Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week saw the release of 3 snapshots (0924, 0929, and 0930).
Leading off with our previous outlook, both Linux Kernel 7.2.7 and 7.2.8 were successfully delivered across snapshots 0924 and 0929, keeping hardware support on the fast track. Core toolchains and the everyday terminal environment received a healthy refresh with the rollout of binutils 2.47, coreutils 9.12, bash 5.3.20, and an updated bash-completion 2.18.0. Desktop typography also stepped forward with synchronized support for Unicode 18.0 landing across character utilities and emoji fonts.
On the multimedia and desktop front, VLC 3.0.24 arrived with updated FFmpeg support, VirtualBox stepped up to version 7.2.20, and Flatpak saw two quick bugfix releases (1.18.3 & 1.18.4). Package maintainers also tightened system security defaults and delivered fixes across X11 libraries, GIMP, and Emacs, while kernel-firmware received an extensive sync with upstream.
These 3 snapshots delivered the following updates:
- bash 5.3.20
- bash-completion 2.18.0
- bind 9.20.29
- binutils 2.47
- coreutils 9.12
- flatpak 1.18.3 & 1.18.4
- freerdp 3.32.1
- fwupd 2.1.8
- gucharmap 18.0.0
- hwinfo 26.0
- Linux Kernel 7.2.7 & 7.2.8
- llvm23 23.1.2
- meson 1.12.1
- pam 1.7.3
- parted 3.8
- php8 8.5.11
- shadow 4.20.3
- tuned 2.28.0
- unbound 1.26.1
- VirtualBox 7.2.20
- vlc 3.0.24
Turning our attention to the horizon, here is a look at what is currently brewing across the staging projects:
- systemd 261.3: D-Bus security review has completed and the package is checked into Factory for the next snapshot.
- fontconfig 2.18.3: The AppStream test suite conflict has been resolved, with the package checked into Factory.
- expat 2.8.5: Progressing through staging alongside companion fixes for perl-XML-Twig.
- Mesa 26.2.4
- NetworkManager 1.58.1
- ncurses 6.6.20260926
- KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta: Testing continues in staging while resolving build failures in kwin6-x11 and libksysguard6, along with installcheck issues.
- Swig 4.5.0: YaST integration issues remain under investigation, tracked under boo#1275515.
- libnettle 4.0.0: Remains explicitly excluded from main staging runs while developers work on resolving test suite breakages in libzypp.
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