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Development start of Leap 16.0

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2024,

updated Oct 08, 2024

Quoting: Development start of Leap 16.0 - openSUSE News —

I’d like to announce the start of development and the public availability of what we currently refer to as Leap 16.0 pre-Alpha. Since this is a pre-Alpha version, significant changes may occur, and the final product may look very different in the Alpha, Beta, Release Candidate, or General Availability stages. The installer will currently offer you Base, GNOME, and KDE.

Users can get our new Agama install images from get.opensuse.org/leap/16.0. The installer will currently offer you Base, GNOME, and KDE installation.

Leap 16.0 is a traditional distribution and a successor to Leap 15.6 with expected General Availability arriving in the Fall of 2025.

We intend to provide users with sufficient overlap so that 15.6 users can have a smooth migration, just like they’re used to from previous releases.

Further details are available on our roadmap. The roadmap is subject to change since we have to respond to any SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 schedule changes.

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Linuxiac:

openSUSE Leap 16 Development Starts, It's All You Love

I usually avoid writing reviews for alpha releases because the final product often changes a lot. However, there are exceptions when something important is involved.

For instance, I covered the Alpha 1 and Alpha 2 releases of the new COSMIC desktop environment. In that same category of significant news, today’s announcement of the first pre-alpha release of openSUSE Leap 16 stands out, with the final release scheduled in late October 2025.

Why is this edition so important? Over the past year, openSUSE has undergone so many changes—new variants, new abbreviations, logo redesigns, and even name tweaks—that even the most loyal fans have trouble keeping up. But many just want two things: the rock-solid Leap or the cutting-edge Tumbleweed.