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[opensuse-announce] Kubic is now a CNCF Certified Kubernetes Distribution
by Richard Brown 24 Jan '19

24 Jan '19

Hi all, The Kubic team is proud to announce that our openSUSE Kubic distribution has become a CNCF Certified Kubernetes Distribution! Notably, it is the first open source Kubernetes distribution to be certified using the CRI-O container runtime! More details about what this means, how it was possible, and why we did it, can be found on our website: https://kubic.opensuse.org/blog/2019-01-22-certified/ Thanks to everyone who have contributed to Kubic and Tumbleweed which has made this possible. Thanks, and have a lot of fun Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] 2018-2019 Board Elections underway
by Fraser_Bell 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

PLEASE: Do not reply on this list. Post all replies or comments on the openSUSE Project mailing list. This announcement, only, is meant to reach most lists as it involves Project Guidance and Future. 2018-2019 Board Elections underway. Call for Candidates. Membership Drive <url>https://news.opensuse.org/2018/12/13/2018-2019-elections-underway-with-call…</url> -- -Gerry Makaro openSUSE Board Elections Committee (election-officials **at** openSUSE.org) openSUSE Member openSUSE Global Moderator openSUSE Contributor YaST Contributor aka Fraser_Bell on the Forums, OBS, IRC, and mail at openSUSE.org Fraser-Bell on Github -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Planned outage on 2018-07-14 01:00 UTC for services hosted in the MF Provo datacenter
by Theo Chatzimichos 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

Dear all, MF-IT has notified us that there will be a planned outage on 2018-07-14 at 01:00 UTC on their Provo datacenter, which is expected to last at most 120 minutes. During the outage, all openSUSE services that are hosted in SUSE's Provo infrastructure will be off: The following services will be affected: - www.o.o - news.o.o - forums.o.o - bugzilla.o.o - provo-mirror.o.o - keyserver2.o.o - lizards.o.o - the OpenID endpoint, which means that there might be log-in failures on various services. Thanks for the understanding. Theo, on behalf of the Heroes team

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[opensuse-announce] Yes, openSUSE Leap 15.0 is out! (was Re: [opensuse] Leap 15 out?)
by Linux Kamarada 27 May '18

27 May '18

Am I able to post to this list? Let's see... Just in case anyone else missed it, openSUSE Leap 15.0 was officially released last Friday: https://news.opensuse.org/2018/05/25/based-on-enterprise-code-tested-millio… Have a lot of fun! Antonio The Linux Kamarada Project http://kamarada.github.io/ 2018-05-27 4:25 GMT-03:00 Per Jessen <per(a)computer.org>: > James Knott wrote: > >> On 05/26/2018 05:17 PM, Linux Kamarada wrote: >>> 2018-05-26 18:00 GMT-03:00 James Knott <james.knott(a)jknott.net>: >>>> Is Leap 15 now officially out? I don't recall seeing any mention of >>>> it. >>>> >>>> https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/leap >>> >>> Yes, it has been announced here: >>> >>> https://news.opensuse.org/2018/05/25/based-on-enterprise-code-tested-millio… >>> >>> With some translations available. >>> >>> I missed an announcement on the mailing lists too. >> >> I have a life, so I don't have time to keep checking the various web >> sites. It would have been nice for it to have been announced here. > > Yeah, I don't know how we missed that. I expect everyone has been so > busy around osc18 that it was simply forgotten. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Elections Results
by Kostas Koudaras 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

Hello people of openSUSE after the longest election period in the history of the project elections ended in a successful way. 237 people voted out of 400 which is a record of participation both in percentage and in actual number. It was the first year we attempted to vote through Helios Voting System and we solved all problems that came to our attention. I must say that although the work of the election committee ends somewhere around here the new elected members have a long way ahead of them and us as the election committee wish them all the best. With no further delay I present you the results of the elections for 2018: Gertjan Lettink (Knurpht) 166 Simon Lees 133 Ana María Martínez 185 Gerry Makaro (Fraser_Bell) 98 Aaron Luna 72 The First three: Gertjan Lettink (Knurpht),Simon Lees and Ana María Martínez,will serve a two year term. Best Regards Kostas "Warlordfff" Koudaras -- --- \m/ --- If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. --- \m/ --- me I am not I --- \m/ --- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Elections postponed until April 15th.
by Chuck Payne 31 Mar '18

31 Mar '18

The elections for the openSUSE Board have been postponed until April 15 to give candidates extra time to campaign and engage with the community. Interviews with the candidates will be posted on news.o.o. and we are in the process of scheduling a Q&A session on IRC. Chuck Payne -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Meet your Candidates ( Correction )
by Chuck Payne 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

First and foremost, thanks to the following people for standing up and announcing they intent to run for board... Gertjan Lettink ( Knurpht ) Simon Lees Ana Martinez Gerry Makaro ( Fraser_Bell ) Aaron Luna There will be 3 seats open for this election, and remember that's a 2 year term that these fine people will be volunteering for if elected to the board. More to come as we get ready for these candidates are now able to campaign until April 2nd. One remember today was the last day to apply for membership, only member for openSUSE can vote. ( Sorry to Aaron, I didn't see your e-mail. ) Chuck Payne ( a.k.a terrorpup ) __________________ Softmeta -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] [opensuse-accounce] Meet your Candidates
by Chuck Payne 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

First and foremost, thanks to the following people for standing up and announcing they intent to run for board... Gertjan Lettink ( Knurpht ) Simon Lees Ana Martinez Franser Bell There will be 3 seats open for this election, and remember that's a 2 year term that these fine people will be volunteering for if elected to the board. More to come as we get ready for these candidates are now able to campaign until April 2nd. One remember today was the last day to apply for membership, only member for openSUSE can vote. Chuck Payne ( a.k.a terrorpup ) __________________ Softmeta -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Time is running out....
by Chuck Payne 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Guys, March 11th is coming fast, so if you want to run, you need to state your intent soon... Also, if you want to vote, you need to apply for your membership in TWO days. Remember only members can vote. -- Chuck Payne SoftMeta -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Board 2018 Elections
by Chuck Payne 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

This that time of year again. There will be 3 seats to be elected, all for a standard 2 year term: 1/ 2018-02-26(Phase 0) Announcement of the openSUSE Board election for 2018. Start of 3 week period to apply for an openSUSE membership (in order to vote or candidate). Start of 3 week phase to stand for a position in the openSUSE Board. 2/ 2018-03-11 Notification of intent to run, and application for an openSUSE membership close (end of phase 0). 3/ 2018-03-12(Phase 1) Start of campaign for the candidates before the ballots open (campaign might be done until ballots close). 4/ 2018-04-2 (Phase 2) Ballots open: Please cast your vote here! 5/ 2018-04-13 Ballots close (end of phase 2) 6/ 2018-04-16 Announcement of the results -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Leap 42.2 has reached end of SUSE support
by Benjamin Brunner 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Hi all, With the release of release-notes-openSUSE on Jan 26th, 2018 the SUSE sponsored maintenance of openSUSE Leap 42.2 has ended. openSUSE Leap 42.2 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE. The currently maintained stable release is openSUSE Leap 42.3, which will be maintained until Jan 31st 2019. 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 42.2 was released on November 16, 2016, making it ca. 14 months of security and bugfix support. It was the second 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 42.1): Total updates: 1286 (-156) Updates imported from SUSE Linux Enterprise: 648 (+141) Updates provided by community developers: 638 (-297) Security: 569 (-29) Recommended: 677 (-130) Optional: 39 (+3) Feature: 1 (+-0) Fixed CVE-entries: 2239 (-195) Fixed Bugs (overall): 3887 (+152) A huge thanks to our awesome packagers, community, and all involved people, who made the next great release possible! Your maintenance- and security-team -- Benjamin Brunner <bbrunner(a)suse.com>, SUSE Maintenance SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Leap 15 going Beta, help test and report bugs!
by Ludwig Nussel 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Hi, Leap 15 finally got a fresh look and with a Plasma 5.12 beta version the default desktop environment got close to the target version. The base system also is pretty much complete. There are still two bigger changes known to be upcoming. One is rpm 4.14 that was only included in Tumbleweed two weeks ago. The other one is the combined /var subvolume for fresh installations. So overall Leap 15 now enters the Beta phase with Build 109.3 that reached the mirrors on Friday. Everyone is encouraged to download¹ the current builds and help testing. In fact, this announcement was sent from a Leap 15.0 system already :-) As with 42.3, Leap 15.0 will also use a rolling development model until it's final build. That means no concrete milestones but new builds as soon as openQA² gives a green light. Watch out for announcements of new builds on the opensuse-factory mailinglist³. A known issue is, that upgrades from older versions lead to file conflict errors with renamed packages. So testing should focus on fresh installs until that is fixed. Also, when installing as dual boot with Windows on UEFI, the Windows entry may be missing from the bootloader menu. Since this is a major update compared to 42, this time even more testing is required! Please check your your own use case, work load, software deployment, hardware support etc early so there's a chance left to get it fixed before the release. To help with that, live images are in the works and will be announced separately when ready. Also, please have a look at the test plan⁴ and report your findings there. Use bugzilla to report bugs⁵. Issues that deserve discussion in a broader audience should be taken to the opensuse-factory mailinglist. If you are maintaining a package in Factory that is not in Leap 15 yet, feel free to submit it to openSUSE:Leap:15.0. Contrariwise if your package ended up in Leap 15 while it shouldn't, please talk to the release team⁶. Regarding the schedule, the goal would be to be ready to release in May. Since the openSUSE conference is there too, it would be a good opportunity to work together to apply some final polishing. Especially documentation in the wiki, release notes and translations. After a bug screening session the decision whether to release or not would be made at the conference. With that, the beta phase would last from now until mid April. Bigger version updates should be done by end of February to leave some time for testing. The time between mid April until the release should be used for bug fixing only. cu Ludwig [1] http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.0/iso/ [2] https://openqa.opensuse.org/group_overview/50 [3] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/ [4] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AGKijKpKiJCB616-bHVoNQuhWHpQLHPWCb3… [5] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports [6] mailto:opensuse-releaseteam@opensuse.org [7] I shall limit myself to three footnotes https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/15.0/#sec.gener… -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.com/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Planned downtime for many openSUSE services from 2017-10-13 to 2017-10-14
by Theo Chatzimichos 15 Oct '17

15 Oct '17

Hello, from Friday 2017-10-13 16:00 UTC till Saturday 2017-10-14 16:00 UTC the SUSE Nuremberg office will have a power outage, for scheduled maintenance on the building's electricity. Due to that, a number of services will be down. The only services that will be normally operating are: - status.opensuse.org - download.opensuse.org - static.opensuse.org - conncheck.opensuse.org The rest of the services will be fully online on Sunday 2017-10-15. The Heroes team will try to keep you updated on the situation, and will also send a few reminders (on the opensuse-announce mailing list) before the incident. Thanks for the understanding. On behalf of the heroes team and the SUSE-IT team Theo

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Leap 42.3 Cloud Images Become Available
by ddemaio 22 Aug '17

22 Aug '17

*https://news.opensuse.org/2017/08/22/opensuse-leap-42-3-cloud-images-become-available/* Cloud images foropenSUSE Leap 42.3 <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:42.3> are now available for Azure <https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Cloud:Images:Leap_42.2/openSUSE-Lea…>,Google Compute Engine <https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Cloud:Images:Leap_42.2/openSUSE-Lea…> and more cloud providers. The images for Amazon Web Services (AWS EC2) are expected to arrive soon as they were recently submitted for review by the AWS Marketplace <https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01N4R3GJI?ref_=sm_catgtm_oss&adbsc=a…> team. “Compared to openSUSE Leap 42.2 we were in much better shape releasing two of three images on release date (GCE and Azure) and even the delayed image was released much closer to release date than the 42.2 release,” Robert Schweikert wrote on Google Plus <https://plus.google.com/communities/115444043324891769569>. End users can choose the cloud service provider that best fits their usage model. Leap ships with tools foruploading and managing images <https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/amazon-image-management-improved/>. The tools allow for uploading, publishing, deleting and deprecating images. There are a couple of known things not working at the moment like the “gcloud” command in the GCE image and the automatic hostname setting in the GCE image, Both will be worked on as time permits, Schweikert wrote. Cloud images of openSUSE have been available in for years and users can run Docker containers in a Virtual Machine with openSUSE’s cloud image; this has been tested with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, which shares a common core with openSUSE Leap. Since releasing openSUSE Leap 42.2 in the AWS Marketplace, around mid January, roughly 220 subscribers are running openSUSE Leap. AWS customers have an opportunity to use openSUSE’s community software on AWS without any hourly-software instance charge.

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[opensuse-announce] Refresh of Linux Distribution Continues Leveraging Community, Enterprise Benefits
by ddemaio 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

Hi all, The release team and openSUSE community are proud to have released openSUSE Leap 42.3. I would encourage you to read the release at https://news.opensuse.org/2017/07/26/refresh-of-linux-distribution-continue… <https://news.opensuse.org/2016/11/16/optimal-release-for-linux-professional…> and check out the features at https://en.opensuse.org/Features. Most importantly, I would encourage you download it at your earliest convenience at https://software.opensuse.org. <https://software.opensuse.org/422/en> Respectfully, Doug

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[opensuse-announce] All openSUSE wikis updated and moved home
by Christian Boltz 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

Dear openSUSE Community, sometimes plans change while you are working on them ;-) The plan for yesterday evening was to move and update some of the localized wikis. Things worked better and faster than expected, and in the end we moved *all 18 localized wikis* from Provo to Nuremberg and updated them to MediaWiki 1.27 :-) This means *all* openSUSE wikis are now running on MediaWiki 1.27 and support the features announced for the english wiki last week [1]. I didn't have time to change the <feed> tags to the new <rss> tags in all wikis yet. I'll do that in the next days, but I won't complain if someone is faster and does it in some of the wikis ;-) (use the search to find pages containing "<feed", and check https://en.opensuse.org/Help:RSS_feeds for the <rss> syntax) For those who are interested in statistics: - moving 18 wikis in about 6 hours means about 20 minutes per wiki - can someone beat this? ;-) - during the move, we wrote about 500 lines on IRC to coordinate everything - this helped to keep the read-only time of each wiki short - I'd guess on average each wiki was read-only for 30 minutes (again, can someone beat this? ;-) - we moved about 10 GB of uploaded files and 1.6 GB of mysql dumps from Provo to Nuremberg yesterday (which was sometimes "funny" because the server in Provo limits the connection to 10 MBit) And now - have fun with the updated wikis and the upcoming openSUSE Leap 42.3! Regards, Christian Boltz [1] https://news.opensuse.org/2017/07/10/english-opensuse-wiki-will-be-updated-… -- The only reason coders' computers work better than non-coders' computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don't beat them when they're bad. [http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] English openSUSE wiki updated and moved home
by Christian Boltz 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

Dear openSUSE Community, the MediaWiki instance hosted behind en.opensuse.org has been moved from the old Provo cluster to the new Nuremberg opensuse network. Together with the move, the wiki also got an update from MediaWiki 1.22 to 1.27, and the VM hosting it from an old SLE version to openSUSE Leap 42.3 (yes, we are eating our own dogfood!) ‎ New features are: - including files directly from github -> https://en.opensuse.org/Help:GitHub_inclusion - namespace-specific boilerplates (page templates) when creating new pages -> https://en.opensuse.org/Help:MultiBoilerplate - better search (elasticsearch) - now searching all namespaces, but with different weight - login is now done using the Auth_remoteuser extension - but still with your openSUSE login - support for several map providers - switched extension for RSS feed integration (this needs adjustments on the pages that include RSS feeds) -> https://en.opensuse.org/Help:RSS_feeds - watching a category (when pages get added to or removed from it) is now part of MediaWiki core - removal of Hermes notifications - MediaWiki's own notifications work much better If you encounter any issue, please let us know by mail to admin(a)opensuse.org. We'll let the dust settle for some days, and plan to move and update the localized wikis next week. Regards, Christian Boltz -- > New Versions usually bring bug fixes and security fixes. ...and new bugs. Funny how people tend to forget about that. [> Michael Melcher and Michal Kubecek in opensuse-factory] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Leap 42.1 has reached end of SUSE support
by Benjamin Brunner 17 May '17

17 May '17

Hi all, With the release of release-notes-openSUSE on May 17th, 2017 the SUSE sponsored maintenance of openSUSE Leap 42.1 has ended. openSUSE Leap 42.1 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE. The currently maintained stable release is openSUSE Leap 42.2, which will be maintained until the Q2/2018. 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 42.1 was released on November 4th 2015, making it ca. 18 months of security and bugfix support. It was the first 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 13.2): Total updates: 1442 (+98) Updates imported from SUSE Linux Enterprise: 507 Updates provided by community developers: 935 Security: 598 (-109) Recommended: 807 (+182) Optional: 36 (+24) Feature: 1 (1) Fixed CVE-entries: 2434 (-217) Fixed Bugs (overall): 3735 (-170) A huge thanks to our awesome packagers, community, and all involved people, who made the next great release possible! Your maintenance- and security-team -- Benjamin Brunner <bbrunner(a)suse.com>, SUSE MaintenanceSecurity SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] UPDATE: openSUSE Services Outage
by Richard Brown 16 May '17

16 May '17

Hello all, The situation with that led to the distribution of openSUSE infrastructure the last few days has been resolved. The shutdown of openSUSE infrastructure was triggered by SUSE's Corporate policies designed to err on the side of caution in order to protect their assets and our data. We're pleased to be able to report that after an extensive review and audit of the systems involved we are confident that nothing was compromised and all of our code and personal information housed within was adequately protected throughout. Therefore all of the systems that were shut down are now back online. We apologise for the inconvenience or confusion caused. I'd also like to thank everyone for their understanding, and especially thank our admins who worked tirelessly over the weekend to investigate and restore services as quickly as possible. Regards, Richard Brown openSUSE Chairman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Several openSUSE services disabled due to a security breach
by Richard Brown 12 May '17

12 May '17

Dear openSUSE Community, We have been informed of a security breach of the MF authentication system used by several openSUSE services. As a result, the openSUSE services using this authentication method are immediately being set to read-only mode/preventing authentication. This includes the openSUSE OBS, wiki, and forums. The scope and impact of the breach is not yet fully clear. The disabling of authentication is to ensure the protection of our systems and user data while the situation is fully investigated. Based on the information available at this time, there is a possibility that the breach is limited to users of non-openSUSE infrastructure that shares the same authentication system. Regardless, is recommended that all users of the affected services and openSUSE bugzilla change their password at the following link: https://secure-www.novell.com/selfreg/jsp/protected/manageAccount.jsp https://status.opensuse.org/ can be used to monitor the status of the services as the incident is further investigated. We do not believe any of the openSUSE Download infrastructure has been compromised, as it does not interact with the MF authentication system. Therefore www.opensuse.org , download.opensuse.org and software.opensuse.org remain operational and safe for all of our users to use. Thank you all for your understanding and support, and expect a further update as soon as we have more information. Regards, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Leap's Next Major Version Number
by Richard Brown 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

Hi all, On behalf of the openSUSE Board and Leap Release Management I am pleased to announce the next version of openSUSE Leap after 42.3 will be: openSUSE Leap 15 As with Leap 42.x, minor releases are expected annually for at least 3 years, so you can expect a Leap 15.1 to follow, then 15.2 and onwards. Obviously this is quite a dramatic change from the current version number of 42.x, so I will explain what justifies this change in some detail below. First, some history. When we started openSUSE Leap, the version number was an issue that needed addressing. openSUSE at that time was at 13.2, but SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) was at 12 and heading towards 12 SP1. As the main unique selling point of Leap compared to every other distribution is the fact it is based on SLE sources. We wanted to reflect that in the version number. This was particularly important when you consider that a major version in SLE really means something ("major architectural changes from the last version are introduced here") whereas minor versions/service packs have a very different message ("easy to upgrade to, no major workflow breaking changes"). Leap follows a similar philosophy, so we wanted a versioning scheme to reflect SLEs. But openSUSE had already had versions starting with 12, so we couldn't sync up with SLE. This is where 42.x came from. It gave us the opportunity to establish a relationship with SLE versions (SLE Version + 30 = Leap Version), reflect the major/minor nature of Leap releases, and avoid clashes with version numbers we'd already used. The choice of 42 doubled as a humorous nod to hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and the first version numbers of SuSE Linux and YaST (4.2 and 0.42 respectively). The plan was therefore for the next version of Leap to be 43 with it's release aligned with SLE 13, followed by Leap 43.1 (with SLE 13 SP1), Leap 43.2 (w. SP2), etc However, like all good plans, things change. SUSE have decided that their next version of SLE will be 15, not 13. Upon learning of SUSE's plans the Board and Leap release team have been considering our options. This included ignoring the changes to SLE and releasing Leap 43 as planned, at the cost of the link between SLE versions and Leap versions. 45 was also considered, as were some frankly hilarious ideas that made me worry about my own sanity and that of my fellow contributors. After considering the pros and cons of all the options however, the decision has been that Leap 15 will be our next version. SUSE's decision to skip SLE 13 and 14 gave us a perfect opportunity to sync up with SLE versions like we always wanted to originally with Leap. It's an opportunity we will not be able to take so easily a few years from now if we continued with Leaps current versioning. There are only a few packages in our distribution that reference the 42.x versioning, and they should be easily handled as part of a zypper dup, so we are not concerned about this decision impacting users upgrading. We are aware that this decision could be a minor annoyance for users of Leap with configuration management tools like saltstack and puppet, but the long term opportunity to simplify such configuration (by being able to treat SLE and Leap similarly) outweighed our desire to avoid a 'one-time' effort for people currently handling the overly complicated situation caused by Leap being at 42.x and SLE being at 12 SPx. Packagers should be able to look forward to an easier time of things as a result of this change. We intend to deprecate the 0%{leap_version} macro and simplify the current complex nest of suse_version and sle_versions that can make it very frustrating to build packages appropriately for Tumbleweed, Leap and SLE. 0%{suse_version} should continue to be available as a simple indicator of the major version of Leap & SLE for packagers (eg, 0%{suse_version} == 1500 is the expected value for SLE 15 and Leap 15 and all of their minor versions/service packs). 0%{sle_version} should remain as a more precise indicator when packagers need to handle specific versions of Leap and SLE (eg. 0%{sle_version} == 150000 is the expected value for SLE 15 & Leap 15, with 150100 being the expected value for SLE 15 SP1 & Leap 15.1) 0%{is_opensuse} will continue for those times when packagers need to distinguish between Leap and SLE even though they will now more closely share their versions. The above examples and what the future suse_version number will be for Tumbleweed is not yet final, so expect to see emails from ludwig in opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org when they are set. Thanks to everyone involved in this so far, I'm looking forward to seeing what we make out of Leap 15, and even though I cross-posted this I would like to ask that any followup conversation is kept to the opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org thread. Regards, Richard Brown on behalf of the openSUSE Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-announce] Advanced discontinuation notice for openSUSE Leap 42.1
by Marcus Meissner 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hi, With the release of openSUSE Leap 42.2 the SUSE support of openSUSE Leap 42.1 will be ending in 2 months, around May 16th 2017. Please check https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime for lifetime information. Note that the openSUSE Leap 42 class of distributions is designed to be easily upgradable within minor versions, so Leap 42.1 to Leap 42.2 update should be easy and seemless. Ciao, Marcus for the openSUSE Maintenance Team

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[opensuse-announce] Scheduled downtime for lists.opensuse.org Wednesday 2017-03-08 13:00 UTC
by Theo Chatzimichos 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Hello, on Wednesday 2017-03-08 from 13:00 UTC till 15:00 UTC, the VM that hosts the openSUSE Mailing lists [1] will be offline. During that time, sending or receiving mails to the openSUSE mailing lists, or viewing their archives will not be possible. All the mails that will be sent during the downtime will be delayed. The reason for the downtime is to apply major upgrades to both the operating system and the mailing list software. We will let you know of the final status with a followup announcement. [1] https://lists.opensuse.org On behalf of the openSUSE Heroes Team -- Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap(a)opensuse.org> <tchatzimichos(a)suse.com> System Administrator SUSE Operations and Services Team

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Elections 2016/2017 results
by Martin Pluskal 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hello It is my pleasure to announce results of openSUSE Board elections: Aaron Luna 31 votes Sarah Julia Kriesch 66 votes Christian Boltz 71 votes Andrew Wafaa 52 votes Thus, new members of openSUSE Board are Sarah Julia Kriesch and Christian Boltz, taking place of Michal Hrusecky and Kosta Koudaras I would like to use this opportunity to thank all members for voting, candidates for standing for elections and last but not least Michal and Kosta for doing great job while serving in openSUSE board. Special thanks goes to Michal for helping with elections while stepping down from elections. Have a lot of fun Martin Pluskal P.S voting poll is yet to be deactivated, but as votes have been counted trying to use it will have no effect.

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[opensuse-announce] Statement Regarding the openSUSE Board Election
by Richard Brown 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

Due to the technical issues with connect.opensuse.org duplicating names on the candidate list for the election while simultaniously removing some others, the Board election remains on hold. Satisfactorily debugging the root cause of the problems has proven to be impossible. The volunteers working on this investigation were hidered by a temporary outage of the MySQL database during the time they had available for their investigation. While all tests seem to suggest connect.opensuse.org is working satisfactorily at the moment, there is insufficient confidence that it can be trusted for the next Board election. We have wanted to replace connect.opensuse.org for some while, but despite this desire no one has stepped up with a viable alternative. As we need to elect a new board with some urgency, we do not have the luxury of time to continue waiting. Therefore Martin Pluskal will be urgently investigating the use of an alternative service for this particular election, such as SurveyMonkey. As only openSUSE Members can vote, this will likely require using the email addresses in connect.opensuse.org to email members and direct them with an individual, one-time-use, link to the poll. Martin will provide the details once his investigations into suitable tools is complete. Meanwhile you can help by ensuring your email address details are correct in https://connect.opensuse.org Please go to https://connect.opensuse.org and login and then click on your username then "Edit Profile" (or go to https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/$USERNAME/edit/ but replacing $USERNAME with your username) Please then check/edit/correct your Email in your connect profile. Once this election is complete, Tomas Chvatal and anyone else willing to help will be needed to find a suitable replacement for connect.opensuse.org for voting. We require both a voting platform (eg. Helios - https://heliosvoting.org/) and a suitable replacement database and process for approving openSUSE Members. Thank you - The openSUSE Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help(a)opensuse.org

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