openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2020/41

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

After a lengthy integration period, we have finally merged glibc 2.32 during week 41. Of course, this is not all that happened in the 4 published snapshots (1002, 1004, 1005, and 1007).

The most noteworthy changes were:

• systemd 246.6
• virt-manager 3.1.0
• Mozilla Thunderbird 78.3.1
• Linux kernel 5.8.12
• glibc 2.32
• SELinux 3.1
• bison 3.7.2
• gettext 0.21

With these changes merged, a bit of the backlog has been worked off and the staging projects are a bit relaxed – but not for long: new changes are already in the pipeline. Currently, these things are being worked on:

• Mozilla Firefox 81.0.1
• GNOME 3.36.7 (short-term)
• GNOME 3.38.1 (we still lack mozjs78)
• Mesa 20.2 (Some transparency loss needs to be investigated on Plasma)
• openssl 1.1.1h (1 build fail left, neon (gh#notroj/neon#38)
• KDE Plasma 5.20 (currently beta being tested)
• openssl 3.0 (long-term; no progress in the last few weeks)
• RPM 4.16: quite a bit of build failures detected in the first run. A typical error seen is “%if %_lib == lib64” no longer being valid. Bareword comparison is being blocked and the values need to be quoted.