Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
As I informed you in my last ‘weekly review’ (end of week 27 – so three weeks ago), I enjoyed some vacation time of my own and used it to recharge by entirely stepping away from computers. Of course, you did not notice anything, as Ana was there to steer the big Tumbleweed ship around and snapshots have been delivered constantly. for completeness, I will also include things that happened during my absence to give more continuity to the reports.
During the weeks 28 – 30, 11 snapshots could be published (0705, 0708, 0709, 0710, 0711, 0712, 0714, 0715, 0716, 0722, 0724, and 0725). There was a larger gap between 0716 and 0722, as openQA detected some issues on Mesa and sdbootutil,. As we did not want you to suffer through those problems, snapshots were held back and the issues addressed.
The most relevant changes included in those snapshots were:
- Mesa 24.1.3
- Mozilla Firefox 127.0.2 & 128.0
- KDE Gear 24.05.2
- PHP 8.3.9
- Apache 2.4.61
- cmake 3.30.0 & 3.30.1
- NetworkManager 1.48.4
- Ruby 3.3.4
- SELinux 3.7
- Linux kernel 6.9.9
- KDE Frameworks 6.4.0
- KDE Plasma 6.1.3
- LibreOffice 24.2.5.2
- trasnactional-update 4.7.0: soft-reboot feature not yet enabled, as it takes a bit more time to get QA adjusted for this during the summer break
- Agama installer medium is generated as part of the snapshot. This is not yet the default installer, but you are invited to check out progress. ISOs are published in https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/appliances/iso/
The staging projects are currently nicely filled; some things are passing tests already, and others will take a bit more time. But you deserve to know what’s brewing, namely:
- gnutls 3.8.6
- Qemu 9.0.2
- Lua 5.4.7
- Systemd 256.4
- AppArmor 4.0.2
- Linux kernel 6.10.1
- cURL 8.9.0: breaks test suite of cmake
- ffmpeg-7 as system default (currently ffmpeg-6). A big bunch of packages is still stuck on ffmpeg-4.
- transactional-update: enable soft reboot; see https://microos.opensuse.org/blog/2024-06-13-soft-reboot/
- dbus-broker: some networking issue after upgrades left to work out
- GCC 14: phase 2: use gcc14 as the default compiler – lots of help needed: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:Gcc7