openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2021/11

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

The biggest trouble of the week was the mirror infrastructure having a hard time catching up to the full rebuild. Tumbleweed itself was, as usual, solid and has been steadily rolling. In total, there were 4 snapshots (0312, 0315, 0316, and 0317) released last week.

The main changes in those snapshots included:

• Mozilla Thunderbird 78.8.1
• Mozilla Firefox 86.0.1
• KDE Frameworks 5.80.0
• Bison 3.7.6
• grub2: boothole v2 fixes: the first iteration was blocked, as dual boot was broken. New signing certs and revocation of old certs will follow.
• PipeWire 0.3.23
• Linux kernel 5.11.6
• SQLite 3.35.0
• Systemd 246.11

The staging projects are largely unchanged, the main topics there are still:

• KDE Plasma 5.21.3
• Perl 5.32.1
• SELinux 3.2
• Python 3.9 modules: besides python36-FOO and python38-FOO, we are testing to also shop python39-FOO modules; we already have the interpreter after all. Python 3.8 will remain the default for now.
• UsrMerge is gaining some traction again, thanks to Ludwig for pushing for it
• GCC 11 as the default compiler