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Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

This week was another busy and productive cycle, seeing the publication of 6 snapshots (0917, 0918, 0919, 0921, 0922, and 0923) to keep your rolling distributions completely fresh.

Leading the charge on the desktop side, web browsing received a welcome boost with the arrival of Mozilla Firefox 156.0, while GNOME users were treated to nice polish with point updates to GNOME Shell 50.5, Mutter 50.5, and Libadwaita 1.9.4. Under the hood, Linux Kernel 7.2.6, Mesa 26.2.3, and PipeWire 1.6.9 kept the core hardware, graphics, and multimedia foundations moving along smoothly.

Alongside the big-name releases, package maintainers have kept the updates flowing steadily to keep the distribution secure and robust, with welcome updates arriving for AppStream 1.2.0, PackageKit 1.4.0, util-linux, and Python 3.13.

These 6 snapshots delivered the following updates:

• AppStream 1.2.0
• bluez 5.87
• cppcheck 2.22.0
• cryptsetup 2.8.8
• feh 3.13.1
• freerdp 3.31.1
• glslang 16.6.0
• gnome-shell 50.5
• gzip 1.15
• harfbuzz 14.5.0
• hplip 3.26.6
• ImageMagick 7.1.2.31
• jemalloc 5.4.0
• kdump 2.1.10
• libadwaita 1.9.4
• libgsf 1.14.59
• libheif 1.23.5
• libinput 1.32
• libsolv 0.7.40
• libsrtp2 2.8.1
• libstorage-ng 4.5.354
• libupnp 22.1.2
• libzio 1.17
• libzypp 17.38.16
• lightdm 1.33.1
• lightdm-gtk-greeter 2.0.9
• Linux Kernel 7.2.6
• Mesa 26.2.3
• mozilla-nss 3.128
• MozillaFirefox 156.0
• mutter 50.5
• ncurses 6.6.20260919
• nvme-cli 3.1
• p11-kit 0.26.5
• PackageKit 1.4.0
• perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS 4.520.0
• perl-GD 2.910.0
• pipewire 1.6.9
• pulseaudio-qt6 1.9.0
• Python 3.13.15
• python-greenlet 3.5.6
• python-tornado6 6.5.10
• rsync 3.5.1
• shaderc 2026.4
• snappy 1.3.0
• suitesparse 7.14.1
• thin-provisioning-tools 1.3.4
• util-linux 2.42.3
• VirtualBox 7.2.18
• xscreensaver 6.16
• xwaylandvideobridge 0.5.3
• xxhash 0.8.4

Looking beyond these releases, here is what is currently working its way through staging:

• Linux Kernel: Both 7.2.7 and 7.2.8 updates are on their way, with 7.2.7 already lined up and 7.2.8 progressing through staging.
• KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta: Currently being tested, working through build and installcheck hurdles.
• expat: Blocked by build failures in perl-XML-Twig.
• systemd: Currently blocked on a security review of its D-Bus services.
• Swig 4.5.0: YaST integration issues remain under investigation, with yast2-network, yast2-nfs-client, and yast2-storage-ng currently failing builds.
• fontconfig 2.18.3: Still held up as it breaks the AppStream test suite.
• libnettle 4.0.0: Remains explicitly excluded from main staging runs while developers work on resolving test suite breakages in libzypp.

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 Sept. 18 - 24.

This week highlights Xiaomi’s MiMo V2.6 AI family, a brightness-flickering fix for VRR on Plasma, two guides to building Flatpaks locally with Foundry, the history of Madrid’s MAX classroom distribution, AkademyES 2026’s 30/20 anniversary gathering and KDE’s Marknote notebook, a sleep-mode fix for openSUSE Leap, the Flip Clock plasmoid, a weeklybeats track and more.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

Leap Heads Into Release Candidate Phase

The openSUSE News blog covers openSUSE Leap 16.1 nearing its Release Candidate stage. The release brings major package updates, including KDE Plasma 6.6.4, QEMU 11, MariaDB 12, and PHP 8.5, and the team is asking testers to help find any remaining issues.

Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 released

The KDE Blog covers the releases of the second beta of Plasma 6.8. It points out the improved GTK4 window decorations, a redesigned Flatpak permissions page, and Discover enhancements. This release also continues the public technical preview of the Union theming system.

Xiaomi MiMo V2.6: Xiaomi Fully Enters the Race for Open AI Models

Alessandro’s blog introduces Xiaomi’s MiMo V2.6 family, headlined by the trillion-parameter MoE-based MiMo-V2.6-Pro with a 1-million-token window and native text, image, video and audio support. The post details the 42-billion-active-parameter architecture, large-scale reinforcement learning and aggressive API pricing, and notes MIT-licensed weights and RL infrastructure released for the community.

KDE Express Episode 76: Brightness Flickering with VRR Adaptive Sync

The KDE Blog presents episode 76 of KDE Express, where David Marzal shares a personal fix for brightness flickering with VRR, HDR and adaptive brightness on Plasma. The episode traces the issue to bug 477016 on an AMD RX 580 over DisplayPort and asks listeners with VRR monitors for feedback.

Building Flatpaks Locally, Part 2

Jakub Steiner follows up his flatpak-builder guide with a simpler path on GNOME OS using the developer sysext. With foundry init && foundry build he shows how projects can be built locally without the manual builder setup.

Windows or Linux? The Digital Sovereignty Dilemma in Madrid’s Classrooms – Episode 6 of the Podcast “The Era of the Distros”

The KDE Blog highlights episode 6 of “La era de las distros,” which explores Madrid’s MAX distribution for schools and Spain’s early-2000s free-software classroom push. Host Lorenzo Carbonell is joined by Jose Quirino Vargas Ibáñez, Ismail Ali and Jesús González-Barahona to discuss digital sovereignty beyond license costs.

Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-09-18)

The Open Build Service blog welcomes new contributor wineee and notes a fix to avoid crashing on build logs for scmsync-related packages. The short update is part of the service’s regular end-of-week roundup for packagers.

AkademyES 2026: The Most Social Gathering of #KDE Spain and Free Software Supporters

Victorhck announces AkademyES 2026, set for October 23-25 at Camping Arco Iris in the Madrid mountains to mark KDE’s 30th and KDE España’s 20th anniversaries. The post outlines lodging, mandatory registration and a call for talks for the community-focused camping event.

KDE’s Markdown Notebook, Marknote

The KDE Blog introduces Marknote, KDE’s Markdown notebook for organizing notes in local .md files under Documents. It covers notebooks with icons and accent colors, rich-text and source editing, wiki-style links, a KRunner plugin and import from KNotes and maildir.

Sleep Mode in openSUSE

Alexander Tolstoy details an intermittent resume-from-suspend hang on openSUSE Leap on an Intel 9th-gen system without NVIDIA, which never appeared on Fedora. After ruling out the kernel, he resolved it by disabling and masking power-profiles-daemon and enabling tuned instead.

The Classic HTC Clock on Your Desktop, Flip Clock – Plasmoids for Plasma 6 (40)

The KDE Blog presents Flip Clock, the 40th entry in its Plasma 6 plasmoids series, which brings the HTC Sense flip-card clock to the desktop. The widget shows hours and minutes on animated flaps with optional date, weather, 12/24-hour and animation settings, requiring Plasma 6.7 or newer.

Stolen!

Jakub Steiner shares his weeklybeats track “Stolen!”, sampling the AI-industry debate with extra polish time on the Dirtywave M8. He describes mimicking an Analog Four filter and volume pulse technique using the M8’s four LFOs and modulator routing.

Bonsai 2 27B: A New Metric for Artificial Intelligence

Alessandro’s blog introduces PrismML’s Bonsai 2 27B, a ternary-compressed build of Qwen3.8-27B that shrinks a 54 GB FP16 model to about 5.9 GB while retaining 98.2% performance. The post explains Hadamard rotation, GGUF and MLX variants, up to 262K context and the need for a custom llama.cpp fork.

Linux Saloon 220 | Early Edition

Nathan Wolf posts the Early Edition of Linux Saloon 220, reflecting on a theater outing to the 1986 Transformers movie, browser use in 2026 and mobile trends. The episode also notes retro hardware, GOG’s big-box revival and an upcoming open mic night.

Let the Polishing Begin – This Week in Plasma

The KDE Blog translates Nate Graham’s “This Week in Plasma” report, which focuses on polishing Plasma 6.8 ahead of release. With only four open regressions, it lists UI tweaks for Wi-Fi and KWin Overview, Kup backup timing improvements and fixes across Plasma 6.6.7 through 6.9.

Tumbleweed – Review of the Week 2026/38

Dominique Leuenberger and Victorhck review six Tumbleweed snapshots (0910, 0911, 0912, 0914, 0915 and 0916), headlined by Plasma 6.7.5, Frameworks 6.30 and Gear 26.08.1 followed by security updates for glibc, cups and xz. The roundup also notes Mesa’s Rockchip and Teflon additions, OpenCV’s JPEG XL/AVIF support and kernel 7.2.5.

Krita 5.3.4 and Krita 6.0.4 Released

The KDE Blog notes the simultaneous releases of Krita 5.3.4 and 6.0.4, bringing bug fixes across the digital painting suite and video export on Android. The update also drops the unmaintained GIMP XCF import plugin for security reasons.

Building Flatpaks Locally

Jakub Steiner explains building Flatpaks locally with flatpak-builder distributed as a Flathub Flatpak_org.flatpak.Builder. He walks through installing the builder and building the GNOME icon tool Shaper with flatpak-builder --user --install.

View more blogs or learn to publish your own on planet.opensuse.org.

The openSUSE Release Team says openSUSE Leap 16.1 is close to its Release Candidate (RC) stage, with general availability planned for November.

Leap Release Manager Luboš Kocman told the openSUSE project mailing list that the next build was expected to qualify as the RC. He said it should reach openQA, which is openSUSE’s automated testing system soon.

Kocman said recent changes merged into SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 16.1 had caused an additional delay.

The RC build is expect to arrive this week.

Testers can help by grabbing the latest image from get.opensuse.org/testing, picking a test from the Leap 16.1 manual test plan (high-priority and untried tests help most), and recording their result with their openSUSE username and build number; participants will receive an openSUSE Kudos badge as a thank-you.

The official roadmap had the RC build set for Sept. 16. The build is now running about a week behind that date.

The team plans to produce about one build per week during the RC phase to find and fix any remaining release blockers.

The release team says testing matters most at this stage. Users and contributors can help by:

• Running their usual workflows on the RC builds and reporting critical issues to openSUSE Bugzilla.
• Checking the non-blocking bug list for items assigned to them.

Saved bug queries and known issues are on the openSUSE Known Bugs 16.1 wiki page, and the full schedule is on the openSUSE Roadmap.

Leap 16.1 and SLES 16.1 will launch on the same day because of feedback from the Leap 16.0 release retrospective. Shipping together means Leap users won’t face a gap between the release and the first maintenance updates. Those updates arrive with the SLES 16.1 GA and flow directly to Leap.

What’s New: Notable Package Updates

Leap 16.1 brings a range of desktop, developer, and server updates compared with Leap 16.0:

Package	Leap 16.0	Leap 16.1
KDE Plasma	6.4.2	6.6.4
KDE Frameworks	6.16.0	6.25.0
Qt	6.9.1	6.11.0
GNOME Shell	48.4	48.8
LibreOffice	25.2.5	26.2.5
PipeWire	1.4.6	1.6.8
NetworkManager	1.52.0	1.54.3
GRUB	2.12	2.14
QEMU	10.0.13	11.0.3
Podman	5.4.2	5.8.2
LLVM	19	21
PHP	8.4.24	8.5.8
MariaDB	11.8.8	12.3.2
Samba	4.22.11	4.23.10
Git	2.51.0	2.53.0

KDE users get the biggest jump: two Plasma feature releases and nine Frameworks releases, built on a newer Qt 6.11. On the server and virtualization side, QEMU moves to a new major version, MariaDB jumps to the 12 series, and PHP moves to 8.5.

There are currently no known release blockers.

The original announcement and follow-up are in the openSUSE project mailing list thread.

Some of you mentioned the flatpak-builder approach is way too complicated. Indeed it is.

All you need to do with the developer sysext on GNOME OS is to:

foundry init && foundry build

Been building projects left and right today and it's rad.

🙇‍♀️ New Contributors The most important thing in Free Software, new people! We had a 1 new contributor to OBS this week! 🚀 Please give a warm welcome to wineee who got their first commit merged. May it be followed by many more. Thank you so much! 💐 🚢 Shipped this week Fixed issues, small features, security updates, minor releases, new external contributors… Avoid crashing on build log when the package is scmsync related -...

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 to sink into polishing an actual full track on the Dirtywave M8. Built around the bassline where I've mimicked the approach used on the Analog 4 of fading in a modulated filter and volume pulse over time using slight different tools (the M8 has 4 LFOs and ability to modulate a modulator).

The post discusses various topics including a visit to the theater to watch the 1986 Transformers movie, web browser usage in 2026, and excitement around mobile technology. It also highlights retro hardware, a revival of "big box" PC games by GOG, and upcoming events such as an open mic night for community engagement.

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

This week saw the release of 6 snapshots (0910, 0911, 0912, 0914, 0915, and 0916).

The star of this week’s show was undoubtedly KDE, which delivered a stellar triple-header across consecutive releases: KDE Plasma 6.7.5 landed in snapshot 0910, KDE Frameworks 6.30 followed in 0911, and KDE Gear 26.08.1 completed the desktop suite’s major updates in 0912. Beyond the graphical interface, core system integrity was a major focus. Snapshot 0915 brought a crucial security-hardening round, delivering backported glibc CVE fixes alongside security updates for cups, alsa, and gvfs. Snapshot 0916 followed up with further CVE mitigations in freeipmi, 7zip, and xz (fixing a critical invalid memory access bug in the lzma decoders).

Under the hood, snapshot 0915 brought exciting architectural enhancements to Mesa, including enabling the ‘rocket’ Gallium driver for Rockchip NPUs on AArch64 and shipping the ‘Teflon’ TensorFlow Lite delegate in a new subpackage. OpenCV also expanded its media capabilities, enabling native support for both JPEG XL and AVIF, while the Linux Kernel progressed to version 7.2.5 in snapshot 0914.

These 6 snapshots delivered the following updates:

• 389-ds 3.3.1+8c2711bd6
• 7zip 26.03
• bash-completion 2.17.0
• container-selinux 2.251.0
• freeipmi 1.6.19
• fuse3 3.18.3
• gimp 3.2.6
• gnome-maps 50.5
• gnome-software 50.4
• gstreamer 1.28.7
• gtk4 4.22.5
• gvfs 1.60.3
• kbd 2.10.0
• KDE Frameworks 6.30
• KDE Gear 26.08.1
• KDE Plasma 6.7.5
• libgcrypt 1.12.4
• libpcap 1.10.7
• libstorage-ng 4.5.352 & 4.5.353
• Linux Kernel 7.2.5
• llvm23 23.1.1
• openblas 0.3.34
• poppler 26.09.0
• postfix 3.11.7
• python-pip 26.2.1
• selinux-policy 20260910 & 20260914
• shotwell 33.0
• simdutf 9.1.2
• timezone 2026d
• xz 5.8.4
• yast2-python-bindings 5.0.3
• yast2-samba-client 5.0.5
• zchunk 1.5.4

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:

• Swig 4.5.0: Progress is being made with compatibility updates applied to other packages, such as yast2-python-bindings, but integration issues remain tracked under boo#1275515.
• fontconfig 2.18.3: Still held up as it breaks the AppStream test suite.
• libnettle 4.0.0: Remains explicitly excluded from main staging runs while developers work on resolving test suite breakages in libzypp.