openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2020/08

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

After a week of hacking on different stuff and being in the background for Tumbleweed while Oliver took on the role of Release Manager, I am back with you. And we have released three snapshots this week (0214, 0218 and 0219). The gap between 0214 and 0218 was the integration of glibc 2.31. But of course, there was more happening this week. So here comes the list:

• glibc 2.31
• Mozilla Firefox 73.0
• KDE Frameworks 5.67.0
• Linux kernel 5.5.4
• PostgreSQL 12.2
• MicroOS Desktops are available as part of the MicroOS DVD installer

Things you can expect come to a snapshot in the (hopefully not too far) future:

• zsh 5.8 (Snapshot 0220+)
• libcap 2.30 (snapshot 0221+)
• GNOME 3.34.4
• llvm 6 will be removed from the repository
• Linux kernel 5.5.5
• KDE Plasma 5.18.1
• Ruby 2.7 – possibly paired with the removal of Ruby 2.6
• GCC 10
• Python 3.8 (unchanged, awaiting the fix for salt)
• Removal of Python 2
• GNU Make 4.3
• RPM: change of database format to ndb