Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/36

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

After all the troubles and successes of the last weeks, this one felt less spectacular and more like a smooth sail, which was a welcome change. Submissions were incoming at about the same rate as we could process them, which is a great sign.

We have published six snapshots (0830, 0901…0905) containing these changes:

  • PHP 8.3.11
  • Linux kernel 6.10.7
  • freerdp 3.8.0
  • Ruby 3.3.5
  • Libvirt 10.7.0

The backlog looks reasonably good, nothing has been there for too long. As a small overview, we are currently testing the integration of:

  • Linux kernel 6.10.8
  • Boost 1.86: breaks LibreOffice / cmis; fixes are in the works
  • go 1.23 as default go compiler: ignition is broken. An upstream bug is filed, and a possible fix/workaround is submitted to the development project
  • grub2 change: Introduces a new package, grub2-x86_64-efi-bls; fixes for installation-images were submitted today; tests pending
  • Python Sphinx 8.0.2
  • Python Numpy 2.1.0
  • Change of the default LSM (opted in at installation) to SELinux. AppArmor is still an option, just not the default. This change only impacts new installations
  • perl-Bootloader will be renamed to update-bootloader: it’s been a while since there was no Perl code. Some openQA tests need to be adjusted for this (https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/165686)
  • Mesa > 24.1.3: we keep on seeing openQA issues whenever we update to a version newer than 24.1.3, but so far could not yet pinpoint what is going wrong