EN / CA / CZ / ES / JA / EL / NL / SV / ZH-TW Members of the openSUSE Project are excited to announce the release of openSUSE Leap 16.1. This is the first minor release in the Leap 16 series and with this release, openSUSE’s immutable server...
As openSUSE Tumbleweed barrels through the autumn, the month of October brought Linux enthusiasts several changes for this premier rolling release. October was a heavy month for both features and fixes, with 23 snapshots landing between Oct. 1 and 28. KDE Plasma 6.8.0 and KDE Frameworks 6.31.0 arrived as new...
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. 23 - 29. This week highlights five Tumbleweed snapshots for week 43 headlined by KDE Plasma 6.8.0, Qt 6.12.0, Linux Kernel 7.2.11 and PHP 8.5.12,...
The openSUSE Election Committee has announced the start of the 2026 openSUSE Board Election. Three Board seats are up for election, and all eligible openSUSE members are encouraged to take part. The openSUSE Board asked for the election to be completed by Dec. 1, 2026, as outlined in Board ticket...
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...
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...
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. 9 - 15. This week highlights KDE’s 30th anniversary and the premiere of the KDE documentary, the launch of Plasma 6.8 as the 30th Anniversary...
This October I attended both the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and Open Source Summit Europe 2026 in Prague, practically back to back. Two conferences, two continents and one very long trip. Getting to both was quite an adventure. The way there was a train from Mikulov to Břeclav,...
There were a few software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM this month with snapshots reaching the ARM port. The second half of September and the first half of October carried the Linux kernel from 7.2.6 through 7.2.9 with a steady run of SBC and AArch64 security fixes, while binutils...
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...