openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/44

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Week 44 is over – and with it, about 83% of the year 2023. What does that mean for Tumbleweed? Not really much, as it just keeps rolling from snapshot to snapshot. And during this week, you have received 6 of those (1026, 1028, 1029, 1030, 1031, and 1101). 1027 had been discarded due to crashes identified in XFCE (xfconf 4.18.2 – which was reverted to 4.18.1 for 1028)

The six delivered snapshots brought you the following updates:

• LLVM 17.0.3
• Qemu 8.1.2
• VLC 3.0.19
• Boost 1.83.0
• systemd: Ship the main configuration files in /usr/lib/; this change will hopefully encourage users to customize the defaults via drop-ins instead of changing the main config files
• Linux kernel 6.5.9
• openSSL 3.1.4
• PHP 8.2.12
• Mozilla Firefox 119.0
• shadow 4.14.2
• strace & linux-glibc-devel 6.6: getting ready for Kernel 6.6
• Poppler 23.10.0

As usual, a new snapshot is already in QA, and more changes are piling up. These things have been staged by now:

• gnome-shell/mutter 45.1
• libxml2 2.11.5 (you remember, we already had that a while back in the list. This time it is happening)
• xfconf 4.18.3
• libvirt 9.9.0
• fwupd 1.9.7
• binutils 2.41: libqt5-qtwebengine runs OOM when linking on i586
• Linux kernel 6.6