KDE
KDE's digiKam now works better with Pixel phone photos
digiKam 9.1.0 brings support for Pixel Motion photos, time zone metadata, and improved facial recognition.
GNOME
"Bobby" is a new GNOME Circle app for browsing databases
With GNOME Circle certification, you can expect the app to meet reliability and accessibility standards that other FOSS apps aren't held to.
Software Updates
The beta for Blender 5.2 LTS is out now. Here's what's new
New experimental physics simulations for hair and cloth are improving the capabilities of this open source 3D modelling app.
Software Updates
Open source video editor Shotcut is getting OpenFX, Vulkan, and more
A beta for v26.6 was released that added OpenFX and VST2 plugins, as well as Vulkan display rendering for the application.
RISC-V
Behold: 3D Windows games running smoothly on open source RISC-V
The felix86 project showed off 3D x86 games like Portal 2 and God of War running at decidedly playable levels thanks to new RISC-V hardware.
Self-Hosting
The self-hosted streaming app Feishin got a major update
Listening to music via Jellyfin, OpenSubsonic, or Navidrome? This app just got new themes and better organizing and reporting tools.
Jellyfin
Jellyfin has new versioning and AI code policies
Jellyfin is about to jump from version 10.11.x to 12.x, to avoid confusion.
Software Updates
FreshRSS just got a big upgrade
The open source and self-hostable news aggregator has better notification and article filtering controls, and feed icons can be directly fetched.
KDE
You can try KDE's new password manager now
A replacement for a core KDE app has been flying under the radar recently.
Software Updates
The Rust-based, GPU-accelerated spiritual successor to Atom has exited beta
Version 1.0.0 brings a better Markdown experience and more LLM access.
Software Updates
Open source gaming is literally looking better
Godot is gaining high dynamic range output capabilities with version 4.7, a feature that's been in development for years. Proper HDR rendering requires proper hardware, though.
RISC-V
QEMU has bad 32-bit news and good RISC-V news
QEMU 11.0 is also enabling the emulation of more Arm CPU features.