Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week we ‘only’ delivered 5 snapshots. But at least it was big ones, so that makes up for it. The review covers the snapshots {0211..0215}.
What did you receive
- apparmor 2.11.0
- KDE Plasma 5.9.1
- KDE Applications 16.12.2
- Linux Kernel 4.9.9
- grep 2.28, with performance improvements
- PackageKit-Qt: no more support for Qt4
In the staging ares, some work has been happening, but the usual suspects are still awaiting some love:
- rpm 4.13.0 – the easy ones seem fixed; some obscure errors are left; mainly rpmlint seems to have trouble now
- KDE Plasma 5.9.2
- Mesa 17.0.0 (jumping up from 13.0)
- Linux Kernel 4.9.10
- glibc 2.25: still some failures left to tackle
- util-linux will no longer pull in insserv for you. If your package makes use of it, you are now responsible for it
- Libreoffice 5.3 – still fails the test suite on ppc64le
- Python 3.6 – almost ready. The final piece is apparmor, where a fix is in the works / almost ready
As many will have noticed, the legal-auto bot is currently ‘much more reluctant’ to accept submissions. This is due to a total rewrite/restructuring of the legal process. See Stephan Kulow’s mail for more information.
Hi Dim*,
Thanks a lot again for the job being done to keep openSUSE Tumbleweed at the pole position of the Linux distributions.
I recently discovered a new module of YaST with the title: “Add system extensions or modules”. What kind of extensions or modules are meant by the description and why is a server-side registration required. I am simple user and not a system admin. Do I eventually need the extensions or modules which are provided or are they rather reserved for corporations?
It took long to upgrade SYSTEMD to version 232, but once you guys have done things work very well. So will the software packages you listed above. Just be patient like always and you will continue delivering the Best of the best operating systems.
openSUSE Linux is unbreakable.
Have a lot of fun. . .