Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Week 44 brought, among many other things, an upgrade to Kernel 5.9.1. The feedback I had seen so far was good, so people can still do their work. In total, Tumbleweed has released 5 snapshots (1023, 1024, 1025, 1026, and 1028) during this week. The most noteworthy changes include: * Freetype 2.10.4 * sssd 2.4.0 * Ghostscript 9.59.3 (there is again a patch lever in the version number; some scripts/apps trip over this) * Mozilla Firefox 82.0 * Mozilla Thunderbird 78.4.0 * Cups 2.3.3 * Linux kernel 5.9.1 * GStreamer 1.18.0 * Ruby 2.6 has been completely eliminated * nasm 2.15.05 * PostgreSQL 13 * jsoncpp 1.9.4 Looking back at the stuff being integrated, that was indeed a big part of that list. Currently, we build these major changes in our staging projects (ar are aware of the changes upcoming soon) * KDE Plasma 5.20.2 * Perl 5.32.0 * GLibc will be configured with CET enabled (Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology) * LLVM 11 * RPM 4.16 * Ruby 3.0 (final release is scheduled for the end of December) * GNOME 3.38.1: awaiting sec review for malcontent (parental control feature) * openssl 3.0 (long-term; no progress in the last few weeks) Cheers, Dominique