{"id":743,"date":"2018-03-23T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T14:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2018-03-23T15:32:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T14:32:23","slug":"review-of-the-week-2018-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/review-of-the-week-2018-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of the week 2018\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,<\/p>\n<p>This weekly review mostly benefits from last weeks late release of snapshot 0314 and the snapshots done over the weekend, so I can still report &#8216;4 snapshots published this week&#8217;. The snapshots covered are 0314, 0316, 0318 and 0319.<\/p>\n<p>These 4 snapshots included those updates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GNOME 3.28.0<\/li>\n<li>New branding (bootsplash\/wallpaper)<\/li>\n<li>GDB 8.1<\/li>\n<li>Linux kernel 4.15.9 &amp; 4.15.10<\/li>\n<li>Systemd 237<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would like to give special attention to the next snapshot that is going to be published. It&#8217;s called &#8216;20180320&#8217;, but was in the makings much longer than is usual for our snapshots. This is due to the switch of the &#8216;product builder&#8217;, the code responsible for creating the media layout (note: the download repos are also &#8216;media&#8217;). A major change is that the repos are no longer so-called &#8216;susetags repos&#8217; (by zypper identified as &#8216;YaST2 type&#8217;), but are all standard rpm-md repositories. Zypper will transparently change the mode of the repo from yast2 to rpm-md for you, so there is no action needed and a normal &#8216;zypper dup&#8217; is supposed to work (and did in all our QA test runs).<\/p>\n<p>Besides this major architectural change, Snapshot 0320 will bring you of course also nice updates, to make the wait worthwhile:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mozilla Firefox 59.0<\/li>\n<li>KDE Applications 17.12.3<\/li>\n<li>KDE Frameworks 5.44.0<\/li>\n<li>postfix 3.3.0<\/li>\n<li>PostgreSQL 10.3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Beyond that, in the future you can expect these changes to come your way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mesa 18.0.0rc5 (final RC, it&#8217;s believed to go gold as-is)<\/li>\n<li>Samba 4.8<\/li>\n<li>JDK 10<\/li>\n<li>Linux kernel 4.15.11<\/li>\n<li>GCC8 as system compiler (not too soon, Staging work has just started and there will be issues to be ironed out first)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, This weekly review mostly benefits from last weeks late release of snapshot 0314 and the snapshots done over the weekend, so I can still report &#8216;4 snapshots published this week&#8217;. The snapshots covered are 0314, 0316, 0318 and 0319. These 4 snapshots included those updates: GNOME 3.28.0 New branding (bootsplash\/wallpaper) [&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":[8,3],"tags":[37,30,29],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnome","category-opensuse","tag-opensuse","tag-tumbleweed","tag-weeklyreview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}