Planet News Roundup
This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org.
The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from July 31 to August 6. This week highlights the winner of the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 logo competition ahead of the October summit in Yogyakarta, and Tumbleweed reached a major milestone with GCC 16 becoming the default system compiler. On the KDE side, Plasma 6.7.4 arrived as the fourth bugfix release, work moved forward on making KIO dramatically faster at copying small files, and the Call for Papers opened for Akademy-es 2026 in Madrid.
Here is a summary and links for each post:
3 Native Platformer Games for Linux
The KDE Blog continues its series on native Linux games with three platformers highlighted by the Planeta Tecno channel. The picks are Cow’s Revenge, a comedic run about a genetically enhanced cow taking revenge on butchers, Cave Story, an RPG-flavoured classic of the genre, and Frogatto & Friends, praised for its polished art and quest-driven story.
Submit Your Talk to Akademy-es 2026 in Madrid
The KDE Blog announces that the Call for Papers is open for Akademy-es 2026, held Oct. 23–25 at Camping Arco Iris in Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid. The venue was chosen deliberately to emphasise the community side of KDE, marking both KDE’s 30th and Akademy-es’s 20th anniversary. Proposals for 45-minute talks or 10-minute lightning talks are accepted until September 3 at akademy-es-org@kde-espana.org.
openSUSE Asia Summit 2026 Logo Competition Winner Announced
openSUSE News reveals that A. Thalida won the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 logo competition. The design becomes the official visual identity of this year’s conference. Nine entries arrived from contributors across several countries. The winner was chosen by a vote of the openSUSE.Asia Committee and the local organising team. The summit takes place Oct. 3–4, 2026 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Fourth Plasma 6.7 Update
The KDE Blog covers the fourth bugfix release of Plasma 6.7. The post also recaps the headline features of the 6.7 series, including per-screen virtual desktops, a microphone volume test, and a quick light/dark theme switcher.
KDE Will Be Faster at Copying Small Files
The KDE Blog reports on Méven Car’s work fixing a long-standing KIO slowdown when copying thousands of small files. The bug was first filed back in 2014. The fix replaces the socket pair still used between KIO workers and applications with a zero-copy in-memory transport, and cuts redundant filesystem checks on the destination.
Free Software Foundation Newsletter Roundup – August 2026
Victorhck translates and summaries the FSF’s monthly supporter bulletin for August. Highlights include a call to oppose the GUARD Act and age-verification laws that could make anonymous use of machine learning tools impossible, and news that the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has moved around 5,000 employees to Nextcloud.
Geeko Magazine 2026 Summer Edition Announced
The Geeko Blog of the Japanese openSUSE user group announces the Summer 2026 special edition. Articles cover upgrading to Leap 16.0, making Samba servers browsable, terminal-based Linux desktops with bcon, KDE Plasma, and building with the Open Build Service.
This July in KDE Linux
The KDE Blog has a July report that highlights the community’s immutable “OS of the future”. New this month is an integrated QA system that catches critical performance and login regressions before they reach users, alongside kernel security tweaks, faster boot from trimmed modules, and on-demand CUPS.
Emoji Resizing – This Week in Plasma
The KDE Blog looks at Plasma 6.8 and the ability to make emojis in the picker larger or smaller. Other changes include pixel-by-pixel screen positioning with arrow keys in Display Configuration, QR code detection in Spectacle, and a modernised system tray widget.
Linux Saloon 213 | News Flight Night
CubicleNate recaps a wide-ranging community episode of Linux Saloon covering VPN usage and how people manage user accounts on their machines. News topics included Arch Linux disabling AUR package adoption as a countermeasure against malware and upcoming features in Ubuntu 26.10.
How Extremadura Changed Free Software Forever – Episode 2 of “La era de las distros”
The KDE Blog promotes the second episode of Lorenzo Carbonell’s podcast on Spain’s regional educational distributions, this time telling the story of LinEx. Guest Jesús Rubio, joined by Jesús González Barahona, explains how a largely rural region took on Microsoft in the early 2000s and turned technological sovereignty into something actually installed on thousands of machines.
openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of Week 31
Victorhck and Dominique Leuenberger report on the five snapshots released this week, headlined by GCC 16 landing as Tumbleweed’s new default system compiler in snapshot 0726. The full-repository rebuild made that snapshot exceptionally large, and linux-glibc-devel 7.1 followed in 0728 alongside the return of multipath-tools 0.15~1 after last week’s revert.
My Plasma Desktop for July 2026 #viernesdeescritorio
The KDE Blog shares the 74th installment of its monthly desktop showcase. This time on a new Slimbook Evo ultrabook running KDE Neon with Plasma 6.7.3 on Wayland. The vertical left-hand panel holds a digital clock, virtual desktop switcher, icons-only task manager, system tray, desktop view and application launcher.
Creating the Ultimate Vertical Monitor Workspace
CubicleNate chronicles a home office upgrade that began with a six-monitor rig built from inadequate screens. An LG DualUP monitor proved a step forward, which led to settling on a dual INNOCN display setup aimed at maximising productivity. Despite some connection trouble and mismatched pixel density, the new vertical layout markedly improved both usability and desk efficiency.
Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-07-31)
The Open Build Service team publishes its weekly roundup of small fixes, minor features and new external contributions. Shipped items include de-grouping when filter_search_text sits on top of filter_labels, fixed overlapping labels on image template radio buttons, clearer visual cues that attributes are expandable, and rejection of release targets pointing back at the same repository.
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Measuring binary function coverage of openSUSE integration test
Let’s be clear about what this is and what it isn’t.
A typical openSUSE Tumbleweed installation has roughly 2,600 ELF executables in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin (more or fewer depending on the installation pattern). Our test repository has 2,343 test modules. We measure coverage on 141 of those binaries using 98 of those test modules. That’s a fraction of the whole picture and we’re not claiming this is the total test coverage of the distribution.
Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/32
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week saw the release of 5 snapshots (0731, 0802, 0803, 0804, and 0805).
A couple of long-standing hurdles in our staging projects have finally been cleared. Highlighting these deliveries is the official arrival of Podman 6.0.0 in snapshot 0802, bringing a major stack update that defaults rootless networking to pasta and removes legacy components like cgroups v1, slirp4netns, and CNI support. Hand-in-hand with toolchain progress, python-Sphinx 9.1.0 also successfully landed in snapshot 0802, resolving the python311 and python312 documentation build issues that had previously held it back.
Additionally, shadow 4.20.0 has landed with significant changes. In this version, several deprecated features have been removed entirely, including the PASS_MIN_DAYS setting and the associated -m or --mindays flags in chage and passwd, which are considered security vulnerabilities. As a result, scripts relying on these flags will now intentionally fail, so users and administrators should review their automated user management workflows.
In desktop environment updates, Plasma 6 Workspace has transitioned to defaulting SDDM to the Plasma Wayland session, no longer recommending the X11 session. Additionally, both Breeze6 and Plasma 6 integration have split their legacy Qt 5 components into separate optional packages.
This week also addressed multiple security issues across core system libraries. Highlights include libssh2_org incorporating fixes for several CVEs (including heap overflows and double-frees) and libvirt 12.6.0 resolving multiple vulnerabilities along with a virsh crash fix.
These 5 snapshots delivered the following updates:
- apparmor 5.0.2
- aws-lc 5.4.0
- glib2 2.88.3
- hwdata 0.410
- ImageMagick 7.1.2.29
- libvirt 12.6.0
- Linux Kernel 7.1.6
- Mesa 26.1.6
- Mozilla Firefox 153.0.3
- nano 9.2
- nghttp2 1.70.0
- PHP 8.5.9
- Podman 6.0.0
- python-Sphinx 9.1.0
- qemu 11.0.3
- Samba 4.24.5
- SDL3 3.4.14
- shadow 4.20.0
- unbound 1.26.0
- Xen 4.22.0
As we look to the horizon, the staging areas are dominated by one particularly massive system transition, alongside several notable packages currently undergoing integration testing.
- glibc 2.44: The transition is progressing well in its staging area with only four build failures observed so far, which are tracked under boo#1273584.
- KDE Plasma 6.7.4
- LibreOffice 20.2.5.2
- Linux Kernel 7.1.7
- Swig 4.5.0
- libnettle 4.0.0: Currently breaking libzypp’s test suite.
- icewm 4.0: Undergoing testing, but currently experiencing redraw issues in combination with the YaST installer.
Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-08-07)
openSUSE Asia Summit 2026 Logo Competition Winner Announced
The votes are in! The openSUSE Asia Summit Committee is pleased to announce that **A. Thalida has been selected as the winner of the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Logo Competition.
Congratulations, A. Thalida! 🎉
The winning logo will become the official visual identity of openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026, representing this year’s conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. As the winner, A. Thalida will receive a special appreciation gift from the organizing committee.
This year, we received nine logo submissions from contributors across several countries. The quality and creativity of all the entries made the selection process both exciting and challenging. The final decision was made through a voting process involving the openSUSE.Asia Committee and the local organizing team.
We would like to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s competition:
- Haruo Yoshino - Japan
- Lubos Kocman - Czechia
- Subhasis Chakraborty - India
- Edmon Fuerte - Philippines
- Rhesa Prawedha - Indonesia
- Melchias Ari Setiadji - Indonesia
- Raden Neomy Lusie Ratna Deseina Budy Putri - Indonesia
- A. Thalida
Your creativity, passion, and support continue to strengthen the openSUSE community, and we truly appreciate every submission.
Finally, thank you to everyone who participated in the voting process. We look forward to welcoming you to openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026, taking place on 3–4 October 2026 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. See you there!
Linux Saloon 213 | News Flight Night
Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/31
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week saw the release of 5 snapshots (0723, 0724, 0726, 0728, and 0729).
A major milestone was reached as GCC 16 has officially landed as Tumbleweed’s new default system compiler in snapshot 0726. Because this transition required rebuilding the entire repository to benefit from the new compiler optimizations, snapshot 0726 was exceptionally large. Along with this compiler shift, the linux-glibc-devel 7.1 headers successfully made their way to users in snapshot 0728.
Additionally, we saw the return of multipath-tools 0.15~1 in snapshot 0726 after its brief “yo-yo” revert last week.
These 5 snapshots delivered the following updates:
- GCC 16 as the default system compiler
- linux-glibc-devel 7.1
- Mozilla Firefox 153.0
- systemd 261.2
- OpenSSH 10.4p1
- multipath-tools 0.15~1
- ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs 2026.7.7
- btrfsprogs 7.1
- python-numpy 2.4.6
- java-25-openjdk 25.0.4.0
- AppStream 1.1.5
- freerdp 3.30.0
- bind 9.20.26
- cryptsetup 2.8.7
- virtualbox 7.2.14
- wicked 0.6.80
- util-linux 2.42.2
- fwupd 2.1.7
- libostree 2026.2
- rpmlint: enforce whitelisting for capabilities in SUIDPermissionsCheck via bugreports
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.
- Podman 6.0.0: Undergoing integration and sync testing with buildah and skopeo.
- Linux Kernel 7.1.5
- Mozilla Firefox 153.0.1
- Samba 4.24.5
- PHP 8.5.9
- python-Sphinx 9.1.0: This update is currently breaking python311:doc and python312:doc.
- glibc 2.44