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Martin Pitt: Leaving Red Hat

https://piware.de/post/2026-05-18-leaving-redhat/

Published: May 18, 2026 00:00

In December 2016 I left Canonical with one sad and one happy eye, with lots of good memories. Now it’s time to revisit some more! Starting at Red Hat back then was quite a cultural shock, of course. I got used to the new headwear fashion quickly: But…

Andy Wingo: soot, solar, sedimentation, sin, & 'centers

https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/05/16/soot-solar-sedimentation-sin-centers

Published: May 16, 2026 19:29

Good evening, friends. Tonight I have a few loosely-knit stories.sootA couple years ago, my house was heated by a condensing gas boiler. It was awful from both an environmental and a geopolitical perspective: environmental, as I would emit somewhere…

This Week in GNOME: #249 Quality Over Quantity

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/05/twig-249/

Published: May 15, 2026 20:27

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from May 8 to May 15. GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries Graphs ↗ Plot and manipulate data Sjoerd Stendahl says This week we released Graphs 2.0. It’s been about two years since the last major…

Sjoerd Stendahl: Graphs 2.0 is out!

https://blogs.gnome.org/sstendahl/2026/05/15/graphs-2-0-is-out/

Published: May 15, 2026 19:00

After two years of development, Graphs 2.0 is finally out! This will be a shorter blog, as the changelist of the new features have been discussed in the previous post in more detail, you can check this out here in more detail if you’re interested:…

Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-05-15

https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2026/05/15/gnome-foundation-update-2026-05-15/

Published: May 15, 2026 16:41

Welcome to another GNOME Foundation update post! Today’s installment covers highlights from what’s happened over the past two weeks. LAS 2026 Linux Apps Summit 2026 starts tomorrow! The organizing team, which includes members from both GNOME and KDE, has…

Bart Piotrowski: How does Flathub even work? The CDN and caching layer

https://barthalion.blog/flathub-internals-cdn/

Published: May 15, 2026 10:25

There is one specific way in which the non-corporate open source projects typically document how their infrastructure work: not at all, and Flathub is no different. The full picture likely lives only in my brain, and while it could be sorted out by anyone…

Christian Hergert: Translating French

https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/05/15/translating-french/

Published: May 15, 2026 09:50

I have been spending more time learning French lately, and as often happens, that turned into a small side project. liblingua is not intended to be a big mainstream translation platform. It is a fun GLib/GObject library for experimenting with local machine…

Nirbheek Chauhan: An Esoteric Type of Memory "Leak"

https://blog.nirbheek.in/2026/05/an-esoteric-type-of-memory-leak.html

Published: May 14, 2026 21:52

A little while ago, my colleague Sebastian started complaining about OOMs caused by Evolution taking up tens of gigabytes of memory. We discussed using sysprof to debug it, but it was too busy a time for Sebastian to set aside a few hours to do…

Christian Hergert: Limiters in libdex

https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/05/14/limiters-in-libdex/

Published: May 14, 2026 11:41

Libdex now has DexLimiter, a small utility for bounding how much asynchronous work runs at once. This is useful when a workload can produce more parallelism than the underlying machine, subsystem, or service should actually handle. Common examples include…

Christian Hergert: A Small Update from France

https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/05/14/a-small-update-from-france/

Published: May 14, 2026 10:01

For about the past month, I have no longer been with Red Hat. That is a strange sentence to write after so many years, but life has a way of changing the scenery whether or not one has finished packing. My family and I have made it safely to France, and we…

Toluwaleke Ogundipe: Hello GNOME and GSoC, Again!

https://blogs.gnome.org/anonymoux47/2026/05/13/hello-gnome-and-gsoc-again/

Published: May 13, 2026 18:17

I am delighted to announce that I am returning for Google Summer of Code 2026 to contribute to GNOME once again. Following my work on Crosswords last year, I will be shifting focus to the core of the desktop: Mutter. For what it’s worth, I never left; I’ve…

Nick Richards: Agile Rates After Launch

https://www.nedrichards.com/2026/05/agile-rates-after-launch/

Published: May 11, 2026 19:53

Last summer I wrote up Octopus Agile Prices For Linux, a small GTK app to show the current Octopus Agile electricity price and the next day of half-hourly rates. It did one thing, which is a good number of things for a desktop utility to do. Since then the…

Michael Catanzaro: Flatpak Sandbox Escape via Yelp

https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/05/11/flatpak-sandbox-escape-via-yelp/

Published: May 11, 2026 14:12

Yelp 49.1 fixes a significant Flatpak sandbox escape related to last year’s CVE-2025-3155. CVE assignment for this new issue is currently pending. This is not a bug in Flatpak. Flatpak allows sandboxed applications to open URIs or files, meaning the…