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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 ...

Tumbleweed Monthly Update - January 2025

Douglas DeMaio 29. Jan 2025

Tumbleweed remains a strong example of a reliable rolling release as we step into 2025. This month delivered multiple snapshots and a wide range of updates! Two much antici...

Tumbleweed Monthly Update - October 2024

Douglas DeMaio 30. Oct 2024

This month, the rolling-release ran like a well-tuned engine as it powered through important updates and bug fixes with precision and speed. Updates were available for GNOM...

Presenting GRUB2 BLS

Alberto Planas 8. Oct 2024

GRUB2 with BLS is now in MicroOS and Tumbleweed Recently the openSUSE project released for MicroOS and Tumbleweed a new version of the GRUB2 package, with a new subpackage...

Tumbleweed Monthly Update - September 2024

Douglas DeMaio 30. Sep 2024

Welcome to the monthly update for Tumbleweed for September 2024! This month, the rolling-release model has kept pace with numerous important updates and bug fixes. PostgreS...

Quickstart in Full Disk Encryption with TPM and YaST2

Thorsten Kukuk 20. Sep 2024

This is a quick start guide for Full Disk Encryption with TPM or FIDO2 and YaST2 on openSUSE Tumbleweed. It focuses on the few steps to install openSUSE Tumbleweed with YaS...

Tumbleweed Monthly Update - August 2024

Douglas DeMaio 29. Aug 2024

Welcome to the monthly update for Tumbleweed for August 2024. This month has been a productive period with significant progress and updates. The rolling-release team is mak...

Tumbleweed Faces Regression with Wicked as Network Stack

Fabian Vogt and Douglas DeMaio 28. Aug 2024

With the switch to dbus-broker as D-Bus implementation in Tumbleweed Snapshot 20240825, a regression was introduced: When using Wicked for network configuration, the system...

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...

Leap 15.6 Reaches Beta Phase

Douglas DeMaio 7. Mar 2024

The openSUSE Project is thrilled to announce the Beta release phase of Leap 15.6. Feel free to download Leap 15.6 Beta images from get.opensuse.org and test it out, or upg...

New systemd-boot Integration in openSUSE

Douglas DeMaio 5. Mar 2024

There are several changes happening in openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed on a daily basis and integrating systemd-boot into has been evolving. A shift from the traditi...

openSUSE Tumbleweed Monthly Update - February

Douglas DeMaio 28. Feb 2024

Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for February 2024. This month we get one more day in February because of Leap year, but here is what we have for the m...

openSUSE Tumbleweed Monthly Update - January

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jan 2024

Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for January 2024. This will be the new format going forward as recommended by those contributing to the marketing effo...

Systemd-boot and Full Disk Encryption in Tumbleweed and MicroOS

Alberto Planas 20. Dec 2023

Systemd-boot and Full Disk Encryption in Tumbleweed and MicroOS openSUSE Tumbleweed and MicroOS are now delivering an image that is using systemd-boot as boot loader and f...

Tumbleweed gets LLVM, Sudo, GCC Updates

Douglas DeMaio 8. Dec 2023

This week openSUSE Tumbleweed has been on a constant roll as consecutive snapshots arrive with fresh software updates. MariaDB, GTK and gnome-software were part of a range...

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...

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...

Frameworks, Shotwell, systemd update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. Apr 2023

Six openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since last Friday updating some GNOME applications, KDE’s Frameworks, the LLVM compiler and several other packages. 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...

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...

BusyBox, systemd, Gear update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 13. Jan 2023

openSUSE Tumbleweed started the new year just like it finished the last; on a roll and giving users freshly updated software packages. The rolling release has been on a da...

GLib, GTK, NetworkManager update in Tumbleweed 

Douglas DeMaio 8. Dec 2022

The first six days of December have brought openSUSE Tumbleweed users six snapshots and developers plenty of conversation. More than 200 messages about changing parts of t...

Plasma, Frameworks, Kernel, LLVM update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 14. Oct 2022

This week had one large and a few smaller openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots. The rolling release was coasting along with some smaller snapshots earlier in the week and the lat...

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 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...

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...

VirtualBox, Plasma, systemd Updates in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 29. Oct 2021

Rolling release users had a variety of package updates this week to include updates of rpm, Plasma, rsyslog, webkit2gtk3, systemd, AppStream and more, which were updated th...

OpenSSH, Squid, PostgreSQL Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 15. Oct 2021

Three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released this week have brought updates for text editors, browsers, emails clients, database management systems and many other pieces of...

GNOME, Salt Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 8. Oct 2021

The update of GNOME 41 in openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed didn’t take long; the new GNOME landed a day after our last blog post. Other software updates included in t...

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...

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 ...

Node.js, curl update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 30. Jul 2021

Six openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week. Among the updated packages that landed this week in the rolling release were curl, GNU Compiler Collection, Node...

GNOME, Wireshark update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 23. Jul 2021

Since last Friday, five openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released. GNOME 40, btrfs, Mesa, Wireshark and several other package updates landed this week in the rollin...

Tumbleweed Gets RubyGems Updates, New systemd

Douglas DeMaio 9. Jul 2021

A total of four openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been released since the last update. Three smaller snapshots, which included a new systemd update, and one large snapsho...

KDE Applications, systemd update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 12. Feb 2021

A minor version update of systemd and KDE’s Applications 20.12.2 were releases in openSUSE Tumbleweed this week. Several other package were updated over the course of four...

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...

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 ...

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...

Thunderbird, grep, systemd Update in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 8. Oct 2020

Systemd 246.6, grep 3.5 and Mozilla Thunderbird 78.3.1 became available in openSUSE Tumbleweed this week. Four snapshots have been released so far this month. The most re...

Tumbleweed Gets New KDE Frameworks, systemd

Douglas DeMaio 24. Sep 2020

KDE Frameworks 5.74.0 and systemd 246.4 became available in openSUSE Tumbleweed after two respective snapshots were released this week. Hypervisor Xen, libstorage-ng, whic...

Alpha Prototype Jump is Available, Tumbleweed gets systemd, curl Updates

Douglas DeMaio 28. Aug 2020

The prototype project openSUSE Jump is now available for Alpha phase testing. Jump is an interim name given to the experimental distribution in the Open Build Service as de...

Tumbleweed rolls out Apache, Wireshark, Nano, Remmina Updates

Douglas DeMaio 20. Aug 2020

openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots had a strong week of releases and brought not just Apache, Wireshark, nano and remmina, but new KDE, GNOME and Mate software. Five of the pas...

Gimp Goes Vertical, OSTree Preps for Changes with systemd

Douglas DeMaio 22. Nov 2018

The release of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots have been steadily coming out this month and some of the more recent packages in the snapshots are bringing about significant c...

syslog-ng vs. systemd’s journald

Douglas DeMaio 30. Apr 2018

This blog is part of a series of technical blogs leading up to the release of openSUSE Leap 15. All of the blogs provide a use case regarding openSUSE Leap and the pack...

Tumbleweed Goes Astronomical

Douglas DeMaio 5. Oct 2017

Astronomers using openSUSE Tumbleweed received some major software enhancements in a snapshot this week and the four snapshots released also addressed some architecture iss...

Refresh of Linux Distribution Continues Leveraging Community, Enterprise Benefits

Douglas DeMaio 26. Jul 2017

(Languages: DE, ES, FR, IT, ZH, zh_TW) openSUSE Leap 42.3 Gives Smooth Desktop and Server Upgrade The openSUSE Project released openSUSE Leap 42.3 today bringing the comm...

Systemd Gets Important Commit in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 9. Mar 2017

A total of five snapshots this week brought openSUSE Tumbleweed users and developers several new packages and an important systemd commit. Topping this week’s updates were...

New systemd, Plasma 5.9 Arrive in Tumbleweed

Douglas DeMaio 2. Feb 2017

Another busy week for openSUSE Tumbleweed brought several new packages in the rolling release along with Plasma 5.9 and systemd 232. The most recent snapshot, 20170131, ad...

Tumbleweed Preps for PulseAudio 10, Gets Ruby, Python Updates

Douglas DeMaio 18. Jan 2017

Developers using openSUSE Tumbleweed are always getting the newest packages as well as updated languages and past week’s snapshots delivered update versions of Python and R...

openSUSE Releases Leap Beta, Modifies Road Map

Douglas DeMaio 31. Aug 2016

Official Release Scheduled for Nov. 16 Software testers and Linux enthusiasts can now get the Beta release of openSUSE Leap 42.2, which was released today. “Leap is for p...

Six Tumbleweed snapshots roll, update systemd, xen, Firefox

Douglas DeMaio 17. Aug 2016

Snapshot 20160808 brought openSUSE Tumbleweed users Plasma 5.72 shortly after last week’s article was published, but it didn’t last long. This week Tumbleweed appears to h...

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