openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/16

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

It seems the holidays are over and people are submitting more things to Factory again. There were even days were I was almost running out of free staging projects (almost – I still had some spare). In total, we have published another round of 7 snapshots this week (0414…0420)

The main changes released this week were:

  • Ruby 3.1 plus all ruby3.1-rubygem-* packages have been removed from Tumbleweed
  • zypper 1.14.60 / libzypp 17.31.10: support for x86-64-vX architecture packages
  • Mesa 23.0.2
  • GStreamer 1.22.2
  • OpenLDAP 2.6.4
  • python-setuptools 67.6.1
  • libyui 4.5.1: changes in the way icons are loaded. In some cases, we’d seen the icon missing (boo#1210712)

Most relevant updates that are currently being tested in stagings:

  • Rust 1.69
  • grep 3.10
  • libxml2 2.10.4
  • Boost 1.82.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 112.0.1
  • KDE Gear 23.04.0
  • Linux kernel 6.2.12
  • ICU 73.1: breaks libqt5-qtwebengine
  • gcc 13.1 RC2
  • Wayland 1.22.0: crashes Firefox (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1826583, fixed for FF 113)
  • openSSL 3.1: still broken are nodejs19, perl-Protocol-HTTP2, python-aiohttp, python-tornado6

Thank you to the package maintainers for keeping things going and looking after the build failures in openSUSE:Factory. We’re actually down to 69 failed builds out of 15600 packages. Can we get those fixed too? 🙂 See https://tinyurl.com/ysy4nnnz