Dear Tumbleweed users and rolling release aficionados,
Another week, another fresh batch of snapshots for openSUSE Tumbleweed! Week 15 of 2025 brought in three solid snapshots — 20250403, 20250405, and 20250409 — with a healthy mix of desktop polish, toolchain improvements, and a sprinkle of bug fixes across the board. Let’s take a quick dive into the highlights!
🔷 Snapshot 20250403: KDE Plasma 6.3.4 – The Polish Continues
The entire KDE Plasma 6 stack received a minor bump to version 6.3.4, bringing incremental improvements and bugfixes across the board:
- Plasma Desktop, KWin, System Settings, Discover, and all your favorite Plasma companions now reflect this version.
- This update targets stability, performance, and visual consistency. No flashy new features, but plenty of refinement!
Other notables:
- libvirt 11.2.0 and QEMU 9.2.3 help keep your virtualization experience top-notch.
- mozilla-nss 3.109 landed, updating core TLS/SSL libraries.
- Python world saw updates like
python-libvirt-python, ensuring compatibility with the new libvirt version.
📦 Snapshot 20250405: Core Stack Evolves
This snapshot was all about the plumbing:
- btrfsprogs was bumped again to 6.14, continuing the evolution of the default Tumbleweed filesystem.
- libsolv and libzypp received updates, which help fine-tune package resolution and improve zypper performance and behavior.
- dracut received another SUSE-specific update, ensuring smoother initramfs generation.
- For devs and scripters, m4, ed, and python-gobject got modest version updates.
- sdbootutil was updated twice this week (again in 20250409), reflecting ongoing work around bootloader and Secure Boot handling.
🌟 Snapshot 20250409: Gnome Touch-ups and Qt6.9 Lands
This snapshot was a heavy hitter, especially for desktop users:
- Mozilla Firefox 137.0 brings the latest browser enhancements, performance tweaks, and security patches.
- The GNOME stack saw refinements:
- Updates to Gnome Control Center, Gnome Keyring, Remote Desktop, and more.
- These likely align with GNOME 48 maintenance polishing.
- GTK4 4.18.4 and libportal, libsoup, glib2 updates continue improving GNOME app responsiveness and interoperability.
Big win for Qt fans:
- Qt 6.9.0 landed across the board — including all its modules from
qt6-basetoqt6-webengine. Expect compatibility improvements and performance boosts in Qt-based apps.
Other highlights:
- Mesa 25.0.3 and drivers updated again — always a treat for gamers and Wayland users.
- PHP 8.4.5 landed, bumping up both the interpreter and the Apache module.
- Kernel 6.14.1 and firmware updates bring the latest hardware enablement.
- poppler 25.04.0, ImageMagick, GIMP, and FFmpeg 7.1.1 updates round out a rich multimedia set.
🧩 Tumbleweed’s Rolling Momentum
This week showed the strength of Tumbleweed’s integration work: frequent Plasma and GNOME refinements, Qt and toolchain updates, and a healthy dose of backend upgrades.
As always: zypper dup is your friend. Roll forward, not backward!
Stay tuned, and until next time: keep rollin’!
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