June 2023 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Community Meetings: Week 25
by ddemaio 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

Hi all, This week is SUSECON and I'll be there, so I won't be able to make the community meetings this week. Meeting 1 is scheduled for Tuesdays at 14:30 UTC (60 minutes). Next week, June 27, Meeting 1 will be dedicated for ALP development. Meeting 2 is schedule for Thursdays at 19:00 UTC. You can find meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting and meeting takes place in https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting You can see a list of the items where project's need help at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/help v/r Doug

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Reminder meeting : openSUSE Board meeting next Monday (13:00 Europe/Berlin)
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 17 Jun '23

17 Jun '23

Hello all, The biweekly board conf call will be held in two days at 13:00 Europe/Berlin time (CET = UTC+1) Meeting will be in the regular Board Meeting Room https://meet.opensuse.org/OSBoard Current Topics: https://code.opensuse.org/board/tickets/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting Board Members: If you cannot participate, please advise by replying to this mail.

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General Announcement - oSC Videos & Status Update
by ddemaio openSUSE 16 Jun '23

16 Jun '23

Hi all, Some videos from last year's openSUSE Conference are being uploaded. Both last year's and this year's are gradually coming out at https://www.youtube.com/@openSUSE/videos. A big thank you to the video team that is helping to get this content out. Remaining TSP funds for this year will be dedicated to the openSUSE.Asia Summit. We had a limited amount of funds remaining, which we have already dedicated to https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSAS23 You should see an announcement in the coming weeks about the call for papers. Have a lot of fun! v/r Doug

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Call for Leap 15.6 Early feature requests
by Lubos Kocman 15 Jun '23

15 Jun '23

Hello openSUSE! Now that we have Leap 15.6 *confirmed it is time to collect ideas in https://code.opensuse.org/leap/features/issues This call is for those who know that update of their favorite package(s) in Leap 15.6 will depend on a update of a SLES package. We're also interested in tracking higher level or more complex requests/ideas that will require some co-ordination and or could use some more visibility as the list is also input for Release Annoucement etc. SLES Release Management would like to have all "early" features for SLES 15 SP6 requsted by 21st of July, which is in a bit more than month from now. We can of course request SLES 15 SP6 features even after the deadline, but they could be potentially treated as late features which comes with extra process overhead. Leap itself isn't as strict, and we basically accept new packages / features until the code submission *deadline for Leap 15.6 Beta, which is end of February 2023. Leap 15.6 Features that we already know will land late, due to their own schedule should ideally be tracked in code- o-o as well. As usual I'm reviewing incoming requests together with Neal on Mondays 15:00 CEST at https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting Happy Hacking! [0]https://news.opensuse.org/2023/06/06/leap-15.6-annoucement/ [1]https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap#Schedule_for_openSUSE_Leap_15.6 Lubos Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager

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Recent events on our mailing lists - update, apology and next steps
by Maurizio Galli 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

Dear openSUSE community, We, the openSUSE Board, are issuing the following statement to provide updates around recent discussions and behavior on openSUSE mailing lists that violated openSUSE values and the openSUSE Code of Conduct. In the past few weeks our mailing lists were subjected to heated and unpleasant threads, sparked by attempts to stir up controversy and inflame rhetoric with attacks on a minority group protected by the openSUSE Code of Conduct. These threads quickly took a nasty turn and we, the openSUSE Board, received numerous complaints against several people on both sides of the "debate". After two excruciating weeks of ongoing discussions on the lists, we took action and started issuing sanctions to those in violation of our Code of Conduct. Unfortunately these decisions and actions were slow, shortsighted and needed more reflection. Reflecting upon our decisions, as well as receiving feedback from some of you, we realized we should (a) have taken action much quicker, (b) in a more differentiated manner to account for circumstances, and (c) communicated more clearly. We want to extend our most sincerest apology to our community members for the way the situation was handled; we understand this has caused distress for some of you. Our goal now is to rectify our mistakes and ensure that our actions support and defend openSUSE's core values for an inclusive, open and welcoming community. Therefore, we have decided upon the the following actions: 1) As a collective, the Board will not be "neutral" and actively participate in the protection of community members (especially to support minorities and protected classes) in line with the openSUSE Code of Conduct. This recognizes that the Board remains "impartial" when called to mediate conflicts between participants in the openSUSE Project. 2) Bad-faith actors and instigators that inflamed the discourse in the past few weeks with malice have been sanctioned with a permanent ban from the openSUSE community. 3) Others who were found to have violated the Code of Conduct were put under moderation for periods proportional to the severity and circumstances of their actions. (In particular, we took into account intentions of those coming to the defense of others.) 4) We are considering formal Code of Conduct training for Board members and moderators. 5) We are collaborating on a document with guidelines and best practices for moderators. 6) With regards to mailing lists, it is apparent that moderation is challenging. We are actively engaged in determining the best course of actions to improve the situation. 7) We are formalizing a new complaint process. We hope that the steps above will prove beneficial for openSUSE. We erred in our original handling of the situation and aim to do better going forward. Your feedback is always welcome! Sincerely, Maurizio, sending on behalf of the openSUSE Board

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Kind request to delete github project https://github.com/openSUSE/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse
by Oliver Kurz 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

https://github.com/openSUSE/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse is a fork from the official project https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse and should be deleted as it likely was created by mistake and does not receive any updates since more than a year. I created the ticket https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/130510 for this. Please help to remove the project. Have fun, Oliver

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Community Meetings: Week 24
by ddemaio 12 Jun '23

12 Jun '23

Hi all, We will have a community meetings this week. Meeting 1 is scheduled for Tuesday at 14:30 UTC (60 minutes). After June 27, Meeting 1 will be dedicated for ALP development. More information will follow later. Meeting 2 is schedule for Thursday at 19:00 UTC. You can find meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting and the meeting takes place in https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting You can see a list of the items where project's need help at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/help v/r Doug

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openSUSE Leap 15.5 Release retrospective survey is open
by Lubos Kocman 09 Jun '23

09 Jun '23

Hello openSUSE! openSUSE Leap 15.5 was released earlier this week and the openSUSE release team would like to hear from you about your experience with openSUSE Leap 15.5. Did anything go particularly well, or perhaps did we miss something? Did you have trouble downloading, installing, or contributing to Leap 15.5? Did you like the overall communication? Simply head to https://survey.opensuse.org/ and tell us. More details and how to participate in Leap 15.5 recognition efforts at https://news.opensuse.org/2023/06/09/leap-15.5-release-retrospective/ Thank you very much in advance Lubos Kocman on behalf of openSUSE Release team

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Arrival of openSUSE Leap 15.5
by ddemaio openSUSE 07 Jun '23

07 Jun '23

Dear openSUSE community, On behalf of the release engineering team, we are are thrilled to share news of the release of openSUSE Leap 15.5. This release represents the culmination of many hours of hard work and collaboration from our dedicated community members like you. We extend our heartfelt gratitude and hope you enjoy this release. Please note that we do plan to have a Leap 15.6. You can find that news, which was published yesterday, at https://news.opensuse.org/2023/06/06/leap-15.6-annoucement/ You can celebrate this release with others throughout the day by joining the openSUSE Bar at https://meet.opensuse.org/bar. The following release announcement of Leap 15.5 can be found on news.opensuse.org NUREMBERG, Germany – The release of openSUSE’s latest 15-series version marks years of maintenance and security that began more than five years ago.. The maturity of Leap 15.5 comes into play as new technological changes of the last five years have been introduced, such as container technologies, immutable systems, virtualization, embedded development, and other high-tech advances. Entrepreneurs, hobbyists, professionals and developers use Leap as a go-to Linux distribution as seen by the increase in usage from each minor release. Traversing from legacy software to more modern systems is imminent. Leap 15.5, which is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 5, will receive maintenance and security updates until the end of 2024. This will provide users with plenty of time to transition to the release’s successor; a successor has yet to be confirmed. Users interested in commercial support can use a new tool to transition to commercial support. Leap can be downloaded at get.opensuse.org. This release brings newer packages like Mesa and others, but Leap 15.5 is a non-feature release. Some of these newer packages to highlight include KDE Plasma 5.27, which is a Plasma Long Term Support version until the next one rolls out in 2024. Konqi lovers will enjoy a new welcome wizard, dynamic customization of desktop workspaces and more functionality with KRunner that includes a full desktop search, unit and currency exchange rate conversions, dictionary definitions, calculator features, and it shows graphical representations of mathematical functions. The Color Picker had a few improvements and added the possibility of displaying another preview color circle. KDE Gear 22.12.3 will be a new package in the release and complement the use of Plasma 5.27. The update fixes bugs with the Desktop Environment applications and highlights the enhancement of compression/decompression utility ark, improvements to text editor Kate and fixes some crashing of the video editor Kdenlive. Qt 5.15 LTS is available with the KDE Qt 5 patch collection. Text editor Vim will upgrade to a new major version. Vim 9 has a new script language that drastically improves performance. Increases in execution speed of 10 to 100 times is expected for the text editor. Users are recommended to read the project’s Vim 9.0 release information to know how the upgrade affects legacy scripts, backwards compatibility and other new features added in the release. For professionals configuring networking of Linux containers, the netavark 1.5.0 package is in the release. Users who have already transitioned to Flatpaks will have an updated 1.14.4 version that addresses a Common Vulnerability and Exposure with CVE-2023-28101. The newer version fixes the hiding of permissions for an attacker publishing a Flatpak app with malicious intent to elevate permissions. Leap 15.5 is set to have the OpenH264 repository enabled by default for all new installations thanks to contributions from Open Source at Cisco. Leap 15.5 comes with Linux Kernel 5.14.21 that including backports for this SUSE specific LTS kernel. Leap 15.5 shares the kernel with SLE 15 SP5 that receives the same fixes and backports along, which includes a few thousand other shared packages. The device firmware updater package fwupd will change to version 1.8.6. The newer version fixes compiling errors when building for s390x and ppc64le Good news for Python developers. Leap 15.5 users will have a fully usable Python 3.11 stack in parallel to the system Python (python36). This provides a more modern release for users and developers. Packagers are advised to switch to Python 3.11. Other packages users may notice a change to are updates of Ugrep 3.11.0 and NetworkManager 1.38.6. Both webkit2gtk3 and webkit2gtk4 will update to version 2.38.5. Mozilla’s internet browser Firefox will get a new Extended Support Release version - 102.9.0. Mozilla’s email client Thunderbird gains various visual and user experience improvements with version 102.8.0. End of Life openSUSE Leap 15.4 will have its End of Life (EOL) six months from today’s release. Users should update to openSUSE Leap 15.5 within six months of today to continue to receive security and maintenance updates. Important for users upgrading from previous versions A new 4096-bit RSA signing key was introduced as part of openSUSE Leap 15.5 as well as 15.4 via a maintenance update. Leap 15.4 users are expected to update their system prior to upgrade of 15.5. For more information, visit https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade#0._New_4096_bit_RSA_signing_key Download Leap 15.5 To download the ISO image, visit https://get.opensuse.org/leap/ Questions If you have a question about the release or found a bug, we’d love to hear from you at: https://t.me/openSUSE https://chat.opensuse.org https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-support/ https://discordapp.com/invite/openSUSE https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensuseproject Get involved 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.

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Project Announces Plans for Another Minor Leap 15 Release
by Lubos Kocman 06 Jun '23

06 Jun '23

Hello openSUSE! We’d like to announce that the openSUSE Release team plans to work on openSUSE Leap 15.6. openSUSE Leap 15.6 is expected to be released in early June 2024 and would reach its end of life by the end of the year 2025. This decision was based on recent discussions at SUSE Labs and openSUSE Conference, and it reflects recent changes, progress on individual projects, and our new distribution *architect. This will also enable us to provide SUSE customers with an updated Package HUB module, as both SLES 15 SP5 and Leap 15.6 would be considered a feature release based on our *tick-tock release model. With a Leap 15.6, more time is given for efforts related to an ALP- based Leap 15.X *successor. A more detailed explanation of the situation at lkocman’s oSC2023 “Leap 16.0?” talk. Recording should be available within a few days at the openSUSE youtube *channel. Related news-o-o article: https://news.opensuse.org/2023/06/06/leap-15.6-annoucement/ [0]https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/threa… [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick%E2%80%93tock_model [2]https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/threa… [3]https://www.youtube.com/@openSUSE Thank you! Lubos Kocman on behalf of the openSUSE Release team

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