Users received latest Flatpak and MariaDB releases

Dec 11, 2017 14:33 GMT  ·  By

Another week passed by and even if we're getting closer and closer to the winter holidays, it doesn't mean you won't be getting any updates for your openSUSE Tumbleweed operating system.

A total of six snapshots have been released to the public this month, as OpenSuSE Project's Dominique Leuenberger announced this past weekend, and they brought lots of goodies, along with some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies and Open Source software components. But first, there's been a bunch of more python2->python3 conversions lately that you should know about.

"For the ones that don’t know yet, the python2 -> python3 switches are especially of interest to SLE/Leap 15," said Dominique Leuenberger. "Minimizing the support surface for Python 2 in favor of Python 3 will lead to a much stronger, supportable product for the future. As Tumbleweed is the leading and trendsetting product, it is but natural that we get those changes as well."

Now powered by Linux kernel 4.14.3, openSUSE Tumbleweed received the latest Flatpak 0.10.1 Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework, along with flapak-builder 0.10.5, as well as the MariaDB 10.2.11 database engine, Mesa 17.2.6 graphics stack, Midnight Command 4.8.20 two-pane file manager, Poppler 0.61.1, HarfBuzz 1.7.1, and Libvirt 3.10.0 libraries, and Wireshark 2.4.3.

RPM 4.14, LibreOffice 6.0, and KDE Applications 17.12 coming soon

If the above updates aren't enough for you, we're glad to inform openSUSE Tumbleweed fans than they'll be getting a lot more goodies in the weeks to follow, starting with the latest Linux 4.14 kernel updates, the Qt 5.9.3 LTS application framework, Apache Tomcat 9.0.2 Servlet/JSP container, and RPM 4.14 package management system, which will contain new rich dependencies.

On top of that, the upcoming LibreOffice 6.0 office suite and KDE Applications 17.12.0 software stack are coming as well to the openSUSE Tumbleweed repositories as soon as they're released upstream (sometimes at the end of January 2018). Also, there will be the YaST team’s Libstorage-NG implementation too, so make sure you update your Tumbleweed PCs regularly.