{"id":464,"date":"2016-06-17T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2016-06-17T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:38:14","slug":"opensuse-tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-201624","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/opensuse-tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-201624\/","title":{"rendered":"openSUSE Tumbleweed \u2013 Review of the Week 2016\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,<\/p>\n<p>It has been a very busy week, but it has shown how much enthusiasm every contributor puts into Tumbleweed. There have been again 4 snapshots released (0609, 0611, 0612 and 0613) and this marks the end of &#8216;Tumbleweed being built using GCC 5&#8217;. As usual, one end is just the beginning of something new: starting with Snapshot 0614 (or any higher number, in case openQA won&#8217;t agree) the entire distribution is built using GCC 6 as compiler.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s first look back what the four snapshots delivered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>QEmu 2.6.0 (we were at 2.4 for way too long, and missed openGL support)<\/li>\n<li>Wayland 1.11.0 &#8211; stable release (you already enjoyed the RCs though)<\/li>\n<li>Mozilla Firefox 47.0<\/li>\n<li>Linux kernel 4.6.2 &#8211; Some broadcom users were waiting for that<\/li>\n<li>A lot of YaST updates &#8211; See also the <a href=\"https:\/\/lizards.opensuse.org\/author\/yast-team\/\" target=\"_blank\">YaST reports<\/a> for what nice things they work on<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What can we expect from the future? As mentioned, snapshot 0614 is currently being built using GCC 6. This will be a rather large update, as literally everything is being rebuilt again. After being in Stagings for quite a while, everything up to Ring2 (stuff on the DVD, ~2200 packages) built. With GCC 6 now being the default compiler, it was expected that quite some of the non-ring packages (another ~ 7000 packages!) will cause some trouble. The build is not all done yet, but we are at around 200 errors that need fixing (see <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.opensuse.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=984984\" target=\"_blank\">boo#984984<\/a> for a reference what still needs work).<\/p>\n<p>And despite all this, no contributor is getting tired and many more, even bigger updates are scheduled in the Staging areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Qt 5.6.1 &#8211; some important bug fixes it seems<\/li>\n<li>KDE Applications 16.04.2<\/li>\n<li>KDE Framework 5.23.0<\/li>\n<li>TeXLive 2016<\/li>\n<li>GIT 2.9.0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If there is anything you want to discuss with the community, next week is THE opportunity, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/events.opensuse.org\/conference\/oSC16\" target=\"_blank\">openSUSE conference<\/a> will be held in Nuremberg, starting Wednesday, June 22nd. I am looking forward to see you there.<\/p>\n<p>A note regarding the breakage we had seen in snapshot 0605 (pam config files getting overwritten): we have since configured a new test in openQA that installs a current Tumbleweed snapshot and will try to update this new install right to the snapshot that is being tested. This should help us catch such issues next time around.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s have a lot of fun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, It has been a very busy week, but it has shown how much enthusiasm every contributor puts into Tumbleweed. There have been again 4 snapshots released (0609, 0611, 0612 and 0613) and this marks the end of &#8216;Tumbleweed being built using GCC 5&#8217;. 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