Firefox, systemd update in Tumbleweed (UPDATED)
Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed are continuously rolling forward.
Several medium sized snapshots this week provided an array of system component updates for rolling release users.
Snapshot 20230404 provided an update of systemd 253.2; this update moved the file system checker logic systemd-fsck items to a udev userspace sub-package. The spec file also added files coredump. Mozilla Firefox squashed 13 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. One of those was CVE-2023-28176 that has important severity and was described as a memory safety bug. The Web Service Discovery host daemon updated to version 0.7.1. This wsdd new version fixes regression due to changed Application Programming Interfaces in Python 3.10 and it also makes a point to force the use of this Python version for openSUSE Leap. The hardware identification and configuration data package hwdata updates Peripheral Component Interconnect, USB and vendor identities in its 0.369 version.The yast2-storage-ng 4.6.4 version exports thin Logical Volume Manage volumes when being cloned. A few more YaST packages had updates in the snapshot.
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openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/14
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
Despite some people celebrating Easter, and a typical tradition is to hide stuff around, we don’t do that to you: we publish the 7 snapshots this week all at the same place – exactly where you know how to find them.
The 7 snapshots were numbered 0330…0405 and contained these changes:
- Mesa-demo 9.0.0
- Ruby 3.2.2
- Coreutils 9.2
- Samba 4.18.1
- libnvme 1.4 / nvme-cli 2.4
- Mozilla Firefox 111.0.1
- KDE Plasma 5.27.4
- Qt 6.5.0