openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2020/44

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Week 44 brought, among many other things, an upgrade to Kernel 5.9.1. The feedback I had seen so far was good, so people can still do their work.

In total, Tumbleweed has released 5 snapshots (1023, 1024, 1025, 1026, and 1028) during this week. The most noteworthy changes include:

• Freetype 2.10.4
• sssd 2.4.0
• Ghostscript 9.59.3 (there is again a patch lever in the version number; some scripts/apps trip over this)
• Mozilla Firefox 82.0
• Mozilla Thunderbird 78.4.0
• Cups 2.3.3
• Linux kernel 5.9.1
• GStreamer 1.18.0
• Ruby 2.6 has been completely eliminated
• nasm 2.15.05
• PostgreSQL 13
• jsoncpp 1.9.4

Looking back at the stuff being integrated, that was indeed a big part of that list. Currently, we build these major changes in our staging projects (ar are aware of the changes upcoming soon)

• KDE Plasma 5.20.2
• Perl 5.32.0
• GLibc will be configured with CET enabled (Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology)
• LLVM 11
• RPM 4.16
• Ruby 3.0 (final release is scheduled for the end of December)
• GNOME 3.38.1: awaiting sec review for malcontent (parental control feature)
• openssl 3.0 (long-term; no progress in the last few weeks)