Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-05-29)

[hennevogel]

🙇‍♀️ New Contributors

The most important thing in Free Software, new people!

We had a two new contributors to OBS this week! 🚀 Please give a warm welcome to

• Asish Kumar (@officialasishkumar)
• Ricardo Dias (@rjd15372)

who got their first commit merged. Maybe it be followed by many more. Thank you so much you two! 🥳

🚢 Shipped this week

Fixed issues, small features, security updates, minor releases, new external contributors...

• @dmach dropped an osc 1.27.0 release with plenty of goodies, see openSUSE/osc@e0f0347
• You can now search for labels in the sub-project interface: Join labels for project datatable searches #19750
• You can now build only flavors and not the "main" package with multibuild: Support buildemptyflavor attribute in multibuild xml #19319
• We discussed and wrote down what we expect from using AI for contributions to OBS Adapt contribution guides to fight AI slop #19758
• We decided we are not affected by the lastest nokogiri security update 🚨 [security] [src/api - 2.10] Update nokogiri 1.13.10 → 1.19.3 (minor) #19670 in 2.10
• Make sure workers that fall back to the host kernel version (because of missing OBS:DefaultKernel for instance) do not falsely offer 32 bit support, will make i586 build fail less... also use cmdline.obs.guest obs-build#1147

👩‍💻 Operations this week

Statistics, deployments and incidents of https://build.opensuse.org/

In the last 7 days build.opensuse.org served 53.7 million HTTP requests resulting in 1.89 million package builds.

All Service Level Indicators are green. All trends are moving sideways, except HTTP request throughput where we are experiencing a sharp spike. It is caused by interconnect traffic from SUSE, we are still investigating what's going on.

We ran 3 deployments of build.opensuse.org.

On Friday evening we had a service degradation with diff inline comments for about 10 minutes #19746
On Thursday afternoon we had a service degradation with the request page for about 33 minutes #19764

👷‍♀️ In Progress

Things in the pipeline, not yet there but soon...

• We are working on getting the 2.10 appliance to function after the 2.10 base OS update to Leap 16.0 Replace deprecated commands from the Appliance Setup script #19672
• We are still debugging message publishing failures Insufficient `exchange.declare` permissions during connection recovery trip up topology recovery ruby-amqp/bunny#736
• For 2.10 there is one security update in the pipeline 🚨 [security] [src/api - 2.10] Update yajl-ruby 1.4.2 → 1.4.3 (patch) #19524

📖 Recommended Reading

Things in /dev/internet we think you should check out...

• Our latest release post about sharing your canned responses with the people you work with
• Red Hat wants to sell support for "patched" package registries... https://www.redhat.com/en/lightwell