Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
Tumbleweed is in full swing – with a staggering 6 snapshots published since the last weekly review. And this, despite me having to discard 2 snapshots (one for being totally broken, and one was discarded because it took too long to test). The six snapshots published were 0415, 0416, 0417, 0418, 0420, and 0422.
The major changes included:
- Mozilla Thunderbird 78.9.1
- Poppler 21.04.0
- Postfix 3.5.10
- Mesa 21.0.2
- Linux kernel 5.11.15
- Pipewire 0.3.25
- Ffmpeg 4.4
- LXQt 0.17.0
- GCC 10.3.0
- RPM 4.16.1.3
- Lua 5.4.3
- SQLite 3.35.5
- LLVM 12
- Python 3.9 modules: besides python36-FOO and python38-FOO, we are testing to also shop python39-FOO modules; we already have the interpreter after all. Python 3.8 will remain the default for now. Building in snapshot 0415
This was quite a list of things happening, and the python 3.9 module introduction definitively took a while to enusre we don’t just trip over our own feet.
Things keep on moving, and we are currently testing integration of the following bits and pieces for Tumbleweed:
- Linux kernel 5.11.16+
- KDE Applications 21.04.0
- Mozilla Firefox 88.0
- GCC 11 as default compiler
- TeXLive 2021
- UsrMerge is progressing well, thanks to Ludwig for his continued work here. The current state is that we checked in all changes and are planning on actually doing the switch somewhen in the not too far future