Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/33

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Week 33 went without major hiccups for Tumbleweed snapshot building and testing, and so it happens that we released once again 8 Snapshots in a week (0807…0814).

The changes are numerous, most interestingly:

  • Mozilla Firefox 141.0.2
  • KDE Plasma 6.4.4 & KDE Frameworks 6.17.0
  • python cryptography 45.0.5
  • Postfix 3.10.3
  • openSSL 3.5.2
  • gnu gettext 0.25.1
  • NetworkManager 1.52.1
  • GTK 3.24.50
  • Linux kernel 6.16.0
  • GStreamer 1.26.5
  • PHP 8.4.11
  • qemu 10.0.3
  • Bash 5.3.3
  • Readline 8.3.1
  • python PIP 25.2
  • python pytest 8.4.1

A few things are still in the staging areas – either submitted recently or having issues passing QA; most interestingly, we have these changes lined up:

  • KDE Gear 25.08.0
  • Linux kernel 6.16.1
  • Rust 1.89: build fix for 389-ds pending
  • glibc 2.42: yast2/text mode installation looks ‘broken’ (missing blue background)
  • Mesa 25.2: Xvfb crashes on 32bit systems (https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247995)
  • Python 3.13.7: build fix for qemu pending
  • nftables 1.1.4: issues detected by openQA in combination with netavark
  • openSUSE-welcome: prepare infra to have different ‘welcome apps’ per desktop (e.g gnome-tour on gnome)

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