14 DAY TRIAL // openSUSE Projet's Douglas DeMaio reports today on the latest software updates and technologies that were brought to users of the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling operating system by a total of four snapshots released this month.
It appears that the Tumbleweed team worked hard in the past few days to enable GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 7 as default compiler for the GNU/Linux distribution, which kinda decreased the number of snapshots released last month. But now that GCC 7 is in, they're back pushing new snapshots with the latest updates.
"The care and thoroughness of making GNU Compiler Collection 7 the default compiler for OpenSuSE Tumbleweed produced a gradual decrease in snapshots over the past month, but it looks like snapshots of the rolling release are beginning to pick up the pace," says Douglas DeMaio in his report.
Here's what landed this week in openSUSE Tumbleweed
As mentioned before, four snapshots have been released for openSUSE Tumbleweed already this month, and it looks like they brought in the recently released KDE Plasma 5.10 desktop environment, along with the KDE Applications 17.04.1 software suite and KDE Frameworks 5.34.0.
If you're using the GNOME desktop environment on your openSUSE Tumbleweed operating system, you should know that Epiphany 3.24.2, GNOME Maps 3.24.3, GNOME Software 3.24.3, GNOME Documents 3.24.2, Mutter 3.24.2, and GNOME Shell 3.24.2 also landed in the default software repositories for you to update.
Among other popular apps and components that are now available for openSUSE Tumbleweed users, we can mention Mesa 17.1.1, QEMU 2.9.0, Wireshark 2.2.7, FFMpeg 3.3.1, Krita 3.1.4, GIMP 2.8.22, sudo 1.8.20, diffutils 3.6, iBus 1.5.16, Git 2.13.0, Perl 5.24.1, CMake 3.8.1, rsyslog 8.27.0, mutt 1.8.2, SQlite3 3.19.2, and tmux 2.5.
Here's what's coming soon to openSUSE Tumbleweed
openSUSE Tumbleweed users will be pleased to learn that a lot of the recently released or upcoming applications and GNU/Linux technologies should be available in the repos, including Qt 5.9, LibreOffice 5.4, Go 1.8, OpenSSL 1.1.x series by default, and GStreamer 1.12 with MP3 support enabled out of the box.
Therefore, make sure that you always keep your openSUSE Tumbleweed installations up to date if you want to receive the most recent software updates and security patches. To get the goodies mentioned above, fire up your favorite package manager and install them all. openSUSE Tumbleweed is now powered by Linux 4.11.2.