openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/42

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Week 42 has been a busy one for Tumbleweed. A total of 6 snapshots have been released (1012, 1013, 1015, 1016, 1017, and 1018). Quite a few interesting discussions are also happening on the factory mailing list (e.g. Agama as the future installer, how to interact with patterns, and such).

But let’s look first at the updates you received during the last week:

• KDE Gear 23.08.2
• cURL 8.4.0
• Zypper 1.14.66
• Freetpe 2.13.2
• Pipewire 0.3.81
• Qt 6.6.0
• Samba 4.19.1
• Node.JS 20.8.1

Looking into the future, we know of these things being worked on at the moment (mainly due to pending submit requests that we have in staging right now):

• KDE Frameworks 5.111.0
• Samba 4.19.2
• Linux kernel 6.5.8
• Binutils 2.41
• moving to dbus-broker
• Removal of /run/utmp and /var/log/wtmp (See mailing list thread)