Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, “Ask, and it will be given to you” – if you believe KDE Plasma 6 happened this week because many users asked for it, you are mistaken. Things don’t happen in Tumbleweed because some/many ask for it – but because some/few WORK on it (most do so in their spare time). As a community project, the devs don’t need more people asking ‘When is it done’, but rather ‘Here, this is my contribution; or ‘Can I help out’. Despite all the questions asked and repeated, the package maintainers and developers still found sufficient time to deliver content. This week we have published 6 snapshots (0307…0311, 0313). As usual, the next snapshot is in openQA and may or may not be published later today. The most relevant changes of the past week were: * LibreOffice 24.2.1.2 * libvirt 10.1.0 * Mozilla Firefox 123.0.1 * gpg 2.4.5 * Poppler 24.03.0 * KDE Plasma 6.0.1 See https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/F... * KDE Frameworks 6.0.0 * KDE Gear 24.02.0 * Linux kernel 6.7.9 The future holds more updates. Currently, the teams are working on: * KDE Plasma 6.0.2 (addressing a bunch of issues found in the last days) * Systemd 255.3 * linux-glibc-devel 6.8 (kernel 6.8 headers) * LLVM 18 * Shadow 4.15.0 * Linux kernel 6.8.0 (or later): dpdk needs attention * Cleanup of KDE/Plasma 5 packages * Removal of Python 3.9 modules: in order to be able to successfully perform this, most – if not all – python-* packages should be fixed. Counterintuitively, removing a python flavor means we need to successfully rebuild the packages (python-singlespec) * dbus-broker: no progress this week * libxml 2.12.x: slow/no progress * GCC 14: phase 2: use gcc14 as the default compiler Cheers, Dominique