Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
Another week has passed and there was probably something of interesting to everybody. So, we have released 6 snapshots since my last review (0814, 0815, 0816, 0817, 0818 and 0819).
The most relevant updates were:
- gdb 9.2
- qemu 5.1.0
- GNOME 3.36.5
- KDE Applications 20.08.0
- sqlite3 3.33.0
- LibreOffice 7.0.1 RC1
The list of major upgrades being brewed did no get much shorter, those are still:
- Linux kernel 5.8.2
- glibc 2.32
- binutils 2.35
- gettext 0.21
- bison 3.7.1
- RPM changes: %{_libexecdir} is being changed to /usr/libexec. Basically all build failures are addressed by now, openQA is starting to look good.
- openSSL 3.0
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Hmmm, what’s the kernel delay? main is at 5.8.4, software.opensuse.org claims 5.8.2 should be there but as you say – still brewing. Some bugs delaying things? I know Virtual Box is broken with the 5.8.0 (which is why I am suddenly interested in the kernel – it broke VM’s which is pretty nasty) but there’s something else too?
5.8.2 will be in the next snapshot (0825) once it passed openQA; The kernel team has not sent 5.8.1 for integration, so it never landed in Tumbleweed.
Just today I received a submission for 5.8.4 – once Staging is done (i.e. all builds still succeed and QA passes_ it will be in an upcoming snapshot (I estimate 0828 – but no guarantees)
VirtualBox is not going to be fixed with any of those afaic – it requires updates coming from Oracle