openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the Weeks 2016/17 & 18

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

During the last two weeks, we could publish 5 snapshots, of which 0422 had been pre-announced as being ‘huge’. The other snapshots covered are 0430, 0502, 0503, 0504 and 0505. The gap from 0422 up to 0430 was due to the full rebuild of the distribution based on glibc 2.23.

What else did those two weeks bring us:

• glibc 2.23
• Linux Kernel 4.5.2
• GStreamer 1.8.1
• LibreOffice 5.1.3
• Mozilla Firefox 46
• Many of the goodies the YaST Blog post

Things currently in the makings are:

• GCC 6 is to become the new default compiler.
• Qt 5.6 is still pending

Are you interested to work on openSUSE, help improve the workflows and the tooling? SUSE is looking for an openSUSE Release Engineer to extend the team. Curious? Feel free to get in touch with me or apply directly at SUSE Careers – openSUSE Release Engineer