openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2020/25

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

7 days – 6 snapshots. That’s the quick summary of the last week. Felt unspectacular from that point of view, even though, unfortunately, the Tumbleweed users did have to fight a few problems this time aroud. The 6 snapshots released were 0611, 0612, 0614, 0615, 0616 and 0617. No worries, we did not skip 0613 for superstitious reasons – it just so happened that OBS needed a bit more time to build 0612.

The releases brought you these changes:

• git 2.27.0
• OpenSSH 8.3p1
• PostgreSQL 12.3
• SQLite 3.32.2
• SSSD 2.3.0
• Linux kernel 5.7.1: failures when loading firmware for iwlwifi based cards. The next kernel should bring the fix for that. As a workaround, you could use the uncompressed kernel-firmware package (instead of kernel-firmware-*)
• KDE Applications 20.04.2
• KDE Frameworks 5.71.0
• Mesa 20.1.1

The following changes are being worked on in staging areas:

• Linux kernel 5.7.2
• VLC 3.0.11
• KDE Plasma 5.19.1
• LibreOffice 7.0 (beta)
• RPM change: %{_libexecdir} is being changed to /usr/libexec. This exposes quite a lot of packages that abuse %{_libexecdir} and fail to build
• openSSL 3.0