openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2023/36 & 37

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Due to my contributing to different things last Friday, I had to skip the weekly review (again) and thus will have to span two weeks again this time. As Tumbleweed rests in the capable hands of Ana, this is not an issue: Tumbleweed keeps on rolling without me being present after all. Just as we expect it to be. During the last two weeks, we have released 9 snapshots (0901, 0902, 0904, 0906, 0908, 0910, 0911, 0912, and 0913).

The most relevant changes in those nine snapshots included:

• glibc fix for malloc: Enable merging of remainders in memalign, remove bin scanning from memalign
• Mesa 23.1.6 & 23.1.7
• Mozilla Firefox 117.0 & 117.0.1
• Grub 2.12 RC1
• KDE Gear 23.08.0
• KDE Frameworks 5.110.0
• git 2.42.0
• Linux kernel 6.4.12 & 6.5.2
• Pipewire 0.3.79
• Samba 4.18.6
• PHP 8.2.10
• GNOME 44.4
• Coreutils 9.4
• Python 3.11.5
• btrfsprogs 6.5
• systemd 254.3
• Qemu 8.1.0

This list makes it quite obvious: the vacation period is over. The performance issues around OBS/openQA after the data center move seem also to be well under control for the moment.

Staging projects currently hold these changes to be tested:

• KDE Plasma 5.27.8
• KDE Gear 23.08.1
• GNOME 45 (currently RC staged, final release scheduled for September 20; we should be able to deliver this rather swiftly. NOTE: extensions need to be updated for this GNOME version!)
• libproxy 0.5.3 (changing from 0.4.18): This is the rewrite maintained by Volkswagen Group
• FMT 10: breaks mariadb boo#1213219 and ceph boo#1213217; help welcome
• libxml2 2.11.x