14 DAY TRIAL // openSUSE Project's Douglas DeMaio reports the availability of a new framework in the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release operating system that promises to let users enjoy the latest Flatpak software releases.
By following a rolling release model, the OpenSuSE Tumbleweed operating system always receives the latest package versions and GNU/Linux technologies, and, to be honest, we had no idea that it doesn't fully support the newest Flatpak releases. That's why the openSUSE engineers managed to implement a new framework to bring you Flatpak 0.6.13.
Announced last week right here in this space, Flatpak 0.6.13 appeared to be a major update of the universal Linux binary format that introduced numerous new features for desktop users. Apart from that, openSUSE Tumbleweed users will enjoy OSTree 2016.12, which features a layer for deploying bootable filesystem trees and managing bootloader configurations.
"A new framework for desktop applications on Linux has been added to Tumbleweed and now users can enjoy the most up-to-date version of Flatpak. [...] The "new feature will surely need some testing," wrote Dominique Leuenberger in his weekly review about openSUSE Tumbleweed regarding the implementation of the OSTree 2016.12 tool.
Mozilla Firefox 49.0.2 and KDE Frameworks 5.27.0 landed as well
Also new in the snapshot 20161028 of openSUSE Tumbleweed is the Mozilla Firefox 49.0.2 web browser and KDE Frameworks 5.27.0 collection of add-on libraries for the Qt 5 GUI toolkit. The Yast2-storage 3.1.105 and yast2-http-server 3.2.1 packages landed as well, adding new options and bug fixes.
Halloween brought lots of treats to openSUSE Tumbleweed, as four other snapshots released after snapshot 20161028 added some subpackages for AppArmor and dbus-1-glib, updated the Kiwi OS image builder to version 7.04.8, along with Nmap 7.31, Wine 1.9.22, and Hexchat 2.12.3.
GNU Bash 4.4 arrived as well in a previous snapshot, and KDE Plasma 5.8.3 LTS in snapshot 20161104, so we recommend that you update your openSUSE Tumbleweed operating system as soon as possible if you want to get the goodies mentioned in this article, and make sure that your installation is secure and up-to-date at all times.