Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, As we are used to by now, Tumbleweed keeps on rolling at a steady pace. Once again, we managed to publish 5 snapshots during the week (0203x 0204, 0205, 0206, and 0207); 0208 was not created (delays in build time, too much load) and 0209 was discarded due to failures around vagrant dependencies. The most relevant changes shipped as part of those 5 snapshots were: * KDE Gear 21.12.2 * KDE Plasma 5.24.0 * rpm no longer pulls glibc-locale, but only glibc-locale-base, See this discussion [0] * Mesa 21.3.5 * llvm 13.0.1 * systemd: drop SUSE specific sysv support. Generic, upstream based sysv support remains in place. See original announcement at Factory mailinglist [1] * Linux kernel 5.15.5 * zstd 1.5.2: introduces zstd-gzip, an alternative, faster implementation of gzip. It is not (yet) a drop-in replacement, as the command line parameters are not matching That matches pretty well the announcements of last week – of course, the longer-lasting things are still pending and work in progress. Staging projects currently contain: * Mesa 21.3.6 * Linux kernel 5.15.8 – with full drm support in earlyboot, see Mailinglist [2] * glibc 2.35 * Python 3.6 interpreter will be removed (We have roughly 75 python36-FOO packages left) * Python 3.10 as the distro default interpreter (a bit down the line) * GCC 12 introduction has started to be as ready as possible for when the upstream release happens. Cheers, Dominique [0] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/3... [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/3... [2] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/7...