After a year of development, the release of the openSUSE Leap 15.6 distribution has taken place. The release is based on the same set of binary packages as SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 6, with some user applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. Using the same binary packages in both SUSE and openSUSE simplifies the transition between distributions, saves resources on package building, reduces the distribution of updates and testing, unifies differences in spec files, and allows for a departure from diagnosing different package builds when analyzing error messages. A universal DVD image is available for download, sized at 4.4 GB (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64les, 390x), a slimmed-down installation image for network package downloads (200 MB), and Live images (~900 MB) with KDE, GNOME, and Xfce for X86_64 and ARM64 architectures.
It is expected that openSUSE Leap 15.6 will be the last release in the 15.x series, and that a release of openSUSE Leap 16 will be formed on the ALP platform in 2025. A key feature of ALP is the division of the distribution's base into two parts: a minimal 'host OS' to run on hardware and a layer for application support focused on running in containers. virtual machines. The formation of another functional release in the openSUSE Leap 15 branch next year will give developers additional time to refine the ALP platform to their desired specifications.
Key innovations:
- Updated user environments include: GNOME 45.1 (the previous release had GNOME 41), Cinnamon 6.0 (previously 4.6), Enlightenment 0.25.4 (previously 0.25.3), and LxQt 1.4 (previously 1.2). The versions for KDE Plasma 5.27 (the transition to the KDE 6 branch will occur in the next openSUSE release), Xfce 4.18, MATE 1.26, and Sway 1.6.1 have not changed. Graphics stack components have been updated to Mesa 23.3.4 and Qt 6.6.3.
- Package versions have been updated, including the Linux kernel 6.4, glibc 2.38, systemd 254, dracut 059, PulseAudio 17.0, PipeWire 1.0.4, DPDK 22.1, OpenSSL 3.1.4, firewalld 2.0.1, GnuTLS 3.8.0, OpenVPN 2.6, MariaDB 10.11.6, PostgreSQL 16, Redis 7.2, PHP 8.2, Node.js 20.
- By default, the Python stack based on Python 3.11 is in use (previously Python 3.6 was used).
- Included are packages with Cockpit, a web interface for system administration and configuration, servers and containers.
- The components used for virtualization and container isolation have been updated: Podman 4.8.3, Xen 4.18, KVM 8.1.3, libvirt 10, virt-manager 4.1, Open vSwitch 3.1, OVN 23.03, Docker 24.0, containerd 1.7.10, and Skopeo 1.12. Distrobox has been added, a toolkit for running distributions inside other distributions.
Source: opennet.ru
