Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
My excuse to span two weeks in this report is quite simple: last week was the openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg and I spent my time talking to all the fun people from the community instead. And I am sure you are forgiving me for this. With the conference in full swing and weekends in between, it is quite amazing that the release Team (mostly Ana these days) still managed to produce and publish 12 snapshots (0620, 0621, 0622, 0624, 0625, 0627, 0628, 0629, 0701, 0702, 0703, and 0704)
The most relevant changes from these snapshots include:
- GDB 14.2
- MariaDB 11.4.2
- Mesa: work around broken graphics on ATI/AMD chipsets, Version 24.1.2
- Shadow 4.16.0
- Wayland 1.23.0
- KDE Plasma 6.1.0, 6.1.1 & 6.1.2
- GCC 14.1.1
- Qt 6.7.2
- Linux kernel 6.9.6 (fixing connection issues with iwlwifi) & 6.9.7
- NetworkManager 1.48.2
- ClamAV 1.3.1
- GNOME 46.3
- GStreamer 1.24.5
- Perl 5.40.0
- LLVM 18.1.8
- Poppler 24.07.0
- Qemu 9.0.1
- Systemd 255.8
- Cups 2.4.10
- Samba 4.20.2
- PyTest 8.2.2
- openssh fix against CVE-2024-6387, aka RegreSSHion
Quite an impressive list in just 2 weeks I’d say. At least in the northern hemisphere, the summer holiday is starting (including my own – so no reports from me for the next two weeks! Please follow the individual snapshot release announcements on the factory@lists.opensuse.org mailing list). With many people enjoying a break, we will likely see fewer requests going to Tumbleweed.
Looking at what is currently to be found in the staging area, we can predict those changes to happen in the next few days/weeks:
- Mesa 24.1.3
- Mozilla Firefox 127.0.2
- LibreOffice: fix excessive recommends on libreoffice-qt6
- Agama packages and installer to appear. Not yet QA’ed as part of the Tumbleweed release process, but feel free to test and play with it
- KDE Gear 24.05.2
- SELinux 3.7
- cmake 3.30.0
- transactional-update: enable soft reboot; see https://microos.opensuse.org/blog/2024-06-13-soft-reboot/
- dbus-broker: some networking issue after upgrades left to work out
- GCC 14: phase 2: use gcc14 as the default compiler – lots of help needed: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:Gcc7