Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, One week – 7 snapshots. That means a week fully maxed out, more would not be possible without changing the version scheme of Tumbleweed (and no, I’m not considering that). So, since my last review, we published snapshots 1026 – 1101. As usual, some larger, some smaller – but none […]
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Year: 2017
Review of the weeks 2017/42 & 43
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Tumbleweed has been on the roll for the last two weeks and, thanks to all your efforts, a total of 7 snapshots reached the users since my last review. The snapshots had the versions 1013, 1017, 1018, 1019, 1022, 1023 and 1025 as usual, some had more or less impact […]
Review of the week 2017/41
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Week 41 felt rather ‘quiet’, don’t know why. it’s not as if nothing would have happened. There were, after all, 5 snapshots released (1005, 1006, 1007, 1009 and 1010), delivering on the promises from last week. Those snapshots contained those noteworthy updates: GNOME 3.26.1 KDE Plasma 5.11 Linux Kernel 4.13.5 […]
Review of the week 2017/40
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Week 40 was progressing nicely, with a new Perl version. Perl upgrades are known to always cause a few hiccups because new versions keep on getting stricter and stepping on the toes of lesser maintainer packages. But thanks to a handful of contributors, this went rather smooth (one snapshot was […]