Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
Tumbleweed is in full swing – with a staggering 6 snapshots published
since the last weekly review. And this, despite me having to discard 2
snapshots (one for being totally broken, and one was discarded because
it took too long to test). The six snapshots published were 0415, 0416,
0417, 0418, 0420, and 0422.
The major changes included:
* Mozilla Thunderbird 78.9.1
* Poppler 21.04.0
* Postfix 3.5.10
* Mesa 21.0.2
* Linux kernel 5.11.15
* Pipewire 0.3.25
* Ffmpeg 4.4
* LXQt 0.17.0
* GCC 10.3.0
* RPM 4.16.1.3
* Lua 5.4.3
* SQLite 3.35.5
* LLVM 12
* Python 3.9 modules: besides python36-FOO and python38-FOO, we are
testing to also shop python39-FOO modules; we already have the
interpreter after all. Python 3.8 will remain the default for now.
Building in snapshot 0415
This was quite a list of things happening, and the python 3.9 module
introduction definitively took a while to enusre we don’t just trip
over our own feet.
Things keep on moving, and we are currently testing integration of the
following bits and pieces for Tumbleweed:
* Linux kernel 5.11.16+
* KDE Applications 21.04.0
* Mozilla Firefox 88.0
* GCC 11 as default compiler
* TeXLive 2021
* UsrMerge is progressing well, thanks to Ludwig for his continued
work here. The current state is that we checked in all changes and are
planning on actually doing the switch somewhen in the not too far
future
Cheers,
Dominique