Perl, Pipewire, LibreOffice Update in Tumbleweed (UPDATED)
Tumbleweed snapshots didn’t lack excitement this week as multiple packages received updates and a couple major versions arrived for openSUSE rolling release users this week.
The 20230809 snapshot provided an update of GNU Compiler Collection. GNU Compiler Collection. The new 13.2.1+git7683 version for developers that rely on the compiler includes the 13.2 release and various fixes. Notably, the update addresses a patch for a broken testcase in libbacktrace, which resolves build issues on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12. GNOME users received an update of gtk4 4.10.5. The release addresses various issues, including fixing ordering problems with filter model signals, avoiding lingering resize cursors, and resolving alignment issues on the Scalable Processor Architecture. The fuse3 3.16.1 package, which is an interface for userspace programs to export a filesystem to the Linux kernel, had some enhancements with an ability to enable readdir kernel cache from the high-level Application Programming Interface. Office suite libreoffice received a minor version update to 7.6.0.2 a day after updating from the 7.5.4.2 version. This release incorporates bug fixes and updates to bundled dependencies, which ensures a more stable and feature-rich office experience. A third update this week of libstorage-ng 4.5.136 had translation updates for Indonesian. The upower package for power management and device information updated to version 1.90.2. Notably, the release marks the end of lid handling in UPower since the functionality will now be provided by logind. A few other packages updated in the snapshot like python-importlib-resources, which updated to major version 6.0.1 and removed legacy functions deprecated in 5.3; it require Python 3.8 or later.
UPDATE
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openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/32
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
At least over here where I live, the last few days we had slightly less summery time and more rain – and bad weather means more work in front of the screen. The same thing likely happened to other contributors, looking at the things we passed through staging or are still there. This week has seen 7 snapshots (0804..0810).
- openSSL 3.1.2
- Linux kernel 6.4.8 & 6.4.9
- Libvirt 9.6.0
- Perl 5.38 (incl all perl modules rebuilt)
- LibreOffice 7.6.0.1 & 7.6.0.2
- QEmu 8.0.4
The most relevant changes during this week were: