Tumbleweed - Review of the weeks 2022/21 & 22
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Last week, I skipped the review as over here, Thursday was a holiday and I decided to take Friday off as well and make for a long weekend (for a $random value of ‘off’ as it turned out). In total, Tumbleweed has seen 13 snapshots since the last review, which means it was ‘almost daily’ with one gap {0519..0601, except for 0529 – and 0526 was published, but never made it to the mirrors due to a config error) Those 13 snapshots brought you these changes: * LLVM 14.0.4 * Virtualbox preparation for upcoming Kernel 5.18 * gnutls 3.7.6 * GNOME 42.2 * systemd 250.6 * Perl 5.34.1 * Mozilla Firefox 100.0.2 * Linux kernel 5.17.9 * Mesa 22.1.0 * Pulseaudio 16.0 * Buldflag FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 Last Friday, we had some issues with qemu, which would not start up anymore, reporting buffer overflows. The package had a patch added, and openQA has reported on that issue. I wrongly connected the two things (i.e patch causing the buffer overflows). So I reverted qemu in Factory and published that reverted into the Update channel, and giving those openQA fails a pass. Turned out this was wrong and Friday was spent together with Dario and a lot of testers to get to the actual root of the problem and give you a working qemu package back as quickly as possible. Apologies for the trouble caused there. For the future, we are having a few things in Staging already again and will try to keep up with a good cadence of snapshots. The most interesting changes being worked on are: * Linux kernel 5.18.1 (Snapshot 0602+) * Mozilla Firefox 101 * Mesa 22.1.1 * KDE Plasma 5.25 (beta staged, release planned for mid-June) * SELinux 3.4 * Python 3.10 as the default interpreter Cheers, Dominique
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Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar