Welcome to the monthly update for Tumbleweed for August 2024. This month has been a productive period with significant progress and updates. The rolling-release team is making headway on longer-term projects like dbus-broker showing promising progress and the transition to GNU Compiler Collection 14 as the default compiler is in its second phase as there are ongoing efforts to address the remaining build failures. Those efforts for GCC 14 becoming the default compiler are likely to arrive in the 20240827 snapshot. Go 1.22 became the default go compiler this month and ffmpeg switched from version 6 to 7. However, a critical issue emerged with the network stack in recent builds due to a race condition. Those using Wicked, which is a network configuration tool, were advised to delay updates or rollback using snapper while ongoing efforts focused on resolving the problem. A submit request for Wicked was made on August 28 for resolving the issue and will likely address the networking issue in a snapshot before August ends. Those not dependent on Wicked are encouraged to proceed with updates as usual.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://news.opensuse.org/2024/08/29/tw-monthly-update-august/