Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
Even though the year is not yet completely over, this will be the last
review for this year: starting from today on, I will be on annual leave
until January 9th 2017, when I will resume all activities. Tumbleweed
of course will not stop rolling at this time: it is YOU that makes it
rolling after all. Nevertheless, you should not be surprised if the
pace goes a bit down as many people will be busy with other things
during this period.
So, back to the review of Tumbleweed – let’s see what we got in the
last week. Namely there were 7 snapshots again and I will cover
{1209..1215}.
Noteworthy updates in those snapshots:
* GStreamer 1.10.2
* shim: the ms-signed uefi loader is now binary-shared with Leap
* Linux kernel 4.8.13
* Wine is closing in to 2.0 with rc1 released
* pitivi 0.9.8 fixes a lot of bugs
Many of the things we had on the incoming list last week are still
there:
* systemd 232: x.org needed some packaging adjustments, but there is
already an update hanging which causes issues in openQA. systemd will
thus have to stay in line
* X.org 1.19: as mentioned, this causes issues in openQA, where the
screen apparently freezes (keyboard input / command execution seems to
be handled though
* KDE Applications 16.12.0: We had big hopes to get this into the
1216 snapshot, but some minor packaging issues with regards to ppc64le
made this slip. But it can’t be that long anymore until we can ship it
* Linux kernel 4.8.14
* KDE Frameworks 5.29.0 will be shipped in the same snapshot as the
KDE Applications update
* Qt 5.7.1
With this, I want to wish those that celebrate christmas a happy
festive season. Everybody else, simply have a great time ahead.
Cheers,
Dominique