openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the Week 2016/29

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Week 29 brought us, as usual, 4 snapshots. Those were 0715, 0716, 0718 and 0720. The most spectacular update was in 0715, but the entire week is noteworthy as Tumbleweed brought you those updates:

• Plasma 5.7.0
• KDE Framework 5.24.0
• KDE Applications 16.04.3
• Freetype 2.6.5
• Kernel 4.6.4
• The Live images again contain an installer option – now based on NET install

The following this are still brewing in staging areas:

• TeXLive 2016 – issues are solved, we can expect this in week 30
• Plasma never sleeps: version 5.7.2 pending

Seems short, but we can also see quite some resources from developers and testers redirected to openSUSE Leap 42.2 – which is a very welcome addition of course.