{"id":614,"date":"2017-03-19T16:07:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T15:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2017-03-19T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T15:07:06","slug":"review-of-the-week-201711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/review-of-the-week-201711\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of the week 2017\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,<\/p>\n<p>As usual, things keep on moving at a steady pace. Week 11 brought us 5 snapshots (0310, 0311, 0314, 0315 and 0316). There were a few minor hick-ups with the removal of gcc5 which could be sorted out.<\/p>\n<p>The 5 snapshots brought us those noteworthy updates \/ changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GCC5 is no longer available in the repositories. libffi, which was part of gcc5, has been replaced by a standalone library<\/li>\n<li>Postfix 3.2.0<\/li>\n<li>Kernel firmware 20170303 &#8211; support for more nvidia cards<\/li>\n<li>One grub2 updated with support for TPM2.0 caused issues on non-uefi systems. Update was reverted<\/li>\n<li>Work towards splitting the pattern packages into smaller chunks that can then have different maintainers<\/li>\n<li>KDE Applications 16.12.3<\/li>\n<li>Linux kernel 4.10.3 (4.10.2 was also shipped in that week)<\/li>\n<li>Even more python singlespec updates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to see this steady incoming of updates, especially also &#8216;more interesting things than just version updates. Things like python singlespec and the way system users\/groups are newly handled are just great examples on how openSUSE moves forward.<\/p>\n<p>Things that are currently being forged:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GCC7 will become available in Tumbleweed (not yet as the default compiler though)<\/li>\n<li>GNOME 3.24.0 is scheduled for upstream release on Wed, Mar 22. The team aims to deliver a quick update for Tumbleweed shortly after<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And I&#8217;m sure the hackers and packagers will come up with even more fun stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, As usual, things keep on moving at a steady pace. Week 11 brought us 5 snapshots (0310, 0311, 0314, 0315 and 0316). There were a few minor hick-ups with the removal of gcc5 which could be sorted out. The 5 snapshots brought us those noteworthy updates \/ changes: GCC5 is [&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":[3],"tags":[37,30,29],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opensuse","tag-opensuse","tag-tumbleweed","tag-weeklyreview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","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=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}