Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Week 44 ended quickly, as Friday was a public holiday where I live. To not keep you wondering forever what happened this week, I took the time to write up the review of the week. Luckily, the stagings seemed to pass rather ‘on their own’ without much hand-holding, making things easier. We have published seven snapshots (1024, 1025, 1027, 1028, 1029, 1030, and 1031) since the last weekly review post..

The most relevant changes included in these snapshots were:

  • KDE Plasma 6.2.2
  • Linux kernel 6.11.5
  • Util-Linux 2.40.2
  • GPG 2.5.1
  • PHP 8.3.13
  • PAM 1.7.0
  • Inkscape 1.4
  • openSSL 3.1.7
  • Qemu 9.1.1

Staging projects are ‘crowded’, mainly with a few experiments (some of them might a bit longer to deliver):

  • Linux kernel 6.11.6
  • openSSL 3.2.x
  • Enabling python 3.13 modules; Python 3.11 will remain the default for now.
  • Swig 4.3.0: Needs fixed for ldns and libftdi1
  • LLVM 19 / Mesa 24.2.x: no changes for the last few weeks: openQA still sees inverted colors

Generic call for help: Since changing the compiler to GCC 14 in August, we still lack many build fixes. The expectation was that maintainers would catch the build failures in the devel projects and act on them. Unfortunately, that only happened on about 25% of the observed failures. To make the remaining ones more prominent, I triggered rebuilds of all the failing packages. This will trigger the build-fail-reminder to inform maintainers in the next few days. An up-to-date list of current failures can be found at https://tinyurl.com/ysy4nnnz