Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/2

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

The holiday lull is over, and Factory is buzzing again. Developers and packagers are back in force, pushing a steady stream of submissions our way. As always, every change is carefully reviewed, staged, tested, and evaluated before release. The result: just under 500 submissions processed in a single week, shipped across five snapshots — 0102, 0103, 0105, 0106, and 0108.

The most relevant changes released this week include:

• SDL 3.4.0
• ALSA 1.2.15.1
• xfsdump 3.2.0
• xterm 406
• Inkscape 1.4.3
• Ruby 4.0 — all ruby34-rubygem-* packages have been removed in favor of the new ruby40-rubygem-*
• Linux kernel 6.18.3
• GNOME 49.3 components — as usual for a .3 release, only components with noteworthy fixes were updated
• Mesa 25.3.3
• ncurses 6.6
• cURL 8.18.0

The staging projects are currently well populated, with the following updates under test:

• transactional-update 6.0.3
• Linux kernel 6.18.4
• KDE Gear 25.12.1
• xz 5.0.2
• run0-wrapper, available as an optional sudo replacement