New Year Starts with Slowroll Version Bump

The openSUSE Slowroll community has welcomed the January version bump that was completed recently.

Slowroll’s snapshots mark the beginning of fresh updates with the initial updates now accessible on mirrors globally.

This month’s bump comes a day early to avoid interruptions caused by routine maintenance on critical infrastructure. Updates are rolling out and users get new Tumbleweed versions from the 20250101 snapshot.

The updates integrate advancements from the openSUSE reproducibility initiative, which derive from Factory/Tumbleweed. Key improvements include enhanced tools for reproducible builds and fixes for dependency handling, parallelism and race conditions in packages such as Python, Qt and others.

Slowroll’s smart roll approach delivers a dependable foundation for users seeking a reliable system with essential security updates that avoid frequent changes seen in traditional rolling-release models. The balance makes it an excellent choice for those who want a balance of stability and access to modern software.

Updates for Slowroll arrive between an average of 5 to 10 days after being released in Tumbleweed. Users can read the latest monthly update for Tumbleweed to see what packages are arriving in Slowroll; recent updates include QEMU 9.2.0, which adds 3D acceleration for Vulkan apps and enhanced crypto support, and GPG 2.5.2, which features ECC+Kyber key generation and improved smart card handling.

While still marked as experimental (for lack of automated tests), Slowroll continues to evolve and offers users a dependable and innovative alternative in the openSUSE ecosystem.

For more details, visit the project’s roadmap.