The Fedora project has released the first beta test version of Fedora 11 after an announced delay from its original milestone.

In July this year, the KDE community conference (Akademy) and the Gnome Users and Developers' Conference (GUADEC) will for the first time be co-located on the Spanish Canary Islands. Registration for the event has already opened and KDE is calling for presentation submissions.

The Ubuntu User Forum reports users with data loss after installing applications on the ext4 filesystem. Kernel developer Ted Ts'o is already on top of it.

The openSUSE team is abandoning its usual half-year release cycle and is planning its next versions for every eight months instead.

The KDevelop team released its first beta version of the development environment for KDE and Qt programs.

Nokia issued its first release candidate for Qt 4.5 that includes, among other things, translucent widgets.