Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/38

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

When reviewing the content of the six snapshots (0911, 0912, 0914, 0915, 0916, and 0917) released during week 38, it becomes apparent that this was ‘the week of the KDE desktop’. But don’t fear, GNOME Friends, you shall be served soon, too.

The most relevant changes published during the last week were:

• KDE Gear 25.08.1
• KDE Plasma 6.4.5
• KDE Frameworks 6.18.0
• fwupd 2.0.15 & 2.0.16
• Linux kernel 6.16.6 & 6.16.7
• polkit 126
• systemd 257.9
• SETools 4.6.0
• pipewire 1.4.8
• sudo 1.9.17p2
• GStreamer 1.26.6
• LLVM21 is now used by default
• qemu 10.1.0
• Java 25 openJDK

The testing area is filled with these changes, hopefully reaching you soon:

• openSSL 3.5.3
• Mozilla Firefox 143.0
• Boost 1.89 requires some more help, see tracking bug https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1249599
• GNOME 49: working out some build cycle, but submissions should be piled up and be ready soon