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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Leap 42.3 has reached end of SUSE support
by Marcus Meissner 01 Jul '19

01 Jul '19

Hi all, With the release of release-notes-openSUSE on July 1st, 2019 the SUSE sponsored maintenance of openSUSE Leap 42.3 has ended. openSUSE Leap 42.3 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE. The currently maintained stable release are openSUSE Leap 15.0 and 15.1, which will be maintained until Nov 2019 / Nov 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 Customers using Leap 42.3 workloads can also consider migrate to SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 if they are not able to upgrade to openSUSE Leap 15. openSUSE Leap 42.3 was released in July 2017, making it 24 months of security and bugfix support. It was the third 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 42.2), (reminder that 42.2 had 14 months of support runtime, while leap 42.3 had 24). Agenda: current number (42.2 number / total diff / weighted diff 14/24) Total updates: 1734 (1286 / +448 / -275) Updates imported from SUSE Linux Enterprise: 994 (648 / +146 / -70) Updates provided by community developers: 740 (638 / +102 / -207) Security: 901 (569 / + 332 / -44) Recommended: 794 (677 / +114 / -216) Optional: 37 (39 / -2 / -18) Feature: 2 (1 / +1 / +1) Fixed CVE-entries: 3181 (2239 / +942 / -384) Fixed Bugs (overall): 5355 (3887 / +1468 / -764) A huge thanks to our awesome packagers, community, and all involved people, who made the next great release possible! Your maintenance- and security-team

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[opensuse-announce] Advance discontinuation notice for openSUSE Leap 42.3
by Marcus Meissner 31 May '19

31 May '19

Hi folks, This is the advance discontinuation notice for openSUSE Leap 42.3. On June 30th 2019 the openSUSE Leap 42 release series will reach its end of life, after 4 years of lifetime (42.1 was released in fall 2015). openSUSE Leap 42.3 will receive no further maintenance or security updates after that date. It is recommended for openSUSE Leap users to upgrade to the recently released openSUSE Leap 15.1. Deployments with software that relies on Leap 42 technology and cannot be moved to 15 right now may consider evaluating a (commercial) SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 subscription and migrate the workload to SUSE Linux Enterprise. With the upcoming SP5, SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 receives maintenance and support until 2027. Ciao, Marcus, for SUSE Security and openSUSE Maintenance

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[opensuse-announce] Leap 15.1 released!
by Ludwig Nussel 22 May '19

22 May '19

Hi, openSUSE Leap 15.1 is available for download¹ now. Read more about it in the release annoncement². cu Ludwig [1] https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/leap [2] https://news.opensuse.org/2019/05/22/opensuse-community-releases-leap-15-1-… -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.com/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah, 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] Post Mortem on openSUSE Leap 15.0 update problems
by Marcus Meissner 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

Hi folks, This is a post mortem on the 15.0 Update problems from last Friday / weekend. On Friday morning german time, a otherwise inconspicious but incorrect configuration change (to enable gcc8 to build for i586) caused a full wipe of the 15.0 update project and projects linking to it. The 15.0 update project on our download servers got emptied due to this. This was spotted an hour later, and we went into recovery mode. First we restored a previous static state that was made available in the Friday afternoon, 2 hours after we noticed the problem. As there is no backup or snapshotting of binaries we had to reestablish the binary state in a more manual way. We used the existing 15.0 update binaries left over by the wipe to reestablish all existing updates. This reestablishing however caused resigning of the packages. The content is still binary identical, but the cryptographic signature is different. It is signed by the same key, but a different random nonce caused a different Hmac. As the filename was still the same, not all mirrors synced the newly released packages, which caused "bad digest" messages on repositories until Monday morning. Then we changed the update project layout to include a "rpms/" directory, so every mirror refetches the RPMs and will only offer the correct RPMs. With Monday 10:00 am everything should be working as expected again. Note that every RPM released has the binary identical content as the ones before, just the checksum is different due to resigning. We have some learning experiences from that: - more careful use of dangerous config options of course - establish binary backup and snapshot strategy for the OBS, which was currently not there (due to lack of budget). - we will fix several bugs that made this problem worse then necessary We are sorry for the inconviences caused by this problem. Thanks especially to Adrian who did most of the fixing. Ciao, Marcus (for openSUSE Maintenance) -- 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] 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 10 Jul '18

10 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 30 Mar '18

30 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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