Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/41

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Week 41 started strong, with daily snapshots released, but unfortunately, we hit some roadblocks by the end of the week. A seemingly harmless rename of a snapper plugin caused quite some havoc in openQA, as SELinux was unaware of that change and consequently, a completely untrusted executable was blocked from messing around with the bootloader. Generally, exactly what we want – except in this case, it was an intentional rename of a file. The change has been retracted for now and will be given back to engineering.

Still, we managed to release five snapshots this week (1003, 1004, 1005, 1006, and 1007), containing these changes:

  • GTK 4.20.2
  • polkit rules prepared for systemd v258
  • SDL 3.2.24
  • Rust 1.90
  • FreeRDP 3.17.2
  • Apparmor 4.1.2

The next snapshots in the making will bring these changes:

  • FFMpeg 8 by default
  • Linux kernel 6.17.1
  • GIMP 3.0.6
  • libxml2 2.14.5
  • QEmu 10.1.1
  • Ruby 3.4.7
  • KDE Plasma 6.5 (beta 2 is staged, being tested)
  • KDE Gear 25.08.2
  • Qt 6.10.0
  • GNOME 49.1
  • util-linux 2.41.2

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