Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/33

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Week 33 went without major hiccups for Tumbleweed snapshot building and testing, and so it happens that we released once again 8 Snapshots in a week (0807…0814).

The changes are numerous, most interestingly:

• Mozilla Firefox 141.0.2
• KDE Plasma 6.4.4 & KDE Frameworks 6.17.0
• python cryptography 45.0.5
• Postfix 3.10.3
• openSSL 3.5.2
• gnu gettext 0.25.1
• NetworkManager 1.52.1
• GTK 3.24.50
• Linux kernel 6.16.0
• GStreamer 1.26.5
• PHP 8.4.11
• qemu 10.0.3
• Bash 5.3.3
• Readline 8.3.1
• python PIP 25.2
• python pytest 8.4.1

A few things are still in the staging areas – either submitted recently or having issues passing QA; most interestingly, we have these changes lined up:

• KDE Gear 25.08.0
• Linux kernel 6.16.1
• Rust 1.89: build fix for 389-ds pending
• glibc 2.42: yast2/text mode installation looks ‘broken’ (missing blue background)
• Mesa 25.2: Xvfb crashes on 32bit systems (https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247995)
• Python 3.13.7: build fix for qemu pending
• nftables 1.1.4: issues detected by openQA in combination with netavark
• openSUSE-welcome: prepare infra to have different ‘welcome apps’ per desktop (e.g gnome-tour on gnome)