openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2018/49

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

The first week of the last month of 2018 is over – but openSUSE Tumbleweed keeps on rolling without an end. 4 snapshots have been published in this week: 1130, 1203, 1204 and 1205, bringing those updates:

• Linux kernel 4.19.5
• Virtualbox 5.2.22
• PackageKit 1.1.12
• Samba 4.9.3
• KDE Plasma 5.14.4

The stagings are all a bit long-living at the moment, and the future changes to be announced largely unchanged compared to last week:

• glibc 2.28, Python 3.7, openssl 1.1.1: the three all interdepend on each other and cause a bunch of new failures – See Staging:C
• LLVM7 / Mesa 18.2.x (rust fails to build with LLVM7)
• Installer redesign: the sidebar is coming back (showing where in the installation workflow one is currently)
• PostgreSQL 11
• Linux kernel 4.19.7
• Perl 5.28