Re: openSUSE Leap 15.1 has reached End of Life
Mr. Meissner -
Thank you for your email on the upgrade.
When I upgraded in place (not a fresh install) to openSuSE 15.1 as the
native OS (from 15.0), I ran into problems with a virtualbox installation,
ultimately losing the entire system and doing a complete reinstall.
Upgrades in place on two other machines without virtualbox went smoothly -
no issues.
The problem may have been due to the presence of virtualbox or my use of
the btrfs file system, but perhaps some other cause - an error on my part.
Based on a post on the virtualbox forum, I learned that one fellow
successfully performed the upgrade and I've inquired about the details. I
did not find anything else relevant on either the openSuSE forums or after
a search of the web.
Are you aware of any issues I should consider? Any advice you might have
would be greatly appreciated.
Joel
973 736 8306
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 3:27 AM Marcus Meissner
Hi all,
With the release of the last updates on Feb 2nd, 2021 the SUSE sponsored maintenance of openSUSE Leap 15.1 has ended.
openSUSE Leap 15.1 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE.
The currently maintained stable release is openSUSE Leap 15.2, which will be maintained until around Nov 2021. 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-start... https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Offline_upgrade
openSUSE Leap 15.1 was released end of May 2019, making it 20 months of security and bugfix support.
It was the fifth 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 15.0).
Agenda: current number (15.0 number / total diff)
Total updates: 1987 (1662 / +325 ) Updates imported from SUSE Linux Enterprise: 1456 (1119 / +337 ) Updates provided by community developers: 531 (543 / -12 ) Security: 819 (700 / +119) Recommended: 1150 (937 / +213) Optional: 17 (25 / -8) Feature: 1 (0 / +1)
Fixed CVE-entries: 2866 (2218 / +648) Fixed Bugs (overall): 5704 (5458 / +246)
A huge thanks to our awesome packagers, community, and all involved people, who made this possible!
Your maintenance- and security-team.
On 07/02/2021 17.30, Joel Miller wrote:
Mr. Meissner -
Thank you for your email on the upgrade.
Er... this is a mail list, many people the world around can read and reply ;-)
When I upgraded in place (not a fresh install) to openSuSE 15.1 as the native OS (from 15.0), I ran into problems with a virtualbox installation, ultimately losing the entire system and doing a complete reinstall. Upgrades in place on two other machines without virtualbox went smoothly - no issues.
The problem may have been due to the presence of virtualbox or my use of the btrfs file system, but perhaps some other cause - an error on my part.
Based on a post on the virtualbox forum, I learned that one fellow successfully performed the upgrade and I've inquired about the details. I did not find anything else relevant on either the openSuSE forums or after a search of the web.
Are you aware of any issues I should consider? Any advice you might have would be greatly appreciated. There are two other mail list where you can ask those questions:
users@lists.opensuse.org support@lists.opensuse.org About your question, I successfully upgraded from 15.0 to 15.1 about a year ago, and from 15.1 to 15.2 weeks ago on this computer, where virtualbox is also installed, no problems at all. I don't remember of big issues. You have two main web pages on the upgrade procedures (there are two methods): https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade (zypper dup method) https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Offline_upgrade (dvd method) Somewhere it recommends you make a full backup prior to the attempt, just in case. You should also check these pages: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Most_annoying_bugs (empty for 15.2) https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Release_Notes --> https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/15.2/ -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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