Dear Tumbleweed users,

At the moment, Tumbleweed snapshot 20210212 is being synced out to the mirrors; the public announcement of the snapshot being available will (estimated) be at around 12pm CET.

I want to inform you upfront of a few specialties:

* The snapshot is going to be large, in the number of packages to 'update' (mostly rebuild counters) and thus also megabytes. * The snapshot is the first to be based on glibc 2.33 https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-February/122207.html

While testing this snapshot, a few things were broken (which delayed publishing a bit). There are, however, still two issues known which you should be aware of:

* NIS integrated system administrators might want to check out https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1182247 - the nss_compat module does not load additional modules, which means you might have to adjust the nsswitch.conf to make 'nis' an explicit setting. * Especially on 32bit systems we had seen a bunch of sandboxing features not behaving as expected. This currently (still) affects libqt5-qtwebengine. An additional fix is currently being published in parallel into the update channel (http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/). In case you see rendering issues (kmail for example) make sure to have this update included.

The other fixes (OpenSSH, chromium) which we had seen in prior testings are already included in snapshot 20210212 and should not be of concern.

As usual, if you see new bugs appearing, please verify if somebody else already filed them in bugzilla.opensuse.org and, if not already present, file the bugs yourself.

Cheers, Dominique