Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Some weeks, snapshots just fall out of OBS and pass openQA without issues, other weeks cause a bit more trouble and some snapshots are decided to be discarded. But hey, that is exactly what we have openQA for, isn’t it? So, since my last review, only 2 snapshots have seen the light of day: 1125 and 1129. But as usual, if there is a gap, it only means issues from one snapshot are getting fixed in the next one until it is back in a stage where we can release it to the users.

The important/interesting changes that happened in those two snapshots were:

Linux kernel 4.14.1 and 4.14.2 (yes, two snapshots, both bring a new kernel. crazy!)

OpenSSL 1.1 is now the default for the distribution. This might cause some update problems, especially if you have development packages installed. The recommendation is to let zypper remove libopenssl-1_0_0-devel (so it can upgrade to 1.1). Depending on what you’re developing for, you might get other issues reported (for example libQT4-devel, as Qt4 does not support openSSL1.1 and never will)

SCons build system now uses python3 as the interpreter. This can cause some build failures if you SConscript is not python3 compatible.

PostgreSQL 10 has landed

And the staging areas are full, those things are brewing:

Qt 5.9.3

More packages moving to python3 (minimizing the python2 usage)

Linux Kernel 4.14.3

YaST’s libstorage-ng implementation

An additional note for packagers: As you are aware, the variable suse_version is used to distinguish between the various openSUSE versions. On December 1st 2017, openSUSE Tumbleweed changed suse_version from 1330 to 1550. Please see the announcement mail on the mailing list.