openSUSE Leap 42.2 New stable release

The openSUSE Project has announced the general availability of the openSUSE Leap 42.2 operating system.

It is essentially a Service Pack, the second major update for openSUSE Leap 42, an open-source and free distribution. openSUSE Leap 42.2 has been in development for the past six months. The update brings several new features to openSUSE, some of which users of the rolling Tumbleweed release already have.

In this release, the openSUSE Project has chosen to use the long-term support Linux 4.4 kernel, providing users with a more secure, more reliable, and more stable platform that they can easily deploy in a wide range of production environments, including but not limited to cloud infrastructures, virtual machines, and organizations.

What's new in openSUSE Leap 42.2:

Among the new packages and technologies included in openSUSE Leap 42.2, it is worth mentioning the Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) functionality, mixing Data Plane Development Kit with Open vSwitch for faster packet processing, a large number of improvements to YaST (Yet another Setup Tool), the new Prelude Security Information & Event Management (SIEM), the new Btrfs to be more helpful in Snapper, as well as NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Dual In-line Memory Module) and OmniPATH support.

More updated packages:

Also updated: GNOME 3.20 and KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS desktop environments, and LXQt 0.11.0. Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, or Enlightenment desktops are also available.
Additionally: Qt 5.6, GTK+ 3.20, Python 2.7, Ruby 2.1, Perl 5.18, GCC 6.1.1, 5.3.1, and 4.8.5, LLVM/Clang 3.8.0, CMake 3.5, OpenSSL 1.0.2h, OpenSSH 7.2p2, libvirt 2.0, and Glibc 2.22.

Applications such as QEMU 2.6.1 and VirtualBox 5.0.24 are also updated as virtualization solutions, Samba (file sharing software) 4.4.2, MySQL 5.1.35, LibreOffice 5.2, as well as KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 with the collection of add-on libraries for Qt 5.

The new release of openSUSE Leap supports LXC and Docker-based Linux containers, brings mature support for ARMv7 and AArch64 (ARM64) platforms, and supports nested virtualization via KVM.

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