openSUSE Leap's backward version jump
openSUSE Leap's backward version jump
[Distributions] Posted Apr 24, 2017 15:03 UTC (Mon) by corbet
The openSUSE project has announced that the release following openSUSE Leap
42 will be called openSUSE Leap 15. "SUSE have decided that their next version of SLE will be 15, not 13.
Upon learning of SUSE's plans the Board and Leap release team have
been considering our options.
This included ignoring the changes to SLE and releasing Leap 43 as
planned, at the cost of the link between SLE versions and Leap
versions.
45 was also considered, as were some frankly hilarious ideas that made
me worry about my own sanity and that of my fellow contributors.
After considering the pros and cons of all the options however, the
decision has been that Leap 15 will be our next version.
"