Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week saw the release of 6 snapshots (0910, 0911, 0912, 0914, 0915, and 0916).
The star of this week’s show was undoubtedly KDE, which delivered a stellar triple-header across consecutive releases: KDE Plasma 6.7.5 landed in snapshot 0910, KDE Frameworks 6.30 followed in 0911, and KDE Gear 26.08.1 completed the desktop suite’s major updates in 0912. Beyond the graphical interface, core system integrity was a major focus. Snapshot 0915 brought a crucial security-hardening round, delivering backported glibc CVE fixes alongside security updates for cups, alsa, and gvfs. Snapshot 0916 followed up with further CVE mitigations in freeipmi, 7zip, and xz (fixing a critical invalid memory access bug in the lzma decoders).
Under the hood, snapshot 0915 brought exciting architectural enhancements to Mesa, including enabling the ‘rocket’ Gallium driver for Rockchip NPUs on AArch64 and shipping the ‘Teflon’ TensorFlow Lite delegate in a new subpackage. OpenCV also expanded its media capabilities, enabling native support for both JPEG XL and AVIF, while the Linux Kernel progressed to version 7.2.5 in snapshot 0914.
These 6 snapshots delivered the following updates:
- 389-ds 3.3.1+8c2711bd6
- 7zip 26.03
- bash-completion 2.17.0
- container-selinux 2.251.0
- freeipmi 1.6.19
- fuse3 3.18.3
- gimp 3.2.6
- gnome-maps 50.5
- gnome-software 50.4
- gstreamer 1.28.7
- gtk4 4.22.5
- gvfs 1.60.3
- kbd 2.10.0
- KDE Frameworks 6.30
- KDE Gear 26.08.1
- KDE Plasma 6.7.5
- libgcrypt 1.12.4
- libpcap 1.10.7
- libstorage-ng 4.5.352 & 4.5.353
- Linux Kernel 7.2.5
- llvm23 23.1.1
- openblas 0.3.34
- poppler 26.09.0
- postfix 3.11.7
- python-pip 26.2.1
- selinux-policy 20260910 & 20260914
- shotwell 33.0
- simdutf 9.1.2
- timezone 2026d
- xz 5.8.4
- yast2-python-bindings 5.0.3
- yast2-samba-client 5.0.5
- zchunk 1.5.4
With these updates successfully rolled out, it is time to turn our gaze forward and see what the staging areas are cooking up for the near future:
- Swig 4.5.0: Progress is being made with compatibility updates applied to other packages, such as yast2-python-bindings, but integration issues remain tracked under boo#1275515.
- fontconfig 2.18.3: Still held up as it breaks the AppStream test suite.
- libnettle 4.0.0: Remains explicitly excluded from main staging runs while developers work on resolving test suite breakages in libzypp.
Leave a Reply