Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week you ‘only’ had to update your machine 5 times – for the
snapshots 0505, which was for some reason not announced, 0506, 0507,
0509, and 0510 (the last one fresh off the press). 0508 would have been
ok, but QA was slightly slower than OBS and so the new snapshot moved
to QA before the old one was completely tested. Oops. Anyway, nothing
was lost, all good things from that snapshot are still shipped, just a
day later.
So, what did those 5 snapshots bring you? The most interesting changes
include:
* Mesa 22.0.3
* Mozilla Firefox 100.0
* KDE Plasma 5.24.5
* Meson 0.62
* gpg 2.3.6: Up to five times faster verification of detached
signatures
* Linux kernel 5.17.5
* gnome-shell & mutter 42.1 (late arrivals to the GNOME 42.1 update)
* Poppler 22.05.0
* Virtualbox 6.1.34
* GCC 12.1 – with snapshot 0510, gcc12 has become the distro default
compiler. All packages have been attempted to be rebuilt. This also
means that the recently enabled FullRelRo support (-z now) is enabled
across the board. There are currently about 370 build failures reported
in openSUSE:Factory (non-ring packages)
* systemd 250.5
This makes for quite an impressive list in just one week. Granted, a
few of those things had been in staging areas for a while (days to
weeks).
And as you’re already used to, this is no reason to stop. Au contraire:
the stagings are already filled again with the following presents:
* KDE Gear 22.04.1
* Attempting to build the distro using FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 instead of
FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
* Linux kernel 5.17.7
* GStreamer 1.20.2
* Perl 5.34.1
* Python 3.10 as the default interpreter
Cheers,
Dominique