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