Testers Assemble!: Plasma 6.7 Beta 1 has been released!

The first version for software testers is now available and should be hitting the "unstable" repos of your distros in the next hours/days.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.90/

Remember to try out everything you can and, when you hit a bug, send your report to

https://bugs.kde.org

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WARNING: This is unstable untested software! Do not deploy in production or if you are not sure of what you are doing.

#Plasma6 #desktop #FreeSoftware

GitLab is pivoting to "the agentic era."

If you can afford it, donate to Codeberg. Right now.

https://docs.codeberg.org/improving-codeberg/donate/

Today we are celebrating our first birthday! 🍰🎈

As it's been a very busy year – full of new community members, new features, and more – we've written up a summary of all the things that have happened.

And to give all of you a small gift: If you press the *Check Updates* button in the 2026.05.06 version of CoMaps, you'll find some freshly updated maps that were quietly released for you yesterday!

https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-05-12/celebrating-the-first-comaps-birthday/

#OpenStreetMap #opensource #freeSoftware

Although trained in physics, I worked in the computing industry with pride and purpose for over 40 years. And now I can do nothing but sit back and watch it destroy itself for no valid reason beyond hubris (if I'm being charitable).

Ineffable sadness watching something I once loved deliberately lose its soul.

You still deserve privacy, even if you:

• don't use Linux
• use big social media sites
• aren't "techie"
• are just an average computer user