{"id":175652,"date":"2025-07-02T17:06:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/?p=175652"},"modified":"2025-07-02T17:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:07:59","slug":"latest-tumbleweed-update-marks-myrlyns-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/latest-tumbleweed-update-marks-myrlyns-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Tumbleweed Update Marks Myrlyn’s Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling-release distribution has published snapshot 20250630<\/a>, which delivers a mix of core package updates and software enhancements, plus the debut of a significant new component: Myrlyn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you informed you earlier<\/a>, openSUSE\u2019s April 2025 Leap 16.0 beta announcement quietly confirmed a big shift: the traditional YaST stack has been retired in Leap and will enter maintenance-only mode in Tumbleweed, with Myrlyn stepping in as the graphical package-management front end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technically, the new tool already covers most of what users expect from YaST\u2019s Software module. Although it also re-uses the longstanding libzypp solver used by YaST and zypper, Myrlyn is a standalone Qt 6\/C++ application with no Ruby or YaST dependencies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, it significantly improves speed, responsiveness, and overall usability. Myrlyn also introduces user-friendly enhancements, such as a read-only browsing mode and simplified handling of distribution upgrades, which YaST previously lacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But beyond all those benefits, there\u2019s another big reason openSUSE is ready to retire the good old YaST, which the distro has depended on for over two decades: its outdated design and the growing effort needed to keep it running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, Myrlyn has a leaner, more maintainable design. By eliminating the dependency on Ruby and consolidating all functionality into a single code repository, openSUSE developers can more easily manage updates, fix bugs, and add new features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, this approach significantly reduces the distribution\u2019s installation size and improves performance, especially on minimal and containerized environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transition from YaST to Myrlyn is also closely aligned with other modernization initiatives within openSUSE, including adopting the new Agama installer<\/a> and Cockpit web interface for system administration tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Myrlyn focuses solely on software management, configuration tasks previously handled by YaST\u2014such as firewall management, networking, and user administration\u2014will move to other dedicated tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the expectations are that YaST will gradually enter community-maintenance mode in Tumbleweed, while the upcoming Leap 16 release later this year will fully embrace Myrlyn by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information about the new openSUSE’s graphical software package and repositories manager, visit its GitHub repo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest openSUSE Tumbleweed update brings Myrlyn, the application set to replace YaST for future software management tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":175655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[6392,82,2016,2072],"class_list":["post-175652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-os","category-news","tag-myrlyn","tag-opensuse","tag-package-manager","tag-tumbleweed"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}