox 158.0
- ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs 2026.9.28
- os-prober 1.85
- php8 8.5.12
- pipewire 1.6.9
- polkit 128
- poppler 26.10.0
- Qt 6.12.0
- sqlite3 3.54.1
- systemd 261.4
- tmux 3.8
- vim 9.2.1202
As we turn our focus to the upcoming days, here is a preview of what is currently making its way through the staging projects:
- GNOME 51.1: A comprehensive update across GNOME Shell, Mutter, and core desktop applications is currently undergoing integration testing.
- Linux Kernel 7.3.0
- Ollama 0.40.9
- HarfBuzz 15.0.0
- Ruby 4.0.9: Addressing multiple upstream regular expression CVEs.
- Go 1.27.3
- VirtualBox 7.2.22
- fmt 12.2.0
- kernel-source-longterm 6.18.55: Waiting on VirtualBox driver updates to adapt to kernel API changes.
- Swig 4.5.0: YaST integration issues remain under investigation, tracked under boo#1275515.
Planet News Roundup
This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. This community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Oct. 16 - 22.
This week highlights seven Tumbleweed snapshots for week 42 headlined by Linux Kernel 7.2.10, KDE Gear 26.08.2 and Mozilla Firefox 157.0.1, the first Plasma 6.8 update and the seventh Plasma 6.6 update, Tellico’s 25th anniversary, the KDE documentary, Agama 25, the Akademy-es 2026 Madrid program and preview, a report from the openSUSE.Asia Summit and Open Source Summit Europe, September Kudos, a deep look at vllm.cpp and more.
Here is a summary and links for each post:
Akademy-es 2026 Madrid 20th Anniversary Begins Tomorrow
The KDE Blog reminds readers that Akademy-es 2026 Madrid kicks off tomorrow, Oct. 23, and runs through Oct. 25 at Camping Arco Iris in Villaviciosa de Odón. Baltasar Ortega recaps the build-up, including the talk program, gold sponsor openSUSE, silver sponsor Slimbook, registration and 10 reasons to attend. He notes he cannot attend in person this year and will live vicariously through the photos and updates from Madrid.
Building syslog-ng with bundled ivykis on FreeBSD
Peter Czanik’s blog explains that the syslog-ng FreeBSD port currently uses ivykis from ports, even though the project carries FreeBSD-specific fixes in its own ivykis fork. He is working on making the bundled ivykis selectable and invites testing and help.
VLLM.CPP: A New Engine Is Born
Alessandro’s blog examines vllm.cpp, LocalAI’s C++20 inference engine that brings vLLM-style continuous batching, paged KV caching and an OpenAI-compatible server without requiring Python or PyTorch inside the engine. It compares the project with vLLM and llama.cpp, reviews its C API, formats and hardware backends, and cautions that multi-GPU support, multimodal input and some KV-cache features remain incomplete.
First Plasma 6.8 Update
The KDE Blog announces Plasma 6.8.1, the first bugfix update to Plasma 6.8, released on Oct. 20, 2026. It recaps the 6.8 highlights, including the Hanabi wallpaper, Nepali calendar support, GTK4 decoration fixes, Discover’s AppStream previews and the redesigned Flatpak permissions page.
Releasing Agama 25
The Agama Installer announces Agama 25, the first release after openSUSE Leap 16.1 and the start of work toward Tumbleweed, Slowroll and Leap 16.2. It adds a web-based terminal, an exit option available before installation begins, searchable multi-select bond and bridge port selection, riscv64 support contributed by Andreas Schwab, and reduced reliance on YaST packages. It also publishes the OpenAPI specification and JSON schemas at stable URLs for autocompletion and validation in editors.
Seventh Plasma 6.6 Update
The KDE Blog covers Plasma 6.6.7, released Oct. 16, 2026, as the seventh maintenance update in the 6.6 series. It notes that the series has received extra updates through an agreement with KUbuntu Focus and lists 6.6 features such as Plasma Keyboard, OCR in Spectacle, Plasma Setup, custom global themes and colorblind filters.
Budapest Audio Expo 2026
Peter Czanik’s blog reports on the third Budapest Audio Expo, where his favorite room paired NCS Audio, Qualiton and Pixel cables for a clear, lively sound at a relatively affordable price. He also praises 72 Audio, the Natural Distortion prototype DAC and amp with Popori Acoustics speakers, and a Heed Audio Helikon and Zellaton setup, while criticizing overprocessed room-correction demos.
September Kudos, Recognition
openSUSE News publishes the September Kudos report, noting that 14 users received 14 kudos and 152 badges were awarded to 136 contributors. It lists thank-you notes for contributors such as Adrian Schröter, Bernhard Wiedemann, Dominique Leuenberger and Santiago Zarate, and highlights Tumbleweed, Leap 16.0/16.1 and LinuxDays badges.
New Weather Widget and On-Screen Keyboard – This Week in Plasma
The KDE Blog translates Nate Graham’s latest “This Week in Plasma,” covering the new Plasma 6.9 weather widget with hourly forecasts and Open-Meteo support, a redesigned on-screen keyboard, a temporary night-light toggle and smaller tray icons. It also covers Plasma 6.8.1 fixes, clipboard shortcut reorganization and Qt 6.13 font hinting improvements.
Tellico Turns 25 – Long Live Tellico!
The KDE Blog celebrates Tellico’s 25th anniversary with a timeline from the first Bookcase 0.1 release in November 2001 through its renaming to Tellico, its move to KDE Extragear and the Qt6/KDE Frameworks 6-based Tellico 4.0. The post also explains how the collection manager works and highlights its customizable fields and built-in collection types.
Linux Saloon 224 | Open Mic Night
Nathan Wolf hosts Linux Saloon 224 as an open mic night, where Mike Chilson demonstrated DevsFTP and discussed backup solutions. Participants shared their Linux experiences, and the show invites community suggestions for future application topics.
On GenAI LLMs and Knowledge Workers
Santiago Zarate reflects on how LLMs and agents may reshape knowledge work, starting from a Telegram poll of Venezuelan programmers about whether the future remains human. He compares the change to spreadsheets, factory robots and automated telephone exchanges, argues that automation changes jobs more than it eliminates them, and urges readers not to panic while warning that developers still need real fundamentals.
Tumbleweed – Review of the Week 2026/42
Dominique Leuenberger and Victorhck detail the seven snapshots and major arrivals such as libvirt 12.8.0, libnettle 4.0, KDE Gear 26.08.2, WebKitGTK 2.54.1, GStreamer 1.28.8 and Nautilus 50.4. They also explain the mutter revert that restored clipboard copy and paste, the ktextaddons ABI fix and the cups-filters hardening, and previews staging work on Plasma 6.8.0, Qt 6.12.0 and more.
The KDE Documentary
Martin Schlander’s blog recommends the KDE 30th-anniversary documentary, calling it a high-quality production that covers the project’s most significant events. He notes that it also touches on Qt, GNU, Linux and GNOME and features legendary SUSE developers.
Akademy-es 2026 Madrid 20th Anniversary Talk Program #akademyes
The KDE Blog shares the talk program for Akademy-es 2026, taking place Oct. 23-24 at Camping Arco Iris in Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid. The 20th-anniversary event includes a QML workshop, talks on KDE España, Plasma and low vision, Okular, Autofirma on Flathub, data-center sustainability and plenty of time for socializing.
Liberec Dam
Jakub Steiner shares a drone video of the restored Harcovská přehrada dam in Liberec, Czechia, after a major reconstruction that removed 26,000 cubic meters of silt and replaced the dam’s outlets while preserving its landmark appearance. He also recalls filming the drained basin in 2022, notes the dam is now rated for a 10,000-year flood, and admits the dam has claimed another one of his drones.
KDE Documentary: A History of the Underdogs of Free Software
The KDE Blog highlights CultRepo’s KDE documentary, “A History of the Underdogs of Free Software,” which premiered on Oct. 14 for KDE’s 30th anniversary. The film traces KDE from Matthias Ettrich’s 1996 Usenet post through the Qt licensing struggle, the KHTML-to-WebKit story, the KDE 4 controversy and the community’s role in today’s Linux desktops.
From Yogyakarta to Prague: openSUSE.Asia Summit and Open Source Summit Europe 2026
openSUSE News reports on a two-continent trip to the openSUSE.Asia Summit in Yogyakarta and Open Source Summit Europe in Prague. The post covers the Asia summit’s community news, quiz, offsite turtle release and batik workshop, the adoption of Kudos, a new 14:00 CEST Tuesday meeting time, and a busy Prague booth featuring a 64-core RISC-V workstation running Tumbleweed and QtRvSim.
View more blogs or learn to publish your own on planet.opensuse.org.
Building syslog-ng with bundled ivykis on FreeBSD
One of the core dependencies of syslog-ng is the ivykis library. We have a few FreeBSD specific fixes in our ivykis fork, however the syslog-ng port uses ivykis from ports instead of the bundled version. I am now working on making it selectable. Testing and help are welcome.
Read more at https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/building-syslog-ng-with-bundled-ivykis-on-freebsd
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Releasing version 25
Agama 25 is here, and while it does not carry any single headline feature, it bundles a handful of changes requested by users and some groundwork for what is coming next.
This is the first release after openSUSE Leap 16.1, starting the work toward Tumbleweed, Slowroll, and Leap 16.2.
Let's see what's new.
A web-based terminal
Agama's web UI now features an actual terminal. Until now, if you needed a shell on the system you
were installing, your options were limited to switching to a different virtual console (e.g.
Ctrl+Alt+F8) if you had local access, or connecting through SSH.
Now you can just open a terminal from the comfort of Agama's web UI, without leaving the browser.
Leaving before it's too late
As several users requested, Agama now offers an exit option. You will find it from the very beginning of the process, letting you reboot or shut down the machine if you change your mind.
It is important to note that the option is only available before the installation starts: cancelling while Agama is already applying changes to the system could leave it in an unpredictable and potentially unbootable state, so the exit option disappears as soon as the installation is underway.
Enhanced port selection
Until now, the ports of a bond or a bridge had to be typed by hand in a free-text field, with only a line listing the existing device names as a hint. A typo was silently accepted, and the field did not scale well past a handful of NICs.
In Agama 25, the ports selection uses a searchable multi-select field instead: the devices found in the system are offered in a list you can filter as you type, and a name can still be written out by hand for a device that is not present in the system yet.
Towards Tumbleweed adoption
Behind the scenes, we keep working with the Tumbleweed maintainers to make Agama the installer for the distribution. There is still no date for that to happen, but we are getting closer. Recent examples of that effort are adjusting the registration support and 32-bit media build and adding riscv64 support, the latter contributed by Andreas Schwab.
Cutting ties with YaST packages
Agama was born on top of several YaST packages, reusing logic that was already there instead of rewriting it from scratch. We are now reducing that reliance, bringing into Agama's own codebase just the parts it actually needs instead of pulling in whole YaST modules. So far this effort covers the AutoYaST-related code, and more areas will follow.
Polishing and publishing our OpenAPI and JSON schemas
Agama exposes its HTTP API through an OpenAPI specification and validates its configuration and profile files against JSON schemas. We have been polishing both and, more importantly, publishing them with stable URLs at Agama's documentation site.
Having them published this way is useful well beyond Agama itself: it allows other tools to generate
clients, validate requests, or simply let people browse the API without digging through the source
code. The JSON schemas are useful on their own too. For instance, adding a "$schema" key pointing
to the right schema at the top of your AutoYaST-like profile or configuration file is enough for
many editors to offer autocompletion and inline validation as you type.
Keep in touch
On top of all that, we have also been busy with a bunch of smaller fixes and improvements that did
not make it into this post, like reporting more details about network devices or setting
systemd-boot as the default bootloader for MicroOS.
As always, you can take a look at the project at GitHub or
drop by the #yast channel at Libera.chat if you have questions, feedback
or just want to say hello.
Stay tuned!
Budapest Audio Expo 2026
Last Sunday I spent my day at the third Audio Expo in Budapest. Yet again it was fantastic. And yet again, my favorite audio experience was in the NCS Audio room, even if I listened to lot more expensive systems.
TL;DR:
Made in Hungary audio rivals the rest of the world in quality, while often being available at a much more affordable price. My favorite of the show was the NCS Audio / Qualiton / Pixel cables room, all made in Hungary. 72 Audio was also perfect, as usual. Heed Audio Helikon with Zellaton speakers could fill the largest show room with lively sound. A pair of Popori Acoustics speakers sounded beautiful with a prototype Natural Distortion DAC and amp.
NCS Audio
This year I visited the Audio Expo with someone who prefers headphones. In her experience speakers cannot give you the level of dynamics and detail that a good pair of headphones can provide. In the NCS Audio / Qualiton / Pixel cables room this suddenly changed.
We listened to almost all the systems on the seven floors of the exhibition building. This was the one where we returned for a second round of listening. No matter the type of music we listened to, it had extreme clarity, even in the bass section. We were looking for where the band is hiding, as it sounded like an actual band was there, not just a pair of speakers.
Best of all: this was one of the most affordable systems at the expo, beating many more expensive systems in listening experience.
Audio Expo 2026: NCS Audio / Qualiton / Pixel cables
72 Audio
Last year 72 Audio presented my favorite music experience at the Audio Expo. This year they presented a lot more affordable system. Still, it was one of the best sounding ones. Or, if you ask my partner, it was the best.
- 72 Audio: https://www.72audio.com/
Audio Expo 2026: 72 Audio
Natural Distortion
Their products are still just a prototype, but they definitely sound fantastic. A miniature DAC and amp were driving a pair of huge Popori Acoustics speakers and provided one of the most detailed sound experiences at the expo.
We listened to some church organ music. The pedals sounded a bit weak, but for the rest I felt as if I was sitting in the church and was listening to the performance live. It is very rare that organs sound natural to me from speakers.
- Natural Distortion: https://www.audioexpo.hu/kiallitok/natural-distortion
- Popori Acoustics: https://poporiacoustics.com/
Audio Expo 2026: Natural Distortion
Some negative experiences
While Natural Distortion sounded perfectly natural, systems with room correction sounded completely distorted. One of the demo songs was organ music, and the presenter of the demo explained how all the hard work of DSPs ensures the perfect sound. There was more than enough bass, still the whole thing sounded to me a kind of unbalanced and processed. While listening, I did not have the illusion of sitting in the church at all.
I was looking forward listening to some of most hyped new devices developed here in Hungary. The DAC and active speakers sounded OK, but as the door of the listening room was wide open and fixed in that position, there was no chance to hear the details. Much of the music was lost in the noise coming from outside.
When it comes to music, size does not matter. There were quite a few huge speakers at the event, but most of them were just loud, without providing an enjoyable listening experience. Even my good old speakers at home provide a lot more detail than some of the giants at the event.
Some positive experiences
Talking about oversize speakers. This year the Visegrád room, the largest show room of the building, had a Heed Helikon as amp, and a pair of Zellaton speakers. In earlier years I was always disappointed in this room. Loud and slightly distorted music on a pair of very expensive speakers: not something for an extended listening session. This year the room was full of perfectly sounding music, and I only left because I wanted to visit each and every room before closing time. As an added bonus, we had Lucina Yue on site, talking about her latest album: https://tidal.com/album/450279864
Another setup on my favorites list was put together by Limar Audio. They used a pair of miniature bookshelf speakers from Paradigm, but they could fill the room with beautiful music.
Audio Expo 2026: Limar Audio
I prefer speakers, but as I was with someone preferring headphones, we also listened to some. We saw some odd-looking oversize headphones at a HydraSound stand in the hall. The HEDD headphones sounded fantastic, but obviously listening to an open back headphone in a busy environment is far from optimal. After a while we learned that the stand was actually about cables, the headphones were not for sale :-)
We also visited the MUZIX stand in the basement and listened to several Final Audio headphones. Navigating a Japanese tablet was a kind of a challenge. Luckily I use TIDAL enough to be able to search all different kinds of music for testing. Final Audio excelled with each of them.
Conclusion
Obviously, we did not have a chance to hear all systems with all the different types of music we listen to: everything from classical to metal, jazz, electronica, progrock and even some pop occasionally. So, all experience depended on not just the systems, but also on the music played at the time of visit. Still, I suspect that there would not have been major changes in my review if we had had a chance for more thorough listening.
See you again next year!
Kudos September 2026
Welcome to our monthly report from the openSUSE Kudos recognition platform, where we take a moment to put a spotlight on the people who stepped up, helped others, and made this community a little brighter.
During the month of September 2026, 14 users received 14 kudos, and 152 badges were awarded to 136 contributors. You can see stats for this and previous months.
Spotlight
September spread its thanks evenly, with fourteen people each receiving a kudo: @adrianSuSE, Bernhard Wiedemann (@bmwiedemann), Dominique Leuenberger (@dimstar), Geetansh Goyal (@geetxnshgoyal), @hennevogel, Imobach Gonzalez Sosa (@IGonzalezSosa) and eight more.
Kudos
Here are the thank-you notes themselves: 14 peer-to-peer kudos written by contributors about contributors, grouped by the person being thanked.
From @lkocman in Infrastructure Heroes
“Many thanks for always being around and always willing to help Adrian!”
From @jsegitz in Code & Engineering
“Thank you for your tireless work on reproducible builds!”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Reporting a bug is great, but submitting a fix right out of the gate is next level. Especially if it is for a spicy architecture like s390x. Thank you DimStar!”
From @ddemaio in Documentation and Publishing
“Many thanks for sharing your Google Summer of Code experience on news.o.o. A fantastic & article”
From @akarsh in Code & Engineering
“Thanks for the quick reviews on my first OBS PR”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for making Agama changelog shiny and actually useful Imo!”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for your night watch over os-autoinst-distri-opensuse PRs Jan! You just helped to make Leap 16.1 RC greener in openQA”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for your quick feedback about opensuse-version-diff Gertjan. Your quick eye caught an obvious issue. Many thanks!”
From @ddemaio in Code & Engineering
“Your new #diff code makes openSUSE stronger every day. Especially with people getting immediate facts about the software versions in Leap and Tumbleweed.”
From @lkocman in Support & User Assistance
“Many thanks for all your tireless help with getting Leap 16.1 RC out of the door Yuchen!”
From @kskarthik in Code & Engineering
“thanks a lot for the openSUSE packaging skills! it’s a very valuable assist in packaging chores”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for your awesome help with the Leap 16.1 immutable modes in openQA Santi! I’m super happy that thanks to you we were able to release RC in the same day as it landed in openQA! Many thanks again!”
From @bbreinbauer in Code & Engineering
“Thanks for working on Firefox and Thunderbird!”
@Zaitor received a kudo:
From @dimstar in Code & Engineering
“Thank you very much for all your endless work to make GNOME better for openSUSE. You do tremendous work.”
Badges
Contributors earned 12 different badges in September, and here is an overview of the 8 most awarded ones. The full list of badges you can earn is on the badges page.
100 Tumbleweed Contributions
For submitting 100 Submit Requests to openSUSE:Factory.
Awarded this month to @dimstar, @fstrba, @iznogood, @mcalabkova, @ojkastl_buildservice, @pushman and @StevenK.
10 Tumbleweed Contributions
For submitting 10 Submit Requests to openSUSE:Factory.
34 contributors earned this badge this month, too many to list here, but every one of them counts.
First Tumbleweed Contribution
For submitting 1 Submit Request to openSUSE:Factory.
81 contributors earned this badge this month, too many to list here, but every one of them counts.
Leap 16.0 Contributor
Recognition for submitting at least one pull request to Leap 16.0 or related appliance repositories on src.opensuse.org.
Awarded this month to @abergmann, @dimstar, @jirislaby, @jsmeix, @mschreiner, @rn and @vcarvalho.
Leap 16.1 Contributor
Recognition for submitting at least one pull request to Leap 16.1 or related appliance repositories on src.opensuse.org.
Awarded this month to @abergmann, @alois, @jirislaby, @jsmeix and @vcarvalho.
linuxdays.cz 2026
For supporting LinuxDays.cz 2026.
Awarded this month to @dancermak, @jbaier_cz and @VPetras.
Got First Kudo
Received your first kudos.
Awarded this month to @geetxnshgoyal, @jbaier_cz, @szarate, @wrosenauer and @Zaitor.
First Kudos Given
Shared your first kudos.
Awarded this month to @akarsh, @bbreinbauer, @jsegitz and @kskarthik.
Congrats on your kudos and badges. Keep up the great work everyone, and don’t forget to have a lot of fun!
Generated by kudos-bot-news-o-o from https://kudos.opensuse.org/api/reports/monthly for the period 1-30 September 2026.
September Kudos, Recognition
Welcome to our monthly report from the openSUSE Kudos recognition platform, where we take a moment to put a spotlight on the people who stepped up, helped others, and made this community a little brighter.
During the month of September 2026, 14 users received 14 kudos, and 152 badges were awarded to 136 contributors. You can see stats for this and previous months.
Spotlight
September spread its thanks evenly, with fourteen people each receiving a kudo: @adrianSuSE, Bernhard Wiedemann (@bmwiedemann), Dominique Leuenberger (@dimstar), Geetansh Goyal (@geetxnshgoyal), @hennevogel, Imobach Gonzalez Sosa (@IGonzalezSosa) and eight more.
Kudos
Here are the thank-you notes themselves: 14 peer-to-peer kudos written by contributors about contributors, grouped by the person being thanked.
From @lkocman in Infrastructure Heroes
“Many thanks for always being around and always willing to help Adrian!”
From @jsegitz in Code & Engineering
“Thank you for your tireless work on reproducible builds!”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Reporting a bug is great, but submitting a fix right out of the gate is next level. Especially if it is for a spicy architecture like s390x. Thank you DimStar!”
From @ddemaio in Documentation and Publishing
“Many thanks for sharing your Google Summer of Code experience on news.o.o. A fantastic & article”
From @akarsh in Code & Engineering
“Thanks for the quick reviews on my first OBS PR”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for making Agama changelog shiny and actually useful Imo!”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for your night watch over os-autoinst-distri-opensuse PRs Jan! You just helped to make Leap 16.1 RC greener in openQA”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for your quick feedback about opensuse-version-diff Gertjan. Your quick eye caught an obvious issue. Many thanks!”
From @ddemaio in Code & Engineering
“Your new #diff code makes openSUSE stronger every day. Especially with people getting immediate facts about the software versions in Leap and Tumbleweed.”
From @lkocman in Support & User Assistance
“Many thanks for all your tireless help with getting Leap 16.1 RC out of the door Yuchen!”
From @kskarthik in Code & Engineering
“thanks a lot for the openSUSE packaging skills! it’s a very valuable assist in packaging chores”
From @lkocman in Code & Engineering
“Many thanks for your awesome help with the Leap 16.1 immutable modes in openQA Santi! I’m super happy that thanks to you we were able to release RC in the same day as it landed in openQA! Many thanks again!”
From @bbreinbauer in Code & Engineering
“Thanks for working on Firefox and Thunderbird!”
@Zaitor received a kudo:
From @dimstar in Code & Engineering
“Thank you very much for all your endless work to make GNOME better for openSUSE. You do tremendous work.”
Badges
Contributors earned 12 different badges in September, and here is an overview of the 8 most awarded ones. The full list of badges you can earn is on the badges page.
100 Tumbleweed Contributions
For submitting 100 Submit Requests to openSUSE:Factory.
Awarded this month to @dimstar, @fstrba, @iznogood, @mcalabkova, @ojkastl_buildservice, @pushman and @StevenK.
10 Tumbleweed Contributions
For submitting 10 Submit Requests to openSUSE:Factory.
34 contributors earned this badge this month, too many to list here, but every one of them counts.
First Tumbleweed Contribution
For submitting 1 Submit Request to openSUSE:Factory.
81 contributors earned this badge this month, too many to list here, but every one of them counts.
Leap 16.0 Contributor
Recognition for submitting at least one pull request to Leap 16.0 or related appliance repositories on src.opensuse.org.
Awarded this month to @abergmann, @dimstar, @jirislaby, @jsmeix, @mschreiner, @rn and @vcarvalho.
Leap 16.1 Contributor
Recognition for submitting at least one pull request to Leap 16.1 or related appliance repositories on src.opensuse.org.
Awarded this month to @abergmann, @alois, @jirislaby, @jsmeix and @vcarvalho.
linuxdays.cz 2026
For supporting LinuxDays.cz 2026.
Awarded this month to @dancermak, @jbaier_cz and @VPetras.
Got First Kudo
Received your first kudos.
Awarded this month to @geetxnshgoyal, @jbaier_cz, @szarate, @wrosenauer and @Zaitor.
First Kudos Given
Shared your first kudos.
Awarded this month to @akarsh, @bbreinbauer, @jsegitz and @kskarthik.
Congrats on your kudos and badges. Keep up the great work everyone, and don’t forget to have a lot of fun!
Generated by kudos-bot-news-o-o from https://kudos.opensuse.org/api/reports/monthly for the period 1-30 September 2026.
Linux Saloon 224 | Open Mic Night
Sobre GenAI LLMs y Knowledge workers
Eres un Knowledge Worker o trabajas en tecnología y tienes dudas sobre el futuro con todo esto de las LLM, agentes y demas?… aca dejo unos pensamientos que tengo desde hace rato, pero hoy como que les pude dar forma gracias a una pequeña encuesta en un grupo de Programadores de Venezuela en Telegram.
Pero antes de continuar, Don’t Panic!
La encuesta en cuestión tiene las siguientes opciones:
El futuro sigue estando en los humanos?
- 🔘 El futuro es humano, la IA llegará a un techo que nos dará años donde todo seguirá igual
- 🔘 Las áreas del conocimiento solo serán de top 10% humanos más inteligentes y la IA
- 🔘 Los humanos no tendrán oportunidad, vamos a una época donde las armas y la juventud son el valor
- 🔘 El futuro solo estará en los bienes y valores finitos, también el como validamos esos valores
Y llevo bastante tiempo regresando aveces a la misma analogía que escuche en un podcast de Thoughtworks1 y quise expandir un poco mas (y se termino convirtiendo en algo bastante largo… because, well… brain):
Porque en 1970, los contadores dedicaban la mayor parte de su tiempo a recalcular manualmente hojas de cálculo en papel. Luego llegó la hoja de cálculo electrónica. Y supuso un cambio radical para ellos. Y no los convirtió en mejores contadores. Simplemente eliminó gran parte del trabajo tedioso.
Y aquí es donde yo pienso que de la misma forma que usamos un compilador, un analizador de código estático, linter, hojas de calculo, traductores (google translate), motores de búsqueda e incluso ML y otras cosas del conglomerado de AI, utilizar GPTs y otros tipos de modelos para el trabajo del día a día…
Aquí la comparación que yo hago es a la introducción del brazo robótico en fabricas o la invención de la central telefónica automatizada…
Los contadores siguen usando hojas de calculo y calculadora, solo que ahora todos sabemos usar una hoja de calculo en mayor o menor medida…
En las fabricas y almacenes siguen teniendo humanos en diferentes partes de sus procesos y la automatización ayuda a ensamblado de partes, soldar componentes, etc… y hoy por hoy tenemos en muchos lugares escaleras mecánicas, puertas automáticas con sensores y hasta juguetes para lanzar un NERF al que rompió producción (si trabajas en oficina claro) o incluso cosas como impresoras 3d o CNC de sobremesa, o servicios como JLCPCB
El oficio de telefonista cambio, y ahora hay recepcionistas, operadores de servicio de atención al cliente (call centers), etc… y ahora aveces hasta hay un chatbot o operador automata antes de que puedas hablar con un humano
Todas estas eran trabajo manual que se hacia que requería una parte física para poder realizarse o era knowledge work que no se podia automatizar porque la tecnología no existía…
Y ahora es que la automatización esta tocando al area de desarrollo de software de una forma muy dramática y a velocidad vertiginosa…
Entonces de la misma forma que ahora tu como ingeniero de software puedes tener tu propia hoja de calculo para llevar tus impuestos y finanzas personales (i.e yo), o una impresora 3d para prototipar esas partes que necesitas para algo que se rompió o ajustar algo (i.e mejorar el flujo de aire en tu computador)… pues ahora $fulanito podría sentarse por su cuenta o con alguien mas a resolver el problema que tiene…
O como mucho ya pasa: Alguien usa un LLM para generar thumbnails de videos o imágenes desde su teléfono, en lugar de contratar a un diseñador grafico o Alguien decide que puede hacer que su idea se haga realidad y se vibecodea algo desde cero…
Al final, citando a phenobarbital (en el 2023!):
entonces, hay un bojote de Juniors copy&paste que solo aprendieron haciendo cursos de $plataforma sin mucho ánimo de gastar 3 neuronas en análisis la informática y la creación de sistemas tiene mucho de arte y análisis y menos de monkey-coders y tira-flechas
Y nuevamente en el 2026:
foursixnine: Si no pueden sentarse en una entrevista tecnica, sin usar AI… nunca fueron seniors para empezar?… No digo que deban saber echar codigo en $lenguaje de memoria, pero los basics deberian estar alli.
phenobarbital: _en efecto, vamos a ponernos filosóficos:
hay una escena en “Los pilares de la tierra” de Follet, dónde el arzobispo de Kingsbridge le dice a Tom Builder (el hombre que está construyendo la catedral), vieron como un obrero estaba haciendo mala mezcla pero él (tom) estaba muy ocupado poniendo bloques_
phenobarbital: que muy chévere que te guste echar ladrillo y bloques, pero ahora eres maestro constructor, o supervisas a tus empleados o tiras bloques
phenobarbital: no puedes dirigir y batir cemento
phenobarbital: y llega un punto en tu vida en que decides, batir cemento o dirigir obrero…
phenobarbital: si “usar la IA” para algunos es “pedirle que tire bloques sin saber cómo se hace el tramado o con qué densidad se bate la mezcla”
phenobarbital: no eres un senior, eres un monkey coder que reemplazó las manos para lanzar código por otro artilugio que también lanza código y que igual, tampoco entiendes
En fin, don’t panic!.
Como lectura recomendada: La pagina de Automatizacion de wikipedia y la de Inteligencia artificial (en ingles)
Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/42
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week saw the release of 7 snapshots (1008, 1009, 1010, 1011, 1012, 1013, and 1014).
It has been an intensely busy week for Tumbleweed, clearing out several major items from our outlook. High on the list, libvirt 12.8.0 arrived in snapshot 1009, joined by python-setuptools 84.0.0 once the build issue in gobject-introspection was ironed out. In addition, the long-standing libnettle 4.0 transition has finally made its way into the published repository after weeks of anticipation.
Desktop environments and foundational libraries also saw substantial deliveries. KDE users received the latest monthly maintenance release with KDE Gear 26.08.2 spanning snapshots 1010 and 1011, alongside KDE Frameworks 6.31.0. The web and graphical stacks gained Mozilla Firefox 157.0.1, WebKitGTK 2.54.1, HarfBuzz 14.6.0, and GStreamer 1.28.8, while GNOME’s file manager stepped up to Nautilus 50.4. Under the hood, Linux Kernel rolled out version 7.2.10 in snapshot 1014, flanked by Grub2 2.16, OpenSSH 10.6p1, Git 2.56.0, and QEMU 11.1.2.
As always with a rapid cadence, a couple of items required quick interventions. A patch added to mutter in snapshot 1008 aimed at improving Wayland selection serials for Emacs ended up breaking clipboard copy and paste in Firefox and other tools, prompting an immediate revert in snapshot 1013 (boo#1284143). In a similar vein, ktextaddons 2.2.0 required a prompt follow-up patch to mend an unexpected ABI break affecting mail and text components. Meanwhile, cups-filters received further hardening in snapshot 1009 to ensure its serial backend no longer runs with root permissions.
These 7 snapshots delivered the following updates:
- expat 2.9.0
- FreeIPMI 1.6.20
- git 2.56.0
- glib2 2.88.4
- gpg2 2.5.24
- grub2 2.16
- gstreamer 1.28.8
- harfbuzz 14.6.0
- ImageMagick 7.1.2.32
- KDE Frameworks 6.31.0
- KDE Gear 26.08.2
- libbpf 1.8.0
- libvirt 12.8.0
- libvpx 1.17.0
- Linux Kernel 7.2.10
- llvm 23.1.3
- MozillaFirefox 157.0.1
- nautilus 50.4
- OpenSSH 10.6p1
- Python 3.13.16
- python-setuptools 84.0.0
- qemu 11.1.2
- util-linux 2.42.4
- webkitgtk4 2.54.1
- Xen 4.22.0_06
With these updates successfully rolled out, it is time to turn our gaze forward and see what the staging areas are cooking up for the near future:
- KDE Plasma 6.8.0
- Linux Kernel 7.2.11
- Mesa 26.2.5
- Ollama 0.40.5
- Qt 6.12.0: Staging builds are currently working through fallout in python-PyQt6 and python-matplotlib.
- fmt 12.2.0
- containerd 2.3.3: Upgrading from 1.7.x remains held back due to regressions in open-vm-tools, tracked under boo#1284086.
- kernel-source-longterm 6.18.55: Waiting on VirtualBox driver updates to adapt to kernel API changes.
- Swig 4.5.0: YaST integration issues remain under investigation, tracked under boo#1275515.