openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2024/07

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

This week we have released 5 snapshots (0209, 0211, 0212, 0213, and 0214). With 5 snapshots, this is quite a normal week.

The most relevant changes in those snapshots were:

  • SDL 2.30.0
  • c-ares 1.26.0 (after a lengthy staging phase)
  • fwupd 1.9.13
  • PostgreSQL 16.2
  • Pulseaudio 17.0
  • GTK 4.12.5
  • Python 3.11.8
  • KDE Frameworks 5.115.0
  • RPM 4.19.1.1
  • Node.JS 21.6.1

The list of things currently being tested remained largely unchanged:

  • Meson 1.3.2
  • Shadow 4.14.5
  • pkgconf 2.1.1
  • RPM: enable reproducible builds by default (bsc#1148824). For upstream versions see: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/2880
  • A bunch of cleanup work to eliminate more of python2 (boo#1219306)
  • dbus-broker: a big step forward; upgrades seem to be an issue that needs to be addressed
  • libxml 2.12.x: slow progress
  • GCC 14: our usual 2-phase approach to introduce it. Currently working on phase 1, meaning GCC14 will be providing the base libraries (libgcc_s1, libstdc++…). The compiler itself will stay at version 13 for now. Only one issue left: qemu fails to build