openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2020/17

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

The last week was filled with success. The major change was surely the removal of python2-FOO modules from the distro. Not exactly all are gone yet (packages that fail to build do also not change the published modules), but we went form 2564 (Snapshot 0417) modules down to 203 (0422). But of course, that’s not all that has happened. After all, we released 6 snapshots in the last week (0415, 0416, 0417, 0419, 0421 and 0422).

The noteworthy changes therein were:

• Python2 removal (modules; keep in mind: interpreter, python2-pip and python2-setuptools stick around a bit longer for the users to consume)
• Mozilla Thunderbird 68.7.0
• KDE Frameworks 5.69.0
• Systemd 245
• util-linux 2.35.1
• Linux kernel 5.6.4
• Poppler 0.87.0
• VLC 3.0.9.2
• Sudo 1.9.0rc2 (see announcement mail)

Many things that were in stagings last week are still there, but are getting closer to be shipped:

• GNOME 3.36.1 (Snapshot 0423+)
• KDE Applications 20.04
• Guile 3.0.2: breaks gnutls’ test suite on i586
• Qt 5.15.0 (currently beta3 is staged)
• Switch from Ruby 2.6 to 2.7 (some preparations/fixes are coming by regularly)
• GCC 10 as the default compiler