Tumbleweed - Review of the weeks 2021/05 & 06
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Apologies for missing the review of the week 2021.05 to be sent out in time. But as you already know from the past, that does not mean the information is being lost. I’ll just give you a review of the last two weeks instead. For Tumbleweed, this means we have seen 8 snapshots being published in those two weeks (0130, 0131, 0202, 0203, 0205, 0208, 0209, and 0210). The main changes included: * Mozilla Firefox 85.0 * Rust 1.49.0 * Python 3.8.7 * Bind 9.16.11: changed protection of/against “named” from chroot jail to systemd protection. This obsolete the subpackage named- chrootenv. * Linux kernel 5.10.12 * Pulseaudio 14.2 * Pipewire 0.3.20: pipewire is growing to become a replacement for PulseAudio * util-linux 2.36.1 * Mesa 20.3.4 * GCC 11 is now used to provide the base libraries, like libgcc_s1. GCC 10 is still used to compile the distribution * KDE Applications 20.12.2 * Systemd 246.10 The next snapshot to be published (20210211 or newer, depending on QA results) will be based on glibc 2.33. As is usual with a glibc upgrade, I triggered a full rebuild of the repository. So the next snapshot coming out after today will be big (in bytes) These changes are currently piled up for future tumbleweed snapshots: * glibc 2.33 (snapshot 0211+) * Postfix: change the default database format to lmdb, migrating away from BerkeleyDB * Linux kernel 5.10.14 and later * Libreoffice 7.1 * KDE Plasma 5.21: currently 5.20.90 being tested * openssl 1.1.1i, based on centralized crypto-policies package * Use GCC 11 as default compiler (Staging:Gcc7; we should finally rename that staging :P) Cheers, Dominique
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Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar