Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/29

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

This week was quite busy and successful, with 5 snapshots (0709, 0710, 0712, 0714, and 0715) published to our users.

Last week, we promised to put selinux-policy back into the queue after having temporarily reverted it to bypass the openQA failures, and we did just that. It turned out our theory was spot-on! In snapshot 0714, the SELinux Toolchain 3.11 landed, and confirmed our dependency fix for rpm-plugin-selinux was correct

Another noteworthy change is the reversion of the gvim GTK4 build back to GTK3. While we strive to ship the latest technology, the current state of the GTK4 port simply does not live up to the quality promises we give to our users, resulting in clipboard deadlocks. Thus, we chose stability over the shiny new build.

These five snapshots delivered the following updates:

• SELinux Toolchain 3.11 (together with selinux-policy)
• KDE Frameworks 6.28.0
• QEMU 11.0.2
• GStreamer 1.28.5
• Vim 9.2.0780
• PipeWire 1.6.8
• freetype 2.14.3
• poppler 26.07.0
• curl 8.21.0
• git 2.55.0
• BusyBox 1.38.0
• php 8.5.8
• postfix 3.11.5
• timezone 2026c
• kernel-firmware 20260710
• Rust 1.97

Let’s take a look at what we can expect in the coming days and weeks.

• KDE Plasma 6.7.3
• systemd 261.1
• Perl 5.44.0
• linux-glibc-devel 7.1: Last holdup at this time is llvm (15 – 21)
• Podman 6.0.0: Undergoing integration and sync testing with buildah and skopeo. Staging seems to pass, but for this stack we also get some manual testing
• GCC 16 as the default system compiler. If my eyes don’t deceive me, qemu seems to be the last package failing to build