14 DAY TRIAL // The time has come for users of the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling operating system to update their systems as openSUSE Project's Douglas DeMaio informed the community today, February 2, 2017, about the availability of multiple updated packages.
As usual, the developer reports on the numerous updates that flooded the software repositories of OpenSuSE Tumbleweed last week from January 24 to 31 through a total of six snapshots. These brought some of the latest Open Source and GNU/Linux technologies, including the recently released KDE Plasma 5.9 desktop environment.
That's right, if you're using openSUSE Tumbleweed with the KDE desktop, you'll now be able to upgrade it to the recently released KDE Plasma 5.9 version, which arrived only a couple of days ago, bringing us numerous new features and performance improvements. The most important change being the return of Global Menus.
"Additional features like icon widgets being created for applications and document when dragged to the desktop and several other new features like streamlined visuals, global menus and a new network configuration module can be found in the newest Plasma 5.9 version," reads today's announcement.
systemd 232, KDE Frameworks 5.30.0, and Wireshark 2.2.4 now available
Among other goodies that landed in the openSUSE Tumbleweed repositories last week, we can mention the latest systemd 232 init system, Wireshark 2.2.4 network protocol analyzer, PulseAudio 10.0 sound system, digiKam 5.4.0 image editor and organizer, Mozilla Firefox 51.0.1 web browser, and Mozilla Thunderbird 45.7.0 email and news client.
As expected, the KDE Plasma 5.9 desktop environment is accompanied by KDE Framework 5.30.0 and KDE Applications 16.12.1, and users will be able to install the updated Wine 2.0, AppStream 0.10.5, Vim 8.0.194, OpenVPN 2.3.14, zypper 1.13.15, PHP 5.6.30, ImageMagick 6.9.7.5, libzypp 16.4.0, and libvirt 3.0.0 packages.
There are also various improvements for many other packages, including but not limited to GNU Compiler Collection, Xfce4 Terminal, yast2-installation, yast2-services-manager, and yast2-packager. Additionally, openSUSE Tumbleweed is now proudly powered by Linux kernel 4.9.6.
If you want to receive all these updates on your openSUSE Tumbleweed computer, make sure that you fire up your favorite package manager, graphical or command-line, and install all the latest snapshots released recently. We always recommend that you keep your Linux systems up to date at all time to stay safe and secure from any threats.