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

[news 28]

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

 

--

Benjamin Brunner ,

SUSE MaintenanceSecurity

SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton,

HRB 21284

(AG Nürnberg)

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