Lifecycle guide for openSUSE Tumbleweed from SUSE

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

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-07

What is openSUSE Tumbleweed?

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openSUSE Tumbleweed is a Linux operating system and is the flagship of the openSUSE Project. Instead of classical version numbers and periodic updates, a rolling release system is used: Updates happen continuously; previous states of the operating system are saved as "snapshots". Tumbleweed is preferred by openSUSE users as a desktop system

The entire lifecycle of openSUSE Tumbleweed

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of openSUSE Tumbleweed. 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 Tumbleweed (SUSE) release, version and end-of-life information

Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product openSUSE Tumbleweed (SUSE)

What is the openSUSE Tumbleweed release strategy?

The openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution is the rolling release version of openSUSE containing the newest stable applications including such things as an updated Linux kernel, SAMBA, git, desktops, and office applications.