The month of July has been a busy one for the openSUSE Tumbleweed development team and in just the first two weeks they have released dozens of updates and security fixes.
Dominique Leuenberger, developer of openSUSE Tumbleweed, has said that a total of nine minor updates have been released so far this month, which is common with the updates model of this branch of openSUSE.
"OpenSUSE Tumbleweed updates have been released constantly for the last two weeks, no matter how busy SUSE developers are with hackweek”Mentions Dominique.
Among the most important updates that have come to openSUSE Tumbleweed we can mention Linux Kernel 4.17.4, KDE Plasma 5.13.2, Mozilla Firefox 61.0, FFMpeg 4.0.1, LibreOffice 6.1.0 Beta 2 and Table 18.1.3.
GNU Emacs 26.1, GNU Coreutils 8.30 and Squid 4.1 are also available, plus several updates have been made to the YaST system configuration and tuning tool which already has keyword translations. On the other hand, it appears that the bcm43xx-firmware package received support for BCM 4356 PCI and fwupdate 11 devices introduced by Lenovo.
More updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed this month
During the second half of this month, openSUSE Tumbleweed users will continue to receive updates with the latest in Linux technology and free software, starting with the Linux Kernel 4.17.5 and the KDE Plasma 5.13.3 environment and continuing with X.Org Server 1.20, Poppler 0.66 and File 5.33.
Dominique informs openSUSE Tumbleweed users that the next File 5.33 correctly detects PI-executables and not only takes them as shared objects, furthermore, the system is preparing to migrate to Java 11 as the default compiler and also to add the LibreOffice 6.1.0 final update which will arrive later this month.