Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week was interesting from an engineering point of view and involved some under-the-hood work—like reworking the kernel-firmware packet into more than 30 smaller source packages. The benefit is for the users: finally, only the kernel—* package with the relevant blobs needs to be rebuilt and distributed. Before, they were all just the outcome of one large build and their build counters were in sync. So updating firmware in package A resulted in also rebuilding B – and having users update this, despite not having a single change.
As part of the 4 published snapshots (0216, 0217, 0218, and 0219) there were also some more user-visible – or admin-relevant – updates, like:
- cURL 8.12.1
- Pipewire 1.3.82
- Linux kernel 6.13.2 & 6.13.3
- KDE Frameworks 6.11.0
- SELinux 3.8
- openSSL 3.2.4
- Zypper 1.14.84: aborts dup in case of repositories not being available
- PHP 8.3.17
- PostgreSQL 17.3; PostgreSQL 12 has been removed from the repository
- Qemu 9.2.1
- Ruby 3.4.2
- systemd 257.3
- openSSH 9.9p2
The items being worked on, based on the Staging area, are:
- KDE Plasma 6.3.1
- MariaDB 11.7.2
- Mesa 25.0.0
- Boost 1.87
- ZStd 1.5.7
- move to openmpi5
- glibc 2.41: please help work out the errors in https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:O
- Python 3.13 as the default Python interpreter: Pending issues can be seen at https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:A. Just 4 more packages to go!
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