KDE Applications 17.04.0 and Firefox 52.1.0 also landed

May 19, 2017 02:56 GMT  ·  By

openSUSE's Douglas DeMaio reports on the latest GNU/Linux technologies and Open Source applications that landed in the repositories of the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling operating system.

First things first, OpenSuSE Tumbleweed is now powered by the latest Linux 4.11 kernel series, specifically version 4.11.0, which upgraded users from Linux kernel 4.10.13. The team is aware of the fact that Linux kernel 4.11.1 is already available with better support for Nvidia graphics drivers, and will implement it soon.

"The new kernel has at least eight prominent features and a pluggable IO scheduler for the multiqueue block layer is just one of the many features," said Douglas DeMaio. "There are some fixes for nvidia drivers in the 4.11.1 Kernel, which expected to arrive in the next Tumbleweed snapshot if all goes according to plan."

KDE Applications 17.04.0, Mesa 17.0.5, GNOME 3.24.1, and more

Only three snapshots were released for the openSUSE Tumbleweed operating system series this week, but they brought a lot of goodies that GNOME and KDE fans most probably expected for some time now. These included the KDE Applications 17.04.0 software suite and GNOME Games 3.24.1 video games library manager.

The Mozilla Firefox 52.1.0 web browser arrived as well, along with the Mesa 17.0.5 3D Graphics Library, which adds an extra layer of performance for gaming, and Cryptsetup 1.7.5, which includes improvements to the optional dracut ramdisk scripts for offline re-encryption on initial boot.

Other updates included VirtualBox 5.1.22, libvirt 3.3.0, libvirt-python 3.3.0, perl-Net-HTTP 6.14, zypper 1.13.25, python-sip 4.19.2, python-requests 2.13.0, and nut 2.7.4. All these updates and much more are now available for installation on your openSUSE Tumbleweed operating system.

The openSUSE development team is still working hard to make the latest GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 7 default compiler in the Tumbleweed distribution. In the meantime, please make sure that you keep your installations up to date with the latest package versions and security patches.