openSUSE Tumbleweed news at your fingerprints

May 3, 2015 23:05 GMT  ·  By

The openSUSE development team, through Dominique Leuenberger, had the pleasure of informing openSUSE users about what happened last week on Tumbleweed, the rolling-release branch of the openSUSE Linux operating system.

As such, we can report today that OpenSuSE Tumbleweed is now happily using the latest and greatest Linux kernel 4.0, and various applications, such as Banshee and Gnac have been updated to use GStreamer 1.0 instead of GStreamer 0.10.

The team also had some hard time upgrading the Parted command-line tool for disk partitioning tasks to version 3.2, which had an unfavorable impact on the post-integration test runs and ended up being removed from openSUSE Tumbleweed.

"We had 'only' two snapshots released this week (0425 & 0430). The main reason was that the update of parted to version 3.2 managed to sneak through the staging area, yet had a negative impact on the full post-integration test runs," says Dominique Leuenbergeryet.

Coming up next in openSUSE, we can mention the implementation of the recently released KDE Plasma 5.3 desktop environment, GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 5.0, as well as Ruby 2.2. Of course, we will keep you guys informed on the latest developments in openSUSE Linux next week.