Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Week 34 seemed to go almost without drama. Most snapshots passed openQA
without big incidents. Most! In one snapshot, we tested updating to
openSSH 9.8p1—general functionality was fine. Still, the SELinux
policies have not yet been adjusted, which resulted in OpenSSH servers
not starting up on MicroOS-based systems. This is nothing we want to
give out to our users so we held back snapshot 0821. This will be
worked out and openSSH 9.8p1 will be delivered as soon as possible.
With this taken into account, 5 snapshots passed QA and could be
published (0816, 0817, 0818, 0819, and 0820)

The five snapshots brought you the following changes:

  * Linux kernel 6.10.5: this helped unblock the s390 port
  * PCRE2 10.44
  * PHP 8.3.10
  * Bash 5.2.32
  * systemd 256.5
  * osc 1.9.0, fixing CVE-2024-22034. The file storage on disk has been
updated, which causes issues with obs-service-source_validator not
being able to handle the new layout. A fix is being worked on
(https://github.com/openSUSE/obs-service-source_validator/pull/141) and
we will deliver this as part of the Update channel and in future
snapshots as soon as possible.

Looking at the staging areas, it seems like the vacation period is
ending – and more things are getting ready soon. Currently, the teams
are working on those changes:

  * LibreOffice 24.8.0
  * KDE Gear 24.08.0
  * Mozilla Firefox 129.0.1
  * perl-Bootloader will be renamed to update-bootloader: it’s been a
while since there was no perl code in there anymore
  * dbus-broker: All staging tests have passed. We plan on integrating
this into full snapshots early next week
  * GCC 14: phase 2: use gcc14 as the default compiler – All relevant
build failures in Ring0 and Ring1 have been resolved. This has moved
‘up’ (to Staging:O) to get Staging QA runs. In rare cases, this might
find some runtime issues stemming from the new compiler, but we do not
think this would happen. Taking current progress into account, we
should be able to switch by the end of August (dates are predictions,
no commitment)

Cheers,
  Dominique