Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
After a high-speed run, we hit a wall this week: only two snapshots (0324 and 0326) reached the mirrors. The culprit was a combination of bad timing and a necessary course correction regarding our bootloader defaults.
It is now clear that the previous move to grub2-bls was a mistake. We are correcting that decision by switching modern systems to systemd-boot. This transition caused a “weekend blackout” because openQA changes for the new default were deployed last Friday, but the actual distribution changes didn’t land until Sunday. We spent Monday and Tuesday ironing out the resulting kinks, which cost us the weekend snapshots.
While the change to systemd-boot is a significant highlight for fresh installations, it was just one of many updates that landed this week:
- systemd-boot: Now the default for fresh installations (upgraders remain on their existing bootloader).
- AppArmor 4.1.7
- KDE Plasma 6.6.3
- ffmpeg 8.1
- FreeRDP 3.24.1
- gettext 1.0
- Linux kernel 6.19.9
- qemu 10.2.2
- SQLite 3.51.3
The package maintainers and release engineers are busy preparing the next few changes for the upcoming days. These include:
- GNOME 50: matplotlib’s test suite needs to accept deprecations in glib 2.88.0
- Autoconf 2.73
- Linux kernel 6.19.10
- Qt 6.11.0
- Mozilla Firefox 149.0
- GCC 16 as the default distro compiler
- LLVM 22
- glibc 2.43: metabug: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1257250
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