Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week felt quite busy; lots of things going through staging, but luckily, most things passed rather easy from what I’ve seen. At this point, a big “thank you” to the package maintainers taking care of such a smooth process. Tumbleweed could not be rolling at its speed without your help.
Seven snapshots were published (0227…0305) during this week. The most relevant changes included are:
- KDE Plasma 6.3.2
- Postfix 3.10.1
- libzypp/zypper updates with experimental ‘parallel download’ capabilities.
- Linux kernel 6.13.5
- glibc 2.41
- QEmu 9.2.2
- GNOME Shell 47.5
The next snapshots to come will bring even larger changes, namely:
- Python 3.13 as primary python interpreter. /usr/bin/python3 will be switched to version 3.13. This will require a rather large Tumbleweed rebuild to ensure the python3-* symbols move to the correct packages.
- GCC 15: We will run the well-tested 2-phase approach from previous years: first, switch the used libraries to the ones generated by gcc15 (the phase we are currently working on), then later switch to GCC 15 being the compiler.
- Mozilla Firefox 136.0
- KDE Gear 24.12.3
- Mesa 25.0.1
- RPM 4.20.1
- Perl 5.40.1