Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

During this week, 3 Tumbleweed snapshots have been synced out to the mirrors (1101, 1104 and 1106). The main changes included:

  • KDE Plasma 5.17.2
  • Mesa 19.2.2
  • Mozilla Firefox 70
  • Linux kernel 5.3.8
  • Java 12 openjdk has been dropped
  • util-linux gained libeconf support, aka /usr/etc support. With this, the distro files from /etc/pam.d were moved to /usr/etc/pam.d
  • RPMs that are being rebuilt have their embedded changelog trimmed to Jan 1 2018 (in order to save some size of the binary rpms)

Some things are still actively being worked on, like:

  • python 3.8
  • openssl 1.1.1d
  • Linux kernel 5.3.9+
  • rpm 4.15: it promises higher build speed, as some tasks are being executed in parallel
  • Kubernetes 1.16.2