Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week saw the release of 5 snapshots (0820, 0821, 0822, 0825, and 0826).
It was an exceptionally packed week of updates, successfully delivering three major items that had been brewing in our staging areas. First, snapshot 0821 brought the entire Qt 6.11.2 library stack, laying a solid foundation for the desktop environment. This was immediately followed in snapshot 0825 by the arrival of KDE Gear 26.08.0, which introduces substantial productivity upgrades to Dolphin (with advanced regex-capable filtering and decoupled grouping), Okular (unified settings and improved annotating workflows), and Konsole (which adds Alt+Click drag-and-drop support).
Another monumental addition in snapshot 0825 was the transition to Linux Kernel 7.2.0. This new kernel introduces major performance optimizations including Cache-Aware Scheduling (CAS) to prevent cache bouncing on multi-core chips, initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 support, and the integration of Rust GPUVM abstractions. On the application side, snapshot 0822 was highlighted by the delivery of Mozilla Firefox 154.0 (bundled with the 154.0.1 bugfix release), bringing WebSocket local network permissions, smart tab grouping suggestions, and significantly accelerated video seeking latency.
These 5 snapshots delivered the following updates:
- 389-ds 3.2.2
- clamav 1.5.4
- dracut 112+suse.34.g35e16b7
- expat 2.8.2
- KDE Gear 26.08.0
- Linux Kernel 7.2.0
- Mesa 26.2.1
- MozillaFirefox 154.0
- postgresql18 18.6
- Qt 6.11.2
- strace 7.2
- virtualbox 7.2.16
- webkitgtk4 2.52.6
With these massive updates successfully integrated and rolled out to users, we turn our attention forward to see what is currently working its way through our staging projects:
- Rust 1.98: Already checked in, currently building as part of the next snapshot before heading to openQA.
- Linux Kernel 7.2.2: Likely to be shipped in the coming days.
- LLVM 23.1.0: Transition in progress to make this the new system default, replacing version 22.
- Swig 4.5.0: Received a few fixes, but some YaST-related integration issues still remain to be addressed.
- glibc 2.44: Still progressing in Staging:N. The integration issues with rpmlint, python-scipy, and xsimd have been resolved, and the transition is now focused on resolving the remaining build failure in m4.
- icewm 4.1.0: Active in the staging queue, currently awaiting openQA verification results.
- libnettle 4.0.0: Currently excluded from main staging runs while developers work on resolving test suite breakages in libzypp.
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