Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
The last two weeks have seen a steady stream of new snapshots with small gaps for some days. In total, we have published 11 snapshots since the last review: 0731, 0801..0807, 0810, 0812, and 0813.
The most relevant changes in those snapshots were:
- Linux kernel 5.7.11 & 5.8.0
- git 2.28.0
- A new UEFI signing key and grub2 fixes to address for the boothole security issue CVE-2020-10713
- GCC 10.2.1
- Mozilla Thunderbird 68.11.0
- /tmp is now tmpfs, no longer disk backed
- KDE Frameworks 5.73.0
- LibreOffice 7.0.0 stable release
And in the next days/weeks, you can expect these changes to happen:
- GNOME 3.36.5
- KDE Applications 20.08.0
- glibc 2.32
- binutils 2.35
- gettext 0.21
- bison 3.7.1
- RPM changes: %{_libexecdir} is being changed to /usr/libexec. This exposes quite a lot of packages that abuse %{_libexecdir} and fail to build. Additionally, the payload compression is being changed to zstd
- openSSL 3.0
[…] http://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2020/08/opensuse-tumbleweed-review-of-the-weeks-2020-32-33/ […]
While I am looking forward to these updates/upgrades, there is one area where Tumbleweed needs addressing. vis:
make strip leap 15.2 gcc -Os
-rwxr-xr-x 1 leslie leslie 18840 Jul 12 12:03 fstablsblk <—— before running strip
-rwxr-xr-x 1 leslie leslie 11696 Jul 12 12:03 fstablsblk <—— after running strip-
-rwxr-xr-x 1 leslie leslie 54576 Jul 12 12:03 fstabxref before running strip —–+
-rwxr-xr-x 1 leslie leslie 39336 Jul 12 12:03 fstabxref <———— after |
|
-rwxr-xr-x 1 leslie leslie 54576 Jul 12 12:03 xstabxref |
-rwxr-xr-x 1 leslie leslie 39336 Jul 12 12:03 xstabxref |
| ======================================================= |
make strip with Tumbleweed -Os |
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23192 Jul 13 07:42 fstablsblk |
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15856 Jul 13 07:42 fstablsblk |
|
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 63200 Jul 13 07:42 fstabxref < before |
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 47600 Jul 13 07:42 fstabxref < after ————————+
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 63200 Jul 13 07:42 xstabxref
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 47600 Jul 13 07:42 xstabxref
I do my compiling for production with leap 15..2 , just because of file sizes.
Tumbleweed has too much overhead for C language / Clang or gcc compiles)