postmarketOS v26.06 "Alpen Avocado" is out, and Commodore is back with a flip phone running Sailfish OS — at a price. Linux 7.1 released; Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 Beta adds Nothing Phone (1) and notch support; KDE Plasma 6.7 ships, with Plasma Mobile improvements; postmarketOS duranium images gain a Waydroid sysext and Bazaar for Flatpak installs, and more!

A Personal Note

This week's Weekly Update is a day late, because I spent Sunday evening at the hospital with my wife for a check-up. All is well — I'm not a father yet, but this may well be the last Weekly Update where that's still true ;-)

I hope to keep the updates going without major hiccups, but some streamlining is in order: I'm dropping the video collection script, as it pulls in too many irrelevant videos — everything from fishing videos (thanks to the "Sailfish" in "Sailfish OS") to all sorts of AI slop. To put a number on it: the raw file I started with for this update had 139 video links.

So if you find or create relevant video content that was published during the week but didn't make it into the Weekly Update, please add it (along with any other relevant content) to the pad :-) Also, linmob.net is open for relevant guest posts. Thanks in advance!

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Thanks

Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.

Something missing? Want to contribute?

If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please just put it into this pad for the next one! Since I am collecting many things there, this get's you early access if you will ;-) If you just stumble on a thing, please put it in there too - all help is appreciated!