14 DAY TRIAL // Today, October 2, 2016, Douglas DeMaio from the openSUSE project announced that the rolling release Tumbleweed distro received five new snapshots during the last week of September, which brought many goodies to users.
As mentioned before, these new snapshots brought several updated components and applications for the OpenSuSE Tumbleweed operating system, which continually received the latest software releases a few days after they were announced upstream, the most important one being the Linux 4.7.5 kernel.
We've already reported last week that openSUSE Tumbleweed was the first stable GNU/Linux distribution to include the recently released GNOME 3.22 desktop environment, and the openSUSE team now reveals the fact that KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS is coming soon as well, along with Bash 4.4, Qt 5.7, Mono 4.6, and FreeType 2.7.
"Another week and another five snapshots for openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed produced updates for openSSL, GNOME 3.22, Mesa and the Linux kernel," says Douglas DeMaio in today's announcement. "Packages openSUSE Tumbleweed users can expect coming soon are KDE Plasma 5.8, FreeType 2.7, Qt 5.7, Mono 4.6 and Bash 4.4."
Tumbleweed users need to update their systems as soon as possible
Among other noteworthy packages that landed in the openSUSE Tumbleweed repositories during the past week we can mention the very important OpenSSL 1.0.2j security fix release, Mozilla Firefox 49.0.1 web browser, Mesa 12.0.3 3D Graphics Library, and OSTree 2016.10 tool. Some GNOME apps were updated as well.
There were also bugfix updates for the Amarok, Ark, Konsole, and Dolphin KDE apps, as well as several new YaST updates, some xf86 updates for the X.Org Server display server, and improvements to the GStreamer plugins, Perl, and fonts-config packages. As usual, make sure that you keep your openSUSE Tumbleweed installation up to date.