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OpenSUSE: OBS End-of-Week Update and Tumbleweed Review of the Week
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Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-09-04)
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Dominique Leuenberger ☛ Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/36
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
This week saw the release of 6 snapshots (0827, 0828, 0829, 0830, 0901, and 0902).
It was an exceptionally productive week of updates, headlined by major transitions in our core toolchains. The base system has been elevated with the arrival of glibc 2.44, which brings foundational performance and security enhancements, including standard C23 library features, Intel/AMD shadow stack support, and optimized memory routines. Close on its heels came the system default transitions to Rust 1.98 and LLVM 23.1.0, giving developers access to the latest compiler features and optimizations.
On the core system front, the stable update of GNU/Linux Kernel 7.2.2 was delivered to maintain top-tier hardware compatibility. Virtualization hosts received a major update to QEMU 11.1.0, introducing substantial emulation improvements. Wireless network security was bolstered with the release of wpa_supplicant 2.12, and scientific workflows were updated with python-numpy 2.5.2. Finally, on the desktop side, we saw upgrades to pcre2 10.48 and xwaylandvideobridge 0.5.2.