Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/12

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Tumbleweed is rolling full steam ahead with 7 snapshots in 7 days (0312 through 0318). No major issues have shown up in openQA – everything was detected and fixed in the staging areas.

Without further ado, let’s look at what those snapshots brought you this week:

  • libzypp 17.38.4 / zypper 1.14.95 / libsolv 0.7.36
  • sdbootutil 20260311 & 20260313
  • Mesa 26.0.2
  • cURL 8.19.0
  • Linux kernel 6.19.7 & 6.19.8
  • php 8.4.19
  • systemd 259.5
  • KDE Frameworks 6.24.0
  • gimp 3.2.0
  • kbd 2.9.0
  • pipewire 1.6.2
  • Ruby 4.0.2
  • elfutils 0.194
  • gpg 2.5.18

Let’s see if we can keep that pace next week, and if so, what changes you can expect:

  • GCC 16: build fix for s390x
  • Linux kernel 6.19.9
  • Switch default bootloader on uefi systems to systemd-boot (aligning tumbleweed to microos)
  • cmake 4.3.0
  • LLVM 22
  • GCC 16 as the default compiler
  • Autoconf 2.73.0: currently the bate staged to identify issues
  • GNOME 50: Final is staged for QA, some sec reviews and 3rd party package fixes pending
  • glibc 2.43: metabug: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1257250

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