Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
“Ask, and it will be given to you” – if you believe KDE Plasma 6 happened this week because many users asked for it, you are mistaken. Things don’t happen in Tumbleweed because some/many ask for it – but because some/few WORK on it (most do so in their spare time). As a community project, the devs don’t need more people asking ‘When is it done’, but rather ‘Here, this is my contribution; or ‘Can I help out’.
Despite all the questions asked and repeated, the package maintainers and developers still found sufficient time to deliver content. This week we have published 6 snapshots (0307…0311, 0313). As usual, the next snapshot is in openQA and may or may not be published later today.
The most relevant changes of the past week were:
- LibreOffice 24.2.1.2
- libvirt 10.1.0
- Mozilla Firefox 123.0.1
- gpg 2.4.5
- Poppler 24.03.0
- KDE Plasma 6.0.1 See https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/FZ7OPVGZS3IIJKTQSB5JIGAFPIU466R3/
- KDE Frameworks 6.0.0
- KDE Gear 24.02.0
- Linux kernel 6.7.9
The future holds more updates. Currently, the teams are working on:
- KDE Plasma 6.0.2 (addressing a bunch of issues found in the last days)
- Systemd 255.3
- linux-glibc-devel 6.8 (kernel 6.8 headers)
- LLVM 18
- Shadow 4.15.0
- Linux kernel 6.8.0 (or later): dpdk needs attention
- Cleanup of KDE/Plasma 5 packages
- Removal of Python 3.9 modules: in order to be able to successfully perform this, most – if not all – python-* packages should be fixed. Counterintuitively, removing a python flavor means we need to successfully rebuild the packages (python-singlespec)
- dbus-broker: no progress this week
- libxml 2.12.x: slow/no progress
- GCC 14: phase 2: use gcc14 as the default compiler
5 responses to “openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/11”
“Ask, and it will be given to you….minus secure-boot!!!!
Not sure what you mean – but SecureBoot is supported and even tested in QA (we use a MS-signed shim); if you have an issue, please file a bug report at https://bugzilla.opensuse.org
I am not very happy with the so called mega release.
Sorry but many problems.
My PC restarts after the update. Is it normal in the update process ?
It restarts with wayland by default.
I select x11 to minimize the problems.
kwallet, kwallet pam, kwallet signon is partilay instaled ( a mix of 5 and 6 version).!
Ctrl-Esc no more launch “process monitor”.
Link in a mail does not work when clicking, then no effects.
Kmail icon in the systray does not open kontact.
By default, a floating KDE control panel with a floating cascading menu. It’s an actual disaster.
There is no more a GUI with icons, only a cascading menu for kde systemsettings. It’s less easy than a one page presenting all the settings.
Many more English terms not translated in French.
With wayland :
kde control bar is weirdly displayed, randomly.
QEMU window of the VM is not in the list of the opened windows when listing with “wmctrl -lx”
Please file bug reports (one per issue) at https://bugzilla.opensuse.org – the KDE Team will surely try to solve what can be solved (I’m just a messenger)
@promeneur: I had a similar thing happen. Then I realized that due to the fact that I got kicked out of the running Plasma session during the update, the update never finished and the new Plasma ended up being installed only halfway. After re-running zypper dup from a virtual terminal, everything was back in order for me.