Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week was filled with snapshots – in just 7 days, we have published 8 snapshots; ok, there is just the co-incidence that the snapshot that was in QA from Thursday to Friday finished much quicker this week than last week – so we ended up having the latest one already on the mirrors at the time of my writing. We have not (yet) invented the time compression machine to publish more snapshots in a week. But honestly, I also don’t think anybody would care for more snapshots. Let alone: the numbering scheme does not support more than one snapshot ‘built’ per day (in rare cases, QA can be speedy and we had seen 2 snapshots syncing out on the same day).
Now, the curious one doesn’t care about the number of snapshots, but rather what changes those snapshots contained. Here are the changes delivered in the snapshot 0116…0123:
- Gimp 3.0 RC2: we are aware of the rc state, and the fact that some plugins are not ported to gimp 3. But that finally allows us to eliminate Python 2 and allows you to test it to make it as good as possible for future Leap versions.
- gpg 2.5.3
- GNOME 47.3
- Samba 4.21.3
- SQLite 3.48.0
- util-linux 2.40.4
- Mozilla Firefox 134.0.1
- LLVM 19.1.7
- PHP 8.3.16
- RSync 3.4.1
- Coreutils 9.6
- Linux kernel 6.12.10 & 6.13.0
- libxml 2.13.5
That’s quite an impressive list for just one week. Let’s look into the future and see what is planned to come:
- Removal of nscd
- Mesa 24.3.4
- Wine 10.0
- Systemd 257
- Timezone 2025a: breaks test suite of PostgreSQL
- Removal of Python 2 – It was nice as long as it lasted, but now it’s over (and we’re amazed at how many wrong dependencies we detected just the last few days)
- RPM 4.20
- KDE Plasma 6.3: beta 2 is currently staged, but that’s merely to detect errors early and allow shipping swiftly after the release
- Change of default LSM from AppArmor to SELinux is progressing, status is tracked at https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1230118.
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