openSUSE Leap 15.2 has reached it's end of life on January 4th, 2022.

openSUSE Leap 15.2 is end of life

Hi all,

With the release of the last update (ktorrent) on January 4th, 2022 the SUSE sponsored maintenance of openSUSE Leap 15.2 has ended.

openSUSE Leap 15.2 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE.



The currently maintained stable release is openSUSE Leap 15.3, which will be maintained until around end of 2022 (same lifetime as SLES 15 SP3 regular support). 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#sec-update-suselinux
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Offline_upgrade

openSUSE Leap 15.2 was released end of July 2nd 2020, making it 17 months of security and bugfix support.

It was the sixth 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 Leap 15.1).

Agenda: current number (15.1 number / total diff)

Total updates: 1976 (1987 / -11 )
Updates imported from SUSE Linux Enterprise: 1454 (1456 / -2)
Updates provided by community developers: 522 (531 / -9 )
Security: 778 (819 / -41)
Recommended: 1172 (1150 / +22)
Optional: 23 (17 / +6)
Feature: 3 (1 / +2)
Retracted updates: 2 (0 / +2)

Fixed CVE-entries: 2357 (2866 / -509)
Fixed Bugs (overall): 5669 (5704 / -35)

A huge thanks to our awesome packagers, community, and all involved
people, who made this possible!

Your maintenance- and security-team.