Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, The last week of the year, and the last day of the year, are coming to an end. Tumbleweed had a small dip, as the last two snapshots that moved to openQA had to be stopped from being published. Nevertheless, we still managed to publish 6 snapshots before heading out to the new- year celebrations (1223…1228). The snapshots contained those relevant changes: * Qemu 6.2.0 * Boost 1.78.0 * gimp 2.10.30 * gpg 2.3.4 * Pango 1.50.3 * sssd 2.6.3 * Default ruby interpreter switched from 2.7 to 3.0 The staging projects are mostly, but not completely, empty. The few ones in use are testing these items: * Wayland 1.20 (Seems to cause some bugs, see https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1194190 * Linux kernel 5.15.12 * Ruby 3.1. A direct attempt to switch to Ruby 3.1, and removing Ruby 2.7 and Ruby 3.0 in one go. Most likely it will be phased a little bit (e.g. Vagrant is not Ruby 3.1 compatible yet) * zstd 1.5.1: breaks build of zchunk and libzypp * Enabling the build of python310-* modules; the move of the default python3 provider to python310 could follow soon after Cheers, and a happy new year, Dominique