FOSS Weekly #59 - Blender 4, GNOME €1M funding, Sentry's new license, and more

Welcome to another issue of FOSS Weekly! Here is your latest free software news from the last week. Germany is killing it with opencode.de and funding GNOME with a million euros. Blender and Calibre had some major releases and Canonical announced their new cloud solution.

📰 News

• Blender 4.0 released with lots of updates [blender.org]

• Calibre 7.0 released after a year of development [calibre-ebook.com]

• Sentry switches to “Functional Source License” [sentry.io]

• Linux Foundation plans to form a “High Performance Software Foundation” [linuxfoundation.org]

🐧 Linux updates

• Linux Kernel 6.6 is now LTS until December 2026 [phoronix.com]

• GNOME gets €1M from the German Sovereign Tech Fund [gnome.org]

• GTK: Introducing graphics offload [gtk.org]

• Canonical releases MicroCloud, a private cloud solution [canonical.com]

📝 Releases

• Rust 1.74 [rust-lang.org]

• Wireshark 4.2.0 [wireshark.org]

• HandBrake 1.7 [github.com]

• Meson 1.3 [github.com]

🔗 Also read

• This Week in GNOME [thisweek.gnome.org]

• This Week in KDE [pointieststick.com]

• Ubuntu weekly news [ubuntu.com]

• Mobile Linux Weekly [linmob.net]

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