openSUSE 11.2 End Of Support - Evergreen Project Management Continues

With the release of a kdelibs4 security fix on Thursday 12th of May

SUSE has released the last update for openSUSE 11.2.

openSUSE 11.2 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE.

However the openSUSE Evergreen community effort is going to continue

the openSUSE 11.2 maintenance similar to 11.1.

The overview page of this project, how to activate and use it, and other

details, is on:

The Evergreen project is lead by openSUSE community member Wolfgang

Rosenauer.

Here are some security statistics:

openSUSE 11.2 was released on November 12th 2009, making it 18 months

of security and bugfix support.

Some statistics on the released patches (compared to 11.1, which had 7

months more):

(As comparison would otherwise be difficult due to the different lifetimes,

I did adjust the 11.1 numbers by *18/25)

Total updates: 489 (-19)

Security: 317 (-19)

Recommended: 172 (+ 3)

Optional: 0 (- 3)

CVE Entries: 1134 (+288) (-35 unadjusted)

There is a 3% decrease in the number of security updates...