Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
Tumbleweed keeps being predictable when it comes to the update cadence. This week, we could publish 5 fully tested snapshots (1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, and 1110).
The main changes contained in these snapshots were:
- Mozilla Thunderbird 91.3.0
- Mozilla Firefox 94.0.1
- KDE Gear 21.08.3
- Meson 0.59.4
- GNOME 41.1
- Libvirt 7.9.0
- More improvements to rpmlint 2
Based on the staging projects and the snapshot currently under build, we predict to be able to deliver these items soon™:
- Coreutils 9.0
- X.org server 21.1: the reported DPI change has been reverted, as it was much more intrusive than anticipated
- XEN 4.16.0
- Linux kernel 5.15.1: in a later step, the compression method for kernel modules will be changed from xz to zstd
- Rust 1.56
- ICU 70.1
- Bash: moving away from update-alternatives to handle /bin/sh; To allow busybox to step in as ‘sh’ provider, we are switching to a package replacement model (e.g. bash-sh, busybox-sh). Those packages will install the relevant /bin/sh symlinks
- tbb 2021.4: breaks opencv3
- gc 8.2.0: breaks texlive and guile
- openSSL 3.0: No visible progress in the staging. Main blockers so far seems to be python 3.6 and python-cryptography
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Hi Dominique,
Is it possible to backport a kernel patch into the current or upcoming kernel 5.15?
It fixes an important HW issue and seems that it might be only ready for 5.16 or even later.
Thank you for your help!
It would be this patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git/commit/?id=be896bd3b72b44126c55768f14c22a8729b0992e
that has been documented here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1936295
and here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209167
Best way is to file a request in https://bugzilla.opensuse.org for this so that the kernel developers can give their opinion on it.
Thank you, Dominique.
I opened up request there. Keep up the good work.