Release announcement 42.2

Μια επαγγελματική διανομή

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Τα μέλη του openSUSE Project με χαρά σας ανακοινώνουν την επόμενη έλασσον έκδοση του, την openSUSE Leap 42.2! Η έκδοση Leap is made to give stability-minded users and conservative technology adopters peace of mind. openSUSE Leap 42.2 is powered by the Linux 4.4 Long-Term-Support (LTS) kernel and is a secure, stable and reliable server operating system for deploying IT services in physical, virtual or cloud environments.

A selective process of including well-established packages gives openSUSE Leap 42.2 new meaning to the term Linux Optimization; openSUSE Leap is simply the safe choice that offers Linux professionals a user-friendly desktop, and feature-rich server environment.

Continuing the tradition of using source code from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), openSUSE Leap 42.2 provides a level of stability unmatched by other Linux distributions. With community-built packages on top of Leap's enterprise reliability, openSUSE Leap users benefit both from community and enterprise maintenance efforts.

Contributions to openSUSE Leap from SUSE include several new features like Network Functions Virtualization capabilities that combines Open vSwitch with the Data Plane Development Kit to process packets faster. YaST also has a significant amount of improvements and new features.

Community contributions were equally enormous as more than 1,413 new packages made it into this newest Leap version. There are 1,313 more packages in 42.2 than were in 42.1.

One of those community packages includes GNU Health Version 3.0.4. This Free Health and Hospital Information System is used by hospitals, governments and institutions under a free license. GNU Health allows management and analysis of a huge amount of data and aspects.

Another new package found in Leap 42.2 is Prelude Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) system, which collects, normalizes, sorts, aggregates, correlates and reports all security-related events (IDMEF).

A large community effort from openSUSE and KDE has brought a Long-Term Support version for Plasma 5.8, which improves multiple monitor support out-of-the-box.

Leap provides an ideal dev-to-production model with SLE for developers and system administrators who want to align their development and production environments. openSUSE Leap is highly stable and is a safe choice for sysadmins, developers and desktop users.

The newest Leap version improves user capabilities with snapper snapshots that are based on the btrfs filesystem. A new btrfs concept for quota make snapper much less disk-hungry and can be manually setup. Snapper is apoka yoke and can give system administrators confident about updating new packages and rolling back the system if a human error occurs.

Leap also offers users, developers and system administrators an easy path to move to other server operating systems like openSUSE's faster, more updated distribution Tumbleweed, which is rolling release that provides the newest upstream packages and software versions, or to an enterprise-level support system with SLE.

See for yourself why openSUSE Leap is an acclaimed community-enterprise distribution.

openSUSE Leap 42.2 is...

More Enterprise

That’s right. After basing openSUSE Leap 42.1 on SLE (SUSE Linux Enterprise), Leap 42.2 gets even more source code from the release of SLE 12 Service Pack (SP) 2. New technologies such as NVDIMM, OmniPATH, Data Plane Development Kit with openVSwitch and XEN are back ported for the release. Along with the shared SLE codebase, openSUSE Leap 42.2 gets packages, maintenance and bug fixes from the openSUSE community and SUSE engineers. The 42 series of Leap achieves at a minimum 36 months of maintenance and security updates if a user started with 42.1.

Return of the Konqi

Konqi has returned and is in full force. Plasma 5.8 brings a whole new component to openSUSE Leap. As the first Long Term Supported release for Plasma, Plasma 5.8 complements stability-minded Leap users. In unison with Qt 5.6 and Frameworks 5.26, Plasma 5.8 is expected to bring Leap 42.2 users excellent KDE reliability and stability.

The Kernel

The 4.4 LTS Linux Kernel for openSUSE Leap 42.2 improves the file systems and provides a new balance filter for Btrfs. The default kernel now has paravirtualization enabled. The kernel version also improves cryptography and security support for Trusted Platform Module 2.0 chips as well as adds support for nested Virtualization through KVM. Networking is dramatically improved for IP virtual Server and IPv6 and of course there is more updates and changes for the multiple architectures.

Λήψη της έκδοσης Leap!

Οι λήψεις της έκδοσης openSUSE Leap 42.2 βρίσκονται στην σελίδα software.opensuse.org. Σας συνιστούμε να ενημερωθείτε από τις Σημειώσεις της Έκδοσης πριν την αναβάθμιση ή της εγκατάσταση.

Οι χρήστες που χρησιμοποιούν την [Leap 42.1] μπορούν να αναβαθμίσουν στην openSUSE Leap 42.2 μέσω των οδηγιών αυτού του συνδέσμου.

Δείτε και τις εκδόσεις για συσκευές ARM στο ARM wiki. Υπάρχουν σταθερές εκδόσεις της Leap για αρχιτεκτονικές ARMv7 και ARMv8 (AArch64) οι οποίες θα λαμβάνουν πλήρη συντήρηση μαζί με την. Οι εκδόσεις για ARMv6 είναι πειραματικές και δεν προσφέρουν καμία εγγύηση λειτουργίας.

Ευχαριστίες!

Η έκδοση openSUSE Leap 42.2 αντιπροσωπεύει την κοινή προσπάθεια χιλιάδων προγραμματιστών που συμμετέχουν στις διανομές μας και στα έργα που τις συνοδεύουν. Οι συμμετέχοντες, εντός και εκτός του openSUSE Project, πρέπει να είναι υπερήφανοι γι'αυτή την έκδοση, και τους αξίζει ένα μεγάλο "ευχαριστώ" για όλη την σκληρή δουλειά και την φροντίδα για να έχουμε αυτό το αποτέλεσμα. Πιστεύουμε ότι η έκδοση Leap είναι η κατάλληλη διανομή για προγραμματιστές, διαχειριστές συστημάτων και χρήστες. Ελπίζουμε να διασκεδάσετε με την χρήση της και θα θέλαμε να συνεργαστούμε πάλι όλοι μαζί για την επόμενη έκδοση ή για την Tumbleweed.

The Details

For Developers

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  Qt Design with Qt5

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  GNOME Builder

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  Anjuta 3.20

IDEs and tooling

Leap carries a mature version of the Qt 5 GUI toolkit (5.6). With more than 800 improvements from the previous version, which could be found in openSUSE Leap 42.1, Qt 5.6 is an LTS and brings some non-critical security fixes in the Qt framework and in 3rd party libraries. CMake 3.5 provides a powerful, cross-platform build environment for open-source project developers. The OpenSSL toolkit found in Leap 42.2 is 1.0.2h, which modifies behavior of ALPN and prevents ASN.1 BIO from excessive memory allocation. OpenSSH is version 7.2p2 in this latest stable release and sanitizes X11 authentication credentials.

Languages and Libraries

This openSUSE release is the first to use the Weblate to perform and coordinate the translation of the software. The openSUSE’s Weblate instance offers more than 50 languages and enables everybody (from dedicated translators to casual contributors) to take part in the process and makes it possible to coordinate the translations of openSUSE with the ones for SUSE Enterprise Linux, boosting collaboration between community and enterprise. Programing languages fount in openSUSE Leap 42.2 include, Python 2.7.12 and Ruby 2.1. Perl remains the same as it did in openSUSE Leap 42.1 but with some patches. This Leap release provides new major version libraries for libvirt (2.0) and libzypp (16.2). Leap also has the well established glibc 2.22 and libsigc++ 2.8, which defines signals and to connect those signals to any callback function whether static or virtual.

For Sysadmins

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  Installation overview

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  YaST

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  Control Center 42.2

Virtualization

openSUSE Leap 42.2 is full of virtualization solutions. QEMU 2.6.1 and VirtualBox 5.0.24 make openSUSE Leap 42.2 a perfect base system to distribute applications. Set up is easy with YaST, so you'll be able deploy solutions quickly and easily. openSUSE Leap 42.2 has Xen and KVM. It also supports Linux containers.

YaST Goodness

YaST Sprints leading up to the release of openSUSE Leap 42.2 have brought tons of goodness and are making YaST more intuitive than ever. The YaST community revamped the user interface to improve usability and continues adding new tools and modules that have been in Tumbleweed for some time and are now been added to the Leap family. yast2-alternatives, a module to manage the openSUSE's alternatives system was developed during Google Summer. Another module, yast2-vpn, is a module for configuring VPN gateway and clients. yast2-auth-client is another module to configure centralized system authentication and it has been almost completely rewritten. New features to YaST have improved Bootloader management, which offers support for Trusted Boot and has a revamped configuration of password protection. yast2-firewall now includes full support for Firewalld, in addition to the already existing SuSEFirewall2. When something goes wrong during installation, the system now offers the possibility of starting a debugger; users with Ruby knowledge can use it to check what went wrong or even to work around the problem. There have also been several enhancements like that installer memory being significantly reduced and selection and configuration of keyboard layouts and console fonts have been adapted for better compatibility with systemd. There are several other YaST improvements that can be found on the features page.

Managing Systems

openSUSE Leap has Samba 4.4.2, which fixes a regression that prevents things like 'net ads join' from working against a Windows 2003 domain. Systemd 228 creates a plain directory instead of a subvolume (even on a btrfs file system) if the root directory is a plain directory, and not a subvolume, which should simplify things with certain chroot() environments which are not aware of the concept of btrfs subvolumes. AppStream version in Leap enhances the interaction of software repositories. MariaDB remains the same version as it was in the previous release and MySQL's small upgrade to version 5.1.35 resolves a number of issues including a failover being triggered inadvertently and a failover process that kept trying to connect to an unavailable server.

Για τους χρήστες

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  GIMP in Plasma 5.8

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  LibreOffice 5 in GNOME 3.20

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  VLC in GNOME 3.20

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  HexChat in Xfce

KDE

openSUSE Leap 42.2 is the first to offer KDE's Long Term Support edition of its flagship desktop software, Plasma. Plasma 5.8 LTS is the default desktop environment. Previous KDE users who moved away, should re-assess this release, which has several open-source users excited about the stability potential and rebirth of the KDE. Plasma 5.8 improves multiple monitor support out-of-the-box in openSUSE Leap 42.2. Plasma is feature rich with excellent performance. Jump List Actions are new in KRunner and it doesn't only open applications, but can be used to start certain actions directly when the application starts. Drag and drop support was added to bring search result to any application. System administrators will enjoy the Kiosk support from an improved Plasma in Leap 42.2. Android phone users can get phone integration with KDE Connect from the Google Play store; all they need to do is enable the KDE Connect service in the SUSE firewall module in YaST. Using KDE Connect, users can get text messages on their desktop or easily transfer files to their phone.

GNOME

Πάνω από 6 μήνες από την τελευταία έκδοση του GNOME 3.20, η έκδοση αυτή εισάγεται στην openSUSE Leap 42.2. The stability of 3.20 offers conservative upgrade users new privacy controls to improve per-application location access, quick access to media controls directly from the shell, and keyboard shortcuts and gestures can be easily learned with new shortcut overlay windows. Many GNOME applications have shortcut windows for 3.20, including Files, Videos, Photos, gedit, Builder, Maps and more. In each application, the shortcut window can be opened from the application menu, or by using the Ctrl+? or Ctrl+F1 shortcut. GNOME can now access Google Drive directly from the Files application in openSUSE Leap 42.2. More than 28,933 changes were made for the release GNOME 3.20 by approximately 870 contributors. Checkout the release notes for GNOME 3.20.

Other desktop environments

openSUSE Leap 42.2 offers users the option to choose their desktop; try MATE, Xfce, Enlightenment or Cinnamon. LXQt 0.11.0, which has an improved user experience thanks to several bug fixes, ships in openSUSE Leap 42.2, but is not available in the installer. LXQt 0.11.0 introduces pavucontrol-Qt, the Qt port of PulseAudio’s mixer pavucontrol the UI of which is based upon GTK.

Περί του openSUSE Project

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