Dear Tumbleweed users, hackers and packagers, ALP is shaping up internally and the time has come where packages need to distinguish betweeh SUSE's next platform and products based on this platform from openSUSE Tumbleweed. In a natural course, SUSE ALP will be picking suse_version 1600 (which is internal to packages only) As Tumbleweed is always 'ahead of the game' this means that we need to do a big step. In line with the experences gained over the last years, the decision was taken to move openSUSE Tumbleweed to suse_version 1699 For you as a packager, this has no immediate effect: you keep on using the normal constructs like: %if 0%{?suse_version} > 1500 # i.e. newer products than the SLE/Leap 15 family (there exist also >= 1550 and >= 1599 which was just picked by people, which are all fine. There are only very few cases where you require to distinguish - for now - between Tumbleweed (> CODE 15 family) and the ALP platform. So unless there is specific need (which you are likely given by ALP Release Managers): don't distinguish the two :) Keep your spec files clean and as simple as possible To sum up: openSUSE:Factory will change suse_version to 1699 in the next days (once staging is ready and the build script is adjusted) Chers, Dominique