Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
During week #4, we have released five snapshots. And this, despite having discarded two snapshots for QA issues. openQA saved our users from crashing chromium inside a KDE/Wayland session for example. The five snapshots released were 0116, 0117, 0118, 0121 and 0122.
The releases contained these updates:
- Mesa 19.3.2
- systemd 244
- Dracut 049+git118: the purge-kernels-service has been removed in favor of being in a separate package, based on zypper commands. That service is as of now not yet auto-enabled though (the zypper call negatively interacts with the PackageKit notification applets, fixes are being prepared)
- Linux kernel 5.4.12 & 5.4.13
- Qt 5.14.0
- Poppler 0.84.0
This was quite a bit of what was reported last week as being in the works. Staging/integration tests are curretnly busy with these changes:
- Python 3.8
- Removal of python 2
- gettext 0.20.1
- libcap 2.30: breaks fakeroot and drpm
- GNU make 4.3: has some major incompatibilities. Observe fallouts at in Staging:O.
- KDE Plasma 5.18 (currently beta being tested)
- Linux kernel 5.4.14+
- netcfg moves a few files from /etc to /usr/etc (services,. protocols): currently, AppArmor is blocking access to those files, so we need some changes there