Tumbleweed Brings KDE Users Frameworks, Gear Updates (UPDATED)
This week brought KDE users of openSUSE‘s rolling release Tumbleweed updates for Frameworks and Gear along with several other updated packages.
Snapshots have been rolling out with various enhancements and bug fixes this week.
The more recent snapshot, 20230712, updated GNU Compiler Collection 13.1.1 and the changes related to the architecture levels for the Adaptable Linux Platform. A patch was also removed. The Linux Kernel also updated in the snapshot as kernel-source 6.4.2 addressed a Common Vulnerability and Exposure. CVE-2023-3269 addressed the lock handling for accessing and updating virtual memory areas. The tool to copy files cpio backported some upstream fixes, refreshed some patches and removed four patches. A few GNOME packages updated in the snapshot. Miscellaneous bug fixes along with some cleanup, and updated translations arrived in the gnome-shell 44.3; it also fixed a cursor offset issue with the magnifier. The 44.3 mutter had improvements to ensure the preferred monitor mode is always included and to avoid rapid toggling of dynamic maximum render time. It also fixes an issue with a dynamic maximum render time. Additionally, there are miscellaneous bug fixes and updated translations. An update of yast2-storage-ng 4.6.12 ensures that storage support packages are added correctly for MicroOS, which uses a custom partitions proposal client instead of another specific client. Several other packages were updated in the snapshot.
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openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2023/27 & 28
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
The vacation season is upon us, and the number of requests to Tumbleweed is slightly lower than normal. Nevertheless, there is a constant flow of updates coming your way. Due to my slacking off last week, this review again spans two weeks. In total, 11 snapshots have been published in this time (0701, 0703…0710, 0712, and 0713)
These 11 snapshots brought you the following changes:
- GStreamer 1.22.4
- Network Manager 1.42.8
- linux-glibc-devel 6.4
- MariaDB 11.0.2
- Mozilla Firefox 115.0 & 115.0.1
- Python 3.11.4 & 3.12.0b3
- KDE Gear 23.04.3
- KDE Frameworks 5.108.0
- GNOME 44.3
- Linux kernel 6.4.2 (lockdown accidentally not enabled)
- wine 8.12
- Protobuf 23.4