A weekly roundup of openSUSE community blog posts from April 17–23, 2026. Highlights include an openSUSE Tumbleweed review covering seven snapshots with GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.4, and Linux kernel 6.19.12; the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 venue announcement at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta; syslog-ng 4.12 performance tuning reaching 7 million events per second; Cockpit as a YaST replacement; a SUSE Security Team winter spotlight covering systemd, snapd, and Deepin vulnerabilities; KDE Plasma 6.7 per-screen virtual desktops and Wayland session restore; and the xdg-user-dirs 0.20 release adding a default Projects directory.
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Kookbook Updates to Version 0.3.0Testing Cockpit, the YaST Replacement in openSUSE TumbleweedNew Performance Tuning Possibilities in syslog-ngBest JPG to PDF Converters for Speed and EaseAI Workshop at Linux Center ValenciaFrom Virtual Desktop Deployment to Running Local AI – New Barcelona Free Software TalkSUSE Security Team Spotlight Winter 2025/2026openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Announces Venue at Universitas Gadjah MadaPer-Screen Virtual Desktops and Wayland Session Restore – This Week in PlasmaHello Old New ‘Projects’ Directory!Tumbleweed – Review of the Week 2026/16Episode 72 of KDE Express: Plasma 6.6.4, Gear 26.04 and More NewsSort: