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Advance notice of discontinuation of openSUSE Leap 15.4
by Marcus Meissner 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

Hi, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 leaves its regular maintenance and support phase on December 31st 2023. As openSUSE Leap 15.4 uses the SLES 15 SP4 updates, also openSUSE Leap 15.4 support from openSUSE Maintenance and Security will end on December 31st 2023. An upgrade to openSUSE Leap 15.5 is recommended. Ciao, Marcus -- Marcus Meissner (he/him), Distinguished Engineer / Senior Project Manager Security SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Frankenstrasse 146, 90461 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Ivo Totev, Andrew McDonald, Werner Knoblich, HRB 36809, AG Nuernberg

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Arrival of openSUSE Leap 15.5
by ddemaio openSUSE 07 Jun '23

07 Jun '23

Dear openSUSE community, On behalf of the release engineering team, we are are thrilled to share news of the release of openSUSE Leap 15.5. This release represents the culmination of many hours of hard work and collaboration from our dedicated community members like you. We extend our heartfelt gratitude and hope you enjoy this release. Please note that we do plan to have a Leap 15.6. You can find that news, which was published yesterday, at https://news.opensuse.org/2023/06/06/leap-15.6-annoucement/ You can celebrate this release with others throughout the day by joining the openSUSE Bar at https://meet.opensuse.org/bar. The following release announcement of Leap 15.5 can be found on news.opensuse.org NUREMBERG, Germany – The release of openSUSE’s latest 15-series version marks years of maintenance and security that began more than five years ago.. The maturity of Leap 15.5 comes into play as new technological changes of the last five years have been introduced, such as container technologies, immutable systems, virtualization, embedded development, and other high-tech advances. Entrepreneurs, hobbyists, professionals and developers use Leap as a go-to Linux distribution as seen by the increase in usage from each minor release. Traversing from legacy software to more modern systems is imminent. Leap 15.5, which is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 5, will receive maintenance and security updates until the end of 2024. This will provide users with plenty of time to transition to the release’s successor; a successor has yet to be confirmed. Users interested in commercial support can use a new tool to transition to commercial support. Leap can be downloaded at get.opensuse.org. This release brings newer packages like Mesa and others, but Leap 15.5 is a non-feature release. Some of these newer packages to highlight include KDE Plasma 5.27, which is a Plasma Long Term Support version until the next one rolls out in 2024. Konqi lovers will enjoy a new welcome wizard, dynamic customization of desktop workspaces and more functionality with KRunner that includes a full desktop search, unit and currency exchange rate conversions, dictionary definitions, calculator features, and it shows graphical representations of mathematical functions. The Color Picker had a few improvements and added the possibility of displaying another preview color circle. KDE Gear 22.12.3 will be a new package in the release and complement the use of Plasma 5.27. The update fixes bugs with the Desktop Environment applications and highlights the enhancement of compression/decompression utility ark, improvements to text editor Kate and fixes some crashing of the video editor Kdenlive. Qt 5.15 LTS is available with the KDE Qt 5 patch collection. Text editor Vim will upgrade to a new major version. Vim 9 has a new script language that drastically improves performance. Increases in execution speed of 10 to 100 times is expected for the text editor. Users are recommended to read the project’s Vim 9.0 release information to know how the upgrade affects legacy scripts, backwards compatibility and other new features added in the release. For professionals configuring networking of Linux containers, the netavark 1.5.0 package is in the release. Users who have already transitioned to Flatpaks will have an updated 1.14.4 version that addresses a Common Vulnerability and Exposure with CVE-2023-28101. The newer version fixes the hiding of permissions for an attacker publishing a Flatpak app with malicious intent to elevate permissions. Leap 15.5 is set to have the OpenH264 repository enabled by default for all new installations thanks to contributions from Open Source at Cisco. Leap 15.5 comes with Linux Kernel 5.14.21 that including backports for this SUSE specific LTS kernel. Leap 15.5 shares the kernel with SLE 15 SP5 that receives the same fixes and backports along, which includes a few thousand other shared packages. The device firmware updater package fwupd will change to version 1.8.6. The newer version fixes compiling errors when building for s390x and ppc64le Good news for Python developers. Leap 15.5 users will have a fully usable Python 3.11 stack in parallel to the system Python (python36). This provides a more modern release for users and developers. Packagers are advised to switch to Python 3.11. Other packages users may notice a change to are updates of Ugrep 3.11.0 and NetworkManager 1.38.6. Both webkit2gtk3 and webkit2gtk4 will update to version 2.38.5. Mozilla’s internet browser Firefox will get a new Extended Support Release version - 102.9.0. Mozilla’s email client Thunderbird gains various visual and user experience improvements with version 102.8.0. End of Life openSUSE Leap 15.4 will have its End of Life (EOL) six months from today’s release. Users should update to openSUSE Leap 15.5 within six months of today to continue to receive security and maintenance updates. Important for users upgrading from previous versions A new 4096-bit RSA signing key was introduced as part of openSUSE Leap 15.5 as well as 15.4 via a maintenance update. Leap 15.4 users are expected to update their system prior to upgrade of 15.5. For more information, visit https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade#0._New_4096_bit_RSA_signing_key Download Leap 15.5 To download the ISO image, visit https://get.opensuse.org/leap/ Questions If you have a question about the release or found a bug, we’d love to hear from you at: https://t.me/openSUSE https://chat.opensuse.org https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-support/ https://discordapp.com/invite/openSUSE https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensuseproject Get involved The openSUSE Project is a worldwide community that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. It creates two of the world’s best Linux distributions, the Tumbleweed rolling-release, and Leap, the hybrid enterprise-community distribution. openSUSE is continuously working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. The project is controlled by its community and relies on the contributions of individuals, working as testers, writers, translators, usability experts, artists and ambassadors or developers. The project embraces a wide variety of technology, people with different levels of expertise, speaking different languages and having different cultural backgrounds. Learn more about it on opensuse.org.

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Project Announces Plans for Another Minor Leap 15 Release
by Lubos Kocman 06 Jun '23

06 Jun '23

Hello openSUSE! We’d like to announce that the openSUSE Release team plans to work on openSUSE Leap 15.6. openSUSE Leap 15.6 is expected to be released in early June 2024 and would reach its end of life by the end of the year 2025. This decision was based on recent discussions at SUSE Labs and openSUSE Conference, and it reflects recent changes, progress on individual projects, and our new distribution *architect. This will also enable us to provide SUSE customers with an updated Package HUB module, as both SLES 15 SP5 and Leap 15.6 would be considered a feature release based on our *tick-tock release model. With a Leap 15.6, more time is given for efforts related to an ALP- based Leap 15.X *successor. A more detailed explanation of the situation at lkocman’s oSC2023 “Leap 16.0?” talk. Recording should be available within a few days at the openSUSE youtube *channel. Related news-o-o article: https://news.opensuse.org/2023/06/06/leap-15.6-annoucement/ [0]https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/threa… [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick%E2%80%93tock_model [2]https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/threa… [3]https://www.youtube.com/@openSUSE Thank you! Lubos Kocman on behalf of the openSUSE Release team

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Leap Micro 5.4 GA, Leap Micro 5.2 EOL, Leap 15.5 enters RC phase
by Lubos Kocman 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Hello openSUSE! Leap Micro 5.4 is now globally available which also means that Leap Micro 5.2 reached officially End Of Life. Leap 15.5 officially entered RC with Build472.1. I'm really happy that we were able to get IPRQ approval as well as acceptable testing results for the RC build and still meet our https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap for both projects. More information in our practical hands-on Leap Micro 5.4 article https://news.opensuse.org/2023/04/27/leap-micro-54-leap-155-enters-rc/ Best regards Lubos Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager

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openSUSE Leap 15.3 has reached end of life
by Marcus Meissner 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Hi all, With the release of the last update (tor) on January 16th, 2023 the SUSE sponsored maintenance of openSUSE Leap 15.3 has ended. openSUSE Leap 15.3 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE. The currently maintained stable release is openSUSE Leap 15.4, which will be maintained until around end of 2023 (same lifetime as SLES 15 SP4 regular support). See https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime Upgrading is easy. See the links below for instructions: https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup/html/book-opensuse-star… https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Offline_upgrade openSUSE Leap 15.3 was released end of June 2nd 2020, making it 18 months of security and bugfix support. This was the first release in the new "Closing the Leap Gap" model, where we reuse SUSE Linux Enterprise binaries directly for Leap and no longer rebuild their sources. We faced some issues: - openSUSE Leap 15.3 now imports from 3 different package sources (openSUSE Leap + SLE + openSUSE Backports) instead of just one. The initial product setup did not have all the repositories configured, we fixed that via a openSUSE-release package update. - The initial SLE update export method was not working well (basically all existing RPMs, with concatenated updateinfo) and resulted in lots of version related errors, so we switched to a different method in the first weeks. - The SLE repo contains all 4 architectures, and is growing very big in metadata, causing computers to loads double digit megabytes every day of metadata. This is still an unsolved issue with Leap 15.4. Some statistics on the released patches (compared to Leap 15.2), now also split between repos. Agenda: current number (15.2 number / total diff) Total updates: 2486 (1976 / +510 ) - 330 from Backports (~13%) - 77 from Leap (~3%) - 2079 from SLE (~83%) Updates used from SUSE Linux Enterprise: 2079 (1454 / +625 ) Updates provided by community developers: 407 (522 / -115 ) Security: 1109 (778 / +331) - 161 from Backports (~14%) - 20 from Leap (~1%) - 928 from SLE (~83%) Recommended: 1284 (1172 / +112) - 169 from Backports (~13%) - 57 from Leap (~4%) - 1058 from SLE (~82%) Optional: 47 (23 / +24) - 0 from Backports - 0 from Leap - 47 from SLE Feature: 46 (3 / +43) - 0 from Backports - 0 from Leap - 46 from SLE Retracted updates: 5 (2 / +3) - 0 from Backports - 0 from Leap - 5 from SLE (multipath-tools, cpio, 2x Linux Kernel, libslirp) (excluding 2 x test updates) Fixed CVE-entries: 3234 (2357 / +877) - 857 from Backports (~26%) - 53 from Leap (~ 1%) - 2366 from SLE (~73%) (note that these numbers do not add up exactly as some CVEs are in more than one of the repos) Fixed Bugs (overall): 5672 (5669 / +3) - 384 from Backports (~6%) - 114 from Leap (~2%) - 5174 (~91%) A huge thanks to our awesome packagers, community, and all involved people, who made this possible! Your maintenance- and security-team. -- Marcus Meissner (he/him), Distinguished Engineer / Senior Project Manager Security SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Frankenstrasse 146, 90461 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Ivo Totev, Andrew Myers, Andrew McDonald, Martje Boudien Moerman, HRB 36809, AG Nuernberg

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Advance notice of discontinuation of openSUSE Leap 15.3
by Marcus Meissner 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

Hi, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 leaves its regular maintenance and support phase on December 31st 2022. As openSUSE Leap 15.3 uses the SLES 15 SP3 updates, also openSUSE Leap 15.3 support from openSUSE Maintenance and Security will end on December 31st 2022. An upgrade to openSUSE Leap 15.4 is recommended. Ciao, Marcus

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Invitation to ALP Community Work Group (doodle for meeting slot)
by Lubos Kocman 20 May '22

20 May '22

Hello openSUSE! now when Leap 15.4 RC and Leap Micro 5.2 GA announcements are settled let's go now for something completely different. I'd like to invite you to a newly formed Community Work Group (or CWG) around the new *Adaptable Linux Platform https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:ALP/Workgroups/Community We'll initially focus on transparency during ALP planning, prototyping, and related public communication, opensuse infra readiness . There are topics where we can already start working right now. The first desktop *workshop has shown us that we need to focus on areas such as single place for documentation, our "signature" look and feel, brand recognition, event calendar, etc. We will to turn feedback from the workshop into action items and ensure we have WG members working on them. We have a big opportunity in this regard since unlike SLES 15 , ALP is going to (and already being *prototyped) be built in OBS by default. If you're interested then please tell us which one of existing weekly community weekly slots (Tuesday/Thursday) should be used for regular CWG meetups https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/b68562Ve [0]https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/threa… [1]https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:ALP/Workgroups/Community/Workshops/LeapD… [2]https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/devel:LEO

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Leap Micro 5.2 is GA!
by Lubos Kocman 18 May '22

18 May '22

Hello openSUSE! I'm happy to announce that our brand new distribution Leap Micro 5.2 is now Globally Available. More information and download links and deployment demo can be found at https://get.opensuse.org/leapmicro/5.2/ or our *release notes. Let me remind users that the main documentation source for Leap Micro is SLE Micro documentation referenced bellow. The same applies to Leap itself. We recommend to try our self-install image for VM and host deployments (see demo on download page). For security reasons images have no root password set so you'll have to use *ignition or combustion to set it up (unless you use the Offline installer). People who are interested in k3s use case should have a look at the recent *work of Atilla. the combustion should work on both SLE/Leap Micro and MicroOS. I would like to consider offering recommended combustion scripts as part of the image download/experience on get-o-o. Big thanks to all that participated! [0]https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/LeapMicro/5.2/ [1]https://documentation.suse.com/sle-micro/5.2/html/SLE-Micro-all/cha-selfi… [2]https://code.opensuse.org/adathor/combustion-dotconf/

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connect.o.o is closing down, read more at news.opensuse.org
by Lars Vogdt 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

If you wondered what happened with our community portal, please read: https://news.opensuse.org/2021/07/26/deavtivating_connect_o_o/ for a more detailed explanation. Sorry for any inconvenience caused, Lars, in the name of the openSUSE heroes

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End of the year 2020 community survey
by Adrien Glauser 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

Dear all, We're pleased to announce the End of the year 2020 community survey, available for you to take right now at "survey.opensuse.org". The survey was released yesterday but had a bumpy first day after we missed a couple of typos and bugs. Things are back to normal and we hope you'll deem the latest version to be worthy of your time :) Thanks and have a beautiful week, Adrien

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