Google has removed the open-source map application "Organic Maps" from its Play Store for no reason.

https://x.com/organicmapsapp/status/1824727403580596260

It is one of the open source maps applications that we talked about here:
https://fosspost.org/android-open-source-google-maps-alternatives

Edit: It has been returned now.

Opinion: Mozilla has been suspiciously silent about Google and Manifest V3

This is their greatest marketing opportunity of the year, and they are yet to seize it.

Why is that? Let's see.
https://fosspost.org/mozilla-has-been-suspiciously-silent-about-google-and-manifest-v3

LibreOffice 24.8 has been released:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/08/22/libreoffice-248/

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A malicious plugin for the Pidgin program was up for two months before it was taken down.

It contained a keylogger and took screenshots of affected users' screens.
https://pidgin.im/posts/2024-08-malicious-plugin/

FreeBSD gets around 700K Euro in funding from the German Sovereign Tech Fund:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/sovereign-tech-fund-to-invest-e686400-in-freebsd-infrastructure-modernization/

Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination
https://www.datagubbe.se/gnomefiles/

GNOME 47 has been released.
https://release.gnome.org/47/

It has accent colors feature, which was added in Ubuntu like 3 years ago or smth. 😄

Winamp source code is now available, though it is not released under an open source license.

https://winamp.com/player/legacy

If only they could find out about my local fork... 😉

Alpha 2 release of the COSMIC desktop from System76 has been released.
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-2-press-release

PostgreSQL 17 has been released:
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-17-released-2936/

Valve and Arch Linux enter a collaboration: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org/thread/RIZSKIBDSLY4S5J2E2STNP5DH4XZGJMR/

ffmpeg 7.1 has been released.
https://jbkempf.com/blog/2024/ffmpeg-7.1.0/

Firefox 131 has been released.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/131.0/releasenotes/

This article confirms what we have written here before on how Mozilla does not like the fact that it is being used as an adblock-supporting browser.

https://fosspost.org/mozilla-has-been-suspiciously-silent-about-google-and-manifest-v3

They tried to fix their mistake later on but it was late:
https://www.ghacks.net/2024/10/01/mozillas-massive-lapse-in-judgement-causes-clash-with-ublock-origin-developer/

This is important.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/10/persistent-stealthy-linux-malware-has-infected-thousands-since-2021/

GNOME has published a blog post about how they are letting some of their staff go and cutting additional costs wherever possible due to some hard finances they are going through.

Who could have envisioned this after hiring a shaman as execute director for 8 months?
https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/10/07/update-from-the-board-2024-10/

Plasma desktop 6.2 has been released.
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.2.0/

Ubuntu 24.10 has been released.

Mostly it is just a software upgrade.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/oracular-oriole-release-notes/44878

Inkscape 1.4 has been released.
https://inkscape.org/news/2024/10/13/inkscape-launches-version-14-powerful-new-accessib/

Aaaand it's gone. 😂
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/winamp-really-whips-open-source-coders-into-frenzy-with-its-source-release/