Marius Nestor
The
openSUSE Project today, May 4, 2016, published details about the latest
major open-source components that landed in the main software
repositories of the openSUSE Tumbleweed distro recently.
There were many snapshots released
for openSUSE Tumbleweed during the past month, which brought in the
latest software versions, including, but not limited to, Linux kernel
4.5.2, Mesa 11.2.1 3D Graphics Library, Oracle VirtualBox 5.0.18,
Snapper 0.3.2, LibreOffice 5.1.3.1, Wireshark 2.0.3, and perl-Bootloader
0.912.
Additionally, it looks like the
gettext-runtime has been updated to version 0.19.7, the brand-new
GStreamer 1.8.0 multimedia backend also landed, and updated versions of
the libzypp, libvirt, and sssd libraries have been added too. Among
other updated packages, we can mention AutoYast2 3.1.125, Kiwi 7.03.67,
AppArmor 2.10.1, and cpupower 4.6.
openSUSE Tumbleweed will be upgraded to GCC 6 soon
The list of updated software packages
for openSUSE Tumbleweed continues with kernel-firmware 20160421, which
provided an updated firmware file for Intel Bluetooth 8265 driver, the
latest Wine 1.9.9 free implementation of Windows on Unix, as well as
perl-Image-ExifTool 10.15.
However, it looks like big changes
are coming to the rolling edition of the acclaimed openSUSE Linux
operating system, Tumbleweed, as the development team prepares to update
the entire system to the latest GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 6
compiler, which means that numerous packages will have to be rebuilt.
"After an entire full rebuild last
week, openSUSE Tumbleweed is shifting its focus to another area," said
Douglas DeMaio in today's announcement.
"Tumbleweed is planning to switch the compiler to GCC 6, and if all
goes well, according to Dominique Leuenberger, it might be available in a
few weeks, but will certainly trigger another full rebuild."
GCC 6 should land in openSUSE
Tumbleweed in the coming week, along with the recently released Qt 5.6
GUI toolkit, which most of the users of this GNU/Linux distribution were
waiting for. In the meantime, make sure that you update your openSUSE
Tumbleweed installation to get all the goodies mentioned above.
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