The developers of openSUSE Tumbleweed have been working hard this month and have released a series of updates to their operating system that uses the "install once, update forever".
The big news, of course, is that Linux Kernel 4.20 has been added in the latest openSUSE Tumbleweed update, allowing the system to have Support for AMD Radeon Picasso and Raven graphics cards, stable support for AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 graphics cards, C-SKY CPU architecture, and Hygon Dhyana x86 CPU support.
Linux Kernel 4.20 also adds mitigations for Specter 4 on the ARM64 (AArch64) architecture, better protection for Specter 2, virtualized graphics enhancements, and new drivers for better hardware support.
Apart from Linux Kernel 4.20, openSUSE Tumbleweed received the latest versions of the KDE applications that are distributed as part of the newly released KDE Applications 18.12.1 and Frameworks 5.54.0.
Among other important updates we can mention VLC 3.0.6, Mozilla Thunderbird 60.4.0, Wireshark 2.6.6, Evolution 3.30.4, Geany 1.34.1, Meld 3.20.0, Gucharmap 11.0.3, Mercurial 4.8.2, MariaDB 10.2.21. 3.26.0, SQLite 1.1.8, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) 4.9.4, Samba 12.0.0.0, OpenJDK 26 ~ 18.0.0, python-pyOpenSSL 0.9.6, purple-facebook 3.3, grep 1.11.2, mutt 2.0.0. XNUMX and libvrit-glib XNUMX.
The developers recommend that all openSUSE Tumbleweed users update their computers to receive the updates listed above. As we mentioned before, since openSUSE Tumbleweed has the “Rolling release” system you only need to install once and you will receive updates forever, so there is no need to download the full ISO.