@opensuse #Tumbleweed
Review of the week 2026/13

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

After a high-speed run, we hit a wall this week: only two snapshots (0324 and 0326) reached the mirrors. The culprit was a combination of bad timing and a necessary course correction regarding our bootloader defaults.

It is now clear that the previous move to grub2-bls was a mistake. *** We spent Monday and Tuesday ironing out the resulting kinks, which cost us the weekend snapshots.

While the change to systemd-boot is a significant highlight for fresh installations, it was just one of many updates that landed this week:

* systemd-boot: Now the default for fresh installations (upgraders remain on their existing bootloader).
* AppArmor 4.1.7
* KDE Plasma 6.6.3
* ffmpeg 8.1
* FreeRDP 3.24.1
* gettext 1.0
* Linux kernel 6.19.9
* qemu 10.2.2
* SQLite 3.51.3

The package maintainers and release engineers are busy preparing the next few changes for the upcoming days. These include:
* GNOME 50: matplotlib’s test suite needs to accept deprecations in glib 2.88.0
* Autoconf 2.73
* Linux kernel 6.19.10
* Qt 6.11.0
* Mozilla Firefox 149.0
* GCC 16 as the default distro compiler
* LLVM 22
* glibc 2.43: metabug: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1257250

Cheers,
Dominique Leuenberger
---
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/X2EPAPRLWZYA5XXE4JNDNKYTW3BJBHSO/