Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
Welcome back to our weekly review, where we dissect the latest snapshots to see what’s new in the openSUSE rolling release. This week has been incredibly busy, with a massive influx of updates touching nearly every part of the system, from the desktop environment and core libraries to the installer itself. Let’s get right into the details of what rolled out this week.
We published 5 snapshots (0815, 0816, 01817, 0818, and 0820) containing these changes:
- KDE Gear 25.08.0
- Linux kernel 6.16.1
- Postgresql 17.6
- SQLite 3.50.4
- Virtualbox 7.2.0
- glibc 2.42
- git 2.51.0
- hplip 3.25.6
- Introduction of opensuse-welcome-launcher: a shell script that will allow us to show different ‘welcome apps’ per desktop. The future will go towards e.g. GNOME Tour on a GNOME Desktop.
The following things are currently being tested and will reach you when things are worked out:
- Python 3.13.7
- nftables 1.1.4: earlier detected issues could be solved
- Rust 1.89
- Mesa 25.2: Xvfb crashes on 32bit systems (https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247995)
- GNU Gettext 0.26
- Linux kernel 6.16.2
- VLC moving to ffmpeg-7 by backporting a patchset from upstream
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