Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week saw the release of 7 snapshots (1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109, 1110, and 1111).
It has been another brisk week of deliveries, clearing out several major items from our previous outlook. The spotlight belongs to KDE applications, with KDE Gear 26.08.3 landing in snapshot 1106 and providing welcome polish across apps like Dolphin, Gwenview, Kate, and Kontact. The graphics stack also took a significant step forward as Mesa 26.2.6 completed its journey through staging into snapshot 1111, alongside a quick fix in xorg-x11-server to restore driver ABI compatibility.
Security and core infrastructure also received their share of attention. OpenSSH 10.6p2 arrived in snapshot 1108, Linux Kernel stepped up to 7.3.3 in snapshot 1109, and GStreamer synchronized its multimedia framework with the 1.28.9 bugfix release. Additionally, orchestration tooling stayed current as Docker Compose 5.7.0 and Ansible 14.6.0 joined the product tree.
These 7 snapshots delivered the following updates:
- AppStream 1.2.2
- c-ares 1.34.9
- ddcutil 3.0.2
- dracut 112+suse.63.g62ea8ea
- exfatprogs 1.4.4
- Firewalld 2.5.2
- GDB 17.2
- GStreamer 1.28.9
- HarfBuzz 15.1.0
- KDE Gear 26.08.3
- Libvirt 12.9.0
- Linux Kernel 7.3.3
- LVM2 2.03.44
- Mesa 26.2.6
- Mozilla NSS 3.132
- OpenSSH 10.6p2
- Poppler 26.11.0
- python-cffi 2.1.1
- python-tornado6 6.6
- QEMU 11.1.3
- Rsync 3.5.2
- SDL3 3.4.20
- Shotwell 33.2
- TPM2 Tools 5.8
Peeking at what lies ahead, here is a look at what is currently working its way through the staging pipeline:
- KDE Plasma 6.8.3
- Telegram Desktop 7.4.3
- systemd 262.2
- Apache 2.4.71
- Go 1.27.4
- Ruby 4.1: Early tests to make this the default Ruby interpreter.
- Box2D 3.1.1
- ICU 79.1: Still breaking nodejs24 (nodejs/node#66987).
- fmt 12.2.0: Still blocked by dnf5 plugin rebuild issues (boo#1285868).
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