Testing of the first beta release of the openSUSE Leap 15.6 distribution has begun. The release is based on a core set of packages shared with the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 6 distribution and also includes some custom applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. A universal DVD build of 4.3 GB (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64les, 390x) is available for download. The release of openSUSE Leap 15.6 is expected on June 12, 2024. It is expected that openSUSE Leap 15.6 will be the last release in the 15.x series, and openSUSE Leap 2025 will be released on the ALP platform in 16.
Among the changes in openSUSE Leap 15.6, there is an update to the Linux kernel 6.4, glibc 2.38, systemd 254, Python 3.11, dracut 059, Mesa 23.3.4, PulseAudio 17.0, PipeWire 1.0.3, podman 4.8, Xen 4.18, KVM 8.1.3, libvirt 1.0 , virt-manager 4.1, DPDK 22.1, Open vSwitch 4, OpenSSL 3.1.4, firewalld 2.0.1, gnutls 3.8.0, openvpn 2.6, Qt 5.15.12+kde147 (Qt 6.6.1 is also available in the repository), KDE Frameworks 5.114.0, KDE Plasma 5.27.9 (the transition to the KDE 6 branch will be in the next release of openSUSE), GNOME 45.
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