openSUSE Leap's New Versioning Scheme Finally Syncs with SUSE Linux Enterprise

openSUSE Board Chairman Richard Brown informed the community about a major version number change for upcoming releases of the openSUSE Leap operating system.

As some of you might know already, openSUSE Leap 42.2 is the current stable release of the GNU/Linux distribution based on the sources of the commercial SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) operating system designed for enterprises, and the next scheduled release is openSUSE Leap 42.3, which is currently in development.

Well, according to Richard Brown, the release after openSUSE Leap 42.3 will be openSUSE Leap 15. Yes, you're reading it right, openSUSE Leap 15 will follow openSUSE Leap 42.3, which is scheduled to launch in the last week of July, 2017, based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 3 (SP3).

You're probably wondering right now why this radical change in the version number, especially that it's a lot smaller than the current one, from 42.x to 15. We don't even recall something like to have ever happened... (read more)

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