openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of Weeks 2021/13 & 14

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Dominique has been enjoying a vacation these last two weeks and left Tumbleweed in my hands. Thanks to all who’ve helped out as I got to grips with holding the reins solo for the first time.

These two weeks also saw the long Easter weekend. That said, we still managed to release 5 snapshots (0325, 0329, 0330, 0401 and 0406) during this fortnight, with 0408 currently in testing and an 0409 likely to be checked in tonight.

The changes delivered these weeks included:

• SELinux 3.2 (now also used by default in MicroOS)
• transactional-update 3.3.4
• A large amount of YaST updates
• Mozilla Firefox 87.0
• git 2.31.1
• kernel 5.11.11
• Mesa 20.3.5 with a large number of fixes
• MicroOS GNOME Desktop reaching [BETA] quality

The future, near or far, will bring those updates:

• systemd v246.13 with cgroupsv2 enabled by default (Currently being tested in 0408)
• libvirt 7.2.0 (Currently being tested in 0408)
• GNOME 40 (Currently being needled, hopefully will be included in 0409)
• KDE Plasma 5.21.4
• LibreOffice 7.1.2.2
• nodejs 15.14.0
• gstreamer 1.18.4
• Further MicroOS GNOME Desktop improvements
• Python 3.9 modules: besides python36-FOO and python38-FOO, we are testing to also shop python39-FOO modules; we already have the interpreter after all. Python 3.8 will remain the default for now.
• UsrMerge is progressing well, thanks to Ludwig for his continued work here
• GCC 10.3.0
• GCC 11 as the default compiler

Have a lot of fun!

– Richard