A weekly roundup of community blog posts from planet.opensuse.org covering March 6–12. Highlights include digiKam 9.0 with a new Survey tool and Qt 6 migration, IBM's Granite 4.0 1B compact speech AI model for edge deployment, FreeBSD 15.0 installation on HP Z2 Mini, Plasma 6.5's sixth bugfix update with light/dark theme switching, and openSUSE dropping pcr-oracle in favor of systemd-pcrlock for Full Disk Encryption. Also covered: Thunderbird updates via Tumbleweed rolling channel, Rocky Linux becoming a KDE sponsor, an Open Build Service post-mortem on a stuck jobs queue, syslog-ng 4.11.0 release notes, and openSUSE Tumbleweed week 10 review including upcoming GNOME 50 RC and systemd-boot as default UEFI bootloader.
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Thunderbird Always Updated from openSUSE Tumbleweed RepositoriesLaunched digiKam 9.0, introducing the new Survey toolGranite 4.0 1B Speech: Compact voice AI for the edgeThe syslog-ng Insider 2026-03: 4.11.0 release; OpenSearch; ElasticSearchDropping pcr-oracle in user space Full Disk EncryptionSixth Plasma 6.5 updateLenovo Thinkbook Modular Dual Screen Laptop | BlatheringNew toy: Installing FreeBSD on the HP Z2 MiniRocky Linux becomes a sponsor of KDEPost-mortem: Stuck Critical Jobs QueueOWASP SP offers ModSecurity (CRS) for openSUSE.Much Progress in Marknote and Drawy – This Week in KDE AppsUpdating perltidy (and other dependencies) in os-autoinstLinux Saloon 191 – Application Managers3 Native Racing Games for LinuxopenSUSE Tumbleweed Weekly Review – Week 10 of 2026Third Update of KDE Gear 25.12Seeing people through the walls with Wi-Fi – π RuView: WiFi DensePoseSort: