openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the Weeks 2016/34

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Time seems to be flying, it feels like I only just wrote review of week 33 and now week 34 is already over again. A perfect moment to look back what the three snapshots (0818, 0820 and 0822) offered us.

• GNOME Maps – New Map provider
• A lot of YaST updates
• Kernel Firmware 20160804
• Skanlite 2.0 – ported to KDE Framework 5
• Linux Kernel 4.7.1
• GCC 6.2 RC1

Quite the list, updated kernel, updated compiler. One snapshot had been discarded this week: we are trying to align the usage of /etc/os-release which resulted in Tumbleweeds snapshot version to be shown in GRUB.

What will be coming your way soon:

• GCC 6.2
• ModemManager 1.6.0 – I know some of you are waiting for it
• Linux Kernel 4.7.2 – Upstream is fast, so are we
• Pattern changes: The ‘Minimal Server Selection’ was removed from the installer. It was basically identical to the ‘Server (Text Mode)’ entry
• KDE Applications 16.08.0
• KDE Framework 5.25.0
• Plasma 5.7.4

Have a great time!