Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
Another week, another steady flow of updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed! During this seventh week of 2026, we successfully rolled out a total of five snapshots: 0205, 0206, 0207, 0209, and 0212.
If you keep a close eye on the factory mailing list, you might have noticed the missing announcement for snapshot 0209. Rest assured, the snapshot itself was built and published flawlessly. Unfortunately, a backend service fault in the diff generator prevented the notification from being sent out. Because the service couldn’t mark 0209’s announcement as “done,” it treated the snapshot as unpublished from a notification standpoint. As a result, the changelog for 0209 was simply rolled up and merged into the rather large announcement email for snapshot 0212.
With that minor administrative quirk out of the way, here are the most notable package updates that landed on your machines this week:
- gdk-pixbuf was reverted to 2.44.4, as 2.44.5 requires unreleased glycin for xpm support
- systemd 258.3
- Mesa 26.0.0 RC3
- KDE Gear 25.12.2
- git 2.53.0
- suse-module-tools 16.1.3: scheduler change, see separate announcement on the factory mailing list
- coreutils 9.10
- Samba 4.23.5
- Mozilla Firefox 147.0.3
- dracut 109+suse.37: Switch from https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut to https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng
- gnutls 3.8.12
- GStreamer 1.28.0
- p11-kit 0.26.2
- SQLite 3.51.2
With those updates safely delivered and settling into the repositories, the focus shifts to what is coming next. The build service never sleeps, and contributors are already hard at work putting the next wave of package upgrades through their paces. Here is a glimpse into the staging projects and what the future holds for Tumbleweed in the coming days/weeks:
- libzypp adding support for UAPI-style configuration
- Mesa 26.0.0 (final
- KDE Plasma 6.6 (currently 6.5.91 in testing)
- glibc 2.43
- Linux kernel 6.19.0
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