Re: [security-announce] openSUSE Leap 42.1 has reached end of SUSE support

Mathias Homann <[email protected]> Wed, 17 May 2017 15:18:15 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.opensuse.project,gmane.linux.suse.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
...have we at any time in the past ever had a situation where there was
only ONE version of openSUSE officially supported?

I mean, Leap 42.3 is not out yet...


Am 17.05.2017 um 15:07 schrieb Benjamin Brunner:
> Hi all,
>
> With the release of release-notes-openSUSE on May 17th, 2017 the SUSE
> sponsored maintenance of openSUSE Leap 42.1 has ended.
>
> openSUSE Leap 42.1 is now officially discontinued and out of support by
> SUSE.
>
> The currently maintained stable release is openSUSE Leap 42.2, which
> will be maintained until the Q2/2018. See https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime
>
> Upgrading is easy. See the links below for instructions:
>
> https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup/html/book.opensuse.startup/cha.update.osuse.html
> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade
> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Offline_upgrade
>
>
> openSUSE Leap 42.1 was released on November 4th 2015, making it ca. 18
> months of security and bugfix support.
>
> It was the first hybrid distribution which used sources from SUSE Linux
> Enterprise and from our community developers to bridge a gap between
> matured packages and newer packages found in openSUSE Tumbleweed.
>
> Some statistics on the released patches (compared to 13.2):
>
> Total updates: 1442 (+98)
> Updates imported from SUSE Linux Enterprise: 507
> Updates provided by community developers: 935
> Security: 598 (-109)
> Recommended: 807 (+182)
> Optional: 36 (+24)
> Feature: 1 (1)
>
> Fixed CVE-entries: 2434 (-217)
> Fixed Bugs (overall): 3735 (-170)
>
> A huge thanks to our awesome packagers, community, and all involved
> people, who made the next great release possible!
>
> Your maintenance- and security-team
>

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