openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2020/15 & 16

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Two short (work) weeks just passed; The long Easter weekend kept me away from writing last weeks report. So I have to catch up now, covering two weeks worth of snapshots. There were 10 snapshots released in those two week (0401, 0402, 0405, 0407, 0408, 0409, 0410, 0411, 0413 and 0414).

The noteworthy changes were:

• Linux kernel 5.6.0 & 5.6.2
• openSSL 1.1.1f
• Mesa 20.0.4
• MozillaFirefox 74.0.1 & 75.0
• KDE Plasma 5.18.4.1
• Poppler 0.86.1
• GNOME 3.34.5
• GCC 9.3.1
• GNU make 4.3
• LLVM 10
• Ruby 2.7 has been added; but no gems are being built yet

Looks like a long list, but it was spread over two weeks. And some of those changes had been brewing for a long time already. The future changes you can expect are:

• Removal of Python2 (VERY SOON!). We will remove all python2-FOO modules, but keep the python2 interpreter, python2-setuptools and python2-pip around. So people who need to can still base their work on that. This is supposedly happening in Week 17
• KDE Frameworks 5.69.0
• Linux kernel 5.6.4
• Systemd 245
• Poppler 0.87 (for once a painfree update?)
• GNOME 3.36
• KDE Applications 20.04 (RC being tested at the moment)
• Guile 3.0.2: breaks gnutls’ test suite on i586
• Qt 5.15.0 (currently beta3 being tested)
• Switch from Ruby 2.6 to 2.7
• GCC 10 as the default compiler