openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2021/39

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

After the massive update in the last week due to a full rebuild caused by glibc 2.34, this week seems ‘somewhat’ quieter. Or at least from a Release manager PoV less involvement hungry. Yet, we managed to release 5 snapshots during this week (0923, 0924, 0926, 0927, and 0928).

The most notable changes in those snapshots included:

  • Linux kernel 5.14.6
  • Mesa 21.2.2
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 91.1.1
  • Perl 5.34.0: some perl modules could not yet successfully be rebuilt)
  • Boost 1.77.0

Matches very much what was announced last week, which is a good sign. Staging projects and builds currently contain:

  • GNOME 41.0 (Snapshot 0929+)
  • Linux kernel 5.14.8 (Snapshot 0930+)
  • Mesa 21.2.3
  • Switch to Rust 1.55
  • Meson 0.59.2
  • KDE Plasma 5.23 (once released)
  • RPM 4.17
  • gpg 2.3
  • openssl 3.0