Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
Week 14 saw the continuation of the significant updates rolling into Tumbleweed. Following the trends of the previous weeks, users can expect a modern and evolving Linux experience. We have published four snapshots (0328, 0329, 0331, and 0402, containing, amongst others, these changes:
- strace 6.14
- Linux kernel 6.14.0
- Mozilla Firefox 136.0.4
- LLVM 20
- VirtualBox 7.1.6a
- fwupd 2.0.7
- Ghostscript 10.05.0
- GTK 4.18.3
A few things are in the pipeline for the next few days/weeks, namely:
- KDE Plasma 6.3.4
- Mesa 25.0.3
- Meson 1.7.1
- Qt 6.9.0
- GCC 15 as distro compiler, see https://build.opensuse.org/staging_workflows/openSUSE:Factory/staging_projects/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:Gcc7
- CMake 4.0
- Python setuptools 78.0
- Removal of pcre(1). Please help with that cleanup and port it to PCRE2. See https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/BK3SPPFOM3LI6K5PTXPKZMKMIUIPOEXS/
- More work towards proper display-manager service integration, https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:DisplayManagerRework
- The removal of the HPC stack has been proposed. See https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/7VAP572DMVET3CPGOSB2OCOFEQ5CPWJE/
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