Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
Last week, the list of things ‘in the makings’ was rather long – yet, I can happily announce that the four snapshots released this week (0909, 0911, 0912 and 0913) contain pretty much what was promised last week. That means no large, unforeseen issues came up which the maintainers did not already anticipate before submission. Great job everybody!
So, what DID we get in those 4 snapshots:
- Mesa 12.0.2
- glibc 2.24
- AppStream metadata contains info about translations
- wayland-protocols 1.7 (xdg-shell version 6)
- libvirt 2.2.0
- wireshark 2.2.0
- Linux kernel 4.7.3, fixes CVE-2016-6480
There has been some big item regarding KDE on last weeks announcement. This is currently in openQA and, unless something very weird is found, will be part of the upcoming snapshot 0914.
What else is being molded:
- KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 (snapshot 0914+)
- KDE Applications 16.08.1 (snapshot 0914+)
- GNOME 3.22 (3.12.92 in staging, a timely release after the announcement upstream should be possible
- Freetype 2.7 – New subpixel hinting mode. There are currently two known failures that need to be addressed: libgd and python-Pillow. Volunteers welcome
- Linux kernel 4.7.4
- KDE Plasma 5.8 (5.7.90 in staging)
- GNOME 3.22 (3.12.92 in staging, a timely release after the announcement upstream should be possible
Those things will keep us all busy for the next couple days again
Hi DIM*
When can Tumbleweed users expect a version upgrade of Qt to 5.7? Or do the users have to wait for the release of Qt 5.8 and then an upgrade alongside KDE Plasma 5.8?
The promise of the development team is that openSUSE Tumbleweed will always offer the latest software packages while openSUSE Leap, based on SLE, will be a kind of LTS variant of the openSUSE distribution. Am I right?
Thanks a lot for the excellent job being done to provide us with our beloved and unbreakable Linux Distro.
Have a lot of fun …
You are basically all correct in what you say. There is one minor issue to consider: human resources. The people taking care of making KDE Plasma and Qt as fully functional in Leap as anyway possible are also the ones taking care of Plasma and Qt in Tumbleweed. The contributors for now try to keep their workload of things they do in their spare time on a level they can manage, which also means they had to slow down Tumbleweed a bit from that perspective. More hands obviously can achieve more things.
If somebody wants to step up to help it’s best to get in touch with the KDE Team directly (opensuse-kde mailing list)
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Thank you DIM* for your statement. I wish I had advanced knowledge in software development so as to bring a better contribution through the OBS. I suppose that basic programming skills are required to make a good software packager.
I hope that other users with those skills will soon get in touch with the KDE Team as you suggested it.
Friendly yours.
That’s good news about the new subpixel hinting mode. Do I have to do anything special to enable it?
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No configuration change should be needed – freetype 2.7 set it as the new default. But there are two packages failing to build with it. This needs to be addressed before freetype 2.7 will make its way into Tumbleweed.