The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 25.04 has been released.

Codenamed “Plucky Puffin”, Kubuntu 25.04 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

The release features the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop, KDE Gear 24.12.3, kernel 6.14, and many other updated applications and libraries.

Hi everyone! 😀

Found cool program that you can use to backup\save important file like pgp key, mnemonic and much more (up to 1.9 KiB) in encrypted QR-code and store\share it on a paper

GUI version arrived by Renesat https://github.com/renesat/paper-age-gui

Enjoy

Every four months, the KDE community rolls out a new wave of app releases all at once.

These updates cover a wide range of needs. Whether you’re managing personal files on your laptop or overseeing servers located thousands of miles away, KDE offers powerful tools to help you stay in control. Need to troubleshoot someone’s system remotely from the comfort of your sofa? There’s an app for that, too. From creating short viral clips for social media to producing full-length documentaries, KDE’s creative tools have you covered. And when it’s time to unwind, you can count on KDE for enjoying music, movies, or a good book.

Keep reading to discover what’s new in KDE Gear 25.04…

As part of the FOSS Sustainability grant awarded to F-Droid by the Open Technology Fund (OTF) earlier this year, we’ve taken on the task of developing clear, community-aligned policies and legal strategies for handling take-down requests, government demands for user data, and compliance with emerging content moderation laws, such as the EU´s Digital Services Act, the UK´s Online Safety Act, and Utah´s App Store Accountability Act.

Blender 4.4 brings improved animation workflow, better modeling, new sculpt brush, and smoother video editing, plus over 700 issues fixed.

It introduces Action Slots, revolutionizing animation workflows by letting multiple data-blocks share a single Action. The Video Sequencer continues to improve with quality-of-life upgrades for text editing, expanded support for codecs including H.265 and 10/12-bit videos, and performance improvements that make editing faster than ever.

And much more…

Text Version: https://thelibre.news/trump-cuts-funding-to-foss-projects/

Seems like the developer is back with a video update on the program's development.

Some points I understood:

• The developer made some rethinking of the whole project
• The node editor got a rewrite from C++ to C#, a higher level language, to make development easier (I think the filters themselves are in lower level language, it just affectst the node editor).
• With the rise of godot and video editors becoming 2D/3D pipelines, the developer based the rendering engine on godot.
• The developer wants to make the editor modular and easy to extend.
• The developer says that the following months will try to work on getting olive to a stable release:)

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=invMlMRPUrM

Archive: https://archive.is/2025.04.08-134226/https://humnom.net/thoughts/67f3c805-steam-is-a-bad-home-for-foss-projects.html

The European Commission sees open-source software as more than an IT tool. Policy makers are encouraging open-source ecosystems to drive innovation, autonomy and collaboration in a world where global trade is being redrawn.

This trade dispute highlights something most open-source advocates have known for years: open source is freedom. It’s freedom from monopolies, freedom from arbitrary pricing, and freedom from foreign influence.