openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed has produced five snapshots since our last review.
Snapshots 20220215, 20220214, 20220213, 20220212 and 20220210 updated several tools, libraries and clients this week.
The latest snapshot, 20220215, updated a couple Python Package Index and RubyGem packages. The package that generates profile reports from pandas DataFrame fixed almost a dozen regressions and reverted a performance speedup to fix a precision regression. The RubyGem package rubygem-faraday, which is an HTTP/REST Application Programming Interfaces client library, updated to a major new version from 1.3.0 to 2.1.0; the package added several new features like backport authorization process, improved documentation and added a policy on inclusive language. Data compression package lzip 1.23 reduced compression times by 5 to 12 percent depending on the file. Text editor vim 8.2.4375 fixed a few crashes and a couple of those involved FuncRef. An update of yast2-trans 84.87.20220211 added new pot files for storage, dns-server, nfs and s390.
Snapshot 20220214 updated six packages. Flatpak 1.12.5 now detects and removes left-over data from /var/lib/flatpak/appstream and a fix was made with a display bug in Flatpak history; it does not set up an unnecessary polkit agent for flatpak’s history. An update of gnome-maps 41.4 provided some translations and fixed build issues with Meson 0.60. The update of NetworkManager 1.34.0 had multiple additions for Meson builds requirements. The updated NetworkManager also split out NetworkManager-pppoe, which is needed to configure regular PPPoE connections; the changelog states that it’s not very common since most users have PPPoE routers for the DSL connections.
Internet Relay Chat client hexchat 2.16.1 updated in snapshot 20220213 and received build fixes with OpenSSL 3. The IRC client also fixed Python scripts not being opened as UTF-8. The 4.6.1 GTK4 package has a new API for text shaping engine HarfBuzz and the toolkit also fixes support for the new high-contrast setting with Wayland. The glib2 2.70.4 version updated translations and fixed a memory leak. Another packages to update in the snapshot was yast2-installation 4.4.40, which fixed some issue running with Qt 5.15.
