

A jump was make from libvirt-glib 1.0.0 to 2.0.0 and it modernize gobject macro usage.
#LINUX KERNEL 4.20 UPDATE#
An update to GNOME’s personal information management application evolution 3.30.4 clamps GSettings values before restoring window size.
#LINUX KERNEL 4.20 GENERATOR#
Parser generator bison updated to version 3.2.4. The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture package alsa 1.1.8 dropped some obsolete patches and added a Unified Change Management (UCM) setting for Dell Edge IoT platforms. More than 30 performance improvements were made with the update of grep 3.3, which now diagnoses stack overflow. The snapshot that started the week was 20190115 and it brought the 4.20.0 Linux Kernel and Mozilla Thunderbird 60.4.0, which added WebExtensions FileLink Application Programming Interface (API) to facilitate FileLink add-ons. Samba 4.9.4 addressed two Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures(CVE) including a fix of a CNAME loop prevention using counter regression. Two recent issues were fixed in the purple-facebook 0.9.6 package one addressed a failed to get sync_sequence_id and the other was a failed to read fixed header. Several rubygem packages were also updated in the snapshot. The update of mutt 1.11.2 fixed a compilation with the latest OpenSSL version along with various other bug fixes. Visual diff and merge tool meld 3.20.0 added an Enter as a Compare accelerator in folder comparisons. A fix for Mariabackup that failed to copy encrypted InnoDB system tablespace of the log sequence numbers (LSN) was made with mariadb 10.2.21. A patch was made to the update of java-12-openjdk 12.0.0.0~26, which included a fix that introduces a diagnostic flag to abort Virtual Machines operating too long. The lightweight Integrated Development Environment geany 1.34.1 now automatically detects the GTK version to build against. A minor update to GNU Compiler Collection 8 includes a backport of asm inline. Support for 12 bits decoding of AV1 was added with vlc 3.0.6. Kwayland also fixed XDGForeign Client header installs.

Breeze Icons added YaST and new preference icons with the update to Frameworks 5.54.0, which also fixed a bug in KIO that made the open url in the tab feature a bit more discoverable. Sorting columns in the JuK music player has been fixed, Akregator now works with WebEngine from Qt 5.11 or newer and Konsole once again correctly renders box-drawing characters. Applications 18.12.1 offers about 20 bug fixes. The latest snapshot, 20190121, provided updates of KDE Applications 18.12.1 and Frameworks 5.54.0. The two snapshots delivered new versions of grep, VLC, KDE Applications and Frameworks, Thunderbird, wireshark and more. A total of two snapshots have arrived in openSUSE Tumbleweed since last week’s article about the rolling release.
