openSUSE Tumbleweed 20180615 release: Linux kernel 4.17, KDE Plasma 5.13

The 20,180,615 openSUSE tumbleweed snapshot was officially released on June 17 and was only 2 days later than the 20180613 snapshot. In addition to upgrading the Linux kernel from 4.16.12 to 4.17.1 and adding the Mesa 18.1.1 graphics stack for the KDE Plasma 5.13 desktop environment, it also provides the KDE 18.04.2 package.

openSUSE Tumble has now officially obtained the Linux kernel 4.17 blessing. Interested friends, please upgrade as soon as possible.

In addition, the 20180615 snapshot release also includes the Qt 5.11.0 application framework, network management components (NetworkManager-applet 1.8.12), hwinfo 21.55, libvirt 4.40, Mercurial 4.6.1, and SQLite required by the KDE Plasma 5.13 desktop environment. 3.24.0.

As for GNOME, openSUSE Tumbleweed ushered in Epiphany 3.28.2.1, GNOME Documents 3.28.1, GDM 3.28.2, GNOME Builder 3.28.2, GNOME Disks 3.28.3, GNOME Control Center 3.28.2, GNOME Shell 3.28.2, GNOME Terminal 3.28.2, Mutter 3.28.2, Vala 0.40.6, and VTE 0.52.2.

In other respects, the GIMP image editor was updated to version 2.10.2, and the file manager Midnight Commander rose to 4.8.21. There is also the KDevelop 5.2.3 IDE, KDEConnect 1.3.1, Flatpak 0.11.7, and the GNU compiler set (GCC 8) is now the system’s default compiler.

In subsequent snapshots, we also expect to see the much-anticipated updates such as the FFmpeg 4.0 multimedia backend.

Source: Softpedia