openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2019/45

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

During this week, 3 Tumbleweed snapshots have been synced out to the mirrors (1101, 1104 and 1106). The main changes included:

• KDE Plasma 5.17.2
• Mesa 19.2.2
• Mozilla Firefox 70
• Linux kernel 5.3.8
• Java 12 openjdk has been dropped
• util-linux gained libeconf support, aka /usr/etc support. With this, the distro files from /etc/pam.d were moved to /usr/etc/pam.d
• RPMs that are being rebuilt have their embedded changelog trimmed to Jan 1 2018 (in order to save some size of the binary rpms)

Some things are still actively being worked on, like:

• python 3.8
• openssl 1.1.1d
• Linux kernel 5.3.9+
• rpm 4.15: it promises higher build speed, as some tasks are being executed in parallel
• Kubernetes 1.16.2