Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

We released six snapshots during 2024/40 (0926, 0927, 0929, 0930, 1001, and 1002). Based on personal feelings, the week seemed ‘mixed’ – Requests came in, and requests went out. And a few things seem to hang there for longer again.

Let’s first look at what you have received during the last week, starting on the positive side of things:

  • Bash 5.2.37
  • cURL 8.10.1
  • fwupd 1.9.25
  • GStreamer 1.24.8
  • GTK 4.16.2
  • Linux kernel 6.11.0
  • openSSH 9.9p1
  • systemd 256.6
  • TCL 8.6.15
  • PostgreSQL 17.0 (final release)
  • LibreOffice 24.8.2.1
  • PHP 8.3.12
  • Audit 4.0
  • timezone 2024b
  • Virtualbox 7.1.0
  • Cups 2.4.11
  • AppArmor 4.0.3
  • grub2: introduces a new package, grub2-x86_64-efi-bls, which includes a straightforward grubbls.efi file

On the staging projects, we have some larger changes being worked on by multiple people. Some of the more interesting changes to come are:

  • Libproxy 0.5.9
  • KDE Plasma 6.2
  • GNOME 47: webkit2gtk3 breaks python-wxPython on i586; help appreciated
  • Busybox 1.37.0
  • XWayland 24.1.3
  • LLVM 19
  • Mesa 24.2.x: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/11840
  • 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.