Mesa 13 Arrives in Tumbleweed with New Kernel

This week has been a bit hectic with dramatic change affecting people around the world, but openSUSE  Tumbleweed users who are use to change can find some clarity in the chaos  with five snapshots that were released this week.

These snapshots brought not only a new major version of Mesa but a new kernel and Plasma 5.8.3.

The newest snapshot 20161108 updated yast2 to version 3.2.3 and added a patch to fix a crash from upstream for Wayland. Lightweight web browser epiphany, which updated to version 3.22.2 in the snapshot, added fixes for adblocker and improved the password form for autofill handling.

Snapshot 20161107 provided minor bug fixes and internal code improvements to git with an update in the repository to version 2.10.2. The package BusyBox, which makes it easy to customize an embedded systems, was updated to version 1.25.1. In the snapshot, version 3.2.0 for yast2-storage improved detect and redefine support for btrfs.

Mesa 13.0 with additions of i965 and vulkan drivers was was updated in the 20161105 snapshot along with a large update to btrfspgrams to 4.8.2. The kernel source were also update in the 20161105 snapshot a day after snapshot 20161104 brought Linux Kernel 4.8.6.

Snapshot 20161104 updated KDE’s Plasma 5.8.3, and gtk3 3.2.2 provided several bugs fixes including a fix to slow startup notification for some gtk3 apps running on wayland. Samba 4.5.0 added a samba-ceph package in the snapshot and sudo 1.8.18p1, with the new seccomp filter, is more robust for developers and system administrators using it rather than the traditional method of using stub functions.