# Financial update: 2025 financial report and new budget

DevFeed: [Financial update: 2025 financial report and new budget](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/financial-update-2025-financial-report-and-new-budget-41771.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/03/11/pmOS-budget-and-financial-update/>)

Published: 2026-03-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [postmarketOS Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/postmarketos-blog.md>)

Topics: [foss](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/foss.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>)

Tags: [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [financial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/financial.md>), [postmarketos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postmarketos.md>), [report](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/report.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>)

## AI overview

A postmarketOS financial update reviews the 2025 budget against actual income and expenses, explains the move to automated double-entry bookkeeping with hledger, and outlines the approved 2026 budget, including q6voice rework and upstreaming for Linux Mobile devices.

## Source excerpt

At the end of January, the 2025 financial year for postmarketOS came to its end, and soon afterwards the budget for the 2026 financial year got approved. Therefore, it is time for a new financial update! This blog post is split into a look at the 2025 budget (plan vs. execution), and further below the budget for 2026, of which the most exciting part is probably the q6voice rework and upstreaming which will improve audio significantly for postmarketOS and other Linux Mobile distributions on a large number of QC devices. Thanks to everybody who has donated to postmarketOS to make this possible! 2025 financial year report During the 2025 financial year we have put a lot of work and emphasis on financial automation, which lead to a previous report mid-year. However, as our income and expenses have continued growing, the complexity of the operations have too. In consequence, just tracking the money in and money out of our Open Collective account is no longer enough to represent our financial situation. For example, if a certain task has been commissioned to happen in 2025, but for whatever reasons the invoice only arrived in 2026, there needs to be a way to keep track of that. The standard way to do so is by using double-entry bookkeeping. Luckily, there are a few FOSS tools which allow to still automate most of such setup, and keep things transparent. We have decided on hledger and published our initial journal file with the 2025 financial year data here. We will go through it below. Budget and results The plan for 2025 was to receive 12948EUR  in donations income, and have 27785EUR  as expenses. The idea was to reduce the 47000EUR  that were laying in our account and put them to good use. Given that through the year we saw a remarkable increase in income, we amended the budget twice, increasing the expenses for a total of 35985EUR . We did so to be able to execute on the goal of putting money to good use, rather than have it sit in a bank account. At the end of the year, we receiv