openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2021/09

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

This week has proven to be challenging for Tumbleweed. We have built and tested 6 snapshots, and only 2 of them were of sufficient quality to send out to the users. Of course, that means our QA infrastructure is well suited in protecting you, the users, from running into trouble – and that is the best thing we can show with this.

The two snapshots published were 0227 and 0302, containing these interesting changes:

• NetworkManager 1.30 – with WPA3 support
• The YaST stack update, as recently announced by the YaST team
• Mozilla Firefox 86.0
• Mozilla Thunderbird 78.8.0
• KDE Plasma 5.21.1
• Dracut 053
• krb5 1.19.1
• pipewire 0.3.22: pipewire-pulseaudio should mostly be able to replace PulseAudio
• podman 3.0.1

A big chunk of what was announced last week was thus delivered, a few things are still on the todo – together with a few new things:

• Linux kernel 5.11.2
• openssl 1.1.1i, based on centralized crypto-policies package
• KDE Plasma 5.21.2
• glibc fix for our i586 users
• GCC 11 as the default compiler