openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2019/48 & 49

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Once again I’m spanning two weeks; besides the normal work on getting you openSUSE Tumbleweed updated and timely delivered, the release team has been working together with the build service team to implement/stabilize the OBS-internal staging workflow. There is (should) not be any real noticeable difference for the contributors – except the new used URLs. The Factory Staging dashboard can now be found at https://build.opensuse.org/staging_workflows/1

During the last two weeks, we have pushed out 10 Tumbleweed Snapshots (1121, 1122, 1123, 1124, 1126, 1127, 1128, 1202, 1203 and 1204) containing those changes:

• openSSL 1.1.1d
• YaST updates
• Linux kernel 5.3.12
• Mesa 19.2.6
• firewalld 0.7.2
• bind 9.14.8
• alsa 1.2.1
• fprintd 0.9.0
• Perl 5.30.1
• QEmu 4.2.0-rc3

Currently, all stagings are full and a lot of things are happening – and OBS does not like me for this it seems. Stagings seem to progress a bit slower at the moment than they used to. But this could be just a timing issue as all stagings were rebased at the same time after the workflow switch. Hopefully, things will settle soon there. The notable changes being staged at the moment are:

• RPM 4.15.0
• Python 3.8
• Rust 1.39.0: break Firefox and Thunderbird so far
• libxml 2.9.10
• Linux kernel 5.4.1
• libvirt 5.10.0
• KDE Frameworks 5.17.4
• KDE Applications 19.12.0 (currently rc2 in testing)
• Qt 5.14.0 (currently release candidate in testing)