Following yesterday's release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4, today the openSUSE community released openSUSE leap 15.4, which is free and built in the same source as SLE 15 SP4. OpenSUSE leap 15.4 introduces leap micro 5.2 as the latest version of its lightweight operating system designed specifically for containers and virtualized workloads.
OpenSUSE leap 15.4 also introduces the installation of multimedia codec improved through Cisco openh264 integration, the improvement of open source graphics driver, the delivery of NVIDIA RTX 30 signed firmware package, PHP 8.1 packaging, etc.
KDE plasma 5.24, Gnome 41, illumination 0.25 and mate 1.26 are available as desktop options.
OpenSUSE leap 15.4 can be downloaded from opensuse Org Download:
For more details on openSUSE leap 15.4 changes, please visit the openSUSE wiki:
https://en.opensuse.org/Features_15.4
As for the next step of leap, today's announcement points out that "... Leap 15.5 is not expected to be a functional version, and there should be many versions of the same package as leap 15.4. The successor of leap 15 may appear soon after the release of leap 15.5".
SUSE is developing a new "adaptable Linux platform" for the next generation SUSE Linux Enterprise, and will transfer / replace Leap We still need to wait to hear more public details about the impact of openSUSE leap on progress.
