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Agama 19 released

[Posted March 20, 2026 by jzb]

Version 19 of the Agama installer for openSUSE and SUSE has been released. This release includes major changes in Agama's architectural design, organization of the web interface, and more.

We always wanted Agama to follow the schema [...] in which the core of the installer could be controlled through a consistent and simple programming interface (an API, in developers jargon). In that schema, the web-based user interface, the command-line tools and the unattended installation are built on top of that generic API.

But previous versions of Agama were full of quirks that didn't allow us to define an API that would match our quality standards as a solid foundation to build a simple but comprehensive installer. Agama 19 represents a quite significant architectural overhaul, needed to leave all those quirks behind and to define mechanisms that can be the cornerstone for any future development.

LWN last looked at Agama in September 2025.


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Leap 16, XFCE and Wayland

Posted Mar 22, 2026 9:29 UTC (Sun) by thoeme (subscriber, #2871) [Link]

Still dreading the update from Leap 15.6 on my older X11/XFCE powered labtops: With the drop of X11, and XFCE on Wayland "not quite there", my first installation went OK so far but showed some (to me) serious problems with XFCE (xfce4-panel not working). Also I miss YaST ... :-(

Plans to support fstab options?

Posted Mar 23, 2026 14:27 UTC (Mon) by regularhunter (subscriber, #168788) [Link] (1 responses)

I appreciate the work that has gone into the Agama installer. For me personally, Agama cannot replace the existing Tumbleweed installer until it can also support fstab options (e.g. noatime, compress) during installation. Btrfs support for openSUSE and SUSE is best in class, so Agama should support fstab options like 'compress' to enable such Btrfs features during installation. Btrfs compression can be enabled after installation, but only files created or modified after compression is enabled are compressed.

Perhaps I have missed it, but is there any stated intent to add fstab option support to Agama?

Plans to support fstab options?

Posted Mar 24, 2026 15:02 UTC (Tue) by regularhunter (subscriber, #168788) [Link]

I found a relevant github issue for anyone interested: https://github.com/agama-project/agama/issues/2847


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