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Tumbleweed Monthly Update - April 2025

Douglas DeMaio 2. May 2025

The rolling release Tumbleweed continues enhancements in April and brings more usefulness to gamers, developers and others with the delivery of several snapshots. Among th...

Tumbleweed Monthly Update - March 2025

Douglas DeMaio 1. Apr 2025

Tumbleweed continues to showcase the strength of a well-maintained rolling release as we move through 2025. March delivered several snapshots and several impactful changes ...

Leap 15.6 Unveils Choices for Users

Douglas DeMaio 12. Jun 2024

EN / CA / CS / DE / ES / JA / PT-BR / SV / ZH-TW NUREMBERG, Germany – The release of Leap 15.6 is official and paves the way for professionals and organizations to transit...

openSUSE Tumbleweed Monthly Update - April

Douglas DeMaio 30. Apr 2024

Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for April 2024. This month began after addressing last month’s supply chain attack against xz compression library for ...

openSUSE Tumbleweed Monthly Update - March

Douglas DeMaio 28. Mar 2024

Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for March 2024. This month provided several anticipated updates for the rolling release. Before getting in the packag...

Major Versions of PipeWire, Firefox arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio (Image by Jakub Steiner) 30. Nov 2023

Rolling release users of openSUSE Tumbleweed who did a zypper dup on and after Monday will have a couple new major version updates. El Presidente made an appearance in sna...

Flatpak, OpenVPN, Bash update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 24. Nov 2023

This week has produced more than a few openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots with a moderate downloaded size of packages for those who did a zypper dup. Snapshot 20231122 is the l...

Gear, Frameworks, Kernel updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 16. Nov 2023

A large amount of software updates made it into openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots this week. Most snapshots came with several new versions for those who used their command lin...

LLVM, VLC updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Nov 2023

During Hack Week this weeek, openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed still manages to send out four snapshots. Software packages like LLVM, the Linux Kernel’s firmware, VLC ...

Firefox, hiredis, Strace updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 3. Nov 2023

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed this week have been frequent with a fair amount of software packages arriving in each snapshot.. Among some of the packages to update this...

Apache, Plasma, firewalld updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 27. Oct 2023

This week saw a major transition in openSUSE Tumbleweed for YaST as it moved to a new major version. Several other packages like Apache, Redis, GVfs, Vim, KDE Plasma 5.27....

GNOME, Gear, Pipewire update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 19. Oct 2023

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed this week ranged from small- to medium-sized updates. Snapshots are rolling out consistently this week and updates for GNOME, KDE Gear, Pi...

GPG, RubyGems, Kernel update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 13. Oct 2023

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed this week had a variety of package updates. Both Mesa and ImageMagick, were among the packages updated both this week and last week in the...

Tumbleweed's Graphic Updates Shine

Douglas DeMaio 5. Oct 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots brings clarity for graphics thanks to updates of multiple graphics and imaging packages. Package updates for Mesa, GTK, ImageMagi...

Tumbleweed Gets systemd-boot Support

Douglas DeMaio 29. Sep 2023

This week openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots continue to deliver software updates for users wanting to enhance their systems. Updates in this week’s snapshots brought numerous ...

Health-Checker, Gear, More update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 22. Sep 2023

A few openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots became available to users of the rolling release this week. Several software packages for KDE users were among those updated. The heal...

Systemd, Kernel update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. Sep 2023

This week saw openSUSE Tumbleweed level up with a new Linux Kernel. The rolling release had many snapshots, but only recently did the zypper dup change the distribution to...

KDE Gear, FreeRDP update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 7. Sep 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots varied from large to small and there was also an updated arm Tumbleweed snapshot released. Packages to arrive so far this month h...

Tumbleweed Slows for Open Build Service Move

Douglas DeMaio 31. Aug 2023

The rolling release for openSUSE temporarily slowed the frequency of its snapshot release cycle to support the migration efforts and data center move of the Open Build Serv...

Britty, LibreOffice, OpenVPN Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 24. Aug 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot updates remained steady and small other than the release of KDE Frameworks 5.109.0 in one of the snapshots. Daily snapshots were r...

PostgreSQL, Xen, glibc Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 18. Aug 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were steady and there were no large updates. While updating openSUSE rolling release once a week could result in a larger update,...

Perl, Pipewire, LibreOffice Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 11. Aug 2023

Tumbleweed snapshots didn’t lack excitement this week as multiple packages received updates and a couple major versions arrived for openSUSE rolling release users this week...

Tumbleweed Update Highlights Redis, HarfBuzz Changes

Douglas DeMaio 21. Jul 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed updates had changes for harfbuzz, xterm, Redis, Audacity and more Snapshots have been rolling out consistently this week. The 20230718 sna...

Tumbleweed Brings KDE Users Frameworks, Gear Updates

Douglas DeMaio 14. Jul 2023

This week brought KDE users of openSUSE‘s rolling release Tumbleweed updates for Frameworks and Gear along with several other updated packages. Snapshots have been rolling...

Tumbleweed Boosts GNOME, MariaDB with Updates

Douglas DeMaio 7. Jul 2023

A week of five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots brought crucial updates for key packages like GNOME, MariaDB, transactional-update and others. The rolling release distributi...

Kdump, firewalld update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jun 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots are rolling out at a steady pace. The snapshots were not large, but consistent. Snapshot 20230628 provided a few small changes t...

Mesa, systemd, Gear, Frameworks update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 15. Jun 2023

Frequent snapshots of openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed brought KDE enthusiasts freshly made software this week. KDE Gear and KDE Frameworks were released in two of th...

Ruby Default Switches in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 24. Feb 2023

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed roundup will look at five snapshots that have been released since last Friday. Snapshots include switching the default Ruby for the rolling...

Leap 15.5 Reaches Beta Phase

Douglas DeMaio 21. Feb 2023

The release manager for openSUSE Leap Luboš Kocman is expected to announce the Beta release phase of Leap 15.5 soon. The first Beta release is syncing on mirrors globally f...

Mesa, Disk Encryption, Xfce Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Feb 2023

This week has provided many openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots focusing on hardware, graphics, desktop environment and more. From Mesa to the disk encryption package cryptsetup...

Audacity, OpenSSL, systemd Update Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Feb 2023

The past week has produced a few openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots and automatic migrations kicked off for the first snapshot of February. Some of the packages covered this we...

Frameworks, PostgreSQL, Vim Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 18. Aug 2022

The month of August is hot for openSUSE Tumbleweed as snapshots appear to be rolling out daily. The trend this week is like Tumbleweed on cruise control just rolling out s...

New Kernel, HarfBuzz Versions update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 12. Aug 2022

Consecutive openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been rolling out to users each day this week. Among the few major version releases this week are the 5.19 Linux Kernel and t...

Mesa, ImageMagick Packages Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 25. May 2022

Snapshots for openSUSE Tumbleweed have been continuously released this month. This week we will look at packages released in four snapshots since Friday. However, before v...

openSUSE Leap 15.4 Enters Release Candidate Phase

Douglas DeMaio 17. May 2022

The openSUSE Project has entered the Release Candidate phase for the next minor release version of the openSUSE Leap distribution. The upcoming release of Leap 15.4 transi...

GCC 12 Becoming Default Compiler in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 13. May 2022

More than a month after preparing the default compiler for openSUSE Tumbleweed to be switched to GNU Compiler Collection 12, the latest snapshot passed openQA and is making...

GNOME, curl, Fetchmail update in Tumbleweed, WSL Image Published

Douglas DeMaio 6. May 2022

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed flowed out this week and the rolling release also gave Microsoft Windows users a newer Windows Subsystem for Linux image. A newly publishe...

LLVM, PipeWire, git update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. Apr 2022

There have been three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released since last Thursday. If the 20220420 snapshot passes openQA, it might be released before this article publishe...

Tumbleweed to Get New Default GCC

Douglas DeMaio 8. Apr 2022

A new default GNU Compiler Collection for openSUSE Tumbleweed is set to follow one of the snapshots that rolled out this week. Snapshot 20220405 prepares the default compi...

Tumbleweed updates sudo, systemd, ibus

Douglas DeMaio 31. Mar 2022

A total of four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were delivered this week to rolling release users. Tumbleweed has consistently been releasing daily snapshots; a four-day per...

Tumbleweed Gets GNOME 42

Douglas DeMaio 25. Mar 2022

openSUSE’s rolling release quickly gave Tumbleweed users the freshly released GNOME 42. This highly anticipated release from GNOME contributors landed in the 20220323 snap...

Tumbleweed Has Six Snapshots, Leap Gets Quarterly Respin

Douglas DeMaio 4. Mar 2022

This week was filled with good news surrounding openSUSE. On top of openSUSE Leap 15.4 reaching its beta build phase, rolling release Tumbleweed had six snapshots that upd...

Nano, Plasma, TigerVNC update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 25. Feb 2022

Snapshots of openSUSE Tumbleweed continue to be released at a steady pace. There have been seven snapshots released since our last review. The latest snapshot is 20220223 ...

AppArmor, Flatpak, GStreamer update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 18. Feb 2022

openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed has produced five snapshots since our last review. Snapshots 20220215, 20220214, 20220213, 20220212 and 20220210 updated several tool...

Latest Plasma Lands in Tumbleweed, Set for Leap Beta

Douglas DeMaio 11. Feb 2022

This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots delivered exciting news not only to rolling release users, but also brought significant news for users of the long-established Lea...

Version Control Tool, IRC Client Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Feb 2022

This week openSUSE Tumbleweed had a steady pace of snapshots with four releases users could #zypper dup their system into, which brought updates for an Internet Relay Chat ...

Bash, systemd, libvirt Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 28. Jan 2022

There were openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots every day this week. Some other noteworthy news within Tumbleweed is that Wicked is being phased out. New installations of Tumblew...

Release Manager Gives Community Update On Desktop Environment

Douglas DeMaio 27. Jan 2022

The openSUSE community received cheerful news today after Leap release manager Luboš Kocman updated the community on the desktop environment expected for the next minor rel...

Tools Strace, BusyBox Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 21. Jan 2022

openSUSE Tumbleweed had a variety of package updates in smaller snapshots throughout this week. A few things being prepared for Tumbleweed is that the Linux Kernel 5.16.1 ...

GNOME, Plasma Releases Make Progress While Tumbleweed Rolls

Douglas DeMaio 1. Oct 2021

GNOME 41 has reached openSUSE Factory staging and KDE’s Plasma 5.23 is nearing a release in an openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot as it progresses through staging. openSUSE’s ro...

Thunar, Firefox, Python Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Sep 2021

Five Tumbleweed snapshots became available to users of openSUSE’s rolling release this week. A couple smaller- and medium-sized snapshots brought new software updates for ...

KDE Gear, Plasma, systemd Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Sep 2021

There was one openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot this week out of five that brought an enormous amount of package updates for those using the rolling release. Snapshot 20210904 ...

Wireshark, PipeWire, Audacity Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 3. Sep 2021

Snapshot releases of openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed have been constantly trickling out to users since last week’s review. This review will cover the five snapshots ...

Wayland, firewalld, PulseAudio update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 5. Feb 2021

A total of five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released so far this week. Among some of the more known packages to update this week in Tumbleweed were firewalld, Flatp...

RubyGems, sudo, libvirt update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Jan 2021

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released since the last update. Several RubyGems were updated in the first two snapshots of the week and an update to sudo came in...

GNOME, VLC, Zypper update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 22. Jan 2021

Five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week. The snapshots updated the GNOME desktop, GStreamer, VLC and a couple text editors. An update of bash 5.1.4 arr...

Tumbleweed Rolls Into The New Year

Douglas DeMaio 8. Jan 2021

The holidays might be over and the new year is here, but users of openSUSE Tumbleweed didn’t see any difference in the amount of snapshots released over the holiday season....

KDE Frameworks, VirtualBox, systemd update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 17. Dec 2020

Five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since last Friday. Snapshot 20201215 is the latest update to arrive in the rolling release. The snapshot updated KDE ...

Tumbleweed Gets PulseAudio 14, Updates for Plasma, Firewalld

Douglas DeMaio 11. Dec 2020

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots updated hundreds of packages in the rolling release this week. There were two major versions to arrive this week and one of them, pulsea...

Advancing openSUSE Images for The PinePhone

Douglas DeMaio 8. Dec 2020

Awareness grew after a post in an online forum appeared in June about openSUSE images for the PinePhone, which is a smartphone developed by Pine64 that allows user to have ...

Mojolicious, PHP, grep update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 4. Dec 2020

Half a dozen openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since last week’s blog update for Geekos’ favorite rolling release. Six packages were updated in the most rec...

GNOME, KDE Frameworks, Mutt update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 26. Nov 2020

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since last Thursday. Only two packages came in the most recent 20201124 snapshot. Email client mutt had a version bum...

Two Tumbleweed Snapshots update PostgreSQL, Mesa

Douglas DeMaio 20. Nov 2020

Two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released so far this week. Snapshot 20201117 provides the latest update of packages for the rolling release. Among the packages to u...

New AppArmor 3, KDE Applications, GStreamer Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 13. Nov 2020

This week there were six openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released. Some minor email changes have affected the Tumbleweed snapshot reviewer, so reviewer ratings won’t be list...

PostgreSQL 13, Latest Stable Kernel Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Oct 2020

The past week has been pretty productive for openSUSE Tumbleweed as five major version updates landed in the rolling release. Five snapshots have so far been released sinc...

Tumbleweed Snapshots bring updated Inkscape, Node.js, KDE Applications

Douglas DeMaio 17. Sep 2020

Four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released since the last article. KDE’s Applications 20.08.1, Node.js, iproute2 and inkscape were updated in the snapshots throughou...

Firefox, Ceph Major Versions Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 10. Sep 2020

Six openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have arrived in the rolling release since the last Tumblweed update. KDE’s Plasma 5.19.5, php and Ceph were among more of the known updat...

Tumbleweed Rises from Rebuilt Packages

Douglas DeMaio 4. Sep 2020

With “literally all 15,000” packages being rebuilt in snapshot 20200826, openSUSE Tumbleweed roared back from a stability rating of 36 in the rebuild snapshot to a 95 rati...

Skopeo, xxHash, GCC 10.2 are Among Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 6. Aug 2020

openSUSE Tumbleweed had continuous daily snapshots with a handful of software package updates this week. Many minor-version updates and one major-version update became ava...

Plasma 5.19, Virtualbox, Kernel 5.7.1 update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 16. Jun 2020

An exciting week of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have brought even more KDE software, a new stable kernel and more. A week ago Plasma 5.19 arrived in the 20200609 snapsho...

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