Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, > > What a week! Tumbleweed once again is the first (to my knowledge) to > ship the just released GNOME 3.24.0 as part of its main repository. Being shipped to the users in less than 48 hours since the official > release announcement is something we can only do thanks to all the > automatic building and testing AND the efforts put into the packages! > If packagers would not be at the ball the whole time, this would not be possible. Even though the week has seen ‘only’ 4 snapshots (0317, 0318, > 0320 and 0322) the changes delivered to the user base is enormous. > > The major changes this week were: > > * GNOME 3.24.0 – Released on March 22nd, part of snapshot 0322 > * The YaST Teams work regarding the desktop selection workflow [0] > * qemu 2.8.0 > * Linux kernel 4.10.4 > * Mozilla Firefox 52 – NOTE: no more support for NPAPI plugins > * GCC 7 is available as optional compiler (distro still built using > gcc6 though) > * More work to get the ‘system user’ situation changed, having > special packages creating the users [1] > > One important note at this point: again there were users falling into > the trap with incomplete updated systems with snapshot 0322. > Important: """zypper up""" is NOT the right thing to keep your > Tumbleweed system running. > Use """zypper dup [--no-allow-vendor-change]""" > > Things currently being prepared for you > > * GCC7 as default compiler – this might still take a while, but it IS > coming > * KDE Plasma 5.9.4 > * Linux kernel 4.10.5 – and beyond > * More python packages converted to singlespec > > For
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Il 24/03/2017 11:53, Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger ha scritto: the next three weeks, Tumbleweed will be given in the careful care > of Max and Ludwig, while I will be enjoying some time off. As is usual > when teams are running on lower resources, it is possible that > snapshots might be delayed a little bit, but I don’t fear to much for > that: you can continue submitting as you’re used to – just in case of > some delays, please show some understanding. I’m sure Max and Ludwig > will be there for you if you need any help. Also, in this period, I > will not provide the weekly reviews. I might try to do a recap once I’m
back, but no promises there. > > Cheers, > Dominique > > [0] https://lizards.opensuse.org/2017/02/20/highlights-of-yast-developm > ent-sprint-31/ > [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2017-02/msg00022.html > > As updated to latest TW 0322, I cannot start anymore my system into graphical mode as before, I had to modify /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager by replacing *"gdm"* with *"kdm"* and to change also /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager, replacing previous setting "gnome" to *"xfce"*.
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