openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2022/05

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Week 5 – 5 snapshots. I hope nobody expects that we keep up the ‘week number == number of snapshots’, or I’ll be in deep trouble very soon. Looking at the staging dashboard it seems like the vacation period is definitively over: almost all stagings are full, but as not too many submitted things have proven to be broken it makes the stagings still manageable. It gets really difficult if we end up with a lot of breakage in the Stagings, then need to chase fixes.

The five delivered snapshots (0128, 0130, 0131, 0201, and 0202) brought you these changes:

• Polkit with fix for pwnkit (CVE-2021-4034)
• Switched default Ruby version to Ruby 3.1
• Dropped Ruby 2.7 and Ruby 3.0 (including all rubyx.y-rubygem-* packages)
• Mozilla Firefox 96.0.3
• git 2.35.1
• Linux kernel 5.16.4
• 389-ds 2.0.14
• Wireplumber 0.4.7
• pipewire 0.3.44

As already mentioned, the staging projects are mostly filled. The largest changes being integrated are:

• Linux kernel 5.16.5: fix for cifs crash, boo#1195360; full drm switch will follow later
• KDE Gear 21.12.2
• systemd: drop SUSE specific sysv support. Generic, upstream based sysv support remains in place. See original announcement at Factory mailinglist
• KDE Plasma 5.24 (currently beta is staged, release scheduled for Feb 8th)
• Lua 5.4.4
• rpm will no longer pull glibc-locale, but only glibc-locale-base, See this discussion
• glibc 2.35
• Python 3.6 interpreter will be removed (We have roughly 100 python36-FOO packages left)
• Python 3.10 as the distro default interpreter (a bit down the line)
• GCC 12 introduction has started to be as ready as possible for when the upstream release happens.