openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2021/34

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Thanks to Richard for taking care of Tumbleweed for us the last few weeks, while I did an electro-detox. Took some effort, but I did actually manage to stay away from all and any computers. But now I’m back, full in swing and helping Tumbleweed to roll at full speed again. Richards last review covered up to Snapshot 0817. Since then, and thus during the one-week time frame, 4 snapshots have been published (0820, 0823, 0824, and 0825).

The most noteworthy changes in those snapshots were:

  • Mesa 21.2.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 91.0.1 & Thunderbird 91.0.1
  • Linux kernel 5.13.12
  • Node.JS 16.6.2
  • Python 3.8.11
  • Poppler 21.08.0
  • gcc 11.2.1
  • Most of GNOME 40.4 (some late packages coming in the next days)

The staging projects are quite crowded, the main topics being worked on at the moment being:

  • glibc 2.34
  • openssl 1.1.1l
  • rpmlint 2.1
  • meson 0.59.1
  • openssl 3 – test project
  • Linux kernel 5.13.13
  • systemd 249.2