Users are urged to update their systems as soon as possible

Mar 20, 2017 23:46 GMT  ·  By

Dominique Leuenberger from the openSUSE Project is informing the Tumbleweed community about the latest updates brought by a total of five snapshots during the week that passed.

Before anything else, users are being advised that the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 5 packages are no longer available in the OpenSuSE Tumbleweed repositories, which means that some of the components that depended on GCC 5, such as the libffi library, were replaced. For example libffi has been replaced by a standalone library.

The five snapshots that were replaced during the last week brought many up-to-date core components and applications, including the Linux 4.10.3 kernel, along with kernel-firmware 20170303 adding support for more Nvidia graphics cards, Postfix 3.2.0, KDE Applications 16.12.3, and many other updates.

"It’s great to see this steady incoming of updates, especially also ‘more interesting things than just version updates. Things like python singlespec and the way system users/groups are newly handled are just great examples on how openSUSE moves forward," said Dominique Leuenberger in the mailing list announcement.

GNOME 3.24 desktop environment coming soon to Tumbleweed users

An openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot from a few weeks ago brought TPM2.0 support to the GRUB2 packages, which would appear to have caused issues on non-UEFI systems, so one of last week's snapshots reverted the change. Some more Python singlespec updates were introduced as well.

Additional work was done to split the pattern packages into smaller chunks so that they can have different maintainers. For the next week, the openSUSE Tumbleweed developers will be busy updating the GNOME packages to the soon-to-be-released GNOME 3.24 desktop environment.

It also looks like they are preparing to ship the GCC 7 branch to users of the openSUSE Tumbleweed operating system, though it won't yet be enabled as the default compiler. To receive all the updates mentioned above, make sure that you always keep your Tumbleweed installation up to date.