June 2023 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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Board meeting minutes for 2023-06-05
by Neal Gompa 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

Today's meeting notes are also available here: https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2023-06-05 = Board Meeting Monday 2023-06-05 13:00 CEST = * Present: Doug, Gertjan, Mau, Neal, Patrick * Excused: Gerald * Missed: * This week's report to be sent by: Neal * Guests: Attila == Gerald not able to join today's meeting == * Unavailable for personal reasons (and "off" for 2 weeks, though that's not the reason for not being able to join) * Provided as much input up front as possible; will try to follow-up quickly == Neutrality of the Board == Mau called for a vote for the openSUSE Board not to be "neutral" but actively participate in the protection of community members, particularly minorities and protected classes, in line with the openSUSE Code of Conduct. This does not mean being "impartial" when called to mediate a conflict resolution between two or more community members. Question for vote: Are you in favor for the openSUSE Board to not be "neutral" but 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. * AGREED: (5, 0, 0) for this vote ** (N.B.: Gerald noted ahead of this meeting he was in favor.) == Immediate actions == Question for vote: Should we permanently ban the bad-faith actors that have inflamed the community in negative discourse? * AGREED: (5, 0, 0) for this vote Question for vote: Should we weaken the punishments meted out for those responding to the bad faith actors? * AGREED: (4, 1, 0) for this vote ** N.B.: Gertjan abstained Question for vote: Should we rescind the punishments meted out for those responding to the bad faith actors? * REJECTED: (0, 1, -4) for this vote ** N.B.: Gertjan abstained Question for vote: Should we offer the alternative of giving a public apology (acknowledge they're wrong, why they're wrong, and how they'd try to do better) instead of moderation? * AGREED: (4, 1, 0) for this vote ** N.B.: Gertjan abstained Question for vote: Should we properly distinguish between temporary bans and permanent bans when classifying punishment for misconduct? * AGREED: (5, 0, 0) for this vote == Next steps == * Reach out to moderated community members and provide an explanation and an apology for not having done it sooner. ** This needs to be done now. ** Tell moderated community members that a public statement from the Board will be issued soon * Release a public statement: ** what was done ** mistakes made ** what are we going to do to improve the situation ** apology = Board Meeting end at 14:00 CEST = -- Neal Gompa (ID: Pharaoh_Atem)

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Community Meetings: Week 23
by ddemaio 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

Hi all, We will have a community meetings this week. Meeting 1 is scheduled for Tuesday at 14:30 UTC (60 minutes). Meeting 2 is schedule for Thursday at 19:00 UTC. I will not be at Meeting 2 this week. On Wednesday, we are expecting the release of openSUSE Leap 15.5. 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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Board meeting minutes for 2023-05-22
by Neal Gompa 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

These were delayed due to travel to oSC, but here it is now. https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Board_meeting_2023-05-22 = Board Meeting Monday 2023-05-22 13:00 CEST = * Present: Patrick, Gerald. Gertjan, Neal * Excused: Mau * Missed: Doug * This week's report to be sent by: Neal * Guests: Luna Jernberg (bittin), Marcel R == oSC23 == * in Nuremberg later this week :) * Neal, Gerald, Gertjan, Patrick, and Doug will be there. * and Luna (for the first time IRL) == openSUSE Asia Summit 2023 == * China was choosen by the openSUSE.Asia Summit committee and the dates will be: 21-23th October 2023 == Geeko Foundation == Patrick brought up monetary contribution setup and terms for recognition. Initial thoughts by Patrick: with the creation of Geeko Foundation, I think we need to look at a membership structure for the Foundation, such as: - Member - Supporter ($) - Contributor - Event Sponsor ($) - Project Sponsor ($) - Foundation Sponsor ($) and so on. Some back and forth on specific terminology ensued, will be discussed further F2F at oSC23. == Donation based Social Contract == #Deferred to next meeting * Should openSUSE have social based contract, something like https://sfosc.org/docs/social-contracts/donation/ * The trademark, patent and license sections will probably need to be reworked = Board Meeting Ended at 2023-05-22 13:28 CEST = -- Neal Gompa (ID: Pharaoh_Atem)

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Codices of Conduct: A fundamental critique
by Wouter Onebekend 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

Hello, We've recently had a bit of a tussle on the Factory list over LGBT flags, on the OpenSUSE subreddit to put it mildly. In that tussle, the code of conduct was used as a very blunt instrument in a bid to silence people who disagreed with flying such flags and/or forcing people to fly flags in general. I'd like to share a few observations about codices of conduct in general and the OpenSUSE one in particular (point 6 does not apply to it) that allow the very abuse we have seen: 1) The definitions of good and bad behavior are vague allowing for a lot of executive discretion in constructing actions or utterances as violations. 2) Enforcement is intransparent and arbitrary. There's a moderation team with "processes in place". Processes that are not even public! Determining and sanctioning violations is at the sole discretion of the executive (moderation team and openSUSE board - I'm not sure if these two are even separate/overlap free). 3) There is no appeal to an independent authority. The executive is judge, jury, executioner and authority for appeals. 4) It is insanely broad in scope: "openSUSE reserves the right to take actions against behaviors that happen in any context, if they are deemed to be relevant to the openSUSE project and its participants.". Yes, you can totally be Brendan Eiched for donating to the wrong political party under that rule. 5) Snitching is confidential and there are no codified repercussions to wrongly accusing or smearing somebody that way. 6) [This is not the case in the OpenSUSE code of conduct]: there usually is a err-on-the-side-of-caution clause that mandates removing people deemed in violation even while their guilt or innocence is still being determined. That is a reversal of the legal convention "innocent until proven guilty" democratic states have been operating on since Roman times. In summary I think codices of conduct are a horrible idea and should be done away with. They are regularly abused to force people to agree with or at least never speak out against the political ideology termed 'woke'. They create a climate of fear and division that simply has not existed before. Everyone is on constant notice, and has to weigh their words very carefully. Except for the ideologue themselves. They can abuse and denigrate everyone who speaks up against their ideology at will and will face zero repercussions for it. Regards, An Anonymous Techie

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Reminder meeting : openSUSE Board meeting next Monday (13:00 Europe/Berlin)
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 03 Jun '23

03 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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Leap 15.5 update
by Lubos Kocman 01 Jun '23

01 Jun '23

Hello openSUSE! I just received a heads up that SLES 15 SP5 has a confirmed GMC. So big congratulations to the SLES team. This implies that the Leap 15.5 build which is currently being cooked in OBS is our (first) Gold Master Candidate. So far everything suggests that we can keep up with the current https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap and have GA on June 7th. These are currently top issues under our radar https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Most_annoying_bugs_15.5 See you at the oSC2023! Best regards Lubos Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager

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