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            header1="Lifecycle guide for openSUSE Leap from SUSE"
            header2="All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance" 
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        <item type="paragraph">📅 Last update on 2025-08-08</item>
       
        
        <item type="header2" class="article-title">What is openSUSE Leap?</item>
        <item type="paragraph" imgLink="content-end-of-life-product-release-version-database.xml" alt="Automate product release and end-of-life management" img="../img/product-release-version-end-of-life/suse-opensuse-leap.svg"><![CDATA[openSUSE 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. ]]></item>

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        <item type="header2" class="article-title">The entire lifecycle of openSUSE Leap</item>

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            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.
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        <item type="paragraph">Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product openSUSE Leap (SUSE)</item>
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