openSUSE Leap 42.2 to be released in one year from today

Nov 13, 2015 03:00 GMT  ·  By

Marcus Meissner of openSUSE informs users that the openSUSE 13.1 GNU/Linux operating system will reach the end of its life in approximately two months from the moment of writing this article, on January 5, 2016.

Announced two years ago, on November 19, 2013, the OpenSuSE 13.1 operating system introduced a great number of new features, including the GNOME 3.10 and KDE Software Compilation 4.10 desktop environments, LibreOffice 4.1 and Calligra 2.7.4 office suites, Mozilla Firefox 24 and Chromium 31 web browsers, YaST 3.0, and Zypper 1.9.

In the initial announcement, the openSUSE Project noted the fact that they extended the maintenance life cycle for openSUSE 13.1 to three years, but today they're revealing the end of life will take place on January 5, 2016, which is ten months earlier than expected.

In other words, starting January 5, the openSUSE 13.1 operating system will no longer receive software updates and security patches. However, the Evergreen community team is already thinking about picking up the maintenance, which means that the OS might receive updates for a longer period.

"With the release of openSUSE Leap 42.1 last week the SUSE contributed support for openSUSE 13.1 is coming to an end in 2 months, around January 5th 2016," announces Marcus Meissner on behalf of the openSUSE Maintenance team. "For openSUSE Leap we are still planning the lifetimes currently, but it will be at least 2 years (2 yearly releases + 2 months), or potentially longer."

On the other hand, the openSUSE Project says that they will support the openSUSE 13.2 release with software updates and security patches for two more months after the debut of the upcoming openSUSE Leap 42.2 operating system, due for release in about one year from today.