14 DAY TRIAL // Today, September 7, 2016, Douglas DeMaio has published yet another informative bulletin to keep users of the openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux operating system up to date with the changes and software versions that have landed lately.
openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling release GNU/Linux distribution, so it's always getting new components via so-called snapshots. Just last week, we told you the Tumbleweed is based on Linux kernel 4.7.2, and this time around, one more snapshot arrives in the repositories, and it's the first for the month of September, bringing updates to some of the most important applications.
Therefore, OpenSuSE Tumbleweed snapshot 20160901 adds the Mozilla Firefox 48.0.2 web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird 45.3.0 email and news client, GNU Mailman 2.1.23, as well as an updated toolchain that includes the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 6.2.1, libgcj-gcc6 6.2.1, GNU Binutils 2.27, elfutils 0.167, and python-setuptools 26.1.1 packages.
"QtCon, Akademy and VideoLAN Dev Days in Berlin this past week kept many developers busy, but openSUSE’s rolling release kept going forward," says Douglas DeMaio in today's announcement. "Tumbleweed had one new snapshot since that last article was published and more is expected this week."
GNOME 3.22 desktop environment is coming in October
Core components like the systemd init system, GRUB2 bootloader, and lsof file management command-line utility also received improvements in snapshot 20160901 that landed on September 6, 2016, on the openSUSE Tumbleweed channels, and we're expecting to see the anticipated Glibc (GNU C Library) 2.24 update in a new snapshot soon.
In the meantime, the openSUSE Tumbleweed developers will be pushing the new GNOME 3.22 desktop environment into openSUSE Factory, where it will remain for testing for approximately three weeks. So sometime at the end of September or the beginning of October, we will get GNOME 3.22 in openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux. Until then, make sure that you update your openSUSE Tumbleweed installation.