openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/08

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

The week having 7 days is defined. Tumbleweed reaching a daily snapshot is almost as defined. It’s pretty rare to do anything else. No surprise on this front this week when we delivered the 7 snapshots (0216…0222) to the users.

The most relevant changes delivered include:

  • dav1d 1.1.0
  • git 2.39.2
  • mozjs 102.8.0 (used to power gnome-shell)
  • PHP 8.1.16
  • poppler 23.02.0
  • samba 4.17.5
  • Ruby 3.2 is now the default
  • Python 3.11 modules are being shipped (the default python3 interpreter is still version 3.10)
  • openssl 3.0.8
  • binutils 2.40
  • mutter 3.43+2: fix regression of 3.43 regarding window focus being ‘weird’

Staging projects are mostly cleared – except the long-running ones expected to be with us a bit longer. The main changes coming to Tumbleweed in the next few days/weeks are:

  • SQLite 3.41.0: Take note of https://sqlite.org/quirks.html#dblquote which is enforced by this version when using the CLI
  • KDE Plasma 5.27.1
  • Podman 4.4.2
  • Linux kernel 6.2 & linux-glibc-devel 6.2
  • cURL 7.88.1
  • zstd 1.5.4
  • Mesa 23.0.0
  • Gcc 13 as distro compiler (progress tested in Staging:Gcc7)