Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Tumbleweed went for a small break this week and delivered ‘only’ 4 snapshots (0914, 0915, 0917, and 0920). The large gap happened due to a test suite error in icu, which resulted in all stagings turning red. Once this was resolved, the fix was added in parallel to multiple stagings to resume progress.

The 4 delivered snapshots contained some eagerly awaited updates (at least for some):

  • KDE Plasma 5.27.8
  • KDE Gear 23.08.1
  • Linux kernel 6.5.3
  • GNOME 45.0
  • Libproxy 0.5.3
  • groff 1.23.0
  • PostgreSQL 16.0

The staging projects are mostly moving, a few select issues have been with us for a while by now and block some updates. The things on the list are:

  • Java 20 OpenJDK will be removed; Java 21 OpenJDK added. Mid-term, we will switch from Java 17 LTS version to Java 21 LTS as the distro default
  • Linux kernel 6.5.4
  • Poppler 23.09.0
  • LLVM 17
  • Mesa 23.1.8
  • cmake 3.27.5
  • FMT 10: breaks mariadb boo#1213219 and ceph boo#1213217; help welcome