14 DAY TRIAL // If you're wondering why you haven't received any snapshots lately for your openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling operating system, you should know that the openSUSE Linux devs had a hard time last week fixing various things and integrate the DNF package manager.
openSUSE Project's Dominique Leuenberger recently informed the Tumbleweed community that the main reason behind the single snapshot released last week for the GNU/Linux distribution was that the DNF integration created metadata in the repository that was only valid for Tumbleweed systems, not Leap.
"With the introduction of the package DNF, that uses some of the new RPM boolean dependency operators (new since RPM 4.13), we ended up having metadata in the repository that is well understood by Tumbleweed systems, but not by any system one might want to upgrade to Tumbleweed (think Leap 42.x)," explained Leuenberger.
This would not allow Tumbleweed users to upgrade their installations to the Leap series, but a fix is coming very soon as the OpenSuSE Linux developer promise. As for the single snapshot, it brought a bunch of KDE goodies, including KDE Plasma 5.10.5 desktop, KDE Applications 17.08.0 software suite, and KDE Frameworks 5.37.0.
The rolling distro will soon be powered by Linux kernel 4.12.10
In addition, the snapshot brought the latest stable Mozilla Thunderbird 52.3.0 email and news client, Claws Mail 3.15.1 email client, Wireshark 2.4.1 network scanner, cURL 7.55 data transfer tool, the Release Candidate build of the GCC 7.2 compiler, which is the default for Tumbleweed, and, under the hood, the GNU C Library (Glibc) 2.26 core library.
Once the above issue is fixed, more snapshots should make their way into the repositories of openSUSE Tumbleweed, bringing all the latest Open Source and GNU/Linux technologies, such as GnuPG 2.2, OpenSSL 1.1 by default, and Linux kernel 4.12.10. Now that PHP 7.x series is default in Tumbleweed, it looks like the PHP 5.x packages are scheduled for removal in the coming weeks.