After a year of development, the openSUSE Leap 15.4 distribution was released. The release is based on the same set of binary packages with SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 4 with some user applications from the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository. Using the same binary packages in SUSE and openSUSE simplifies switching between distributions, saves resources on building packages, distribution of updates and testing, unifies differences in spec files, and allows you to move away from diagnosing different package builds when parsing error messages. Available for download is a universal 3.8 GB DVD build (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64les, 390x), a stripped-down image for installation with package downloads over the network (173 MB) and live builds with KDE, GNOME and Xfce (~900 MB).
Main innovations:
- Updated user 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 Xfce version has not changed (4.16).
- Added the ability to use a desktop session based on the Wayland protocol in environments with proprietary NVIDIA drivers.
- Added Pipewire media server, currently only used for screen sharing in Wayland-based environments (still using PulseAudio for audio).
- Updated 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 .4.10.0, DNF XNUMX.
- Removed Python 2 packages. Only python3 package remains.
- Simplified installation of the H.264 (openh264) codec and gstreamer plugins, if the user needs them.
- A new specialized assembly "Leap Micro 5.2" is presented, based on the developments of the MicroOS project. Leap Micro is a stripped-down distribution based on the Tumbleweed repository, using an atomic installation and automatic updates system, supporting configuration via cloud-init, comes with a read-only root partition with Btrfs, and integrated Podman/CRI-O runtime support and Docker. The main purpose of Leap Micro is to be used in decentralized environments, to create microservices and as a base system for virtualization platforms and container isolation.
- The 389 Directory Server is used as the main LDAP server. Support for the OpenLDAP server has been discontinued.
Source: opennet.ru