KDE Plasma 5.8.3 and Linux Kernel 4.8.6 now available

Nov 10, 2016 23:45 GMT  ·  By

Today, November 10, 2016, openSUSE Project's Douglas DeMaio reports on the latest updates brought by a total of four snapshots for the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release Linux-based operating system.

During the first week of November, OpenSuSE Tumbleweed users have been treated with a lot of goodies, including the latest KDE Plasma 5.8.3 LTS desktop environment, Samba 4.5.0 free software re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol, YAST2 (Yet another Setup Tool) 3.2.3, the Epiphany 3.22.2 web browser, and Linux kernel 4.8.6.

"This week has been a bit hectic with dramatic change affecting people around the world, but openSUSE Tumbleweed users who are used to change can find some clarity in the chaos with five snapshots that were released this week," wrote Douglas DeMaio. "These snapshots brought not only a new major version of Mesa but a new kernel and Plasma 5.8.3."

Mesa 13.0.0 3D Graphics Library finally lands for openSUSE Tumbleweed users

Another cool update that landed last week in the openSUSE Tumbleweed repositories is the recently released Mesa 13.0.0 3D Graphics Library, which promises much-improved graphics for users of this GNU/Linux distribution. Other updates include BusyBox 1.25.1, btrfs-progs 4.8.2, GTK+ 3.22.2, sudo 1.8.18p1, yast2-storage 3.2.0, Git 2.10.2, fdupes 1.6.1, WebKitGTK+ 2.14.2, and a few other packages from the GNOME 3.22.2 stack.

To receive all the goodies mentioned above and keep your openSUSE Tumbleweed installation up to date with the newest GNU/Linux and Open Source technologies, we recommend that you update your system as soon as possible. The latest snapshot released is version 20161108, so make sure that it's installed on your openSUSE Tumbleweed PC. And remember, always keep your system and devices up to date!