openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/11

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

This week, I had the sad duty to discard one snapshot due to a bug that snuck through staging and was only identified later in the full product test suite (systemd 253, restarting some services failed weirdly). But as we know from the past, users prefer no snapshot as opposed to one that breaks their system in weird ways. And despite that, 6 snapshots have been delivered during this week (0309 … 0313 & 0315)

The most relevant changes in these snapshots are:

  • Linux kernel 6.2.2 (lockdown patches disabled) & 6.2.4
  • NetworkManager 1.42.4
  • Apache 2.4.56
  • LibreOffice 7.5.1.2
  • KDE Frameworks 5.104.0
  • GStreamer 1.22.1
  • Mesa: patch to address multiple crashes seen in gnome-shell since Mesa 23.0
  • git 2.40.0

These updates are currently in the queue and are being tested for inclusion in the upcoming snapshots:

  • Linux kernel 6.2.6
  • systemd 253.1
  • Transmission 4.0.2
  • KDE Plasma 5.27.3
  • GCC 13 as the default compiler
  • openSSL 3.1.0