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 May 8 to 14.

Blogs this week cover the Plasma 6.7 beta launch, sovereign Tech funds major investment in KDE, a leadership change on the openSUSE Board, two helpful Firefox tips, a Tumbleweed review, a new Plasmoid for displaying song lyrics, a KDE Frameworks update, and an openSUSE Leap 15.6 reaches end-of-life.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

openSUSE Leap 15.6 Reaches End of Life – Time to Upgrade

Victorhck reports that openSUSE Leap 15.6 reached its official end of life on April 30, which means it will no longer receive security patches or official support. Users are advised to migrate to openSUSE Leap 16.0 to keep their systems up to date and secure.

Plasma 6.7 Beta Released

The KDE Blog announces the launch of the Plasma 6.7 beta and invites testers to try the new release and report any bugs at bugs.kde.org ahead of the final release. Key new features include a quick light/dark mode toggle in the Brightness and Color widget and a modern new print queue application with active job badges in the Printers widget.

The syslog-ng Insider 2026-05: OTEL; Central Log Collection; Old Mac

Peter Czanik’s Blog presents the 140th issue of the syslog-ng Insider monthly newsletter and covers three topics: how Databricks customers can stream logs to a data lakehouse using syslog-ng with OAuth2 authentication and the OpenTelemetry protocol; a reminder that central log collection is valuable far beyond mere compliance, benefiting operations, security, and development teams alike; and a guide to compiling the latest syslog-ng release on older Intel-based Macs where Homebrew no longer provides full support.

Sovereign Tech Fund Invests Over €1 Million in KDE

Victorhck covers the announcement that the Sovereign Tech Fund will invest €1,285,200 in the KDE community across 2026 and 2027. The funding is aimed at strengthening the structural reliability and security of KDE’s core infrastructure, including Plasma and the frameworks supporting KDE’s communication services. The author translates the official KDE announcement into Spanish and shares his thoughts on the significance of the investment for the free software ecosystem.

Plasma Lyrics Widget – View Song Lyrics in Plasma 6 (28)

The KDE Blog presents Plasma Lyrics, a new widget for KDE Plasma 6 that displays the lyrics of the currently playing songs directly on the desktop. This is the 28th entry in the blog’s ongoing series showcasing Plasmoids for Plasma 6, which is aimed at users who want richer desktop integration with their music player.

Fifth Update of Plasma 6.6

The KDE Blog announces the fifth bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6.6, which was released on May 12. The update brings improved animation fluidity on high-refresh-rate displays along with the usual bug fixes and stability improvements.

How to Change the Annoying Firefox “Not Found” Sound

Victorhck shares a practical tip for Firefox users annoyed by the jarring sound the browser plays when a text search via Ctrl+F finds no match on the page. The post walks through how to replace that default sound with a system sound of the user’s own choosing.

IA MED: Public Health, Privacy and Brazilian Technological Sovereignty

Alessandro’s Blog introduces IA MED, which is a an AI solution developed by MultiCortex to bring advanced language models to the public health sector with a focus on precision, privacy, and data sovereignty. The system is already operational in the city of Bebedouro, São Paulo. The post argues that vertically specialized, locally hosted AI running on cost-effective hardware represents a viable and responsible alternative to generic cloud-based AI for public health systems across Brazil.

SOTAQUE: When AI Learns to Speak like a Brazilian

Alessandro’s Blog introduces SOTAQUE (Speech-Oriented Training Audio for Quality Understanding and Expression), which is a community-driven initiative to build an open dataset of Brazilian Portuguese voices that captures the country’s regional diversity of accents. The project, which is published under the CDLA-Permissive-2.0 license, aims to collect up to 10,000 hours of audio so that AI speech tools better represent all Brazilians rather than defaulting to a narrow Southeastern urban standard. Anyone over 18 in Brazil can contribute by recording just a few minutes of their own voice at sotaque.ia.br.

Firefox Not Displaying Japanese (or Chinese or Korean) Characters in Plasma

Victorhck explains how to fix the issue of Firefox displaying small empty squares instead of Japanese kanji characters when browsing the web on KDE Plasma. The solution involves installing the appropriate font packages to give the browser the rendering support it needs.

Framework Becomes a KDE Patron

The KDE Blog announces that Framework, the company behind the modular Framework Laptop, has become an official patron of KDE e.V., and joins existing supporters such as The Qt Company, SUSE, Google, Canonical, Slimbook, and Rocky Linux. Framework founder Nirav Patel noted that KDE is extremely popular within the Framework community, while KDE e.V. President Aleix Pol highlighted that Framework’s commitment to repairability strongly aligns with KDE’s own values of sustainability and open hardware.

malcontent: Disk Space Exhaustion via Globally Accessible D-Bus API (CVE-2026-44931)

The SUSE Security Team Blog discloses CVE-2026-44931, a local denial-of-service vulnerability in malcontent, the GNOME parental control system, introduced in version 0.14.0 as part of the GNOME 50 update packaged for openSUSE. The flaw allows any unprivileged local user to slowly exhaust disk space in /var/lib/malcontent-timerd by repeatedly calling the RecordUsage D-Bus method with arbitrary app identifiers, with no upstream fix currently available. The SUSE team reported the issue privately in February 2026 and, after receiving no follow-up from upstream despite repeated contact, proceeded with public disclosure to avoid further delay.

26th Update of KDE Frameworks 6 and the KArchive Library

The KDE Blog covers the 26th update to KDE Frameworks 6, highlighting improvements to the KArchive library among other fixes across the KDE software stack. The post follows the blog’s regular cadence of documenting each KDE Frameworks release for Spanish-speaking KDE users.

Linux Saloon 200 | Open Mic Night

CubicleNate’s Blog celebrates the 200th episode of the Linux Saloon podcast with an Open Mic Night format, where participants shared tech topics that were top of mind. Highlights included a hands-on look at the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro and its hardware improvements, a discussion about Brave’s new Origin browser on Linux, and a nostalgic trip back to the old internet covering GeoCities, webrings, and Homestar Runner.

openSUSE Board Leadership Change

Victorhck reports on the change at the top of the openSUSE Board. The post translates and expands on the official announcement of Gerald Pfeifer stepping down as chair on May 7 after nearly seven years in the role. He is succeeded by Jeff Mahoney, who was elected to the board in 2024.

ICC Profiles in HDR ❤️ – This Week in Plasma

The KDE Blog summarizes “This Week in Plasma” with headlines featuring new support for ICC color profiles in HDR mode. This addition is a significant step forward for color-accurate workflows on Linux, particularly for photographers and designers using HDR-capable displays.

USS/FMS Carrier

Jakub Steiner’s Blog dives into FMS Carrier, a tiny 2-operator FM synthesizer and sequencer for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance created by Ess Mattisson, the original designer of the Elektron Digitone. Jakub shares his enthusiasm for the sequencing workflow, which mirrors the building-block composition approach he loves on his Dirtywave M8 tracker.

Tumbleweed – Review of the Weeks 2026/18 & 19

Victorhck and Dominique Leuenberger cover nine Tumbleweed snapshots published across weeks 18 and 19. Major package arrivals include GNOME 50.1, Linux kernel 7.0.1 through 7.0.3, glibc 2.43, systemd 260.1, Boost 1.91.0, and Mozilla Firefox 150.0.

LliureX Turns 21 – Happy Birthday!

The KDE Blog celebrates the 21st anniversary of LliureX, a GNU/Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and KDE Plasma developed by the Valencian Community’s regional education authority in Spain. The project has been delivering a free software desktop tailored to educational environments in the Valencian Community for over two decades.

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