openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2020/09

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

During this week we released 4 snapshots (0220, 0222, 0224 and 0226) – an average week from that perspective, yet there have been some interesting and well-awaited updates in these snapshots:

• zsh 5.8
• Mesa 19.3.4 & Mesa 20.0
• libcap 2.32
• GNOME 3.34.4
• KDE Plasma 5.18.1
• LLVM 6 has been removed from the repository
• ncurses 6.2
• Linux kernel 5.5.5
• Mozilla Firefox 73.0.1: it will now launch in Wayland mode inside a Wayland session
• MariaDB 10.4.12

Despite all those things happenings, stagings are still – or again – filled up:

• Zypper 1.14.34: beware! This version no longer supports abbreviated command line parameters (e.g zypper in --no-r is no longer accepted)
• KDE Plasma 5.18.2
• Qt 5.15.0 (currently betas being tested)
• Ruby 2.7 – possibly paired with the removal of Ruby 2.6
• GCC 10
• Python 3.8 (unchanged, awaiting the fix for salt)
• Removal of Python 2
• GNU Make 4.3
• RPM: change of database format to ndb