openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/02

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

It was another uneventful week for Tumbleweed: 6 snapshots were submitted to openQA for testing and all have returned successfully and been published. In staging, of course, the picture is a bit darker, but that’s all shielded before it reaches users and as such does precisely what we want it to do: safeguard the distro and detect issues before they are problems.

The main changes delivered in the 6 snapshots (0106…0111) include:

  • Python pytest 7.2.0
  • Meson 1.0.0
  • KDE Plasma 5.26.5
  • Linux kernel 6.1.3 & 6.1.4
  • Libzypp 17.31.7
  • Mozilla Firefox 108.0.2
  • KDE Gear 22.12.1
  • firewalls 1.3.0
  • systemd 252.4
  • Qt 5.15.8

In the staging area, we are busy testing the effects and working on the fallout, of

  • Mesa 22.3.3
  • Boost 1.81.0: breaks libetonyek and LibreOffice
  • Python Sphinx 6.1
  • libraw 0.21.0: breaks gegl (fix in the queue already)
  • GnuPG 2.4: breaks gpgme:qt
  • Ruby 3.2 to become the default ruby version: YaST is failing
  • Switch to openSSL 3: Progress tracked in Staging:N