openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2022/40 & 41

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Already two weeks passed again since the last ‘weekly’ review. Of course, you are eagerly awaiting to be informed furthermore what happened during this time finally. A total of 8 snapshots have been released (0930, 1001, 1003, 1004, 1006, 1008, 1012, and 1013).

The main changes in these delivered snapshots were:

• Linux kernel 5.19.12 & 6.0.0
• Node.JS 18.10.0
• Pango 1.50.10
• fwupd 1.7.10
• QEmu 7.1.0
• kernel-firmware 20220930
• Switch to LLVM15
• PostgreSQL 15
• systemd 251.5
• Mozilla Firefox 105.0.3
• KDE Frameworks 5.99.0
• KDE Plasma 5.26.0
• Bash 5.2.2
• IceWM 3.0.1
• iproute2 6.0
• Samba 4.17.0
• Mesa 22.2.1

That’s quite a list of things accumulated in as short as two weeks. The next snapshot is already being built, and the staging areas are well utilized with these planned changes:

• Linux kernel 6.0.1
• Meson 0.63.3
• KDE Gear 22.08.2

I’m sure there will be more coming soon.