Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/40

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

The last trimester of 2025 has begun, and the northern hemisphere of the planet is getting colder; days are grey and short. What could be better than updating your Tumbleweed system? Only one thing: contributing to the package pool! Remind yourself: openSUSE is maintained by a vibrant community, and everybody is invited to help make the distributions better. Of course, Tumbleweed does not want to steal the spotlight from Leap 16.0 this week

Tumbleweed has seen a total of five snapshots (0925, 0929, 0930, 1001, and 1002) this week, bringing you these changes:

• GNOME 49.0: GDM has switched to dynamic users to support multi seat setups. We have seen issues with machines that had an /etc/nsswitch.conf without ‘systemd’ registered as lookup for ‘passwd, shadow, and groups’. Have a look at https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250513 for details
• Coreutils 9.8
• Poppler 25.09.1
• Boost 1.89
• Meson 1.9.1
• strace 6.17
• AppStream 1.1.0
• Ghostscript 10
• LLVM 21.1.2
• PHP 8.4.13
• Linux kernel 6.16.9 & 6.17.0
• linux-glibc-devel 6.17
• Postgresql 18.0
• Mesa 25.2.3 & 25.2.4
• cURL 8.16.0
• Mozilla Firefox 143.0.3

The testing areas are currently looking into these areas of development:

• KDE Plasma 6.5 beta
• Systemd 258
• Rust 1.90
• ffmpeg-8 as default ffmpeg-implementation