Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
At first glance, this week might appear quiet, but openQA was hard at work behind the scenes. It successfully intercepted a regression in Kiwi that prevented unencrypted live images from booting. While the new optional encryption features are welcome, the inability to boot standard images was clearly a blocker. Thanks to rapid detection and reporting, the issue was quickly resolved. Although this cost us a single snapshot, we ultimately maintained a strong pace, delivering four snapshots this week (0122, 0123, 0126, and 0128).
These snapshots shipped with the following changes:
- Mozilla Firefox 147.0.1
- pipewire 1.5.85
- bind 9.20.18
- PackageKit 1.3.3
- cups 2.4.16
- Linux kernel 6.18.7
- PAM 1.7.2
- freerdp 3.21.0
- gimp 3.0.8
- cockpit 354
The staging areas are well utilized and are currently used to test these changes:
- Mesa 25.3.4
- Mozilla Firefox 147.0.2
- Linux kernel 6.16.8
- systemd 258.3: next try to get this updated, hopefully with better QA results this time. It will lay the groundwork for transactional-update to enable soft-reboot
- glibc 2.43
- KDE Plasma 6.6 (6.5.90) beta is being tested to be quickly ready to deliver it once released
- libzypp (adding support for UAPI style configuration) breaks a few image builds that attempted to change the default configuration for their use, most notably disabling recommends and documentation. In the future, there will be optional packages available to make this configuration easier for image maintainers but also for users, e.g. zypp-no-recommends
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