KDE Plasma 5.11.3 and KDE Applications 17.08.3 also arrived

Nov 18, 2017 08:15 GMT  ·  By

Users of the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling operating system can now update their computers to the latest and greatest Firefox Quantum web browser.

openSUSE Project's Dominique Leuenberger reports on the Tumbleweed mailing list that the Firefox Quantum web browser is now available in the software repositories of the operating system, along with the latest KDE Plasma 5.11.3 desktop environment and KDE Applications 17.08.3 and KDE Frameworks 5.40.0 software stacks.

A total of seven snapshots have been released for OpenSuSE Tumbleweed this week, despite the fact that most of openSUSE's engineers had fun at SUSE's 16th Hackweek event that took place from November 10 to November 16, 2017. These updated many of the distro's core components and apps.

"While a lot of people were having fun during openSUSE’s Hackweek 0x10 (Edition 16), Tumbleweed kept on rolling (mostly) – and I am sure we will soon see the various fruits from this hackweek," said Dominique Leuenberger. "SUSE engineers having fun does not equate with fewer changes in Tumbleweed."

openSUSE Tumbleweed to soon be powered by Linux kernel 4.14

For now, openSUSE Tumbleweed is still using the Linux 4.13 kernel series as a recent snapshot brought in the Linux kernel 4.13.12 build, though the team is working hard to rebase the operating system on the recently released Linux 4.14 LTS kernel. Also, the latest stable Mesa 17.2.5 graphics stack landed in Tumbleweed.

While openSUSE Tumbleweed users are still waiting for openSSL 1.1 to arrive as default OpenSSL implementation, it looks like next week's snapshots should bring the latest PostgreSQL 10 database server. On the other hand, the Java OpenJDK 1.7 is deemed to be removed from the repos as users can now update to Java 10.

Other than that, the openSUSE devs will soon resume their efforts on getting YaST/libstorage-ng ready for Tumbleweed, which should also arrive soon in the repositories. Until then, you are urged to update your openSUSE Tumbleweed installations as soon as possible to get the latest GNU/Linux technologies and Open Source apps.