Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
Dominique has been enjoying a vacation these last two weeks and left
Tumbleweed in my hands. Thanks to all who’ve helped out as I got to
grips with holding the reins solo for the first time.
These two weeks also saw the long Easter weekend. That said, we still
managed to release 5 snapshots (0325, 0329, 0330, 0401 and 0406) during
this fortnight, with 0408 currently in testing and an 0409 likely to be
checked in tonight.
The changes delivered these weeks included:
* SELinux 3.2 (now also used by default in MicroOS)
* transactional-update 3.3.4
* A large amount of YaST updates
* Mozilla Firefox 87.0
* git 2.31.1
* kernel 5.11.11
* Mesa 20.3.5 with a large number of fixes
* MicroOS GNOME Desktop reaching [BETA] quality
The future, near or far, will bring those updates:
* systemd v246.13 with cgroupsv2 enabled by default (Currently being
tested in 0408)
* libvirt 7.2.0 (Currently being tested in 0408)
* GNOME 40 (Currently being needled, hopefully will be included in
0409)
* KDE Plasma 5.21.4
* LibreOffice 7.1.2.2
* nodejs 15.14.0
* gstreamer 1.18.4
* Further MicroOS GNOME Desktop improvements
* 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.
* UsrMerge is progressing well, thanks to Ludwig for his continued work
here
* GCC 10.3.0
* GCC 11 as the default compiler
Have a lot of fun!
– Richard