After almost a year of development, the openSUSE Leap 15.3 distribution was released. The release is based on a core set of SUSE Linux Enterprise distribution packages with some custom applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. A universal DVD build of 4.4 GB (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64les, 390x), a stripped-down image for installation with downloading packages over the network (146 MB) and Live builds with KDE, GNOME and Xfce are available for download.
A key feature of openSUSE Leap 15.3 is the use of a single set of binary packages with SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 3, instead of the reassembly of SUSE Linux Enterprise src packages practiced during the preparation of previous releases. It is expected that the use of the same binary packages in SUSE and openSUSE will simplify migration from one distribution to another, save resources on building packages, distributing updates and testing, unify differences in spec files and allow you to move away from diagnosing different package builds when parsing messages about errors.
Other innovations:
- Individual components of the distribution have been updated. As in the previous release, the basic Linux kernel, prepared on the basis of version 5.3.18, continues to be supplied. The systemd system manager has been updated to version 246 (previously released 234), and the DNF package manager to version 4.7.0 (was 4.2.19).
- Updated user environments Xfce 4.16, LXQt 0.16 and Cinnamon 4.6. As in the previous release, KDE Plasma 5.18, GNOME 3.34, Sway 1.4, MATE 1.24, Wayland 1.18 and X.org Server 1.20.3 continue to be shipped. Mesa package has been updated from release 19.3 to 20.2.4 with support for OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.2. New releases of LibreOffice 7.1.1, Blender 2.92, VLC 3.0.11.1, mpv 0.32, Firefox 78.7.1 and Chromium 89 have been proposed. Packages with KDE 4 and Qt 4 have been removed from the repositories.
- New packages provided for machine learning researchers: TensorFlow Lite 2020.08.23, PyTorch 1.4.0, ONNX 1.6.0, Grafana 7.3.1.
- Toolkits for isolated containers have been updated: Podman 2.1.1-4.28.1, CRI-O 1.17.3, containerd 1.3.9-5.29.3, kubeadm 1.18.4.
- For developers, Go 1.15, Perl 5.26.1, PHP 7.4.6, Python 3.6.12, Ruby 2.5, Rust 1.43.1 are offered.
- Due to licensing issues, the Berkeley DB library has been removed from the apr-util, cyrus-sasl, iproute2, perl, php7, postfix and rpm packages. The Berkeley DB 6 branch has been migrated to AGPLv3, which also applies to applications that use BerkeleyDB in library form. For example, RPM comes under GPLv2, but AGPL is not compatible with GPLv2.
- Added support for IBM Z and LinuxONE (s390x) systems.
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