Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
While a lot of people were having fun during openSUSE’s Hackweek 0x10 (Edition 16), Tumbleweed kept on rolling (mostly) – and I am sure we will soon see the various fruits from this hackweek. SUSE engineers having fun does not equate with fewer changes in Tumbleweed: there have been 7 snapshots released since my last review (1109, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1114, 1115 and 1116, which hit the mirrors just moments ago)
The list of changes is as you expect: overwhelming. And we successfully delivered again on our promise to give you a ‘stable, rolling, up-to-date distribution’:
- Mesa 17.2.4, followed shortly after by 17.2.5
- Linux kernel 4.13.12
- Mozilla Firefox 57
- KDE Plasma 5.11.3
- KDE Applications 17.08.3
- KDE Frameworks 5.40.0
- Java 10 tech preview
The staging areas are already all filled up again and contain those interesting changes/updates:
- Linux kernel 4.14.0
- openSSL 1.1 as default (will probably still be a bit)
- PostgreSQL 10 (some package conflicts to be worked out)
- Java OpenJDK 1.7 will be removed from Tumbleweed (there is still 1.8, 9 and 10 there for you)
- The efforts to get YaST/libstorage-ng ready are going to be resumed