Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

The week was unspectacular, seeing that staging projects mostly were in and out within 24 hours. We, the release managers, like this, as it implies that the package maintainers submitted things that worked and did not need much of our extra attention. This does not mean that nothing was going through; the opposite is the case: just over 500 requests have been accepted in the last 7 days.

Out of this, we produced, tested, and published 5 snapshots (0607, 0609, 0610, 0611, and 0612), containing these changes:

• LibreOffice 24.2.4
• KDE Frameworks 6.3.0
• PHP 8.3.8
• libeconf 0.7.1
• Cups 2.4.8
• Cmake 3.29.4
• python setuptools 70.0

Currently, we have these things in stagings, which will mostly be delivered in the next few days (except the long-lasting ones, which you all know from the previous few weeks:

• libxml 2.12.8
• Mesa 24.0.9
• Mozilla Firefox 127.0
• KDE Gear 24.05.1
• Linux kernel 6.9.4 & LTS 6.6.33
• NodeJS 22.3.0
• Pytest 8.2
• dbus-broker: some networking issue after upgrades left to work out
• GCC 14: phase 2: use gcc14 as the default compiler – lots of help needed: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:Gcc7

I’ve been posting a few sketches on my mastodon every Friday. They are mostly sketches of application icon design process, but not always. Follow, like, subscribe!

The up-to-date syslog-ng Administration Guide received a new look and easier navigation, as well as better search experience. Best of all, you can now also easily contribute to the syslog-ng documentation.

Almost everything is available from the opening page at https://syslog-ng.github.io/

However, here are some direct links for you:

The syslog-ng 4.X documentation: https://syslog-ng.github.io/admin-guide/README

The syslog-ng documentation contributor guide: https://syslog-ng.github.io/doc-guide/README#how-to-contribute-to-the-documentation

The syslog-ng developer guide: https://syslog-ng.github.io/dev-guide/README (which still has some outdated parts)

And if you need the old syslog-ng 3.X documentation: https://www.syslog-ng.com/technical-documents/list/syslog-ng-open-source-edition/

If you find a problem in the documentation, you can report it at https://github.com/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.github.io/issues

You can read more about it at https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/you-can-also-contribute-to-the-syslog-ng-ose-documentation

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NUREMBERG, Germany – The release of Leap 15.6 is official and paves the way for professionals and organizations to transition to SUSE’s enterprise distribution with extended support or prepare for the next major release, which will be Leap 16.

Demands for robust, secure and stable operating systems in the digital infrastructure sector are more critical than ever. The combination of the community-driven Leap 15.6 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 6, which integrates new features and enhancements, offers an optimal solution for managing critical infrastructure. Notably, SUSE’s general support and extended support versions; these Product Support Lifecycles last well beyond Leap 15’s lifespan, ensuring longer and reliable service for users.

SLE 15 SP 6 is a feature release, so users can expect several more features in the Leap 15.6 release.

This alignment ensures businesses and professionals using Leap for operational needs can enjoy a clear, supported transition to an enterprise environment, which is crucial in a move for systems that require long-term stability and enhanced security. As organizations strategize their upgrade paths, adopting an enterprise-grade solution like SUSE becomes a strategic decision, especially for those managing extensive networks and critical data across various sectors.

Since being released on May 25, 2018, Leap has added several additions like container technologies, immutable systems, virtualization, embedded development, along with other high-tech advances. A rise in usage from each minor release shows that entrepreneurs, hobbyists, professionals and developers are consistently choosing Leap as a preferred Linux distribution.

Leap 15.6 is projected to receive maintenance and security updates until the end of 2025 to ensure sufficient overlap with the next release. This will provide users with plenty of time to upgrade to the release’s successor, which is Leap 16, or switch to SUSE’s extended service support version. Users interested in commercial support can use a migration tool to move to SUSE’s commercial support version.

The inclusion of the Cockpit[1] package in openSUSE Leap 15.6 represents a significant enhancement in system and container management capabilities for users. This integration into Leap 15.6 improves usability and access as well as providing a link between advanced system administration and user-friendly operations from the web browser. The addition underscores openSUSE’s commitment to providing powerful tools that cater to both professionals and hobbyists. Leap does not come with a SELinux policy, so SELinux capablities for Cockpit are not functioning.

Container technologies receive a boost with Podman 4.8, which includes tailored support for Nextcloud through quadlets, alongside the latest releases of Distrobox, Docker, python-podman, Skopeo, containerd, libcontainers-common, ensuring a robust container management system. Virtualization technologies are also enhanced, featuring updates to Xen 4.18, KVM 8.2.2, libvirt 10.0, and virt-manager 4.1.

The Leap 15.6 release incorporates several key software upgrades enhancing performance and security. It integrates Linux Kernel 6.4, which provides backports for some of latest hardware drivers, which offer performance enhancements. OpenSSL 3.1 becomes the new default and provides robust security features and updated cryptographic algorithms. Database management systems receive significant updates with MariaDB 10.11.6 and PostgreSQL 16. Redis 7.2 offers advanced data handling capabilities and the software stack is rounded out with PHP 8.2 and Node.js 20; both received updates for better performance and security in web development. Leap will also have OpenJDK 21 providing improvements for enhanced performance and security in Java-based applications.

Updates in telecommunications software are seen with DPDK 22.11 and Open vSwitch versions 3.1 and OVN 23.03.

The KDE environment advances with the introduction of KDE Plasma 5.27.11, which is the latest Long Term Support version, Qt 5.15.12+kde151, and KDE Frameworks 5.115.0, as well as Qt6 version 6.6.3, facilitating smooth application operations with updated Python bindings for PyQt5 and PyQt6 aligning with Python 3.11.

Many unmaintatined Python packages were removed as part of a transition to Python 3.11; more details can be found in the release notes.

GNOME 45 brings enhancements to the desktop environment, adding features that elevate the user experience. Audio technologies see major upgrades with the release of PulseAudio 17.0 and PipeWire 1.0.4, which improve hardware compatibility and Bluetooth functionality, including device battery level indicators.

These updates collectively enhance the system’s stability and user experience and make Leap 15.6 a compelling choice for professionals, companies and organizations.

Leap can be downloaded at get.opensuse.org.

End of Life

Leap 15.5 will have its End of Life (EOL) six months from today’s release. Users should update to Leap 15.6 within six months of today to continue to receive security and maintenance updates.

Download Leap 15.6

To download the ISO image, visit https://get.opensuse.org/leap/

If you have a question about the release or found a bug, we would love to hear from you at:

https://t.me/openSUSE

https://chat.opensuse.org

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-support/

https://discordapp.com/invite/openSUSE

https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensuseproject

Get involved

The openSUSE Project is a worldwide community that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. It creates two of the world’s best Linux distributions, the Tumbleweed rolling-release, and Leap, the hybrid enterprise-community distribution. openSUSE is continuously working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. The project is controlled by its community and relies on the contributions of individuals, working as testers, writers, translators, usability experts, artists and ambassadors or developers. The project embraces a wide variety of technology, people with different levels of expertise, speaking different languages and having different cultural backgrounds. Learn more about it on opensuse.org

1 [Root login is disabled by default. Please read details in the Try Cockpit in Leap Release Candidate article.

*** Two bugs related to Chrome with Wayland on GNOME 45 may see a fix coming in an update. ***

Retrospective

Provide your feedback to our release team by visiting survey.opensuse.org and taking our retrospective survey.

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The third-party repository for NVIDIA graphics drivers is soon switching from a 1024-bit DSA GPG key to a 4096-bit RSA GPG key.

This switchover is necessary to meet current security recommendations.

The GPG fingerprint of the new key:

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      Key fingerprint = 2FB0 3195 DECD 4949 2BD1  C17A B1D0 D788 DB27 FD5A
uid                             NVIDIA Linux Driver Team <linux-bugs@nvidia.com>

Note that this will also be switched on openSUSE Leap 15.5 and 15.6, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.

If you have questions about this, feel free to reach out to the Factory or Security mailing lists at Lists.

Here is the whole GPG key if you want to import it manually:

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Notifications have always been part of your workflow. Now, we are glad to present a set of changes, including a revamped filtering section. Let’s get into the details! Improved Filters If you want to stay on top of your work in your OBS instance, you most likely deal with lots of notifications. We have made it easier for you to focus on what you need by enhancing the filtering of your notifications page. Basically, you...

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

The time of the holidays is coming to an end and, at least until my next vacation, I should be able to keep up with weekly reports again. Of course, I am not complaining about having holidays and days off – sometimes stepping away from the computer and doing something unrelated is just the right thing to do (and often leads to good and new ideas). But that means you had to wait an extra week to learn again about all the things going on in openSUSE Tumbleweed. So here we go: during the last two weeks, we have released 4 snapshots. Some changes around AppArmor 4.0 made us hold back a few snapshots, some issues around systemd 255.7, and of course also the holiday which many stretched over a weekend resulting in fewer snapshots even being submitted to QA for testing. The four snapshots published were 0524, 0531, 0605, and 0606)

The most relevant, cumulated changes of those snapshots were:

• Mesa 24.0.8
• Mozilla Firefox 126.0.1
• KDE Gear 24.05.0
• KDE Plasma 6.0.5
• AppArmor 4.0.1
• cURL 8.8.0
• GNOME 46.2
• Qt 5.15.14 & 6.7.1
• Qemu 9.0.0
• Samba 4.20.1
• SQLite 3.46.0
• systemd 255.7
• Python requests 2.32.2
• ICU 75.1
• libvirt 10.4.0

The upcoming snapshots should soon bring us those changes:

• CMake 3.29.4
• python setuptools 70.0
• LibreOffice 24.2.4
• Pytest 8.2
• dbus-broker: some networking issue after upgrades left to work out
• GCC 14: phase 2: use gcc14 as the default compiler – lots of help needed: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:Gcc7

Members of openSUSE Project are excited about the launch of Leap 15.6 on June 12 and encourages people to host a Release Party.

If you don’t know how to do this, there is a list of steps below on how to have a successful release party.

If you’re interested in hosting your own Release Party, there’s a handy checklist to help you plan a successful event:

• Find a Date: A weekend date is usually best, but flexibility is key. Find a common date that works for most people.
• Find a Place: A café, bar, or Linux group meetup location works great. Whether you opt for a coffee and cake party or a beer and pizza gathering, the key is to have fun.
• Cake: While not essential, a cake adds to the celebration. You can also bake openSUSE cookies.
• Pictures: Capture the moment with photos or videos and share them on social media. Tag openSUSE on X, Facebook, Mastodon, BlueSky or more.

There is already a plan to have peoole to meet virtually in the openSUSE Bar for the launch June 12. The virtual release party will feature members of the release team and community members. Join sometime on June 12 as participants from various countries are encouraged to join and interact with the openSUSE community.

Some will celebration the event in Nuremberg. Certainly people at the openSUSE Conference will highlight the release during the BBQ/Release Party.

These launch parties provide a chance for the community to connect with the people behind the project and to show an appreciation for contributors who make the release of Leap 15.6 possible. It’s an excellent opportunity for the community to gather, celebrate and discuss the new release after months of development.

Schedule your release party today on the wiki and have a lot of fun!

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As I was getting ready to call it quits for the day, relax and watch something nerdy on YouTube when I had a catastrophic hardware failure on my IP fire router, firewall system. I didn’t actually know it was the router that failed until I went through all my other checks first. This is a […]

We are pleased to announce that the call for speakers for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2024 started today. The event will be held on November 2 and 3 in Tokyo, Japan. Please check our announcement for more details of the event.

The openSUSE.Asia committee members are looking for the speakers who share their knowledge or experiences related to openSUSE from different avenues of life. The speakers are able to receive sponsorship from the openSUSE Travel Support Program (TSP). It is a good opportunity for you to consider applying for the proposal and participating even if you are far from Japan.

In this year, we will invite Cross-Distro Track in collaboration with other distribution communities like AlmaLinux, Debian, and Ubuntu; we will welcome talks related to those distributions.

Topics

The examples of the topics (not limited to) are as the following:

• openSUSE (e.g., Leap, Tumbleweed, Micro OS, Open Build Services, openQA, YaST)
• Desktop environments and applications (e.g., GNOME, KDE, XFCE)
• Office suite, graphic art, multimedia (e.g., LibreOffice, Calligra, GIMP, Inkscape)
• Multilingualization support (e.g., input methods, translation)
• Cloud, Virtualization, Container, and Container Orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Rancher)
• Package supply-chain security, vulnerability management
• Embedded and IoT
• Other applications running on openSUSE

Topics that are not related to a specific technology are also welcome. For example:

• An overview of FLOSS technologies
• Development, Quality Assurance, Translation
• Tips & Tricks, Experience stories (success or fail), Best practice
• Marketing and community management
• Education

Types of sessions

We are inviting proposals for these two types of sessions.

• Long talks with presentation (30 min. + Q&A)
• Short talks with presentation (15 min. + Q&A)

Lighting talk sessions (5 min.) will be announced later.

Schedule

• The deadline for the call for proposal documents: on August 4, 2024
• Notification to speakers: on August 26, 2024

How to submit your proposal document

Please submit your proposal to the events.opensuse.org. If you do not have a SUSE community account, please sign up from the top menu of the system before submitting your proposal document.

• You must follow the openSUSE Conference Code of Conduct.
• Your proposal needs to be written in English ranging from 130 to 250 words. It should also have a suitable title that reflects topics in your talk.
• Please check the misspelling and the wrong grammar for them before the submission by using LibreOffice, Google Docs, or Grammarly.
• Please check our guide for how to write a better proposal
• If you are not familiar with writing documents and need any help, please contact committee members in your country/region.

Requirements for your presentation

• You may use English or Japanese in speech but you need to write your documents or slides in English.
• The speaker needs to be present at the venue; prerecorded video and a video call are not to be allowed.

Warning about lodging fee in Tokyo

Nov. 4 is a public holiday this year. Thus, the hotel price is very high. We strongly recommend booking your hotel right away with a cancelable plan while rooms of budget hotels are available at appropriate prices. Please check the event site for more details.