14 DAY TRIAL // The openSUSE Project, through Douglas DeMaio, is glad to inform the openSUSE Tumbleweed community about the new package updates and improvements incorporated in the snapshots released during the week that has passed.
Now that some of you are probably attempting to install the first Beta ISOs of the upcoming OpenSuSE Leap 42.2 operating system, which promises to offer a strong, secure, and very stable GNU/Linux distributions to pragmatic and conservative users, those who use the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release are enjoying the latest software releases and technologies.
"openSUSE users are at no loss for getting new software as this week the rolling distribution Tumbleweed had several snapshot releases and there was a beta release for openSUSE Leap 42.2," says Douglas DeMaio in the announcement. "openSUSE’s rolling distribution Tumbleweed, which was originally created by Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, had six snapshots two weeks ago and four last week."
Here's what has landed in openSUSE Tumbleweed this week
It appears that a total of six snapshots have been released for openSUSE Tumbleweed since our last report on August 17, and users have received some of the latest GNU/Linux and Open Source software. You can thus count on Linux 4.7.2 kernel, LibreOffice 5.2.1.4, VirtualBox 5.1.4, Pango 1.40.2, GTK+ 3.20.9, Poppler 0.47, wayland-protocols 1.6, kernel-firmware 20160824, PHP 5.6.25, GNOME Shell 3.20.4, and Mozilla Firefox 48.0.1.
Moreover, the KDE Plasma 5.7.4 desktop environment has landed too, along with the Applications 16.08.0 software suite and KDE Frameworks 5.25.0 collection of add-ons for Qt5. Software like YaST, Ceph, FFMpeg 3, GRUB2, Xen, GNOME Map, ModemManager, and cryptsetup has been updated as well, with the last in the list adding better disk encryption to the GNU/Linux operating system.
Currently, no new snapshot has been released for the month of September 2016, but the upcoming ones should bring Glibc (GNU C Library) 2.24, GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 6.2, and the packages from the highly anticipated GNOME 3.22 desktop environment, due for release on September 21. That being said, openSUSE Tumbleweed users are being urged to update their systems as soon as possible if they want to receive the new software versions and updates listed above.