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 2. New technologies such as NVDIMM, OmniPATH, Data Plane
Development Kit with openVSwitch are back ported for the release. XEN no
longer requires it’s own kernel and is supported by the default kernel.
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 starting from 42.1.
Server Ready
openSUSE
Leap 42.2 is the first Leap release to offer a Server profile as clear
option during the installation. With no graphical environment, a Server
install of Leap stands ready to do whatever you need from it. Something
as simple as running a Web or Mail platform is easier than ever, as are
complex projects using virtualization or container technologies.
It’s
also good to remember that Leap and all other openSUSE and SLE
distributions have support for a full-featured textmode installer,
giving all the same functionality as the graphical installer without the
need for X. Our installer is also fully capable of doing installations
remotely using VNC or SSH, letting you set up your openSUSE Leap server
without needing to be anywhere near it at all.
The 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 will bring Leap 42.2 users
excellent KDE reliability and stability.
The Kernel
The
4.4 LTS Linux Kernel for openSUSE Leap 42.2 improves file system
performance and features, including 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.
For Developers
- Containers
openSUSE Leap 42.2 is ships with
Docker 1.12 which builds upon Dockers recent adoption of runC and
containerd to bring the latest orchestration features, such as Docker
Swarm. - IDEs and tooling
Leap 42.2 carries a mature, LTS
version of the Qt 5 GUI toolkit (5.6). With more than 800 improvements
from the previous version in Leap 42.1, Qt 5.6 also brings some
non-critical security fixes in the Qt framework and in third-party
libraries.
gtk 3.20, shared with SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2,
provides a solid & stable toolkit for building gtk based
applications. GNOME Builder is offered as a powerful general purpose IDE
for not only gtk applications based on C, C++ and Vala, but many other
languages in addition.
For all your compiling needs Leap 42.2
contains gcc 4.8.5, 5.3.1 and 6.1.1. llvm-clang is also available at
version 3.8.0. Leap also includes CMake 3.5 providing 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
Programming languages
found in openSUSE Leap 42.2 include Python 2.7, Ruby 2.1 and Perl 5.18.
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 connects them to any callback
function, whether static or virtual.
For Sysadmins
- 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 and gnome-boxes, so you’ll be able deploy solutions
quickly and easily. openSUSE Leap 42.2 has Xen and KVM. It also supports
Linux containers in the form of both Docker and LXC. - 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 is a new module to
manage openSUSE’s alternatives system developed during Google Summer of
Code 2016. 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, including installer memory usage being
significantly reduced. The selection and configuration of keyboard
layouts and console fonts has also 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 has improved support for 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.
It
is also worth remembering that openSUSE Leap uses Delta RPMs for all
maintenance updates, ensuring that the long term bandwidth requirements
for maintaining your Leap system are as small as possible.
For Users
- KDE
openSUSE Leap 42.2 is the first to offer
KDE’s Long Term Support edition of its flagship desktop software,
Plasma. Feature rich with excellent performance, Plasma 5.8 LTS is the
default desktop environment in openSUSE. Previous KDE users who moved
away should reassess this release, with Plasma 5.8 bringing significant
improvements in stability as well as new features. Plasma 5.8 improves
multiple monitor support out-of-the-box in openSUSE Leap 42.2.
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
The stability of GNOME 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 28,000 changes were made
for GNOME 3.20 by approximately 870 contributors. Check out 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. - Internationalization
This openSUSE release is
the first to use Weblate to coordinate the translation of openSUSE into
more than 50 languages. openSUSE’s Weblate interface enables everyone
(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.
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