Ubuntu To Discontinue Opt-In Development Milestones In Favor Of Test Weeks

The proposal for replacing early Ubuntu derivatives' early alpha/beta releases with "testing weeks" in its place is moving forward with no objections having been raised but flavors like Kubuntu and Xubuntu being in favor of the change.

Ubuntu Linux Replaces Alpha/Beta Release Model With “Testing Weeks”

Re-evaluating Ubuntu's Milestones

Happy Release Week! I do not believe there have been any -1s to this proposal from any flavor, nor from the Release Team, so I think it's time to move forward with it. In summary, what will now happen from here on out is that opt-in milestones will be discontinued in favor of testing "weeks" (Tuesday through Thursday). I can organize the testing weeks for the 18.10 cycle (so we can get a process going), but from the 19.04 cycle and on, representatives (probably Release Managers) from any active flavor can (and should!) organize these testing weeks. Additionally, I will look into the automated testing Steve brought up shortly after the 18.04 release, with the goal being to adopt that sooner rather than later. I'll write a follow-up email to ubuntu-release once I have something to show for that. Thanks everyone!

moving Qt 4 from Debian testing (aka Buster): some statistics, update II

We started filing bugs around September 9. That means roughly 32 weeks which gives us around 5.65 packages fixed per week, aka 0.85 packages per day. Obviously not as good as we started (remaining bugs tend to be more complicated), but still quite good.

[Slackware] Plasma5 – April 18 edition for Slackware

The KDE-5_18.04 release of ‘ktown‘ for Slackware-current offers the latest KDE Frameworks (5.45.0), Plasma (5.12.4) and Applications (18.04.0). The Qt5 was upgraded to 5.9.5. Read the README file for more details and for installation/upgrade instructions. Enjoy the latest Plasma 5 desktop environment.

Perfect Debugging Experience with QtCreator on Android

While I was working on a yet-to-be-announced super secret and cool Qt on Android project, I had to do a lot of debugging. This way I found that debugging Qt apps on Android using QtCreator was ok, but it had some issues, which was kinda frustrating.

Discover – Easily Install Software on KDE Neon Desktop

KDE Discover is an Open Source GUI app installer that comes packaged with KDE Neon. It was particularly built from the ground up to be compatible with other modern Linux distros with emphasis on beauty and convenience. KDE Discover was also designed to allow for an intuitive User Experience as it features a clean and clear layout with a high readability value which makes it easy to browse, search for, install, and uninstall applications.

Almost 10 years of Plasma-Desktop

Last week I was at work and start to listen my boss said: “We need to show this to our director”. So I went to my coworker table to see what was happening. So they were using Gource to make a video about the git history of the project. Gource is a software version control visualization tool. So that triggered in my mind some memories about a friend talking about Python and showing how the project as grow in this past years, but I never discovered about the tool that made that amazing video. So well, I started to make some Gource videos, and because my love about KDE Community, why not make one about it?

Getting Real GNOME Back in Ubuntu 18.04 [Quick Tip]

Ubuntu 18.04 uses a customized version of GNOME and GNOME users might not like those changes. This tutorial shows you how to install vanilla GNOME on Ubuntu 18.04. One of the main new features of Ubuntu 18.04 is the customized GNOME desktop. Ubuntu has done some tweaking on GNOME desktop to make it look similar to its Unity desktop. So you get minimize options in the windows control, a Unity like launcher on the left of the screen, app indicator support among some other changes.

The Infamous GNOME Shell Memory Leak

at this point, I think it’s safe to assume that many of you already heard of a memory leak that was plaguing GNOME Shell. Well, as of yesterday, the two GitLab’s MRs that help fixing that issue were merged, and will be available in the next GNOME version. The fixes are being considered for backporting to GNOME 3.28 – after making sure they work as expected and don’t break your computer.

The Big GNOME Shell Memory Leak Has Been Plugged, Might Be Backported To 3.28

The widely talked about "GNOME Shell memory leak" causing excessive memory usage after a while with recent versions of GNOME has now been fully corrected. The changes are currently staged in Git for what will become GNOME 3.30 but might also be backported to 3.28. Well known GNOME developer Georges Stavracas has provided an update on the matter and confirmed that the issue stems from GJS - the GNOME JavaScript component - with the garbage collection process not being fired off as it should.

AMDVLK Vulkan Driver Stack Gets Updated With More Extensions, Optimizations & Fixes

AMD developers maintaining their official Vulkan cross-platform driver code have pushed their end-of-week updates to their external source repositories for those wanting to build the AMDVLK driver on Linux from source. This latest AMDVLK push updates not only their PAL (Platform Abstraction Layer) and XGL (Vulkan API Layer) components but it also updates their fork of the LLVM code-base used for their shader compilation.

EGLStreams XWayland Code Revised Ahead Of X.Org Server 1.20

It's still not clear if the EGLStreams XWayland support will be merged for xorg-server 1.20 but at least the patches were revised this week, making it possible to merge them into this next X.Org Server release for allowing the NVIDIA proprietary driver to work with XWayland.

Vulkan 1.1.74 Released With Minor Fixes & Clarifications

Vulkan continues sticking to the "release early, release often" mantra with the availability today of Vulkan 1.1.74.