{"id":800,"date":"2018-11-16T14:46:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2018-11-16T14:46:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:46:42","slug":"review-of-the-weeks-2018-44-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/review-of-the-weeks-2018-44-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of the weeks 2018\/44 &#8211; 46"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,<\/p>\n<p>First, apologies for the delay: I actually thought I&#8217;d have to cover two weeks, but when looking at the history, I realized it would be even three weeks to cover. That probably means there were no too special issues raised in the last weeks, otherwise, I&#8217;d have remembered more explicitly to write to you. Anyway, let me catch you up on recent changes in openSUSE Tumbleweed. by covering that 6 snapshots 1029, 1103, 1105, 1107, 1110 and 1112<\/p>\n<p>The major changes were<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>KDE Plasma 5.14.2 &amp; 5.14.3<\/li>\n<li>openSSH 7.8: make sure to use the version from the update channel, as key based auth is broken in the regular channel package<\/li>\n<li>RPM 4.14.2<\/li>\n<li>Snapper 0.8.0<\/li>\n<li>Squid 4.4<\/li>\n<li>Mozilla Thunderbird 60.3<\/li>\n<li>NetworkManager 1.14.4 &#8211; addressed some crashes<\/li>\n<li>GNOME 3.30.2<\/li>\n<li>FreeType 2 enabled subpixel rendering with infinality config<\/li>\n<li>KDE Applications 18.08.3<\/li>\n<li>Linux kernel 4.19.1: as is, sadly, almost usual with new major kernel versions, proprietary kernel modules are not yet ready to be used<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also quite some changes pending in the various staging projects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>glibc 2.28, Python 3.7, openssl 1.1.1: the three all interdepend on each other and cause a bunch of new failures \u2013 See Staging:C<\/li>\n<li>LLVM7 \/ Mesa 18.2.x (VLC crashes were debugged, a workaround should is submitted and being tested)<\/li>\n<li>systemd 239<\/li>\n<li>meson 0.48.x<\/li>\n<li>OpenSSH 7.9: the default config will be stricter and root won&#8217;t be allowed to perform password-based login anymore<\/li>\n<li>Installer redesign: the sidebar is coming back (showing where in the installation workflow one is currently)<\/li>\n<li>Linux kernel 4.19.2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, First, apologies for the delay: I actually thought I&#8217;d have to cover two weeks, but when looking at the history, I realized it would be even three weeks to cover. That probably means there were no too special issues raised in the last weeks, otherwise, I&#8217;d have remembered more explicitly [&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-800","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\/800","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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominique.leuenberger.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}