openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/38

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