{"id":1048,"date":"2021-01-15T17:02:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T16:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2021-01-15T17:02:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T16:02:46","slug":"opensuse-tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2021-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/opensuse-tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2021-02\/","title":{"rendered":"openSUSE Tumbleweed \u2013 Review of the week 2021\/02"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere, I read, 2021 will be the year of the Linux desktop. Do you agree? Let&#8217;s make it the year of Tumbleweed on the desktop. In any case, Tumbleweed has been steadily rolling with 5 snapshots published during this week (0107, 0108, 0110, 0111, and 0113).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The major changes included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Plasma 5.20.5<\/li><li>KDE Frameworks 5.78.0<\/li><li>KDE Applications 20.12.1<\/li><li>IceWM 2.0.0<\/li><li>Xfce 4.16.0<\/li><li>Mozilla Firefox 84.0.2<\/li><li>Linux kernel 5.10.5<\/li><li>RPM 4.16.0<\/li><li>brp-check-suse: a bug fix in how it detected dangling symlinks; some packages might no fail to build, but they had dangling symlinks before which we just did not detect.<\/li><li>permissions package: preparation for a full \/usr merge<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So, quite a list that accumulated, in just a week. The stagings are getting lighter, but are far from done. Currently, these are the major changes being prepared:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Multiple versions of python 3 parallel installable. Adding to python 3.8, version 3.6 will be reintroduced. Python modules will be built for both versions &#8211; Should become part of Snapshot 0115<\/li><li>Tcl\/tk 8.6.11<\/li><li>icu 68.1: breaks a few things like PostgreSQL. Staging:I<\/li><li>Bash 5.1<\/li><li>Rust 1.49: breaks librsvg<\/li><li>Autoconf 2.70: breaks quite a few packages. The list of failures has been noted on the current SR; no active staging left for it (no progress in the last days\/weeks on it)<\/li><li>openssl 3: no progress, Staging:O still showing a lot of errors.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Somewhere, I read, 2021 will be the year of the Linux desktop. Do you agree? Let&#8217;s make it the year of Tumbleweed on the desktop. In any case, Tumbleweed has been steadily rolling with 5 snapshots published during this week (0107, 0108, 0110, 0111, and 0113). The major changes included: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}