Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
First off, it has been a bit too quiet from my side on the weekly reviews. The last one published was 2025/25 – the ‘error’ for you missing out on the information is solely on my side: first, there was the openSUSE conference, which was a lot of fun seeing many of you (hopefully many more next year). After that, I dared to take a vacation, which probably nobody realized, as Tumbleweed kept rolling just fine without me. I’ll spare you all the changes that happened in the weeks when no review was conducted. Only so much: a total of 22 snapshots have been released.
This review will cover the events that occurred during this week, essentially snapshots 0718, 0722, and 0723. As can be seen already from the numbers, there was a slightly longer gap between 0718 and 0722. This is partly due to the weekend, but also because of some issues with the planned SELinux 3.9 upgrade, which needed to be debugged first to understand why certain tests were failing. In between, we have reverted to SELinux 3.8 to unblock the tests and keep rolling, while debugging further in an isolated system (and the SELinux, of course, figured it out, addressed the issue, and resubmitted SELinux 3.9, which will be part of Snapshot 0724)
The most relevant changes published in the three mentioned snapshots were:
- KDE Plasma 6.4.3
- Mesa 25.1.6
- Apache 2.4.64
- cURL 8.15.0
- gpgme 2.0.0
- Linux kernel 6.15.7
- LibreOffice 25.2.5.2
- SQLite 3.50.3
Snapshot 0724 is currently in QA and looks very promising. This snapshot and the near future should bring you these changes:
- SELinux 3.9
- Bash 5.3
- Linux kernel 6.15.8
- Mozilla Firefox 141.0
- GStreamer 1.26.4
- gettext 0.25.1
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