Many thanks to all who made 15.5 happen!
Thank you
Lubos Kocman
openSUSE Leap Release Manager
On Wed, 2023-06-07 at 14:08 +0200, ddemaio openSUSE wrote:
> Dear openSUSE community,
>
> On behalf of the release engineering team, we are are thrilled to
> share
> news of the release of openSUSE Leap 15.5. This release represents
> the
> culmination of many hours of hard work and collaboration from our
> dedicated community members like you. We extend our heartfelt
> gratitude
> and hope you enjoy this release.
>
> Please note that we do plan to have a Leap 15.6. You can find that
> news,
> which was published yesterday, at
> https://news.opensuse.org/2023/06/06/leap-15.6-annoucement/
>
> You can celebrate this release with others throughout the day by
> joining
> the openSUSE Bar at https://meet.opensuse.org/bar.
>
> The following release announcement of Leap 15.5 can be found on
> news.opensuse.org
>
>
> NUREMBERG, Germany – The release of openSUSE's latest 15-series
> version
> marks years of maintenance and security that began more than five
> years
> ago..
>
> The maturity of Leap 15.5 comes into play as new technological
> changes
> of the last five years have been introduced, such as container
> technologies, immutable systems, virtualization, embedded
> development,
> and other high-tech advances.
>
> Entrepreneurs, hobbyists, professionals and developers use Leap as a
> go-to Linux distribution as seen by the increase in usage from each
> minor release. Traversing from legacy software to more modern systems
> is
> imminent.
>
> Leap 15.5, which is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 5,
> will receive maintenance and security updates until the end of 2024.
> This will provide users with plenty of time to transition to the
> release's successor; a successor has yet to be confirmed. Users
> interested in commercial support can use a new tool to transition to
> commercial support. Leap can be downloaded at get.opensuse.org.
>
> This release brings newer packages like Mesa and others, but Leap
> 15.5
> is a non-feature release. Some of these newer packages to highlight
> include KDE Plasma 5.27, which is a Plasma Long Term Support version
> until the next one rolls out in 2024. Konqi lovers will enjoy a new
> welcome wizard, dynamic customization of desktop workspaces and more
> functionality with KRunner that includes a full desktop search, unit
> and
> currency exchange rate conversions, dictionary definitions,
> calculator
> features, and it shows graphical representations of mathematical
> functions. The Color Picker had a few improvements and added the
> possibility of displaying another preview color circle. KDE Gear
> 22.12.3
> will be a new package in the release and complement the use of Plasma
> 5.27. The update fixes bugs with the Desktop Environment applications
> and highlights the enhancement of compression/decompression utility
> ark,
> improvements to text editor Kate and fixes some crashing of the video
> editor Kdenlive. Qt 5.15 LTS is available with the KDE Qt 5 patch
> collection.
>
> Text editor Vim will upgrade to a new major version. Vim 9 has a new
> script language that drastically improves performance. Increases in
> execution speed of 10 to 100 times is expected for the text editor.
> Users are recommended to read the project's Vim 9.0 release
> information
> to know how the upgrade affects legacy scripts, backwards
> compatibility
> and other new features added in the release.
>
> For professionals configuring networking of Linux containers, the
> netavark 1.5.0 package is in the release. Users who have already
> transitioned to Flatpaks will have an updated 1.14.4 version that
> addresses a Common Vulnerability and Exposure with CVE-2023-28101.
> The
> newer version fixes the hiding of permissions for an attacker
> publishing
> a Flatpak app with malicious intent to elevate permissions.
>
> Leap 15.5 is set to have the OpenH264 repository enabled by default
> for
> all new installations thanks to contributions from Open Source at
> Cisco.
>
> Leap 15.5 comes with Linux Kernel 5.14.21 that including backports
> for
> this SUSE specific LTS kernel. Leap 15.5 shares the kernel with SLE
> 15
> SP5 that receives the same fixes and backports along, which includes
> a
> few thousand other shared packages. The device firmware updater
> package
> fwupd will change to version 1.8.6. The newer version fixes compiling
> errors when building for s390x and ppc64le
>
> Good news for Python developers. Leap 15.5 users will have a fully
> usable Python 3.11 stack in parallel to the system Python (python36).
> This provides a more modern release for users and developers.
> Packagers
> are advised to switch to Python 3.11.
>
> Other packages users may notice a change to are updates of Ugrep
> 3.11.0
> and NetworkManager 1.38.6. Both webkit2gtk3 and webkit2gtk4 will
> update
> to version 2.38.5. Mozilla's internet browser Firefox will get a new
> Extended Support Release version - 102.9.0. Mozilla's email client
> Thunderbird gains various visual and user experience improvements
> with
> version 102.8.0.
> End of Life
>
> openSUSE Leap 15.4 will have its End of Life (EOL) six months from
> today's release. Users should update to openSUSE Leap 15.5 within six
> months of today to continue to receive security and maintenance
> updates.
> Important for users upgrading from previous versions
>
> A new 4096-bit RSA signing key was introduced as part of openSUSE
> Leap
> 15.5 as well as 15.4 via a maintenance update. Leap 15.4 users are
> expected to update their system prior to upgrade of 15.5. For more
> information, visit
> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade#0._New_4096_bit_RSA_signing_key
> Download Leap 15.5
>
> To download the ISO image, visit https://get.opensuse.org/leap/
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