Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week has been really slow for Tumbleweed snapshots—at least as far as the published ones are concerned. Since my last review, only two snapshots were shipped, and 5 more were passed on to openQA for testing and discarded. This was not really a surprise to us; we somewhat expected this to happen. The major change (in the next snapshot to be published) is the switch to grub2-bls on UEFI-based systems. The technical change itself was ok for a while, but it took a while to get a good feel for the openQA results, without masking other errors behind the ‘bootloader does not look as expected by QA’ step. And to confirm: it was good for us to hold back some snapshots, as there were indeed some fun bugs hiding behind closed doors.
Enough of the history, let’s look at what the two snapshots (1030 and 1031) brought you this week:
- Mozilla Firefox 144.0.2
- ImageMagick 7.1.2.8
- pam-mount 2.22
- Mesa 25.2.6
- Linux kernel 6.17.6
The next snapshot to be published will hopefully bring a few more changes. Staging areas and QA are currently busy testing integration of:
- GRUB2-BLS as the default bootloader selected by the installer on UEFI-based systems; This will only impact new installs. An automatic migration from grub2-efi to grub2-bls is not planned
- Linux kernel 6.17.7
- KDE Plasma 6.5.2
- Qt5 5.15.18
- openSSH 10.2p1
- LXQt 2.3.0
- Mesa will bring Vulkan support to WSL
- transactional-update 5.5.0: enables soft-reboot if possible
- openSSL 3.6.0: regression detected, which causes nodejs22 testsuite to fail
- kernel hardening: prevent normal users from seeing dmesg
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