ZUPT, an open source backup, compression, and data protection utility, has officially been accepted into openSUSE Factory, bringing a new security-focused backup option to the openSUSE ecosystem. The project combines backup creation, compression, integrity verification, and encryption in a single tool, allowing users to package files and directories into compact...
There were several software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed during the month of September and with openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 about to begin, we are bringing the monthly review to you early. September delivered a stacked month of snapshots across the desktop, developer tooling, and security surface. KDE Plasma 6.7.5 landed...
The openSUSE Kudos recognition platform has a new feature: teams. You can now thank a whole team at once, see who is part of which team, and join or start a team yourself. Why teams Peer-to-peer recognition is at the heart of Kudos, and it works well when the work...
The wait is almost over! 🎉 The openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 will begin on Oct. 3-4 at UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta. On behalf of the organizing committee, we would like to warmly welcome everyone to Yogyakarta and to this year’s Summit. We hope you enjoy the talks, workshops, discussions, and all...
The openSUSE.Asia Summit Organizing Committee has extended the deadline for the Call for Host to submit proposals for the 2027 Summit. Communities now have until 30 November, 2026 to apply. The extension comes in response to requests from local communities seeking more time to prepare their proposals. This is a...
Entering RC Phase openSUSE Leap 16.1 has entered the Release Candidate phase. Release Candidate images can be found at get.opensuse.org. We know that people really start testing a new release with the RC, so this is the right time to grab an image and give it a try. Users can...
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...
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,...
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. 11 - 17. This week highlights the release of Agama 24 with a two-for-one announcement covering versions 23 and 24, the beta release of Plasma...
There were a few software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM this month with snapshots reaching the ARM port. September’s snapshots of the ARM port carried the Linux kernel to a security-heavy 7.2.5. There was a jump to glibc 2.44 with its large AArch64 push, and QEMU reaching 11.1.1. Raspberry...
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 August 2026, 17 users received 24 kudos, and 419 badges were...
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. 4 - 10. This week highlights the SUSE security spotlight covering the combined spring and summer review activity plus a command-injection vulnerability in wicked that...
There is a question that comes up often in openSUSE forum threads or a Reddit comment section and that is what version of X does one actually get on Leap versus Tumbleweed? Until recently the honest answer was very often “go look it up yourself, package by package” unless someone...
Google Summer of Code is now over for openSUSE. This summer, we had the privilege of mentoring eight contributors. Mario Marín Hinojosa enhanced the openSUSE git workflow build results. He blogged about his progress and you can already see in it action on br.opensuse.org. See an example for devel:languages:python:Factory! Akash...
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 August 28 to Sept. 3. This week highlights the SUSE security review that uncovers a local root exploits and a Polkit bypass in the LACT GPU...
Hello, openSUSE community! My name is Geetansh Goyal, and I was a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026 mentee with Uyuni and the openSUSE project. This is my first year contributing to a project of this size, and this post is my account of the summer working on “Event-Driven Automation...
There were several software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed during the month of August, which delivered 23 snapshots across 31 days. August delivered a packed month of snapshots across the desktop, developer tooling, and security surface. KDE Plasma 6.7.4 landed with KWin GPU management fixes and a workaround for libepoxy...
On Friday, August 28th, the SUSE Prague office hosted Mobile Linux Hackday #8. This event marked two major milestones: we hit a new record attendance for Prague, and attendees got their first hands-on experience in our freshly renovated Karlín space. If you missed the event, here is a recap of...
Work carried out under the openSUSE Innovator initiative brings the next generation of Intel’s Artificial Intelligence stack to Tumbleweed, Leap 16.0, and Leap 16.1, while also resulting in an upstream contribution to the Intel NPU driver. As an Intel Innovator and a member of the openSUSE Innovator initiative, I remain...
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 August 21 to 27. This week highlights the SUSE security review that uncovered remote root exploits in OpenRGB, the release of LibreOffice 26.8, KDE’s continued work...
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 August 14 to 20. This week highlights KDE Gear 26.08, KDE Frameworks 6.29, openSUSE Asia Summit 2026 publishing its pre-schedule, a Google Summer of Code 2026...
openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Pre-Schedule Is Now Available Hello Geeko! 👋 After a long selection process, the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that the Pre-Schedule is now available! This year, we received 114 proposals from 85 speakers, making the selection process both exciting and challenging. We are...
openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Pre-Schedule Is Now Available Hello Geeko! After a long selection process, the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that the Pre-Schedule is now available! This year, we received 114 proposals from 85 speakers, making the selection process both exciting and challenging. We are grateful...
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 1-31 July 2026, 4 users received 4 kudos, and 4 badges were awarded to...
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 August 7 to 13. This week highlights Tumbleweed’s five snapshots. Podman 6.0.0, which now defaults rootless networking to pasta and drops legacy components like slirp4netns and...
The openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Organizing Committee would like to announce an important update regarding the conference venue. After careful consideration, openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 will now take place at: Convention Hall Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia This replaces the previously announced venue at the...
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...
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...
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 17 to 23. This week opened Call for Proposals for two 2027 Open Developers Summits (Barcelona and Dallas), and KDE published its Akademy 2026 schedule...
The openSUSE community is planning two Open Developers Summits in 2027, and organizers are calling for proposals for both events now. The first summit is scheduled to take place on Feb. 18, 2027, in Barcelona, Spain, held alongside SUSECON. The second is scheduled to take place on April 14, 2027,...