Mesa, Flatpak, Plasma Update in Tumbleweed (UPDATED)
This week openSUSE Tumbleweed users learned of the performance optimizations gained with changes for x86-64-v3 and received a few snapshots.
Some of the packages to arrive this week included software for KDE users, gamers and people beginning their Linux journey.
Snapshot, 20230301 delivered a new major version of a 3D graphics library. Mesa 23.0.0 was announced by Dylan Baker, who highlighted all the community’s improvements, fixes and changes for the release. A major Link Time Optimization leak was fixed in the release and several Radeon (RADV) drivers and Zink Vulkan fixes became available with the release. AppStream 0.16.1 updated is documentation and fixed some behavior with the binding helper macros. Flatpak 1.14.3 introduced splitting an upgrade into two steps for the wrapper. It also introduces the filename in an error message if an app has an invalid syntax in its overrides or metadata. The Linux Apps Summit, which covers Flatpak, AppImage, Snap, will take place in Brno, Czech Republic, next month and is a great event to hear from developers working on cross-distro solutions in the application space. The second update of the week for sudo arrived in the snapshot. The 1.9.13p2 fixed an --enable-static-sudoers option arriving in the 20230225 snapshot. An update of apparmor 3.1.3 added support for more audit.log formats, fixed a parser bug and fixed boo#1065388, which had progressed to be resolved over a five-year period.
UPDATE
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openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/09
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
The weather is unpredictable and here changes from almost spring-like back to winter in a few days. In this world I am happy to have one constant: snapshot delivering 7 snapshots in as many days (0223…0301). Snapshot 0226 has not been announced to the mailing list as it did not contain any change of packages that are part of the DVD)
The snapshots delivered these changes:
- gimp 2.10.34
- Node.JS 19.7.0
- SQLite 3.41.0
- KDE Plasma 5.27.1
- NetworkManager 1.42.2
- MariaDB 10.10.3
- Linux kernel 6.2.0 & linux-glibc-devel 6.2
- cURL 7.88.1
- make 4.4.1
- Mesa 23.0.0
- AppArmor 3.1.3 (fixes for log format change in kernel 6.2)
- zstd 1.5.4