14 DAY TRIAL // openSUSE's Douglas DeMaio reports on the latest Open Source and GNU/Linux technologies that landed in the repositories of the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling operating system.
The first week of December was terrific for OpenSuSE Tumbleweed users, as they received a snapshot every single day. A total of seven snapshots were released since December 1 until December 7, bringing many of the latest software versions, a new kernel, and various other under-the-hood improvements.
"The most interesting snapshot of the week probably arrived with snapshot 20161202. In the snapshot, several Mesa 13.0.2 subpackages were updated that provided graphical fixes for enhancing Wayland, Vulkan and X11. FFMpeg 3.2.1 brought new codec fixes and provided a regressions fix for audio-visual loss during streaming," said the dev.
Git 2.11.0, CMake 3.7.1, Mozilla Firefox 50.0.2 and Thunderbird 45.5.1 arrived
Powered by Linux kernel 4.8.12, openSUSE Tumbleweed now features the Mozilla Firefox 50.0.2 web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird 45.5.1 email and news client, Git 2.11.0 distributed version control system, CMake 3.7.1 compiler, Vim 8.0.102 and Emacs 25.1 text editors, as well as Flatpak 0.6.14 and OStree 2016.14.
The last snapshot released for the month of November also brought the LightDM 1.21.1 display manager and the Xfce 4.12.3 desktop environment with its rotating wallpaper image support. YaST2 3.2.7, Python-cryptography 1.6, Speedcrunch 0.12, Virt-viewer 5.0, GNOME Software 3.22.3 have arrived as well.
It also looks like the openSUSE Tumbleweed team is currently preparing the operating system for the integration of the upcoming GTK+ 4, the next-generation GTK+ GUI toolkit for the GNOME desktop environment and related applications. The Vala packages were updated as well and a bunch of KDE apps received improvements.
If you're using openSUSE Tumbleweed on your personal computer, we recommend that you update your installation as soon as possible. The latest snapshot is 20161207, released earlier today. In related news, the openSUSE begins the deprecation of the old AMD/ATI Catalyst (fglrx) proprietary drivers from the software repositories.