openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2020/10

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Tumbleweed – full steam ahead! There have been 6 snapshots in the last week, some with quite some changes. The snapshots were 0227, 0228, 0229, 0301, 0303 and 0304.

The changes include:

• Zypper 1.14.34: beware! This version no longer supports abbreviated command line parameters (e.g zypper install --no-r is no longer accepted, you need to spell --no-recommends out)
• GCC 10 is available and provides base libraries to the system
• KDE Plasma 5.18.2
• Linux kernel 5.5.6
• Many changes in various YaST modules
• gimp 2.10.18

The future will bring those changes, sooner or later:

• Python 3.8: The latest fixes should be there. IF nothing new shows up, this will ship next week
• binutils 2.34
• Qt 5.15.0 (currently betas being tested)
• Ruby 2.7 – possibly paired with the removal of Ruby 2.6
• GCC 10 as the default compiler
• Removal of Python 2
• GNU Make 4.3
• RPM: change of database format to ndb