openSUSE Leap: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for openSUSE Leap from SUSE

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-06

What is openSUSE Leap?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementopenSUSE Leap is a Linux operating system wit a classic stable distribution approach, one release each year and in between security and bugfixes. This makes Leap very attractive as server operating system, but as well for Desktops since it requires little maintenance effort.
 

The entire lifecycle of openSUSE Leap

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of openSUSE Leap. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
openSUSE Leap (SUSE) release, version and end-of-life information
XopenSUSE Leap (SUSE) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product openSUSE Leap (SUSE)
 

Facts and figures about openSUSE Leap

Product
openSUSE Leap
Vendor
SUSE
Latest version
16.0
Number of releases
8
Number of versions
9
Number of unstable versions
1
Number of versions affected by CVE
7
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSUSE
 
 

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