Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Tumbleweed – full steam ahead! There have been 6 snapshots in the last week, some with quite some changes. The snapshots were 0227, 0228, 0229, 0301, 0303 and 0304.

The changes include:

  • Zypper 1.14.34: beware! This version no longer supports abbreviated command line parameters (e.g zypper install --no-r is no longer accepted, you need to spell --no-recommends out)
  • GCC 10 is available and provides base libraries to the system
  • KDE Plasma 5.18.2
  • Linux kernel 5.5.6
  • Many changes in various YaST modules
  • gimp 2.10.18

The future will bring those changes, sooner or later:

  • Python 3.8: The latest fixes should be there. IF nothing new shows up, this will ship next week
  • binutils 2.34
  • Qt 5.15.0 (currently betas being tested)
  • Ruby 2.7 – possibly paired with the removal of Ruby 2.6
  • GCC 10 as the default compiler
  • Removal of Python 2
  • GNU Make 4.3
  • RPM: change of database format to ndb