Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/37

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