Tumbleweed Slows for Open Build Service Move
The rolling release for openSUSE temporarily slowed the frequency of its snapshot releases cycle to support the migration efforts and data center move of the Open Build Service from last week.
The release engineer team reported in its weekly meeting that the check in of Tumbleweed builds were intentionally paused so as not put additional stress on the OBS migration that was needed.
The first check in build happened on Monday, passed openQA and snapshot 20230828 was released to update a half-dozen packages. An update of ImageMagick 7.1.1.15 removed a Common Vulnerability and Exposure patch after it was merged upstream. Some settings for RGBA images were corrected and some image compatibility issues were resolved. An update of clamav 0.103.9 addressed a possible denial of service vulnerability fixing CVE-2023-20197. The update also includes fixes for compiler warnings that may become errors in the Clang 16 compiler. The package for hardware identification and configuration data, hwdata, updated to version 0.373 and brings updates to Peripheral Component Interconnect, USB, and vendor IDs. An update of java-11-openjdk 11.0.20.1 brought an emergency release in response to a regression in the July 2023 update and addresses an issue of an invalid Central Directory Entry header. The wtmpdb package, which is meant to help solve the Y2038 problem, updated to 0.9.1 and includes a fix manual page reference and had a correction of the printf format specifier on 32-bit systems. Xfce users will be happy to see an update of xfce4-terminal 1.1.0 that introduces various changes, including allowing passing arguments to custom commands, translating strings in the unsafe paste dialog and improving window synchronization for showing tabs. The package also adds support for kinetic scrolling in VteTerminal and enhances the preferences dialog.
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openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/35
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
The move of OBS to the new data center has been completed and issues we had seen as a consequence of this are mostly fixed (all in working order, some performance not exactly where it used to be, but in a workable state). Yet, we only managed to release a single, small snapshot during this week: 20230828. Two more made it to QA but had to be discarded for bugs identified which slipped Staging.
Snapshot 0828 was, as mentioned small, and only brought you those changes over 0823: [...]