Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
The main task completed this week was bisecting/testing Mesa 24.1.7 together with Stefan Dirsch. Getting things tested was a bit nasty, but at least we managed to work through it and update Tumbleweed to Mesa 24.1.7 as part of snapshot 0915. Of course, that’s only one update picked out and it’s not the biggest one, just the one that consumed the most attention. In total, we have released six snapshots during this week (0912, 0913, 0915, 0916, 0917, and 0918).
The most relevant changes were:
- cURL 8.10.0
- KDE Gear 24.08.1
- Bluez 5.78
- Boost 1.86.0
- LibreOffice 24.8.1.2
- Qemu 9.1.0
- KDE Frameworks 6.6.0
- Mesa 24.1.7
- strace 6.11, linux-glibc-devel 6.11
- Python Numpy 2.1.1
- Python Sphinx 8.0.2
- GTK 4.16.1
- GNOME Shell & mutter 46.5
Based on the currently staged submit requests, we know that these items are being worked on at the moment:
- Linux kernel 6.10.11 (no 6.11 just yet)
- timezone 2024b: postgresql16 currently fails the test suite
- PostgreSQL 17 as new default
- Audit 4.0
- grub2 change: Introduces a new package, grub2-x86_64-efi-bls; some scenarios do not install the proper branding package
- Python Sphinx 8.0.2
- 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 24.2.x: identified an issue with ‘wrong’ colors (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/11840)