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Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Week 2019/33 ‘only’ saw three snapshots being published (3 more were given to openQA but discarded). The published snapshots were 0809, 0810 and 0814 containing these changes: NetworkManager 1.18.2 FFmpeg 4.2 LibreOffice 6.3 (RC4) Linux kernel 5.2.7 & 5.2.8 Libinput 1.14 And those updates are underway for the next few […]
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, As you certainly know, there are more snapshots tested than we release in the end. In the last two weeks, for example, we tested 9 snapshots. Of those, only 4 made it to the mirrors and to you – the users. During the last two weeks, these were snapshots 0726, […]
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers During week 2019/30, I tried to slow down the check-in cadence a little bit, in order to allow the ARM build system to catch up. Especially the full rebuild with LTO enabled caused a much higher load on the ARM workers than would be normal. And I am happy to […]
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers During the last two weeks, openSUSE Tumbleweed has been reconfigured to build all packages (where possible) using LTO (Link-Time Optimization). Whenever we have such a big change in compiler or compiler flags, we are rebuilding the entire distribution. With the 12k source packages, that can take a moment. Even OBS […]