Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
‘The weed is tumbling’ – with a set of five snapshots in week 39 (0924, 0925, 0926, 0927 and 0928). If we keep this up and manage to improve just a little bit, there is nothing stopping us from daily snapshots.
What did all those snapshots bring us:
- Mesa 12.0.3
- GNOME 3.22 late bloomers (some non-core apps often are released a bit late)
- irssi 0.8.20 – CVE-2016-7044 and CVE-2016-7045
- Mozilla Firefox 49.0.1
- bind – CVE-2016-2776
- Linux Kernel 4.7.5
- openssl 1.0.2j
And some things many of you have been waiting for are in the staging areas:
- Freetype 2.7 – some people actually started working on the fixes. THANKS!
- Qt 5.7 – It seems to shape up. I think it won’t be much longer
- KDE Plasma 5.8 is being prepared. We hope for a timely integration
- Mono 4.6
- Bash 4.4 – Fixes for logrotate and dracut required
With the weekend ahead, some of us will make use of the time to fix more issues, some will just relax. Whatever it is you do: have a lot of fun
I am using openSUSE Tumbleweed since the beginning and things seem to be so stable in my system that I really wonder why the upcoming Leap release still contains software packages older than the ones of Tumbleweed. My opinion is that openSUSE Leap 42.2 should consist of a general upgrade of the whole old stuff of the current release to the exclusion of YaST and its modules. The openSUSE ecosystem has SLE 12 for production purposes and the common users of openSUSE Leap are offered bug fixes through the update repositories. The concepts of maturity and production levels in on hand and the concept of Long Term Support (LTS) in the other hand are worth a revision within the development team in order to keep our pole position in the ranking of the mainline Linux distributions. I hope that some other followers of this blog of yours will express their ideas about my point of view.
openSUSE Tumbleweed is the rolling Linux distribution so far and many thanks to the development team for the work being done.
openSUSE Linux is unbreakable.
Have a lot of fun…
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