{"id":1802,"date":"2026-03-27T17:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:38:50","slug":"tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2026-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2026-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Tumbleweed \u2013 Review of the week 2026\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a high-speed run, we hit a wall this week: only two snapshots (0324 and 0326) reached the mirrors. The culprit was a combination of bad timing and a necessary course correction regarding our bootloader defaults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is now clear that the previous move to <code>grub2-bls<\/code> was a mistake. We are correcting that decision by switching modern systems to <strong>systemd-boot<\/strong>. This transition caused a &#8220;weekend blackout&#8221; because openQA changes for the new default were deployed last Friday, but the actual distribution changes didn&#8217;t land until Sunday. We spent Monday and Tuesday ironing out the resulting kinks, which cost us the weekend snapshots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the change to <strong>systemd-boot<\/strong> is a significant highlight for fresh installations, it was just one of many updates that landed this week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>systemd-boot<\/strong>: Now the default for fresh installations (upgraders remain on their existing bootloader).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AppArmor 4.1.7<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>KDE Plasma 6.6.3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ffmpeg 8.1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FreeRDP 3.24.1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>gettext 1.0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Linux kernel 6.19.9<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>qemu 10.2.2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SQLite 3.51.3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The package maintainers and release engineers are busy preparing the next few changes for the upcoming days. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GNOME 50: matplotlib&#8217;s test suite needs to accept deprecations in glib 2.88.0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Autoconf 2.73<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Linux kernel 6.19.10<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Qt 6.11.0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mozilla Firefox 149.0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GCC 16 as the default distro compiler<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>LLVM 22<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>glibc 2.43: metabug: <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.opensuse.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=1257250\">https:\/\/bugzilla.opensuse.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=1257250<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, After a high-speed run, we hit a wall this week: only two snapshots (0324 and 0326) reached the mirrors. The culprit was a combination of bad timing and a necessary course correction regarding our bootloader defaults. It is now clear that the previous move to grub2-bls was a mistake. We [&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-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","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=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}