openSUSE’s Tumbleweed ARM port picked up Linux 7.2.5 and a set of single-board computer fixes in its latest snapshots, summarised on September 21. Tumbleweed is openSUSE’s rolling release, and the ARM port builds the same packages for AArch64 boards.

Raspberry Pi fixes

Two fixes target the Raspberry Pi’s onboard Wi-Fi:

• The raspberrypi-firmware package no longer produces spurious “-52” errors during Wi-Fi scans. They were harmless but filled logs and made real problems harder to spot
• A memory leak in the brcmfmac driver’s SDIO control path is fixed. brcmfmac drives the Cypress/Broadcom Wi-Fi chip on the Pi, and the leak added memory pressure over long uptimes

The second one matters for exactly the kind of Pi most people have: a headless box running Pi-hole, Home Assistant, or a small server for months without a reboot. A slow leak on a 1 or 2 GB board eventually ends in the OOM killer.

Other updates

Package	Version
Kernel	7.2.5
glibc	2.44, with AArch64 improvements
QEMU	11.1.1
GIMP	3.2.6, with AArch64 fixes
Shotwell	33.0, ported to GTK 4

Beyond the Pi, the snapshots include MediaTek Wi-Fi fixes for Rockchip boards, Qualcomm DSP firmware updates, and QEMU emulation of the NXP i.MX 8M Plus evaluation kit, useful for testing embedded images without the hardware.

Updating

Tumbleweed users get this automatically with a normal distribution upgrade:

sudo zypper dup

Use zypper dup, not zypper up, on Tumbleweed: it is a rolling release and needs distribution upgrades to pick up package splits and renames. Our zypper guide explains the difference, and Linux on ARM servers covers AArch64 more broadly.