14 DAY TRIAL // openSUSE Project's Dominique Leuenberger is reporting today on the latest updates that landed in the main software repositories of the openSUSE Tumbleweed operating system.
No less than seven snapshots were published for OpenSuSE Tumbleweed last week, which brought a bunch of goodies for users of GNU/Linux distribution, including the latest KDE Plasma 5.10.3 desktop environment, along with the KDE Frameworks 5.35.0 collection of add-on libraries for Qt, the Linux 4.11.8 kernel, as well as CUPS 2.2.3 and NetworkManager-applet 1.8.2.
"Tumbleweed is rolling – just the way we like it. Last week we published 7 snapshots," says Dominique Leuenberger in the mailing list announcement. "I was not performing any check-ins on 0705, as we were busy rebuilding the inner rings for some test setup issues; nothing that impacts your machines, but one of the tests couldn’t cope with our latest, yet long awaited libzypp config."
Linux kernel 4.12 and Qt 5.9.1 coming soon, too
In more good news, it looks like the openSUSE Tumbleweed developers are working on bringing the recently released Linux 4.12 kernel series to the distribution, along with the latest Qt 5.9.1 application framework, which should add an extra layer of performance improvements to your KDE Plasma desktop and apps. In other words, it looks like openSUSE Tumbleweed could be the first distro powered by Linux 4.12.
Also, the openSUSE devs plan to change the default "dupAllowVendorChange" setting of the libzypp library to false for new Tumbleweed installations. Until then, we recommend all users to update their installations to the most recent snapshot published this week if they want to have the latest software versions installed. It's always a good idea to keep your applications and operating systems up-to-date at all times.