Hi, tl;dr 42.2 Beta 2 is on the mirrors, get it from http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.2/iso/ Thanks to the hard work of our KDE team we managed to get the Beta version of Plasma 5.8 LTS¹ (which was just released last Thursday) integrated into Beta 2. The quality of the distribution at this point looks quite good. Since Plasma 5.8 is still a beta version it deserves more attention and thorough testing now. We can help upstream to release a good 5.8.0 and get a decent quality default desktop in return. As usual please report bugs via bugzilla². Make sure to check the most annoying bugs list³. I'd like to point out that several openSUSE specific components and infrastructure need to be translated still. If you want to help with your language, please join the mailinglist⁴ or contact the localization team of your language⁵. We're getting closer to the release, Beta 3 is only two weeks away, with the submission deadline next week Sept 29⁶. From there RC1 is also only two weeks away anymore, so any remaining version updates should be submitted ASAP. Only bug fixes after Beta 3 please. cu Ludwig [1] https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.7.95.php [2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports [3] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Most_annoying_bugs_42.2_dev [4] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-translation/ [5] https://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Localization_Teams [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-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org