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 for Graz. A blog also confirms Akademy-es will be in Madrid. On the technical side, a PortProtonQt Polkit flaw (CVE-2026-59678) was fixed in 1.3.1, and Tumbleweed shipped five snapshots.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

Slimbook OS 26 Released, Slimbook’s Own Operating System

The KDE Blog covers the launch of Slimbook OS 26, which jumps from the previous release to a base of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and GNOME 50. Although tuned for Slimbook hardware, it works on any machine and bundles the Slimbook Control Panel and Service alongside Alpaca for optional, private local AI chat.

Thunderbird 153 Released, the New Extended Support Version of the Free Software Mail Client

Victorhck reports that Thunderbird 153 becomes the new ESR release replacing Thunderbird 140. It gathers up everything that has landed month by month in the monthly release channel, including a new design, new features and bugfixes.

Flying Cursors for Your PC

The KDE Blog introduces Volantes, a clean and minimal cursor theme for Linux desktops created by x-varlesh-x. Available in light and dark variants with sizes from 24 to 64 pixels, the cursors can be installed directly through KDE Plasma’s cursor theme settings via the “Get New Themes” option.

Syslog-ng Journald Source: How to Avoid Log Bombs on Errors

Peter Czanik’s Blog explains a behavior change in syslog-ng regarding error handling when jumping to a saved systemd journal position. Up until version 4.12, syslog-ng would read the journal from the beginning upon encountering an error, but the latest version allows users to configure what happens in such cases.

Open Developers Summits Head to Barcelona and Dallas in 2027

openSUSE News announces two Open Developers Summits planned for 2027, with calls for proposals now open. The first summit takes place Feb. 18 in Barcelona alongside SUSECON, while the second is scheduled for April 14 in Dallas, Texas.

PortProtonQt: Custom Polkit Rule Allows Escalation of NetworkManager and UDisks2 Privileges

The SUSE Security Team discloses CVE-2026-59678, a vulnerability in PortProtonQt where a custom Polkit rule allows arbitrary local users to modify NetworkManager connections or UDisks2 mounts. The issue, introduced in version 0.1.12, was fixed in version 1.3.1 by restricting elevated privileges to users in an active local session who are members of a dedicated portprotonqt group.

You Are the Asset: Carles Tamayo’s Documentary at GNU/Linux València Event

The KDE Blog announces an event organized by GNU/Linux València featuring a debate on the documentary “El Activo Eres Tú” by Carles Tamayo, preceded by an Install Party on July 31.

Evaluating TOON in a Real-World Scenario

Christian Goll presents real-world experiments testing Token-Oriented Notation (TOON) in the systemd-mcp server to reduce token usage in AI inference. The study found that TOON performs superiorly for complex multi-step tasks, keeping LLMs more focused by increasing information density and reducing distracting overhead.

Updating the Signing Key on Leap Micro

openSUSE News explains how to resolve repository signature errors on Leap Micro following the recent signing key expiration. Users can force a refresh of the repository metadata by running zypper ref -f within a transactional-update shell.

GSoC Update 2: Visual Redesign and Responsive SVGs

openSUSE News shares Mario Marín’s Google Summer of Code progress on the obs-status-service SVG generation, focusing on visual consistency with Gitea’s UI. The update introduces native Gitea colors, a responsive compact mode for large project matrices, and dynamic layout calculations to prevent text overflow.

The Case for Sponsoring openSUSE

openSUSE News makes the case for companies to sponsor the openSUSE Project, highlighting the infrastructure value of Open Build Service, openQA, Tumbleweed, Leap, and Uyuni. Sponsorship takes three forms—money, hardware, or services—and helps maintain the development ecosystem that hardware vendors and enterprises rely on for Linux compatibility.

Akademy 2026 Talk Schedule Published for Graz, Austria

The KDE Blog announces the published talk schedule for Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria, taking place Sept. 19-24 as a special 30th anniversary edition. Talks will be held on Saturday and Sunday, covering topics such as KDE Linux, Dolphin, Plasma, QA, and community matters.

Real-Time Weather Information with Meteoclimatic Feeds – Plasmoids for Plasma 6 (36)

The KDE Blog presents Meteoclimatic Feeds, the 36th entry in its Plasma 6 plasmoid series, connecting to the Meteoclimatic network of amateur weather stations for real-time data. Created by Victorhck, this plasmoid is based on the RSS feeds plasmoide and can be installed by copying the folder to ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids.

Linux Saloon 211: Open Mic Night

Nathan’s Blog covers discussions about user experiences with Fedora, job openings at Epic Games focused on Linux security, and IBM’s new chip architecture advancements. The episode also touches on Dell surpassing HP in U.S. PC sales amid a shrinking market.

Linux Saloon 210: Early Edition July

Nathan’s Blog discusses AI and the possibility of the bubble bursting. The episode also has discussions involving the Open Build Service and some joking about Tumbleweed.

Shadows for Steam and Discord – This Week in Plasma

The KDE Blog translates Nate Graham’s weekly Plasma development update, highlighting KWin’s new automatic shadow, outline, and corner rounding effects for client-side decorated windows like Steam and Discord.

openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of Week 29 of 2026

Victorhck and Dominique review five Tumbleweed snapshots published during the week. Highlights including SELinux Toolchain 3.11, KDE Frameworks 6.28.0, QEMU 11.0.2, GStreamer 1.28.5, and Rust 1.97. The reversion of gvim’s GTK4 build back to GTK3 was notable due to clipboard deadlocks in the current GTK4 port.

Akademy-es 2026 Will Be Held in Madrid

The KDE Blog announces that Akademy-es 2026 will take place from Oct. 23-25 in Madrid. The event celebrates KDE’s 30th anniversary and Akademy-es’s 20th anniversary.

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At 2450 meters above sea, Murodo (室堂, Murodō) is the highest point along the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, offering fantastic views of the Tateyama Mountain Range. In summer and early autumn, Murodo attracts mountain lovers with an interesting network of hiking trails of various levels of difficulty, while late autumn and spring come with large amounts of snow. Murodo is not accessible during the winter.
Murodo's best known attraction is the snow corridor, a road flanked with up to 20 meters high snow walls when it opens in mid April after months of heavy snowfall. It is not usually until July that all the snow has melted. The corridor can be seen from the buses that connect Murodo with Bijodaira. Furthermore, a several hundred meter long section of the road near the Murodo Bus Terminal is open for pedestrians to walk.
Source: www.japan-guide.com/e/e7553.html

Murodo Terminal is the highest station on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route in Japan, and serves as a depot for the Tateyama Kogen Bus and Tateyama Tunnel Trolley Bus, and is also home to the largest restaurant on the Alpine Route, a rooftop observation deck, and a tea lounge. If you post a letter from the Tateyama Summit Simple Post Office on the first floor of the hotel, you can have a commemorative landscape seal stamped on your mailbox.
Source: japantravel.navitime.com/en/area/jp/spot/02301-4000126/