- openSUSE Announce

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

1 0

[opensuse-announce] Advance notice of discontinuation of openSUSE Leap 15.1
by Marcus Meissner 20 Nov '20

20 Nov '20

Hi, (This is a resend as the original was sent out in the middle of the mailing list transition.) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 leaves its regular maintenance and support phase on January 31st 2021. As openSUSE Leap 15.1 uses the SLES 15 SP1 updates, also Leap 15.1 support from openSUSE Maintenance and Security will end on January 31st 2021. (The original date of November 2020 was made with an earlier forecast of an earlier EOL of SLES 15 SP1.) A upgrade to openSUSE Leap 15.2 is recommended. Ciao, Marcus

1 0

[opensuse-announce] Heads up: "BootHole" security issue
by Marcus Meissner 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

Hi folks, Researchers from Eclypsium just published a new vulnerability in grub2 called "BootHole". We put a highlevel view in a blog: https://www.suse.com/c/suse-addresses-grub2-secure-boot-issue/ and our TID: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000019673 The points in there apply the same way to openSUSE. For openSUSE Leap 15.2, Lubos and I plan a "fall" respin of the DVD media that continue to boot in updated UEFI secure boot scenarios openSUSE Maintenance and Security work will now commence on this issue, we will be publishing grub2 and other updates in the next days and also do the signing key rotation before this. Ciao, Marcus

1 0

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Community Releases Leap 15.2 Version
by ddemaio 03 Jul '20

03 Jul '20

Hi all, On behalf of the release team and all contributors to the openSUSE Project, I would like to inform you that we have released openSUSE Leap 15.2. Please view the announcement online at https://news.opensuse.org/2020/07/02/opensuse-leap-15-2-release-brings-exci… I would like to thank all those involved in the release. A special thank you to developers, release team, packagers, testers, bug reporters, partners and community projects. I want to personally thank those who helped with release notes, translations, release announcement, artwork and social media. Thank you to Open Source Press, Tuxedo Computers, Linode and Slimbook. v/r Doug openSUSE Leap "15.2" Release Brings Exciting New Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Container Packages ISO 639-1 Languages - CA <https://en.opensuse.org/Anunci_de_publicaci%C3%B3_15.2> - CS <https://cs.opensuse.org/Ozn%C3%A1men%C3%AD_nov%C3%A9ho_vyd%C3%A1n%C3%AD_15.2> - DE <https://de.opensuse.org/Release-Ank%C3%BCndigung_15.2> - FR <https://fr.opensuse.org/Annonce_de_version_15.2> - ID <https://opensuse.id/2020/07/02/pengumuman-rilis-opensuse-152> - IT <http://it.opensuse.org//Annuncio_di_rilascio_versione_15.2> - ES <http://es.opensuse.org/Anuncio_publicaci%C3%B3n_15.2> - JA <https://ja.opensuse.org/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A2%E3%83…> - ZH-TW <https://zh-tw.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.2> NUREMBERG, Germany (02/07/2020) – The openSUSE <https://www.opensuse.org/> release team is proud to announce the availability of community-developed openSUSE Leap 15.2 <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:15.2>. Professional users, from desktops and data-center servers to container hosts and Virtual Machines (VM), will be able to use Leap 15.2 as a high-quality, easy-to-use, enterprise-grade Linux operating system. Download openSUSE Leap 15.2 <https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/leap> This release provides security updates, bug fixes, network enhancements, and many new features for openSUSE users who depend on a stable and scalable distribution. openSUSE’s rich and mature Linux platform supports workloads on x86-64, ARM64 and POWER systems. The dependability of core packages found in previous Leap 15 versions and newer open source technologies in Leap 15.2 are ready for multiple use cases and workloads. “Leap 15.2 represents a huge step forward in the Artificial Intelligence space,” said Marco Varlese, a developer and member of the project. “I am super excited that openSUSE end-users can now finally consume Machine Learning / Deep Learning frameworks and applications via our repositories to enjoy a stable and up-to-date ecosystem.” What’s New Several exciting Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning packages are added in Leap 15.2. Tensorflow <https://www.tensorflow.org/>: A framework for deep learning that can be used by data scientists, provide numerical computations and data-flow graphs. Its flexible architecture enables users to deploy computations to one or more CPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile device without rewriting code. PyTorch <https://pytorch.org/tutorials/>: Made for both server and compute resources, this machine learning library accelerates power users’ ability to prototype a project and move it to a production deployment. ONNX <https://onnx.ai/>: An open format built to represent machine learning models, provides interoperability in the AI tool space. It enables AI developers to use models with a variety of frameworks, tools, runtimes, and compilers. Grafana <https://grafana.com/> and Prometheus <https://prometheus.io/> are two new maintained packages that open up new possibilities for analytical experts. Grafana provides end users the ability to create interactive visual analytics. Feature-rich data-modeling packages: Graphite, Elastic and Prometheus give openSUSE users greater latitude to construct, compute and decipher data more intelligibly. In general, software packages in the distribution grew by the hundreds. Data fusion, Machine Learning and AI aren’t all that is new in openSUSE Leap 15.2; a Real-Time Kernel for managing the timing of microprocessors to ensure time-critical events are processed as efficiently as possible is available in this release. “The addition of a real time kernel to openSUSE Leap unlocks new possibilities,” said Gerald Pfeifer, chair of the project’s board. “Think edge computing, embedded devices, data capturing, all of which are seeing immense growth. Historically many of these have been the domain of proprietary approaches; openSUSE now opens the floodgates for developers, researchers and companies that are interested in testing real time capabilities or maybe even in contributing. Another domain open source helps open up!” Container Technologies openSUSE users will have more power to develop, ship and deploy containerized applications using the newer container technologies that are being maintained in the distribution. For the first time, Kubernetes <https://kubernetes.io/> is an official package in the release. This gives a huge boost to container orchestration capabilities, allowing users to automate deployments, scale, and manage containerized applications. Helm <https://helm.sh/>, the package manager for Kubernetes, is also added. Helm helps developers and system administrators manage complexity by defining, installing, and upgrading the most complex of Kubernetes applications. Container Runtime Interface (CRI) using Open Container Initiative (OCI) conformant runtimes (CRI-O) is also new to this release. CRI-O is a lightweight alternative to using Docker as the runtime, which allows Kubernetes to use any OCI-compliant runtime as the container runtime for running pods or processes running on a cluster. Even with Docker, the use of microservices will be secure thanks to more container packages arriving in this release. Cilium <https://cilium.io/> helps in transparently securing network connectivity and load-balancing between application containers and services deployed using Linux container frameworks like Docker and Kubernetes. Cilium provides an efficient way to define and enforce both the network-layer and the application-layer security policies, which are based on a container/pod identity. Leap 15.2 offers both Server and Transactional Server system roles. The Server system role uses a small set of packages that are suitable for servers with a text mode interface while the Transactional Server system role is similar to the Server role, but uses a read-only root filesystem to provide atomic, automatic updates of the system without interfering with the running system. Installation process The openSUSE installer remains as powerful and as versatile as ever, allowing to easily tweak every single aspect of the system including the mitigation for CPU based attacks like Spectre or Meltdown. The installation process presents several improvements like a more user-friendly dialog for selecting the system role, improved information about the installation progress, better compatibility with right-to-left languages like Arabic and many other small enhancements. In Leap 15.2, it offers a more accurate detection of MS Windows partitions encrypted with BitLocker and a better management of storage devices for Raspberry Pi.The installer also makes it easy to tweak the mitigation for CPU based attacks like Spectre or Meltdown. Unattended installations with AutoYaST is greatly improved. Many aspects are polished at all levels. More configuration options are added and the possible errors in the user’s profile and the installation process are now handled and reported in a more sensible and informative way. Improvements to YaST - The most complete configuration tool for Linux The YaST Partitioner remains the most powerful tool to configure all kinds of storage technologies in Linux, both during installation of the system or at any later point. This release incorporates the possibility of creating and managing a Btrfs file-system that expands over several devices, and the release allows for the use of more advanced encryption technologies. Leap 15.2 is the first openSUSE release to introduce a gradual change that splits system’s configuration between /usr/etc and /etc directories. YaST supports this new structure in all the affected modules, offering to system administrators a central point to inspect the configuration that will help them during the transition and beyond. Leap can be executed on top of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), delivering the power of openSUSE to the Windows world. The YaST version in Leap 15.2 improves the compatibility with that platform, specially when executing YaST Firstboot in order to perform all the needed initial adjustments. Desktop Environment While the desktop environments in this release will be new, the focus remains on more conservative fixed release. The Long-Term-Support version of KDE’s <https://kde.org/> Plasma 5.18 is available in Leap 15.2. The newer LTS has a significant amount of polish and new features. Notifications are clearer, settings are streamlined and the overall look is more attractive. GNOME <https://www.gnome.org/> 3.34 updates from the previous 3.26 version that was available in Leap 15.1. The new GNOME provides a considerable amount of visual refreshes for a number of applications. More data sources in Sysprof makes performance profiling of an application even easier and there are multiple improvements to Builder including an integrated D-Bus inspector. Xfce <https://www.xfce.org/> has a minor update to version 4.14 after four plus years of development; the new version produced a slew of updates and features, including enhancements for the window manager, file manager, application finder and power management. Cloud Images, Hardware and Architectures Linode <https://www.linode.com/> cloud images of Leap are available today and ready for all infrastructure needs. Cloud hosting services will offer images of Leap 15.2 in the coming weeks like Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Compute Engine and OpenStack. Leap 15 is continually optimized for cloud usage scenarios as a host and virtualization guest. TUXEDO Computers <https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/> and Linux notebooks can be purchase with Leap 15.2 preinstalled. Leap 15.2 can also be ordered preinstalled with Slimbooks <https://slimbook.es/en/linux2>. Leap deployment scenarios include physical, virtual, host and guest, and cloud. Ports to other architectures like ARM64 and POWER are expected in the coming weeks. Core Components Compilers, scripting languages, system configuration tools and graphical user interfaces have all been improved. GNU Compiler Collection 7 through 9 are available in this newer Leap minor version along with an updated version of the 3D Graphics package Mesa to support the use of the professional grade operating system. Leap 15.2 has the same 234 version of systemd used in Leap 15.0 and 15.1. New graphics hardware support has been backported for the release of Leap 15.2 and Linux Kernel 5.3 will be used for the release. Kernel features automatically become available in Leap since the distribution shares the same kernel as SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE). openSUSE Leap 15.2 is a distribution with community packages built on top of core sources of SLE 15 Service Package 2. The shared common core and alignment with SLE makes migrations to SUSE’s enterprise product easy for professional who want to extend the life cycle of their maintenance and security past the life cycle of Leap. Migrating from the community version of Leap to SUSE Linux Enterprise is an available option for those who desire to migrate. The migration from openSUSE Leap server installations to SUSE Linux Enterprise is easy for system integrators developing on Leap code who may decide to move to an enterprise version for SLAs, certification, mass deployment, or extended Long Term Support. Health Packages This Leap release increases the capabilities of health services. The award-winning health- and hospital management system GNU Health comes in version 3.6.4. It has an updated GUI and is prepared for COVID-19 pandemic tracking, including updated ICD-10 codes and improved laboratory functions. GNU Health can directly interface with Orthanc, the free PACS Server, which is newly shipped in this release. Developers of the health and medical fields have several open-source tools with openSUSE Leap that can be be used for creating powerful User Interfaces (UI) and User Experiences (UX) for medical devices. Healthcare device developers can be confident in the use and performance of Leap and rely on the system supporting newer and older hardware. Configuration Management System administrators will have the most up-to-date tools for configuration management. Salt 3000 has arrived in Leap; the new Salt version removes the date versioning and provides new functions to chroot: apply, sls, and highstate. It also updates slot syntax to support parsing dictionary responses and to append text. Ansible is also availble for sysadmins. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on remote nodes. Groupware and File Hosting File sharing and cloud services include software such as NextCloud and even the groupware application suite Kopano (formerly known as Zarafa) is part of the official Leap 15.2 repositories. Like prior versions, System Administrators and small businesses can use Leap for hosting web and mail servers or for network management with DHCP, DNS, NTP, Samba, NFS, LDAP, and hundreds of other services. Life Cycle of Leap Minor versions of the Leap 15 series have about an 18-month life cycle; minor releases come roughly once a year. Users of openSUSE Leap 15.1, which was released in May of 2019, should upgrade to Leap 15.2 within the next 6 months. The first release of Leap 15 was released two years ago. Download Leap 15.2 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. Categories: openSUSE <https://news.opensuse.org/category/opensuse> Announcements <https://news.opensuse.org/category/announcements> Kubic <https://news.opensuse.org/category/kubic> Leap <https://news.opensuse.org/category/leap> Project <https://news.opensuse.org/category/project> Weekly News <https://news.opensuse.org/category/weekly-news> Tags: openSUSE Leap 15.2 <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/opensuse-leap-15-2> KDE <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/kde> Plasma 5.18 <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/plasma-5-18> Xfce 4.14 <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/xfce-4-14> GNOME 3.34 <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/gnome-3-34> arm64 <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/arm64> Power <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/power> X86 <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/x86> Artificial Intelligence <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/artificial-intelligence> Machine Learning <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/machine-learning> community <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/community> Tensorflow <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/tensorflow> PyTorch <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/pytorch> ONNX <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/onnx> Grafana <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/grafana> Prometheus <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/prometheus> CRI-O <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/cri-o> Kubernetes <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/kubernetes> Docker <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/docker> SUSE Linux Enterprise <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/suse-linux-enterprise> SUSEConnect <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/suseconnect> sysadmins <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/sysadmins> TUXEDOComputers <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/tuxedocomputers> microservices <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/microservices> AutoYaST <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/autoyast> VM <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/vm> Slimbooks <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/slimbooks> Linode <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/linode> Cloud <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/cloud> GCC 9 <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/gcc-9> GNU Health <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/gnu-health> DHCP <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/dhcp> DNS <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/dns> Samba <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/samba> Upgrade <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/upgrade> yast <https://news.opensuse.org/tag/yast> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse-announce] Your openSUSE account requires a new password
by Per Jessen 18 May '20

18 May '20

Dear Community On Monday 18 May 2020 at 07:00 UTC, we will switch over all remaining openSUSE services to the new authentication system. At the same time, the openSUSE forums will also move to the new setup in Nürnberg. Important: The change of our authentication system will require you go to set a new password for your user account. For more details about the changes to the authentication system, its migration status and the re-registration verification, please go to https://idp-portal-info.suse.com. Have a lot fun! -- Per Jessen, Zürich on behalf of openSUSE Heroes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 1

[opensuse-announce] Accounts, accounts, accounts
by Gerald Pfeifer 08 May '20

08 May '20

Hi folks, as I mentioned in an e-mail earlier this week ( https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2020-05/msg00008.html ) SUSE and openSUSE are carving out remaining IT assets from Micro Focus this spring. This includes identity management (= user accounts). The existing system that you likely have been using is split into two distinct systems (and hence accounts): (1) One for openSUSE infrastructure and SUSE's development tools, think Bugzilla, Build Service (OBS), openSUSE Wiki,... (2) And one for SUSE's customers and partners, think SUSE Customer Center (SCC), Partner Portal,... Ad (1): Details on the transition for Bugzilla and other openSUSE systems are available at https://idp-portal-info.suse.com. That page is going to be updated regularly -> a good bookmark. Different services migrate one by one over the coming weeks, so be prepared to still use your "old" account in some places during that transition. Ad (2): If you have received an e-mail with the subject "New SUSE User Accounts - partners and customers" and all you care is openSUSE or the tools mentioned above, you probably can ignore that (unless you also are a SUSE customer or are interested in some of SUSE's other programs such as the SUSE Developer Program). https://xkcd.com/730/ :-> Gerald PS: Don't shoot the messenger; merely trying to jump in and share. Thanks to Simon, Adrian, Marcus, and Daniel for caring and input! -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com>, CTO @SUSE + chair @openSUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse-announce] Bringing Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise closer together - a proposal
by Gerald Pfeifer 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

Hi everyone, today I have some exciting news and a proposal to relay: SUSE wants to go another step in openness towards the openSUSE community and suggests to bring the relationship of openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise to a new level. Internally this idea is called "Closing the Leap Gap" and proposes to strengthen and bring more closely together: * developer communities, by focusing on openSUSE Leap as a development platform for communities and industry partners; * user communities, by leveraging the benefits of both a stable Enterprise code base and the speed of community contributions; * the code bases of openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), by not only sharing sources, but also offering the SUSE Linux Enterprise binaries for inclusion in openSUSE Leap. The proposal includes a three step approach: 1. Merge the code bases for the intersection of openSUSE Leap 15.2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 as much as possible without loss of functionality or stability. (SUSE has started a cleanup process on the SUSE Linux Enterprise side already.) 2. In parallel to classic openSUSE Leap 15.2 create a flavor leveraging SLE binaries, leading to an intermediate release in the October 2020 time frame. 3. Build openSUSE Leap 15.3 with SLE binaries included by default (assuming community agreement). As you can imagine, a number of people have been involved with this so far, and I'd like to pull some of them in front of the curtain in a little interview. Q: Thomas, all of engineering at SUSE reports to you, and I know openSUSE is something you care about quite a bit. What is SUSE putting on the table here? Thomas Di Giacomo: Let me step back, and give you a perspective as I see it. SUSE for 27+ years has been a part of global open source ecosystem that includes a vast number of developers, end users, communities, and organizations of all sizes working together and benefiting from the collective work. Most of our engineers are involved as well with some open source communities that they feel passionate about. Open source communities are an integral part of who we are and the ecosystem we serve. Naturally, we feel responsible to support the communities and the work done by them. openSUSE is no different and is actually even more special and very dear to SUSE. So, it should come as no surprise that we are fully committed towards the openSUSE project(s) and its community. It makes us all feel proud to see Leap and Tumbleweed grow and evolve, together with SUSE Linux Enterprise. This effort of our engineers working together with others in the openSUSE community will benefit everyone involved for many years to come. Q: And why are you doing this? Thomas: We want open source to succeed for everyone – developers, contributors to end users and everyone in between. The benefits of open source are tremendous when the ecosystem grows as a result of the positive virtuous cycle of – contributing more, supporting the contributions, benefiting from contributions, which inspires more people contributing, and it goes on to grow as an upward virtuous spiral. We feel fortunate to be in the position of seeing the openSUSE community grow in tandem with the success of SUSE Linux Enterprise, and both feeding off each other to grow even more. This idea definitely goes in that direction. Now, let me defer to Matthias who came up with this idea. Q: Okay, so, Matthias, first of all: what is your role at SUSE? Matthias Eckermann: I am leading the Product Management team for Linux platforms, covering SUSE Linux Enterprise, Edge, and Security. Q: And what made you propose this? Matthias: My team and I realized that the engagement of our SLE business with the openSUSE community does not fully fit our view on openness, and that mutual benefits are not leveraged sufficiently. We discussed what it would take to bridge the gap and bring the relationship to the next level. Beyond a common ground on the technical side, the code streams, this requires learning from each other; for example, we need to re-establish an open feature process between community, SUSE, and our industry partners. Thus we developed "Closing the Leap Gap", and - to test whether it might have a chance to fly - we outlined the initial idea with the openSUSE Board before going for approvals by SUSE management. Q: You mention the board, so let me ask. What is your take? What opportunities, benefits do you see? What risks? Dr. Axel Braun: With this change, we can make better use of our resources, as two code bases converge - so one build target less to consider. Everyone who packages for Leap and for Package Hub will immediately benefit from this. Marina Latini: It's really exciting to see how SUSE is trying to increase its support for Leap, reducing the existing differences between our openSUSE Leap and SLE. I can see this proposal as a way to be more inclusive, giving to the community the opportunity to contribute in an easier way to Leap and giving the chance to bring the openSUSE spirit also in an Enterprise product like SLE. On the other hand, every new move is a change and we need to be sure that the changes won't limit our community freedom to submit packages to Leap or won't slow down Leap for following the internal SUSE development model. Q: Matthias, that sounds like some extra effort required. How is SUSE contributing, what is SUSE committing to? Matthias: Indeed, there is quite some one-time effort needed to get (back) to the common ground; this is covered by SUSE engineering teams; two groups are heavily involved: The Open Build Service experts are designing a workflow for a smooth integration of the binaries, and for reducing the long term maintenance efforts for our community contributors. SUSE release managers and packagers are working hard to synchronize the code bases without losing functionality or quality. Hundreds of change requests have been filed already, and to get this done properly, we are delaying the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 to July. And we are willing to invest more, to drive the idea to success quickly: we would take the burden, to create an intermediate openSUSE Leap release in October 2020 which then would incorporate SUSE Linux Enterprise binaries into Leap the first time. Probably, Adrian can comment on the Build Service aspects, and Lubos what it means to developers within SUSE and to the community release process? Q: So, Lubos, as release manager for Leap, what have you been doing so far, and what is the impact you see? Lubos Kocman: I spent most of the time on collecting data regarding SLE and Leap differences and having follow-up discussions and transforming feedback into action items. Max and the rest of the openSUSE release engineering team meanwhile did an excellent job of keeping Leap release activities going forward. The idea of re-using should generally lower the effort on the Leap side. However, it comes with the price of increased complexity to bring all pieces together. A new process will allow external contributors to file feature or update requests directly to SLE. This will already help a lot. Q: Is this an outcome bound effort, or time bound? I know the SLE release schedule is a bit like a 300m tanker. Lubos: It's both. I see this as a balance between what can we deliver, how, and to what date. It took quite some effort to create a plan acceptable by all involved teams. Splitting the work across the upcoming two releases seemed to be accepted well at least by involved parties so far. Q: So, that is SLE 15 SP2. How about Leap 15.2? Lubos: openSUSE Leap 15.2 will have to slip by about 8 weeks to incorporate all changes from the SLE and align with its new schedule. I believe that the release will find a great use for extra time since we're still finishing the refresh of packages from Factory. The prototype will be meanwhile available in parallel to the openSUSE Leap 15.2. Q: How is that research proceeding, Adrian? Adrian Schröter: We have an idea about the setup in build.opensuse.org. I anticipate to have a first prototype of the build setup in next three weeks. And more important is how to develop the workflows to allow a more collaborative joint effort between SLE and openSUSE development. However, we must keep in mind that this is really an entire new way to develop a distribution. On one hand it makes a lot of sense to integrate for example the SUSE Backports (aka Package Hub) people directly in our development process. This will make our distribution development stronger. On the other hand, we also must find ways how to solve new problems. For example how to keep our builds for architectures not covered by SLES like Arm 32bit and RISC-V. Also the turn around times of submissions and build results will be a challenge in the initial setup. And last but not least, the installed systems and users may need to deal with more repositories. But we have one year to work on these problems in parallel to our stable distribution. And we are indeed looking forward to make openSUSE and SLE development more beneficial than ever. Gerald: Thanks everyone for your input. I'll be sharing all this with openSUSE mailing lists, and am sure there will be further questions, offers to help, and other input, so please chime in there. https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Leap/FAQ/ClosingTheLeapGap has an FAQ with more details. Lubos is going to send a proposal with more details on the implementation side to opensuse-factory@. I suggest we focus technical discussions of this offer and proposals there (opensuse-factory@) and general discussions on opensuse-project@. So, what do you think? Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)suse.com>, CTO @SUSE + chair @openSUSE

1 0

[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Leap 15.0 has reached end of SUSE support
by Marcus Meissner 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Hi all, With the release of the last updates on Dec 3rd, 2019 the SUSE sponsored maintenance of openSUSE Leap 15.0 has ended. openSUSE Leap 15.0 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE. The currently maintained stable release is openSUSE Leap 15.1, which will be maintained until end of November 2020. 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 15.0 was released end of May 2018, making it 18 months of security and bugfix support. It was the fourth hybrid distribution which used sources from SUSE Linux Enterprise and from our community developers to bridge a gap between matured packages and newer packages found in openSUSE Tumbleweed. Some statistics on the released patches (compared to Leap 42.3), although 42.3 had 24 months of runtime. (Weighted is new*24/18-old) Agenda: current number (42.3 number / total diff / weighted diff 18/24) Total updates: 1662 (1734 / -72 / +482) Updates imported from SUSE Linux Enterprise: 1119 (994 / +125 / +498) Updates provided by community developers: 543 (740 / -197 / -16) Security: 700 (901 / - 201 / +32) Recommended: 937 (794 / +143 / +455) Optional: 25 (37 / -12 / -4) Feature: 0 (2 / -2 / -2) Fixed CVE-entries: 2218 (3181 / -963 / -224) Fixed Bugs (overall): 5458 (5355 / +103 / +1922) A huge thanks to our awesome packagers, community, and all involved people, who made the next great release possible! Your maintenance- and security-team

1 0

[opensuse-announce] Advance discontinuation notice for openSUSE Leap 15.0
by Marcus Meissner 10 Oct '19

10 Oct '19

Hi folks, This is the advance discontinuation notice for openSUSE Leap 15.0. On November 30th 2019 openSUSE Leap 15.0 will reach its end of support after 1.5 years of lifetime (it was released May 2018). openSUSE Leap 15.0 will receive no further maintenance or security updates after that date. It is recommended for openSUSE Leap users to upgrade to the current release openSUSE Leap 15.1. The next release, openSUSE Leap 15.2, is planned for May 2020. Ciao, Marcus, for SUSE Security and openSUSE Maintenance -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse-announce] Changing the Chair of the Board
by Richard Brown 19 Aug '19

19 Aug '19

Dear Community, After six years on the openSUSE Board and five as its Chairperson, I have decided to step down as Chair of the openSUSE Board effective today, August 19. This has been a very difficult decision for me to make, with reasons that are diverse, interlinked, and personal. Some of the key factors that led me to make this step include the time required to do the job properly, and the length of time I've served. Five years is more than twice as long as any of my predecessors. The time required to do the role properly has increased and I now find it impossible to balance the demands of the role with the requirements of my primary role as a developer in SUSE, and with what I wish to achieve outside of work and community. As difficult as it is to step back from something I've enjoyed doing for so long, I am looking forward to achieving a better balance between work, community, and life in general. Serving as member and chair of the openSUSE Board has been an absolute pleasure and highly rewarding. Meeting and communicating with members of the project as well as championing the cause of openSUSE has been a joyous part of my life that I know I will miss going forward. openSUSE won't get rid of me entirely. While I do intend to step back from any governance topics, I will still be working at SUSE in the Future Technology Team. Following SUSE's Open Source policy, we do a lot in openSUSE. I am especially looking forward to being able to focus on Kubic & MicroOS much more than I have been lately. As I'm sure it's likely to be a question, I wish to make it crystal clear that my decision has nothing to do with the Board’s ongoing efforts to form an independent openSUSE Foundation. The Board’s decision to form a Foundation had my complete backing as Chairperson, and will continue to have as a regular openSUSE contributor. I have absolute confidence in the openSUSE Board; Indeed, I don't think I would be able to make this decision at this time if I wasn't certain that I was leaving openSUSE in good hands. On that note, SUSE has appointed Gerald Pfeifer as my replacement as Chair. Gerald is SUSE's EMEA-based CTO, with a long history as a Tumbleweed user, an active openSUSE Member, and upstream contributor/maintainer in projects like GCC and Wine. Gerald has been a regular source of advice & support during my tenure as Chairperson. In particular, I will always remember my first visit to FOSDEM as openSUSE Chair. Turning up more smartly dressed than usual, I was surprised to find Gerald, a senior Director at SUSE, diving in to help at the incredibly busy openSUSE booth, and doing so dressed in quite possibly the oldest and most well-loved openSUSE T-shirt I've ever seen. When booth visitors came with questions about SUSE-specific stuff, I think he took some glee in being able to point them in my direction while teasingly saying "Richard is the corporate guy here, I'm just representing the community.." Knowing full well he will continue being so community minded, while finally giving me the opportunity to tease him in return, it is with a similar glee I now hand over the reigns to Gerald. As much as I'm going to miss things about being chairperson of this awesome community, I'm confident and excited to see how openSUSE evolves from here. Keep having a lot of fun, Richard Note: This announcement has been cross-posted in several places, but please send any replies and discussion to the opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org Mailinglist. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0