Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week, the openSUSE/LibreOffice conference has started, but Tumbleweed did not let itself be stopped by that. During this week, we have seen 5 snapshots being published (1008, 1009, 1011, 1012, and 1014).
The most relevant changes included:
- Mozilla Firefox 81.0.1
- Linux kernel 5.8.14
- LibreOffice 7.0.2rc2
- GNOME 3.36.7
- KDE Applications 20.08.2
- KDE Frameworks 5.75.0
- KDE Plasma 5.20.0
This is mostly as announced last week about the upcoming things. This leaves us currently with these major changes left in planning/staging:
- GNOME 3.38.1 (mozjs78 has since been improved, but is not yet available in Tumbleweed)
- Mesa 20.2 (The transparency issues seem to be fixed in combination with Plasma 5.20.0, so it’s shaping up well)
- openssl 1.1.1h (neon (gh#notroj/neon#38 issue still valid, but the maintainer debugged and accepted the test failures)
- openssl 3.0 (long-term; no progress in the last few weeks)
- RPM 4.16: steady progress made with package fixes.
- nasm 2.15.4: breaks dav1d, firefox, and thunderbird (which both ship embedded dav1d)
- libmicrohttpd 0.9.71: breaks pcp and libyui
- jsoncpp 1.9.4: breaks libyui
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Do we expect to see further 5.8.x kernel updates during the interim, or a jump to 5.9.x?
Next will be 5.8.15 – with backported fixes for bleeding tooth; Kernel 5.9 will come soon™, but there will be major issues around nvidia drivers – some users will likely want to pin their systems to a 5.8.x kernel due to that.