Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
It has been a productive and energetic week for our rolling release, bringing a solid set of four snapshots your way: 0131, 0202, 0203, and 0204. We faced a brief challenge early on that prevented snapshots 0129 and 0130 from passing our QA gates. A change on the OBS backend meant that FTP trees were not properly syncable with rsync; specifically, the modification times (mtime) of various files remained unchanged even when their contents changed, resulting in invalid checksums. However, with that issue identified and resolved, the Tumbleweed machinery is back in full swing!
The four snapshots aforementioned brought you these changes:
- Mesa 25.3.4
- Mozilla Firefox 147.0.2
- gpg 2.5.17
- mdadm 4.5
- Kiwi 10.2.38
- Grub 2.14 – BLS patchset upstreamed
- Linux kernel 6.18.8
- gdk-pixbuf 2.44.5, but causes issues for applications – like gkrellm – loading xpm icons. Will be reverted to 2.44.4 to address this until a solution is found (glycin 2.1, part of GNOME 50)
- Freerdp 3.22.0
- First GNOME 49.4 components are dropping (not a coordinated release date, not every component gets that version)
- Qt 6.10.2
- Shadow 4.19.3
- cryptsetup 2.8.4
The next week promises to be interesting, while we are working on integrating these changes:
- systemd 258.3: third time is a charm? Let’s see if we get it through QA this time
- KDE Gear 25.12.2
- Samba 2.23.5
- Mesa 26.0.0 rc3 (considered stable)
- git 2.53.0
- KDE Plasma 6.6 (currently 6.5.91 in testing)
- glibc 2.43
- libzypp adding support for UAPI-style configuration
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