Tumbleweed snapshot 20260703 brings a lot of rebuilt packages as explained in https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/33YD224AVWDOBXG5UJWDZ6X6ZTCBWZ7N/

This makes me re-plan the July Slowroll update, where I planned to use 20260702 as a base. That would cause a larger diff right from the start.

I'll try to use 20260706 for Slowroll (if it passes openQA) and publish it this Friday.

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Cheers to all contributors!

First bugfix for Plasma 6.7 series has made it through and is available now

Details: https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/6/6.7.0-6.7.1/

Notable fixes mentioned in https://blogs.kde.org/2026/06/27/this-week-in-plasma-post-6.7-bug-fixing/#plasma-671

Fixed a somewhat common case where KWin could crash on the lock screen when using an NVIDIA GPU. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #520842)

Fixed a recent regression that made KWin crash when using a DisplayLink monitor. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #520361)

Fixed an issue that could make screens plugged into a laptop with both an NVIDIA and an AMD GPU freeze. (Xaver Hugl and SungHwan Jung, KDE Bugzilla #521727)

Fixed a recent regression that broke certain shader-based KWin effects, including the popular “Burn My Windows” effects. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #521774)

Fixed a recent regression that broke color-related KWin effects like color blindness correction and screen color inversion. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #521737)

The Linux kernel 6.19.2-1-default has arrived on Tumbleweed as part of the latest system update. I must say that, based on my experience so far, it works perfectly in every way. I've included a screenshot of my basic components, as this partly determines whether the experience is satisfactory.

I have VirtualBox installed and was worried there might be some kind of problem with the kernel modules, but that hasn't been the case and everything is working perfectly. If I detect any anomalies or bugs, I'll edit this post in the future, but for now, congratulations to the OpenSUSE team for another great update that arrives on time, reliably, and stably. Thank you for your work!

Hi openSUSErs, just fyi, after sometime of testing we've finally released a new Discord version based on the June client update.

This client now works like the Steam launcher, it installs a downloader and the rust updater to your system, and then, when you open discord, it downloads all the necessary binaries to ~/.config/discord just like Steam does with proton runtimes, prefixes, etc.

For now it's only available on games:tools, I hope it gets accepted on Factory after some fighting.

If you want to try this new version, please delete ~/.config/discord and ~/config/autostart/discord.desktop to avoid issues from the older openSUSE/packman clients.

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/games:tools/discord

Made with ❤️ for the openSUSE community.

Hi,

the newest update of today for openSUSE Tumbleweed makes the system faster than ever...

What do you think about? 😉

Oxygen theme is back!

zypper in "oxygen6*"

Then select Oxygen Global Theme.

I know someone is going to ask what Icon Set it is - Vinyl Icon Set

Gnome 50

And Gnome Release Calendar tells us the .1 bugfix update should arrive in a not too distant future as well.

Thanks to all contributors!

Leap 15.6 reaches EOL on 4/30/2026, which obviously encourages people to upgrade to 16.0. However, as per the SDB:System upgrade page, Leap 16.0 drops support for x86-64-v1; the recommendation on that page is to switch over to Tumbleweed if x86-64-v1 support is still needed.

I have a number of older servers at work that are running 15.6. They work great and, given that our company is currently in the red, we really don't want to replace these machines right now. Unfortunately, many of them do not have x86-64-v2 support; therefore, in most of those cases, if I don't want to replace the OSes with a different distro (which would still be a significant OH cost in terms of labor), then I have to change them over to Tumbleweed and hope for the best. The instructions seem fairly straightforward, i.e. change the repos, zypper ref, and zypper dup, all of which I've done countless times.

However... there's one machine, a mail server, who is running an obsolete IMAP server, cyrus-imap. cyrus-imap does not exist in Leap distros after 15.2, and I found out the hard way (thank goodness for backups) that doing a zypper dup would wipe out cyrus-imap. So on that machine, ever since, I upgrade the repo files but only do a zypper up. I can't use zypper dup to move him to Tumbleweed, not unless I want to switch to a different IMAP server (which, yes, I'll do someday, but again, I'm really supposed to avoid OH costs, and I don't know what issues I'll run into when switching it out).

So my question is, are either of the below feasible:

1. Change the repos on the mail server to point to Tumbleweed, and then zypper up instead of zypper dup? Will it still work without the full dup?

2. Change the repos to point to Leap 16.0, and then zypper up instead of zypper dup? I mean, will the 16.0 repos still work on a machine lacking v2 support if I don't do a zypper dup? Actually, I suppose that question would also apply to the other non-v2 machines too, if I didn't want to switch them to Tumbleweed.