This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org.

The below featured highlights listed on the community’s blog feed aggregator from July 21 to 27. Some of the most recent blogs openSUSE Conference 2025, updates on Tumbleweed developments, and important security insights.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

openSUSE Conference 2025 Highlights

openSUSE Conference 2025 - Ish Sookun shared his experience attending oSC25 in Nuremberg, Germany, including his perspective as a newly elected openSUSE Board member. The conference brought together developers, contributors, and open-source enthusiasts from around the world. Key highlights included setting up an on-site openSUSE Shop to make swag more accessible to international attendees, keynotes from SUSE leadership emphasizing the power of open collaboration, and technical presentations covering topics like SELinux security improvements and distributed Kubernetes clusters. Ish also presented talks on improving openSUSE membership management and building mirrors in Mauritius.

Tumbleweed Updates

openSUSE Tumbleweed revision de la semana 30 de 2025 - Victorhck provided a detailed review of Tumbleweed snapshots 0718, 0722, and 0723 in Spanish and noted a delay due to SELinux 3.9 debugging. Key updates included KDE Plasma 6.4.3, Mesa 25.1.6, Apache 2.4.64, and Linux kernel 6.15.7. Snapshot 0724 is in quality control and expected to bring SELinux 3.9, Bash 5.3, and Firefox 141.0.

Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2025/30 - Dominique Leuenberger provided a detailed review of Tumbleweed snapshots like that listed above.

Security Insights

SUSE Security Team Spotlight Spring 2025 - The SUSE security team shared insights from their spring 2025 work, including reviews of new Polkit features in GDM, Flatpak, and ModemManager. They also detailed privilege escalation vulnerabilities found in cyrus-imapd and configuration changes for systemd-coredump.

Community and Advocacy

Urgency to Switch from Windows 10 Builds - Douglas DeMaio highlighted the openSUSE Project’s participation in the End of 10 campaign, urging users to migrate from Windows 10 (which ends support in October) to Linux-based operating systems. The article emphasizes both cybersecurity risks of staying on unsupported systems and the environmental benefits of extending older hardware life through Linux adoption.

Technical Deep Dives

Dealing with multiple syslog protocols in syslog-ng made easy - Peter Czanik explained the new transport(auto) option in syslog-ng that simplifies handling multiple syslog protocol variants (RFC3164, RFC5424) through a single source driver, making syslog configuration more straightforward.

KDE Community

Esquinas inferiores redondeadas – Esta semana en Plasma - Baltolkien translated Nate Graham’s weekly Plasma update in Spanish covering Plasma 6.5 developments, including the implementation of automatically rounded bottom window corners and various UI improvements.

Control del nivel de tinta de la impresora – Esta semana en Plasma - Another Spanish translation by Baltolkien of Nate Graham’s weekly Plasma update, featuring printer ink level notifications, notification handling improvements, and various bug fixes in Plasma 6.4.4 and 6.5.

Community Events

Akademy 2026 busca sede ¡anímate y presenta una candidatura! - Baltolkien announced that KDE’s annual developer conference Akademy 2026 is seeking a European host venue for its 30th anniversary celebration, providing details on requirements and how to submit a proposal.

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