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[opensuse-announce] Elections on hold
by Martin Pluskal 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello I have to regretfully inform you, that due to technical difficulties in our tool connect.opensuse.org we have to put current elections on hold. I deeply apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused to you. Technical problems that many of you noticed on the mailinglist proven to have more than visual consequences and our administrators are now looking in the issue trying to figure out how to solve the underlying problem. Election team will update election schedule and inform you about next steps as soon as possible (whether we can continue/recover current poll or if we will need to start from scratch). Kind regards from election team Martin Pluskal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEwQnJ+Ps8HqIKhK3yWyRdZ/3eaFcFAliIlXQACgkQWyRdZ/3e aFfe+Q//cnIEdz/HLFq07Hb4CkW8SNqGFwMr/Lv8aDdTuPiQhP8X1+/p0+AArQZT n33DTmOYpUB4BketBuiE8SMx/rcdY9pPRVzuj/aVng/zqFu07FRNX6D0BXOyOZka rY1a2VE4S6MZWuzCq5FxJVjaLW7XZzRwG4OWBaLpNNpWFX7CRXkSLNiZ0atSIRMQ 7vdTwzPxaK3eogRGBzqBIu8l8vHoonpUbZ7rATASmzPhFkQnCOnzFpJImX92PBJL nBA4YEsiEQRULI631dM9jG1X0WLtCljKuVYDnxAZU2SKfqRd/1H3mYZjzCPyJfez ecD8UqI5rBioJk+lPZvzabObqMaZr9cUTSohTSmnT0duhh+2eb0mMbOk+ueuM5rV wq5QkHJB3e7JtaHb/+Dzhc3uI29uJlHzKnKsrklXbfOvFwsG5i+ZNNorW6E1we8o gDTL7/VgEnqUGTKHDjv8/L7jfHk56HpeqoJ+BRSxcQpDrzUYFi7VjaNj61EY7QJ5 da+j2T0qp3vbkHhX/hQstb855csRIExT8r51FZGbf9Ovh15LayY8CM8DLsQtIUcC cTvZBxgyobVfbb1534QWbUhAOFsRUD/lKTLrcMcWjJ5q9iaEZs8KM+cbvdkN7X8f OhAJIzEA9p26xpBaZ87peBlckRs1x9p2Fgt82uhDdxtXDKE/CAU= =W36B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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 elections 2016/2017 - Phase 2 (voting begins)
by Martin Pluskal 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

Hello It is my pleasure to announce that voting for openSUSE board [0] has begun [2] - so please don't forget to cast your vote at: http://bit.ly/2jYi5xt [1] Voting will last until 2017-02-01 and on 2017-02-02 results will be announced, you can cast three votes, all members [2][3] are eligible for voting. Cheers and good luck to all candidates Martin Pluskal 0. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election 1. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election#Phase_2:_Election 2. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members 3. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Membership_officials#Process 4. https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/polls/read/pluskalm/52868/opensuse-board-el…

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[opensuse-announce] openSUSE 13.2 has reached end of SUSE support
by Benjamin Brunner 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Hi all, with the release of tilda on January 17th, 2017 the SUSE sponsored maintenance of openSUSE 13.2 has ended. openSUSE 13.2 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE. Here are some statistics: openSUSE 13.2 was released on November 4th 2014, making it ca. 26 months of security and bugfix support. Some statistics on the released patches (compared to 13.1 before Evergreen): Total updates: 1344 (+102) Security: 707 (+90) Recommended: 625 (+6) Optional: 12 (+7) Feature: 0 (-1) Fixed CVE-entries: 2651 (+339) Fixed Bugs (overall): 3905 (+876) 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] openSUSE Board elections 2016/2017 - Phase 1
by Martin Pluskal 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello We are entering Phase 1 of openSUSE Board elections, meaning campaign time before voting starts (which starts on 2017-01-21). I am pleased to confirm that we have following candidates: * Aaron Luna <aaronluna75(a)gmail.com> + https://en.opensuse.org/User:Aaronluna75 + http://www.opensusemexico.com + https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2016-12/msg00078.html * Sarah Julia Kriesch <ada.lovelace(a)gmx.de> + https://connect.opensuse.org//pg/profile/AdaLovelace + https://sarah-julia-kriesch.eu/2016/12/28/running-for-the-opensuse- board/ + https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2016-12/msg00076.html * Michal Hrusecky <Michal.Hrusecky(a)opensuse.org> + https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/-miska- + https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2016-12/msg00079.html * Christian Boltz <opensuse(a)cboltz.de> + https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/cboltz + http://blog.cboltz.de/archives/73-Another-openSUSE-Board-candidate- ;.html + https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2016-12/msg00081.html * Andrew Wafaa <awafaa(a)opensuse.org> + https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/FunkyPenguin Candidates will now have time to focus on their campaigns, and in case they haven't sent their platforms due to busy schedule, now is right time [1]. Cheers Martin Pluskal 1. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election#Phase_1:_Campaign -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEwQnJ+Ps8HqIKhK3yWyRdZ/3eaFcFAlhqDk8ACgkQWyRdZ/3e aFcMww//WheQsIFmHA9EqeuT4BVfCU7Rb82abInMOchBZcHt1KXSBzgUAGVVcBvb vNm8Bto5b0pLK6tqJQCuaWd9DinVEkJmnGWyfRlodujFF+/dutvkGVgIHxvOleOP 0mPFJJnVaKzkvu/voGBTG5CM2s6H76OA0JT5VGQGLrMxLBefgtsbIQ9DLZDn8Pvv LhINboMvJyWN2Y1a4Ma4TRyuTmIparBWjEBOGw2MXGkdQM5rwRaNYRPRXXufASRF 2CuqunPcE5LVGCb6Y7SOzVt5e1FvOvzxpKOFXEtDmYqcENGbSoHMRYOD1PoFmXCu djMfWP58sB35xFrkBuVcb2lqBrUAa0MEsUr0SU9W5x93ltljRErJ+WGiqg5MoJWh TcTOhblb/0iwqG+izvPx2zmxkT9BZV+O/0iJTxjdLpfWXD884AfgdkicVPYKu/m/ kEIDg22uMKe21Gzp+ccqvs0qKlua/S1RtGsTBBrbdp1+uT8Q3NFbWzYb0bksiF4Q aT5zKPubaPqYmtSoCPvVMu+oGR6MQhQZJzo0oGZSmZ12IZTsIlwht4MUcUwz2lLp 4LrdWhUoTyooSpuZEBZQEPzAfiITMEdfTdiKOdwDKN5GScStg1yAFxwInyPHEcpc BEy/KLhqjc6TMT3alOmwG21gX5bSQ+6k7uK1sbMOatATs0c7GHY= =fVmI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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 election for 2016
by Martin Pluskal 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

It's that time of year when we (openSUSE members) need to elect representatives for the openSUSE Board [0] This year, there will be 2 seats to be elected, all for a standard 2 year (24 months) term : - Kosta Koudaras and Michal Hrusecky (who is eligible to run for reelection) We will be following following election schedule: 1/ 2017-12-08 (Phase 0) * Announcement of the openSUSE Board election for 2017. * 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/ 2017-01-01 * Notification of intent to run, and application for an openSUSE membership close (end of phase 0). 3/ 2017-01-02 (Phase 1) * Start of campaign for the candidates before the ballots open (campaign might be done until ballots close). 4/ 2017-01-21 (Phase 2) * Ballots open: Please cast your vote here! 5/ 2017-02-01 * Ballots close (end of phase 2) 6/ 2017-02-02 * Announcement of the results If you want to participate in the openSUSE board and influence the future direction of the project please stand up and announce[1] your candidacy. If you know someone who you would like to see on the board, feel free to contact the election officials team ad propose your candidate. Only openSUSE members have the right to run for a board seat, except if they are in the Election Committee. To stand for a position in the openSUSE board please send a mail to * opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org AND * election-officials(a)opensuse.org In the application candidates should write a short introduction of themselves and probably a short manifesto/platform/program that gives answers to these topics: ALL openSUSE members[2] are eligible to vote. If you are a contributor of openSUSE but you are not a member yet, apply for membership now[3] and be a part of the changes to come. openSUSE 2017 Election Committee Martin Pluskal [0] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election#Phase_0:_Notification_of_Int… [2] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members [3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Membership_officials#Process

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[opensuse-announce] Advanced discontinuation notice for openSUSE 13.2
by Marcus Meissner 21 Nov '16

21 Nov '16

Hi, With the release of openSUSE Leap 42.2 the SUSE support of openSUSE 13.2 will be ending in 2 months, around January 16th. Please check https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime for lifetime information. Ciao, Marcus for the openSUSE Maintenance Team -- 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] Optimal Release for Linux Professionals Arrives with openSUSE Leap 42.2
by Douglas DeMaio 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

*A Professional Distribution for Developers, System Administrators and Users * (Languages: CZ <http://cs.opensuse.org/Ozn%C3%A1men%C3%AD_nov%C3%A9ho_vyd%C3%A1n%C3%AD_42.2>, DE <http://de.opensuse.org/Release_Ank%C3%BCndigung_42.2>, EN <https://news.opensuse.org/2016/11/16/optimal-release-for-linux-professional…>, ES <http://es.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Anuncio_de_la_publicaci%C3%B3n_de_la_versi%…>, FR <http://fr.opensuse.org/Annonce_de_version_42.2>, IT <http://it.opensuse.org/Annuncio_di_rilascio>, JA <http://ja.opensuse.org/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A2%E3%83%…>, LT <http://en.opensuse.org/Archive:LT-Release_announcement_42.2>, TW <http://zh-tw.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_42.2>) Members of the openSUSE Project are pleased to announce the release of the next minor version of Leap; openSUSE Leap 42.2! Leap is made to give stability-minded users and conservative technology adopters peace of mind. openSUSE Leap 42.2 is powered by the Linux 4.4 Long-Term-Support (LTS) kernel and is a secure, stable and reliable server operating system for deploying IT services in physical, virtual or cloud environments. A selective process of including well-established packages in openSUSE Leap 42.2 gives new meaning to the term /Linux Optimization/; openSUSE Leap is simply the safe choice that offers Linux professionals a user-friendly desktop and a feature-rich server environment. Leap-green.png <https://en.opensuse.org/File:Leap-green.png> Continuing the tradition of using source code from SUSE Linux Enterprise <https://www.suse.com/products/server> (SLE), openSUSE Leap 42.2 provides a level of stability unmatched by other Linux distributions. With community-built packages on top of Leap’s enterprise reliability, openSUSE Leap users benefit both from community and enterprise maintenance efforts. Contributions to openSUSE Leap from SUSE include several new features like Network Functions Virtualization capabilities that combines Open vSwitch <http://www.openvswitch.org> with the Data Plane Development Kit to process packets faster. YaST also has a significant amount of improvements and new features. Community contributions were equally enormous as more than 1,400 new packages made it into this newest Leap version, with 42.2 providing 17% more packages than 42.1. One of those community packages includes GNU Health <http://health.gnu.org> Version 3.0.4. This Free Health and Hospital Information System is used by hospitals, governments and institutions under a free license. GNU Health allows management and analysis of a huge amount of data and aspects. Another new package in Leap 42.2 is Prelude Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) <https://www.prelude-siem.org> system, which collects, normalizes, sorts, aggregates, correlates and reports all security-related events (IDMEF). A large community effort and cooperation between openSUSE and KDE has brought a Long-Term Support version for Plasma 5.8 <http:////www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.2.php>, which improves multiple monitor support out-of-the-box. Leap provides an ideal dev-to-production <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVXDGnaYbKQ> model with SLE for developers and system administrators who want to align their development and production environments. openSUSE Leap is highly stable and is a safe choice for sysadmins, developers and desktop users. The newest Leap version improves user capabilities with snapper <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Snapper> snapshots that are based on the Btrfs filesystem. A new Btrfs concept for quota makes snapper much less disk-hungry. It is configured by default on fresh installations and can be manually setup <http://snapper.io/2016/05/18/space-aware-cleanup.html> after upgrading to Leap 42.2. Snapper <http://snapper.io/> is a poka-yoke <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke> and can give system administrators confidence about updating new packages and rolling back the system if any errors occur. Leap also offers users, developers and system administrators an easy path to move to other operating systems like openSUSE’s faster, more updated distribution Tumbleweed <https://en.opensuse.org/Tumbleweed>, with the newest upstream packages and software versions provided on a rolling release basis, or to an enterprise-level support system with SLE <https://www.suse.com/products/server/>. See for yourself why openSUSE Leap is an acclaimed community-enterprise distribution. *openSUSE Leap 42.2 is…* *More Enterprise* That’s right. After basing openSUSE Leap 42.1 on SLE (SUSE Linux Enterprise), Leap 42.2 gets even more source code from the release of SLE 12 <https://www.suse.com/promo/sle/> Service Pack 2. New technologies such as NVDIMM, OmniPATH, Data Plane Development Kit with openVSwitch are back ported for the release. XEN no longer requires it’s own kernel and is supported by the default kernel. Along with the shared SLE codebase, openSUSE Leap 42.2 gets packages, maintenance and bug fixes from the openSUSE community and SUSE engineers. The 42 series of Leap achieves at a minimum 36 months of maintenance and security updates starting from 42.1. *Server Ready* openSUSE Leap 42.2 is the first Leap release to offer a Server profile as clear option during the installation. With no graphical environment, a Server install of Leap stands ready to do whatever you need from it. Something as simple as running a Web or Mail platform is easier than ever, as are complex projects using virtualization or container technologies. It’s also good to remember that Leap and all other openSUSE and SLE distributions have support for a full-featured textmode installer <https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installation_with_little_memory#Text_mode>, giving all the same functionality as the graphical installer without the need for X. Our installer is also fully capable of doing installations remotely using VNC or SSH <https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Remote_installation>, letting you set up your openSUSE Leap server without needing to be anywhere near it at all. *The Return of the Konqi* Konqi has returned and is in full force. Plasma 5.8 brings a whole new component to openSUSE Leap. As the first Long Term Supported release for Plasma, Plasma 5.8 complements stability-minded Leap users. In unison with Qt 5.6 <https://www.qt.io/qt5-6/> and Frameworks 5.26, Plasma 5.8 will bring Leap 42.2 users excellent KDE reliability and stability. *The Kernel* The 4.4 LTS Linux Kernel for openSUSE Leap 42.2 improves file system performance and features, including a new balance filter for Btrfs. The default kernel now has paravirtualization enabled. The kernel version also improves cryptography and security support for Trusted Platform Module 2.0 chips as well as adds support for nested Virtualization through KVM. Networking is dramatically improved for IP Virtual Server and IPv6 and of course there is more updates and changes for the multiple architectures. Get Leap! Downloads of openSUSE Leap 42.2 can be found at software.opensuse.org <http://software.opensuse.org>. We recommend checking out the Release Notes before upgrade or installation. Users currently running openSUSE Leap 42.1 <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:42.1> can upgrade to openSUSE Leap 42.2 via the instructions at this link <http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade>. The AArch64 architecture port has continued to mature and is now considered stable. ARMv7 has successfully entered the Leap sphere and is available now as well, giving users an upgrade path for their 13.2 installations. To find instructions on how to install openSUSE Leap on a given ARM system, please visit the ARM wiki <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:ARM> for more information. Thanks! openSUSE Leap 42.2 represents the combined effort of thousands of developers who participate in our distributions and projects shipped with it. The contributors, inside and outside the openSUSE Project, should be proud of this release, and they deserve a major *“thank you”* for all of the hard work and care that have gone into it. We believe Leap is the ideal Linux distribution for developers, sysadmins and users. We hope you have a lot of fun using it, and we look forward to working with you on the next release or in Tumbleweed. <https://en.opensuse.org/Tumbleweed> For Developers KDE Qt5 designer <https://news.opensuse.org/2016/11/16/optimal-release-for-linux-professional…> KDE Qt5 designer GNOME Builder <https://news.opensuse.org/2016/11/16/optimal-release-for-linux-professional…> GNOME Builder KDE Anjunta <https://news.opensuse.org/2016/11/16/optimal-release-for-linux-professional…> KDE Anjunta *Containers* openSUSE Leap 42.2 is ships with Docker 1.12 <https://blog.docker.com/2016/06/docker-1-12-built-in-orchestration/> which builds upon Dockers recent adoption of runC and containerd <https://blog.docker.com/2016/04/docker-engine-1-11-runc/> to bring the latest orchestration features, such as Docker Swarm. *IDEs and tooling* Leap 42.2 carries a mature, LTS version of the Qt 5 GUI toolkit (5.6). With more than 800 improvements from the previous version in Leap 42.1, Qt 5.6 also brings some non-critical security fixes in the Qt framework and in third-party libraries. gtk 3.20, shared with SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2, provides a solid & stable toolkit for building gtk based applications. GNOME Builder is offered as a powerful general purpose IDE for not only gtk applications based on C, C++ and Vala, but many other languages in addition. For all your compiling needs Leap 42.2 contains gcc 4.8.5, 5.3.1 and 6.1.1. llvm-clang is also available at version 3.8.0. Leap also includes CMake 3.5 providing a powerful, cross-platform build environment for open-source project developers. The OpenSSL toolkit found in Leap 42.2 is 1.0.2h, which modifies behavior of ALPN and prevents ASN.1 BIO from excessive memory allocation. OpenSSH is version 7.2p2 in this latest stable release and sanitizes X11 authentication credentials. *Languages and Libraries* Programming languages found in openSUSE Leap 42.2 include Python 2.7, Ruby 2.1 and Perl 5.18. This Leap release provides new major version libraries for libvirt (2.0) and libzypp (16.2). Leap also has the well established glibc 2.22 and libsigc++ 2.8, which defines signals and connects them to any callback function, whether static or virtual. For Sysadmins Installation overview <https://news.opensuse.org/2016/11/16/optimal-release-for-linux-professional…> Installation overview YaST <https://news.opensuse.org/2016/11/16/optimal-release-for-linux-professional…> YaST Control Center 42.2 <https://news.opensuse.org/2016/11/16/optimal-release-for-linux-professional…> Control Center 42.2 *Virtualization* openSUSE Leap 42.2 is full of virtualization solutions. QEMU 2.6.1 and VirtualBox 5.0.24 make openSUSE Leap 42.2 a perfect base system to distribute applications. Set up is easy with YaST and gnome-boxes, so you’ll be able deploy solutions quickly and easily. openSUSE Leap 42.2 has Xen and KVM. It also supports Linux containers in the form of both Docker and LXC. *YaST Goodness* YaST Sprints leading up to the release of openSUSE Leap 42.2 have brought tons of goodness and are making YaST more intuitive than ever. The YaST community revamped the user interface to improve usability and continues adding new tools and modules that have been in Tumbleweed for some time and are now been added to the Leap family. yast2-alternatives is a new module to manage openSUSE’s alternatives system developed during Google Summer of Code 2016. Another module, yast2-vpn, is a module for configuring VPN gateway and clients. yast2-auth-client is another module to configure centralized system authentication and it has been almost completely rewritten. New features to YaST have improved bootloader management, which offers support for Trusted Boot and has a revamped configuration of password protection. yast2-firewall now includes full support for firewalld, in addition to the already existing SuSEFirewall2. When something goes wrong during installation, the system now offers the possibility of starting a debugger; users with Ruby knowledge can use it to check what went wrong or even to work around the problem. There have also been several enhancements, including installer memory usage being significantly reduced. The selection and configuration of keyboard layouts and console fonts has also been adapted for better compatibility with systemd. There are several other YaST improvements that can be found on the features page <https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Features_42.2#YaST>. *Managing Systems* openSUSE Leap has Samba 4.4.2, which has improved support for working against a Windows 2003 domain. systemd 228 creates a plain directory instead of a subvolume (even on a Btrfs file system) if the root directory is a plain directory, and not a subvolume, which should simplify things with certain chroot() environments which are not aware of the concept of btrfs subvolumes. AppStream version in Leap enhances the interaction of software repositories. MariaDB remains the same version as it was in the previous release and MySQL’s small upgrade to version 5.1.35 resolves a number of issues including a failover being triggered inadvertently and a failover process that kept trying to connect to an unavailable server. It is also worth remembering that openSUSE Leap uses Delta RPMs for all maintenance updates <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Maintenance>, ensuring that the long term bandwidth requirements for maintaining your Leap system are as small as possible. For Users LibreOffice 5 in GNOME 3.20 <https://news.opensuse.org/2016/11/16/optimal-release-for-linux-professional…> LibreOffice 5 in GNOME 3.20 GIMP in Plasma 5.8 <https://news.opensuse.org/2016/11/16/optimal-release-for-linux-professional…> GIMP in Plasma 5.8 VLC in GNOME 3.20 <https://news.opensuse.org/2016/11/16/optimal-release-for-linux-professional…> VLC in GNOME 3.20 HexChat in Xfce <https://news.opensuse.org/2016/11/16/optimal-release-for-linux-professional…> HexChat in Xfce *KDE* openSUSE Leap 42.2 is the first to offer KDE’s Long Term Support edition of its flagship desktop software, Plasma. Feature rich with excellent performance, Plasma 5.8 LTS <https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.1.php> is the default desktop environment in openSUSE. Previous KDE users who moved away should reassess this release, with Plasma 5.8 bringing significant improvements in stability as well as new features. Plasma 5.8 improves multiple monitor support out-of-the-box in openSUSE Leap 42.2. Jump List Actions are new in KRunner and it doesn’t only open applications, but can be used to start certain actions directly when the application starts. Drag and drop support was added to bring search result to any application. System administrators will enjoy the Kiosk support <https://userbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/Kiosk/Introduction> from an improved Plasma in Leap 42.2. Android phone users can get phone integration with KDE Connect from the Google Play store; all they need to do is enable the KDE Connect service in the SUSE firewall module in YaST. Using KDE Connect, users can get text messages on their desktop or easily transfer files to their phone. *GNOME* The stability of GNOME 3.20 <https://www.gnome.org/news/2016/03/gnome-3-20-released/> offers conservative upgrade users new privacy controls to improve per-application location access, quick access to media controls directly from the shell, and keyboard shortcuts and gestures can be easily learned with new shortcut overlay windows. Many GNOME applications have shortcut windows for 3.20, including Files, Videos, Photos, gedit, Builder, Maps and more. In each application, the shortcut window can be opened from the application menu, or by using the Ctrl+/ or Ctrl+F1 shortcut. GNOME can now access Google Drive directly from the Files application in openSUSE Leap 42.2. More than 28,000 changes were made for GNOME 3.20 by approximately 870 contributors. Check out the release notes for GNOME 3.20 <https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.20/>. *Other desktop environments* openSUSE Leap 42.2 offers users the option to choose their desktop; try MATE, Xfce, Enlightenment or Cinnamon. LXQt 0.11.0, which has an improved user experience thanks to several bug fixes, ships in openSUSE Leap 42.2, but is not available in the installer. LXQt 0.11.0 introduces pavucontrol-Qt, the Qt port of PulseAudio’s mixer pavucontrol the UI of which is based upon GTK. *Internationalization* This openSUSE release is the first to use Weblate <https://l10n.opensuse.org/> to coordinate the translation of openSUSE into more than 50 languages. openSUSE’s Weblate interface enables everyone (from dedicated translators to casual contributors) to take part in the process and makes it possible to coordinate the translations of openSUSE with the ones for SUSE Enterprise Linux, boosting collaboration between community and enterprise. About the openSUSE Project 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 <http://www.opensuse.org>

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[opensuse-announce] Optimal Release for Linux Professionals Arrives with openSUSE Leap 42.2
by Douglas DeMaio 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Hi all, The release team and openSUSE community are proud to have released openSUSE Leap 42.2. I would encourage you to read the release at 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/422/en Respectfully, Doug -- 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 Beta3 released
by Ludwig Nussel 05 Oct '16

05 Oct '16

Hi, tl;dr 42.2 Beta 3 is on the mirrors, get it from http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.2/iso/ The last beta version of 42.2 brings us Plasma 5.8.0¹ which means we should be feature complete on the desktops. If you haven't done so, please test drive 42.2 now. As usual please report bugs via bugzilla². Make sure to check the most annoying bugs list³. As we are getting closer to the release it's also about time to start polishing the wiki. The 42.2 portal⁴ looks rather poor still. It's a wiki so just go ahead to bring the 42.2 pages in shape. You may want to join the opensuse-marketing list⁵ to coordinate the marketing related content. The next milestone will be RC1. So please refrain from submitting non-bugfix changes to Leap now. Submission deadline for RC1 is next week, October 13⁶. cu Ludwig [1] https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.0.php [2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports [3] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Most_annoying_bugs_42.2_dev [4] https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:42.2 [5] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-marketing/ [6] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap -- (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] openSUSE Leap 42.2 Beta1 released
by Ludwig Nussel 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

Hi, openSUSE Leap 42.2 is under heavy development and has reached an important milestone with the release of Beta 1 now. Users of previous openSUSE releases who plan to upgrade to 42.2 are invited to participate in the beta testing¹. Finding issues early and helping to resolve problems before the release increases the overall quality of our favorite operating system. According to the planned roadmap² openSUSE Leap 42.2 shall be released mid of November. The beta phase will end in October. Beta 1 and all upcoming milestones are available from software.opensuse.org as usual³. cu Ludwig [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports [2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap [3] https://software.opensuse.org/developer -- (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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