After a year of development, the release of openSUSE Leap 15.4 has occurred. This version is based on a common set of binary packages with SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 4, along with some user applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. Using the same binary packages in both SUSE and openSUSE simplifies transitions between distributions, conserves resources for package building, facilitates update distribution and testing, unifies differences in spec files, and allows moving away from diagnosing different package builds when parsing error messages. A universal DVD image, sized 3.8 GB (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64les, 390x), a minimized image for network installation (173 MB), and Live images with KDE, GNOME, and Xfce (~900 MB) are available for download.
Key innovations:
- Updated desktop environments: KDE Plasma 5.24, GNOME 41, Enlightenment 0.25.3, MATE 1.26, LxQt 1.0, Sway 1.6.1, Deepin 20.3, Cinnamon 4.6.7. The version of Xfce remains unchanged (4.16).
- Added support for using a Wayland-based desktop session in environments with proprietary NVIDIA drivers.
- A multimedia server, Pipewire, has been added, which is currently only used for screen sharing in Wayland-based environments (PulseAudio continues to be used for sound).
- Updated components: PulseAudio 15, Mesa 21.2.4, Wayland 1.20, LibreOffice 7.2.5, Scribus 1.5.8, VLC 3.0.17, mpv 0.34, KDE Gear 21.12.2, GTK 4.6, Qt 6.2/5.15.2.
- Updated system components and developer packages: Linux kernel 5.14, systemd 249, LLVM 13, AppArmor 3.0.4, MariaDB 10.6, PostgreSQL 14, Apparmor 3.0, Samba 4.15, CUPS 2.2.7, OpenSSL 3.0.1, BlueZ 5.62, PHP 8.1/7.4.25, OpenJDK 17, Python 3.10/3.6.15, Perl 5.26.1, Ruby 2.5, Rust 1.59, QEMU 6.2, Xen 4.16, Podman 3.4.4, CRI-O 1.22.0, containerd 1.4.12, TensorFlow 2.6.2, DNF 4.10.0.
- Packages with Python 2 have been removed. Only the python3 package remains.
- Installation of the H.264 codec (openh264) and gstreamer plugins has been simplified for users who require them.
- A new specialized build, ‘Leap Micro 5.2’, has been released, based on developments from the MicroOS project. Leap Micro is a streamlined version of the distribution that is built on the Tumbleweed repository, utilizing an atomic installation system with automatic updates, supporting configuration through cloud-init, and comes with a read-only root partition using Btrfs with integrated support for runtime Podman/CRI-O and Docker. The main purpose of Leap Micro is to be used in decentralized environments, for creating microservices, and as a base system for virtualization platforms and container isolation.
- The primary LDAP server used is 389 Directory Server. Support server for OpenLDAP has been discontinued.
Source: opennet.ru
