openSUSE 11.4 End of Official Support: Evergreen Maintenance Begins

With the release of ruby on Monday 5th of November the SUSE sponsored

maintenance of openSUSE 11.4 has ended.

openSUSE 11.4 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE.

openSUSE 11.4 was the first openSUSE distribution maintained using

OpenBuildService methods (known as "OBS Maintenance"), allowing full

community participation. We also migrated it from the old internal

SUSE method to the OBS method on the fly during the lifetime without any

interruption.

openSUSE 11.4 will be continued to be maintained by the Evergreen

community team. Their wikipage is on https://en.opensuse.org/Evergreen ,

please check it out for more information.

Here are some statistics:

openSUSE 11.4 was released on March 4th 2011, making it 20 months

of security and bugfix support. (2 openSUSE releases + 2 months)

Some statistics on the released patches (compared to 11.3):

Total updates: 723 (+142)

Security: 416 (+58)

Recommended: 306 (+85)

Optional: 1 (-1)

Quite some increase on updates, both security and...