The second release candidate of openSUSE 13.1 is now available

Below is a limited list of changes (omitting most bug fixes):

systemd was updated to version 208
Shim should now work which means the secure boot is possible
Plasma-nm no longer replaces the knetworkmanager
Calibre is now fully operational
kernel was updated with more fixes and one speedy improvement everyone could read about on phoronix (the radeon/nouveau timer improvements)
In the area of virtualization the xen and libvirt packages were updated
A lot of migration issues were fixed so zypper dup from older release will go smoother
Apper should no longer choke on multiple license agreements
YaST parts were updated fixing bunch of installer bugs
XFCE can now properly suspend
e17 artwork was openSUSEfied (yay!)
Akonadi should better handle PostgreSQL as backend
Our vlc version was updated to 2.1 which is the latest and coolest provided
Translations updates

And again, this is a partial list: there are bugfixes for many issues reported by testers included.

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