Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Despite a few things taking longer than we wish (e.g. Mesa, which fails openQA tests, we are busy bisecting this), we see a lot of changes coming to staging that pass all tests and can be checked in within 24 hours.

All those changes helped us produce 5 snapshots during this week (0906, 0908, 0909, 0910, and 0911) containing these changes:

  • Linux kernel 6.10.8 & 6.10.9
  • Qt 5.15.15
  • mariadb 11.5.2
  • zypper 1.14.77 / libzypp 17.35.10
  • GTK 4.16.0
  • KDE Plasma 6.1.5
  • gdbm 1.24
  • go 1.23 as default go compiler

The next snapshot (0912) will be published later today, and 0913 is already building too. A few things are known to happen in the not-too-distant future, based on current submit requests being tested in staging. This includes:

  • cURL 8.10.0
  • KDE Gear 24.8.1
  • Boost 1.86
  • LibreOffice 24.8.1.2
  • timezone 2024b
  • 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