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KDE Frameworks 6.28 Released with Support for New KRunner Conversion Units

The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue, and KDE Frameworks 6.28 adds support for converting between watt-hours, kilowatt-hours, and other similar energy units in KRunner-powered search fields, and improves the alignment of thumbnail previews in open/save dialogs across KDE apps.

Ubuntu 25.10 Reached End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Ubuntu 25.10 was released on October 9th, 2025, and, since it’s not an Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) release, it only received support for nine months, until July 2026. Ubuntu 25.10 was powered by the Linux 6.17 kernel series and featured the GNOME 49 desktop environment series with a Wayland-only session.

PipeWire 1.6.8 Improves JACK/MIDI Support for Ardour, SOFA Filter, and More

Coming three weeks after PipeWire 1.6.7, the PipeWire 1.6.8 release fixes a data race in JACK’s jack_port_get_buffer() function that could cause lost MIDI events in the Ardour DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) when called from concurrent threads, and adds normalize and latency options to the SOFA filter.

Wireshark 4.6.7 Released with Updated Protocol Support, Bug and Security Fixes

Coming a month and a half after Wireshark 4.6.6, the Wireshark 4.6.7 release updates support for the ALC, BACapp, C2P, Catapult DCT2000, COTP, CSN.1, DCERPC, DCERPC MAPI, DCERPC NSPI, DNS, DVB-S2-TABLE, eDonkey, EPL, FC ELS, FMP/NOTIFY, H.265, HiPerConTracer, IEEE 802.11, LLS, MEGACO, MIH, MPEG DSM-CC, MS-WSP, RELOAD, SGP.32, SSH, STANAG 4607, UMTS FP, WOWW, and Z39.50 protocols.

GStreamer 1.28.5 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for H.266/VVC Decoding

Coming about a month after GStreamer 1.28.4, the GStreamer 1.28.5 release is here to add support for H.266/VVC decoding to the gopbuffer element, fix subtitle green flickering with VA decoders on AMD GPUs, improve HEVC with alpha decoding in the H.265 decoder, and add ts-clocksync to the threadshare element.

Internet Society

Safety Over Bans: Internet Society Challenges App Store Age Verification

Imagine having to provide a government ID before downloading an app to clock in at work, submit homework, check the weather, or access your bank account. Under a new Texas law, that could become a reality for millions of people.

Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 20, 2023

  1. [Meme] Axe-murdering for Bill and Jeff
    Golden Axe meme
  2. Making Community, Part A
    Article by Thomas Grzybowski
  3. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 19, 2023
    IRC logs for Thursday, October 19, 2023
  4. Nonsense in 'the News' That Makes You Want to Spit Out the Coffee in Laughter
    Imagine the media calling Photoshop holes a Windows issue
  5. It Looks Like Gulag Noise ("Google News") is Dying and Legal Issues/New Laws Likely Contributed a Lot to That
    To be very clear, Gulag Noise ("Google News") used to be sort of OK more than a decade ago
  6. Growing the Site and the Movement (in the Face of Corporate Takeovers)
    The list of upgrade & migration tasks is becoming shorter
  7. Links 19/10/2023: Russia Detains More Journalists, Another Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over Computer-Generated Nonsense ("AI" Hype)
    Links for the day
  8. Links 19/10/2023: Open Document Format (ODF) Adopted by NATO, Twitter No Longer Free to Use
    Links for the day
  9. Impending Homepage Change: A Month Has Passed Since Our Upgrade, Time to Redo The Front Page
    Coming Home
  10. Google Becoming More Like Apple (User-Hostile Lock-Down, Users' Software of Choice Maligned as 'Sideloading'), Not the Other Way Around
    Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
  11. Links 19/10/2023: Apple Sales Collapse, Wall Street Dips
    Links for the day
  12. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 18, 2023
    IRC logs for Wednesday, October 18, 2023
  13. Over at Tux Machines...
    About a day's worth
  14. Rumour: Microsoft Not Done Eliminating Jobs at LinkedIn
    Call it unsubstantiated or whatever, all that "Hey Hi" (chatbot) vapourware did not pay off. It just cost Microsoft a lot of money in energy, water, and marketing bills.
  15. Browsing This Web Site Like It's 2006 Again
    Wayback Machine 'portal'
  16. Yo Dawg, I Herd You Like Static
    We roll out our own
  17. [Meme] Normal People Do Not Talk of Themselves as a Third Person While Donning Axes
    From the old homepage of a serial harasser
  18. Links 18/10/2023: US Tech Worker Laid Off Almost Every Minute, Craig Murray Arrested Again
    Links for the day
  19. Riding Buzzwords
    Blockchain all the things!
  20. We Can Only Have (Software) Freedom as Long as Viable Choices Remain
    The licence is insufficient, except in theory (or for relatively small programs in less complex/complicated systems)
  21. What the Latest Sanctions Against Chinese Imports Will Accomplish in Practice (Almost Nothing)
    They talk of "AI" chips, meaning standard GPUs with some task-optimised accelerators
  22. Android and Linux Climbing in France
    Firefox at a relatively high 8%
  23. Diplomacy and Communication Strategies Matter to Software Freedom (Who Talks for You?)
    We need to get back to a technology sector that's run by and for geeks, not by suits for shareholders
  24. A "Sunset Period" at Microsoft
    We eagerly look forward to the day GNU/Linux is the "default" platform for laptops and desktops, just like in servers
  25. Microsoft Shutting Down GitHub and LinkedIn Offices This Year (Despite Return-to-Office Policies) and the Shutdowns Carry on This Month
    This has nothing to do with "remote work" (misnomer); it is about Microsoft losing money.

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