{"id":1225,"date":"2022-02-18T22:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2022-02-18T22:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:29:42","slug":"opensuse-tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2022-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/2022\/02\/opensuse-tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2022-07\/","title":{"rendered":"openSUSE Tumbleweed \u2013 Review of the week 2022\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, the major news is a glibc update to version 2.35. This was surprisingly smooth (so far) compared to earlier version updates. Let&#8217;s all cross our fingers for this to stay the way it is. In total, Tumbleweed has seen 6 new snapshots during this week (0210, 0212, 0213, 0214, 0215, and 0216).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The major changes in these snapshots were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mozilla Firefox 97.0<\/li><li>GStreamer 1.18.6<\/li><li>Mesa 21.3.6<\/li><li>Linux kernel 5.16.8, with full drm support in earlyboot; this will be disabled again with kernel 5.16.10<\/li><li>NetworkManager 1.34.0<\/li><li>gnome-shell and mutter 41.4<\/li><li>Glibc 2.35 (Snapshot 0216)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The future, near and far, will bring these changes to Tumbleweed (and of course more, which we have no tests in staging going on yet):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>KDE Plasma 5.24.1 (Snapshot 0217+)<\/li><li>KDE Frameworks 5.91<\/li><li>Linux kernel 5.16.10, simpedrm disabled again: too many issues reported<\/li><li>systemd packaging changes: systemd-sysvinit will be renamed to systemd-sysvcompat: most users won&#8217;t need it (sysv support is minimized anyway, and Tumbleweed no longer ships any sysv init script)<\/li><li>Python 3.6 interpreter will be removed (We have roughly 75 python36-FOO packages left)<\/li><li>Python 3.10 as the distro default interpreter (a bit down the line)<\/li><li>GCC 12 introduction has started to be as ready as possible for when the upstream release happens.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, This week, the major news is a glibc update to version 2.35. This was surprisingly smooth (so far) compared to earlier version updates. Let&#8217;s all cross our fingers for this to stay the way it is. In total, Tumbleweed has seen 6 new snapshots during this week (0210, 0212, 0213, [&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-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","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=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}