Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week saw the release of 6 snapshots (1022, 1023, 1024, 1026, 1027, and 1028).
We were able to check off quite a few items from last week’s outlook. Linux Kernel 7.3.0 arrived early in the week with snapshot 1022, quickly complemented by VirtualBox 7.2.22 to keep host modules happy. Ruby 4.0.9 landed with fixes for several regular expression CVEs, and HarfBuzz made the jump to 15.0.0. Following up on last week’s rollout of Plasma 6.8.0, KDE users also received a prompt first bugfix release with Plasma 6.8.1.
In addition, a couple of major version updates made their way into the distribution, most notably MariaDB 13.0.2 and LAME 4.0. Package management also got some welcome polish: libsolv 0.7.41 and zypper 1.14.102 arrived in snapshot 1028, making repository cache loading about 20% faster. Security updates rounded out the week with fresh releases for python-Pillow, Java, and Firefox.
These 6 snapshots delivered the following updates:
- bubblewrap 0.13.1
- e2fsprogs 1.47.4
- ethtool 7.2
- fwupd 2.1.9
- HarfBuzz 15.0.0
- java-25-openjdk 25.0.5.0
- KDE Plasma 6.8.1
- lame 4.0
- libsolv 0.7.41
- libzypp 17.38.17
- Linux Kernel 7.3.0
- llvm23 23.1.4
- MariaDB 13.0.2
- MozillaFirefox 158.0.1
- nano 9.3
- pciutils 3.15.0
- pipewire 1.6.10
- python-Pillow 13.0.0
- Ruby 4.0.9
- samba 4.25.1
- squashfs 4.7.5
- strace 7.3
- transmission 4.1.4
- VirtualBox 7.2.22
- xfsprogs 7.2.0
- zypper 1.14.102
With those updates out in the wild, let’s peek behind the curtain to see what is currently brewing across the staging projects:
- GNOME 51.1: Core desktop and applications have passed openQA testing in staging and are queued for release.
- Mesa 26.2.6
- Valkey 9.1.3
- Wayland-Protocols 1.50
- Hyprland 0.57.0
- Telegram Desktop 7.3.4
- ICU 79.1: Currently breaking nodejs24 (nodejs/node#66987).
- Box2D 3.1.1
- fmt 12.2.0: Still blocked by dnf5 plugin rebuild issues (boo#1285868).
- kernel-source-longterm 6.18.55: Waiting on VirtualBox driver updates to adapt to kernel API changes.
- Swig 4.5.1: YaST integration issues remain under investigation with libstorage-ng (boo#1275515).
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