Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/11

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

It’s been a productive and busy week for Tumbleweed—and for openQA in particular. We threw 7 snapshots at the engines, and 6 were confirmed and published (0305, 0306, 0307, 0308, 0310, and 0311).

Snapshot 0309 was the first to include systemd 259.3 , and openQA was not happy at all. The culprit turned out to be a missing sync with the SELinux policies. Once the policies were updated in snapshot 0310, openQA was (mostly) satisfied. A few additional policy tweaks were pushed via the update channel to ensure we didn’t block the snapshot pipeline any longer than necessary.

Those 6 snapshots brought you these changes:

• bind 9.20.20
• gstreamer 1.28.1
• iptables 1.8.13
• shadow 4.19.4
• PackageKit 1.3.4
• KDE Gear 25.12.3
• Linux kernel 6.19.6 & kernel longterm 6.18.16
• libvirt 12.1.0
• GCC 16 is providing the base libraries, such as libgcc_s1. The system compiler is still version 15 for the time being
• Pipewire 1.6.1
• systemd 259.3
• Mozilla Firefox 148.0.2
• postfix 3.11.1

The future holds these changes, once they pass QA:

• Mesa 26.0.2
• cURL 8.19.0
• systemd 259.4
• Switch default bootloader on uefi systems to systemd-boot (aligning tumbleweed to microos)
• GCC 16 as the default compiler
• GNOME 50: RC is staged for QA; release planned by upstream for March 18
• glibc 2.43: metabug: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1257250