Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
As we are used to by now, Tumbleweed is kicking and rolling. 7 snapshots in a week would be nothing surprising. Unfortunately, this week we ‘only’ reached 6 snapshots. Number 7 was discarded – not for having issues, but the next snapshot passed so quickly through OBS that it was ‘ready for testing; before openQA could even finish the previous run. Not something we see very often. In any case, no harm done: you just needed an extra day of patience to get some of the updates.
The 6 snapshots published were called 0901, 0903, 0904, 0905, 0906, and 0907 and delivered these changes:
- Linux kernel 5.19.7
- libssh 0.10.3
- SQLite 3.39.3
- NMap 7.93
- Mozilla Thunderbird 102.2.1
- librsvg 2.55.1
- SETools: no longer recommend python3-networkx, which pulled in way too much, incl. pandoc
- NetworkManager 1.40.0
- Flatpak 1.14.0
- GCC 12.2.1
- Libvirt 8.7.0
In the future, near or far, I predict these changes to reach Tumbleweed:
- Mozilla Firefox 104.0.2
- KDE Plasma 5.25.5
- GTK 4.8.0
- Mozilla Thunderbird 102.2.2
- LibreOffice 7.4.1
- libxml 2.10.2
- Linux kernel 5.19.8
- KDE Gear 22.08.1
- grep 3.8: declares egrep and fgrep as deprecated. Switch to grep -E resp grep -F
- util-linux 2.38.1: this also brings a massive package layout change, which will probably take some time to settle. It’s part of the distro bootstrap and we have to be careful to not blow it out of proportion
- fmt 9.0: Breaks ceph and zxing-cpp
- gpgme 1.18: breaks libreoffice
- libxslt 1.1.36: breaks daps