Some of the core components have been upgraded

May 22, 2015 16:45 GMT  ·  By

A new set of improvements have landed in openSUSE Tumbleweed, the rolling release branch of the famous openSUSE Linux distribution.

The advantages of a rolling-release Linux distribution is that developers can add all kinds of cool and new packages without having to resort to major new releases. They do test all these upgrades before releasing them, but they eventually land. The same can be said about the latest updates which cover the Linux kernel and the GNOME stack.

According to the announcement the Linux kernel has been updated to version 4.0.3 from 4.0.1, the GNOME desktop environment has been upgraded to version 3.16.2, the KDE team has fixed some  of the issue reported by the users, and Mozilla Firefox 38.0.1 has been implemented by default.

"There is still the topic of GCC 5 to become the default compiler. There has been some progress, and we're down to a handful of build failures. The number of build failures in OpenSuSE:Factory is generally getting high again (non-ring packages, so things that are not on the DVDs)," reads the mailing list.

Just last week the openSUSE developers pushed the latest version of the KDE Plasma to the repos, and it looks like it's going to be another busy week for them.