Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Updating two major desktops within one week is not to be taken lightly—yet, that’s exactly what Tumbleweed did this week. KDE and GNOME have received updates to the freshly released upstream versions. In the five snapshots (1003, 1005, 1006, 1007, and 1009) released this week, you could find these changes: […]
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Year: 2024
Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/40
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, We released six snapshots during 2024/40 (0926, 0927, 0929, 0930, 1001, and 1002). Based on personal feelings, the week seemed ‘mixed’ – Requests came in, and requests went out. And a few things seem to hang there for longer again. Let’s first look at what you have received during the […]
Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/39
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, This week looked pretty normal for Tumbleweed: we could publish 5 snapshots (0919, 0920, 0922, 0923, and 0924). 0925 was tested but needed to be discarded, as the cURL 8.10.1 update caused issues with libostree/flatpak. The issue could be resolved for Snapshot 0926, which is currently in QA and will […]
Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/38
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, The main task completed this week was bisecting/testing Mesa 24.1.7 together with Stefan Dirsch. Getting things tested was a bit nasty, but at least we managed to work through it and update Tumbleweed to Mesa 24.1.7 as part of snapshot 0915. Of course, that’s only one update picked out and […]