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The Content Moderation Feature Is Out For Everyone

by the OBS Team posted on 12th Oct 2026

The Content Moderation feature is now available to every user in OBS to combat spam, abuse, and misconduct effectively. It provides a powerful toolset for both users and moderators to report, review, and act on problematic content across OBS.

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Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-10-09)

by the OBS Team posted on 9th Oct 2026
Production on SLES 16 and lots of osc fixes: Tiny Wins for OBS Packagers this week! Read more...
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Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-10-02)

by the OBS Team posted on 6th Oct 2026
A brief look at last week's OBS Packaging work Read more...
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We Are Launching the Content Moderation Feature

by the OBS Team posted on 2nd Oct 2026

On Monday, October 12th, the Content Moderation feature will be moved out of the beta program to make it accessible for all the OBS users. Unfortunately, OBS is not free from spam, scam, malicious packages or other forms of users misconduct. The Content Moderation tools help users and moderators to keep them under control.

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Content Moderation Becomes Stronger

by the OBS Team posted on 1st Oct 2026

Today we are presenting three new features that make content moderation more powerful.

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Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-09-25)

by the OBS Team posted on 29th Sep 2026
A look back at last week’s OBS packaging highlights Read more...
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Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-09-18)

by the OBS Team posted on 22nd Sep 2026
Activities beyond primary product development from last week! Read more...
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Introducing Enhanced Distribution Support

by the OBS Team posted on 17th Sep 2026

The Open Build Service contains a lot of information about distributions and releases, but it’s not very clearly visible. If you work on these projects every day, you can hold the concepts and connections in your head. Enhanced Distribution Support gives that information a home in OBS.

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Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-09-11)

by the OBS Team posted on 11th Sep 2026
Warming up the engines after vacation Read more...
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Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-09-04)

by the OBS Team posted on 4th Sep 2026
OBS Tiny Wins: Just another weekly package builds record, nothing to see, move along! Read more...
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Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-08-21)

by the OBS Team posted on 21st Aug 2026
Ruby on Rails 8.1, one new contributor and a couple of specialized backend features. Tiny Wins for OBS this week. Read more...
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Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-08-14)

by the OBS Team posted on 14th Aug 2026
A quiet holiday time week! Read more...
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Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-08-07)

by the OBS Team posted on 7th Aug 2026
A minor OBS 2.10 release and a minor osc release! Two unused APIs dropped and one fixed. And Rails 8! Read more...
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Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-07-31)

by the OBS Team posted on 31st Jul 2026
Loads of UI fixes, one new release target validation and packaging agent skills! Read more...
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Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-07-24)

by the OBS Team posted on 27th Jul 2026
Another broken package build record, the /trigger/release API changed, support for cosign newbundle format and kiwi_metainfo_helper got build reproducible. Read more...
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Post-mortem: Backend overloaded by interconnect traffic

by the OBS Team posted on 15th Jul 2026

On July 15th, the Open Build Service (OBS) experienced a service degradation.

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SCM/CI: Project Links and Better Handling of Disconnected Branches

by the OBS Team posted on 8th Jul 2026

We have some news to share regarding the SCM/CI integration for the Open Build Service. The feature has been extended with a link project step, allowing you to create project links in your workflows. On top of that, we improved the handling of Git branches that do not contain a workflow definition (workflow.yml file).

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Post-mortem: Service under excessive load

by the OBS Team posted on 8th Jul 2026

On July 8th, the Open Build Service (OBS) experienced a service degradation.

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Improvements to stay in the loop

by the OBS Team posted on 15th Jun 2026

Today we bring you two small improvements that will help you stay in the loop. Let’s begin!

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Introducing Shared Canned Responses

by the OBS Team posted on 28th May 2026
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OBS has featured canned responses for a while now. Previously, users could only create personal canned responses under their profiles. With this latest update, we have expanded the feature so they can be shared across projects and packages.

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