Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, We did it! We reached the ‘week of the Linux desktop’! Maybe not every desktop out there is updated to the latest release yet, but at least we have seen the two major Desktop Environments updated in the last two weeks. That’s just some of the few things that have happened over the last two weeks, which resulted in 12 published snapshots (0306, 0307, 0308, 0310, 0311, 0313, 0314, 0315, 0316, 0317, 0318, and 0319). the most relevant changes included in these snapshots were: * Emacs 30.1 * Mozilla Firefox 136.0 & 136.0.1 * GNOME 48.0 * KDE Gear 24.12.3 * KDE Plasma 6.3.3 * KDE Frameworks 6.12.0 * Samba 4.21.4 * Mesa 25.0.1 * Perl 5.40.1 * RPM 4.20.1 * Linux kernel 6.13.6 * Apache 2.4.63 * SELinux 3.8.1 * GStreamer 1.26.0 * systemd 257.4 * git 2.49.0 * gimp 3.0.0 final release * Python 3.13 has become the primary interpreter. /usr/bin/python3.13 refers to this now. * GCC 15: GCC 15 provides the libraries (e.g., libgcc_s1, libstdc++), while GCC 14 is still the used compiler. With such an immense list, it’s surprising there is still work left to be done – but everybody is really active and it’s a pleasure to see things fly through the staging areas. Things currently being worked on include: * Shadow 4.17.4 * Texlive 2025 * LLVM 20 * Mesa 25.0.2 * pcre is scheduled for removal (please help move everything to pcre2) * GCC 15 as default compiler (See Staging:Gcc7) Cheers, Dominique