OpenSUSE 11.3 Support End Announcement With Security Stats

Hi,

(also announced by Benjamin on opensuse-announce)

With the release of release-notes-openSUSE on Friday 20th of January

SUSE has released the last update for openSUSE 11.3.

openSUSE 11.3 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE.

Here are some security statistics:

openSUSE 11.3 was released on July 15th 2010, making it 18 months

of security and bugfix support.

Some statistics on the released patches (compared to 11.2):

Total updates: 581 (+92)

Security: 358 (+41)

Recommended: 221 (+49)

Optional: 2 (+2)

CVE Entries: 1212 (+78)

Top issues (compared to 11.2 for issues down to 5)

14 seamonkey (+3)

12 MozillaFirefox (-6)

12 flash-player (+2)

11 MozillaThunderbird (+3)

10 opera (-3)

9 kernel (+4)

7 mozilla-xulrunner191 (+1)

7 libopenssl-devel (+2)

7 java-1_6_0-openjdk (+2)

6 krb5 (-3)

6 bind (+3)

6 acroread (-2)

5 wireshark (+1)

5 tomcat6 (0)

5 exim (+2)

5 dhcp (+4)

5 clamav (0)

5 apache2-mod_php5 (0)

And top issues sorted by CVE (Common Vulnerability Enumeration) count down to 5)...