openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/17

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

This week, Tumbleweed ‘only’ delivered 5 snapshots. Snapshot 0423 was tested in openQA when 0424 finished the building way faster than expected. As usual: nothing was lost and the delay added to get the goodies from 0423 was just a few hours.

The five snapshots (0421, 0422, 0424, 0425, and 0426) brought you these updates:

  • ffmpeg 4.4.4 and ffmpeg 5.1.3
  • grep 3.10
  • libxml 2.10.4
  • pam 1.5.2.90
  • Mozilla Firefox 112.0.1
  • Linux kernel 6.2.12
  • GNOME 44.1 (mutter and gnome-shell will follow over the weekend)
  • KDE Gear 23.04.0
  • Qt 5.15.9
  • llvm 16.0.2
  • Rust 1.69
  • GCC 13RC3

The various package maintainers have submitted the following changes, which are currently being tested in staging areas:

  • openSUSE:Factory will change from suse_version == 1599 to suse_version == 1699 (stepping ahead of the ALP code base)
  • Mozilla Firefox 112.0.2
  • OpenVPN 2.6.3
  • Linux kernel 6.3
  • Boost 1.82.0
  • ICU 73.1: breaks libqt5-qtwebengine
  • 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