openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/47

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

This has been a week filled with Tumbleweed snapshots. Six of them, to be precise (1116, 1117, 1119, 1120, 1121, and 1122). The most relevant changes that could be delivered this week include:

• Linux kernel 6.6.2
• btrfsprogs 6.6.2
• fwupd 1.9.8 & 1.9.9
• GStreamer 1.22.7
• Node.JS 21.2.0
• Pipewire 0.3.85
• Poppler 23.11.0
• LibreOffice 7.6.3.1
• libxml 2.11.6
• LLVM 17.0.5

Staging projects are far from full: only five out of 15 have anything in them, and 4 of them are not even expected to move at the moment. So keep those things coming! The relevant changes (including the non-moving stagings) are:

• the package cnf-rs will be renamed to cnf (matching the command name)
• PHP 8.2.13
• libxml 2.12.0 in Staging:L – I can’t even start to list what is not building
• Sudo/polkit changes with the introduction of a sudo/wheel group to allow the user to choose if they want to use this over the way we configured sudo so far (targetpw). The sudo submission is interfering on some level with toolbox (toolbox -r id fails to return the expected info so far)
• c-ares 1.21.0: breaks nodejs
• wxWidgets 3.2.3: breaks wxPython bindings
• Testing of the two compiler flags -fcf-protection=full and -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern
• RPM 4.19: no further progress made (user handling conflict between sysuser-tools and RPMs new implementation)
• dbus-broker: no progress: openQA fails to even launch the network stack in the installer