Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/40

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

The last trimester of 2025 has begun, and the northern hemisphere of the planet is getting colder; days are grey and short. What could be better than updating your Tumbleweed system? Only one thing: contributing to the package pool! Remind yourself: openSUSE is maintained by a vibrant community, and everybody is invited to help make the distributions better. Of course, Tumbleweed does not want to steal the spotlight from Leap 16.0 this week

Tumbleweed has seen a total of five snapshots (0925, 0929, 0930, 1001, and 1002) this week, bringing you these changes:

  • GNOME 49.0: GDM has switched to dynamic users to support multi seat setups. We have seen issues with machines that had an /etc/nsswitch.conf without ‘systemd’ registered as lookup for ‘passwd, shadow, and groups’. Have a look at https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250513 for details
  • Coreutils 9.8
  • Poppler 25.09.1
  • Boost 1.89
  • Meson 1.9.1
  • strace 6.17
  • AppStream 1.1.0
  • Ghostscript 10
  • LLVM 21.1.2
  • PHP 8.4.13
  • Linux kernel 6.16.9 & 6.17.0
  • linux-glibc-devel 6.17
  • Postgresql 18.0
  • Mesa 25.2.3 & 25.2.4
  • cURL 8.16.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 143.0.3

The testing areas are currently looking into these areas of development:

  • KDE Plasma 6.5 beta
  • Systemd 258
  • Rust 1.90
  • ffmpeg-8 as default ffmpeg-implementation

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