openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/03

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

As we can see in the number of larger and smaller things going through the staging process, the holiday season is over. To get all the changes out to the users, we have published six snapshots (0112, 0114…0118) this week.

The main changes delivered were:

  • Linux kernel 6.6.11
  • Pipewire 1.0.1
  • Samba 4.19.4
  • Mozilla Firefox 121.0.1
  • Systemd 254.8
  • KDE Frameworks 5.114.0
  • ffmpeg 6.1.1
  • Bash 5.2.26
  • elfutils 0.190
  • gnutls 3.8.3
  • Wine 9.0

The staging projects currently show the community working on these changes:

  • RPM 4.19.1: getting closer to be ready. packagers: please ensure to read/understand Ana’s announcement at https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/HG2JKUIKDTWQQIQSA43A4VWHX7YKJQT3/
  • rpm-config-SUSE: enable full ksym() dependencies in Tumbleweed
  • Mesa 23.3.3
  • Linux Kernel 6.7
  • QEmu 8.2.0
  • dbus-broker: a big step forward; upgrades seem to be an issue that need to be addressed
  • Ruby 3.3: all buld fails have been fixed/have a fix submitted. QA should happen next week.
  • libxml 2.12.x: slow progress
  • openSSL 3.2.0
  • c-ares 1.21.0: nodejs build fails have been resolved, but a new cycle has formed: appstream-glib, c-ares, curl, googletest, nghttp2, python311