Hi, With all the passionate discussions recently it has been a bit quiet around 42.3 lately. That doesn't mean work on it has stopped. Quite the contrary is the case. Meanwhile most of the SLE12SP3 packages are integrated. So we're mostly in sync with SLE in the base system. The kernel stays at 4.4 as planned but it got a whole bunch of bug fixes and backported features in 42.3. Starting from build 169 Leap also inherited the updated desktop selection dialog from Tumbleweed that makes it easier to enable the online repo and install 2nd tier desktop environments. The dialog still has a default and will keep it ... :-) Cleanup of the patterns is still work in progress for Tumbleweed though, so hasn't reached Leap yet either. After several submission rounds of packages from Tumbleweed we've exceeded 10000 sources packages and are still counting. If you miss your favorite package in Leap still, please make sure it's in Factory and successfully builds for Leap too. Don't hesitate to submit to openSUSE:Leap:42.3 yourself if that's the case. The goal is to have 42.3 mostly feature complete before the conference so we can concentrate on bug fixing afterwards. The automatic release mechanism is working as expected, so the 42.3 repo and DVDs are released as soon as openQA gives the go¹. Even though there are still some red tests the release is quite safe to use at this point already IMO. Automatic announcements similar to the ones used for Tumbleweed are in the works to remind everyone to zypper dup. Apart from testing the distro and making sure we have all the package in the state we want there's also some work to do in the wiki². For example to create separate pages for 42.3. Also, there are quite some build failures in 42.3³. Help to analyze and fix them is appreciated (a rebuild is in progress so wait until the dust has settled to see the results). cu Ludwig [1] https://openqa.opensuse.org/group_overview/28 [2] https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:42.3 [3] https://build.opensuse.org/project/status/openSUSE:Leap:42.3 -- (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