14 DAY TRIAL // Today, October 26, 2016, openSUSE's Douglas DeMaio informed the community about the latest updated components that landed recently in the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling operating system.
We reported a few days ago that the OpenSuSE Tumbleweed GNU/Linux distribution was about to receive the Linux 4.8.3 kernel patched against the infamous "Dirty COW" vulnerability everyone is talking about lately. Well, that happened in snapshot 20160120, and it looks like Linux kernel 4.8.4 arrived as well four days later.
"Snapshot 20160120 brought users Linux Kernel 4.8.3 and four days later snapshot 20160124 brought the 4.8.4 Linux Kernel. A kernel patch for the Dirty Cow security vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195) came quickly to the rolling release and was available by Saturday," said Douglas DeMaio in today's announcement.
KDE Plasma 5.8.2 LTS desktop environment now available
Among other exciting updates that landed in the openSUSE Tumbleweed operating system, we can mention the latest KDE Plasma 5.8.2 LTS desktop environment, timezone updates in snapshot 20160123 and KDE updates, as well as a new Ghostscript version that fixes the three-year-old CVE-2013-5653 vulnerability.
There were also timezone updates, several other KDE updates, the AppStream 0.10.0 cross-distro collaboration package, python3-setuptools 28.6.1, and PHP 5.6.27, which promises to add various subpackages and fix multiple security bugs. Some minor bug fixes and improvements were implemented as well for better stability.
Therefore, if you're using openSUSE Tumbleweed on your personal computer, we recommend that you update the installation as soon as possible. The new snapshots are already awaiting you, so all you have to do to keep your system fully patched and secure is to apply all available updates released on the stable repositories. Don't forget to reboot your PC!