Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/51

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

The year is slowly coming to an end, and there are only a few days left in 2025. Naturally, in this period, things tend to slow down a bit. People start preparing to see their loved ones, take a vacation, or generally take time off from the online world. What does that mean for Tumbleweed? The good news: nothing. Tumbleweed keeps rolling; just some days will see slower response times, and requests might linger a bit longer. The process remains unchanged, though: unless openQA confirms the quality of a snapshot, we will prefer to hold a snapshot back in the absence of developers being able to validate its impact. I’m sure that’s in everybody’s best interest.

During the last week, we have been able to publish 4 snapshots (1212, 1215, 1216, and 1217), containing these changes:

  • Bash 5.3.9
  • KDE Gear 25.12.0
  • Linux kernel 6.18.1
  • Qemu 10.1.3
  • KDE Frameworks 6.21.0
  • LLVM 21.1.7
  • Samba 4.23.4
  • Changed the default for Node.js to version 24
  • Rust 1.92

As mentioned, the number of requests are getting a bit lower, but there are still things in the queue being handled at the moment. Most notably, these changes:

  • Ruby 3.4.8
  • PHP 8.4.15 & 8.4.16
  • Mozilla Firefox 146.0.1
  • Linux kernel 6.18.2
  • Enablement of Python 3.14 modules, while removing Python 3.12. This simple we would provide python 3.11, 3.13 (default) and 3.14
  • Ruby 4.0: early testing in staging. So far, this looks all good
  • Removal of LUA 5.1

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