On 16/12/2019 13.27, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 2:48 PM Carlos E. R.
wrote: The current system with Leap is that it is aligned to the enterprise version. This means that when they release version 16, openSUSE will do 16.0, and this is a major upgrade for the core. This happens every few years. Meanwhile there are minor upgrades, like 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, perhaps 15.4 or 16.0. Seems to be once a year. These minor upgrades seem to be easy and painless with zypper dup.
SUSE does not have "major" and "minor" upgrades. Every service pack is new version from technical point of view; there is no compatibility guarantees between service packs either. New major version is usually associated with product structure changes, not with amount of technical changes.
The official descriptions I have read about openSUSE Leap do talk about major and minor versions: https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Leap «The latest release of openSUSE Leap, 15.1, was released on May 22, 2019. Leap will have minor releases and users are expected to upgrade to the latest minor release within 6 months of its availability, leading to a life cycle of 18 months of maintenance and security updates per minor release. The 15 series of Leap is expected to achieve an estimated 36 months of maintenance and security updates.» https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime «Each Leap *Major Release* (42, 15, etc.) is expected to be maintained for at least 36 months, until the next major version of Leap is available. A Leap *Minor Release* (42.1, 42.2, etc.) is expected to be released annually. Users are expected to upgrade to the latest minor release within 6 months of its availability, leading to a maintenance life cycle of 18 months.» -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)