openSUSE Leap 42.3 End of Support: Upgrade Options Available

With the release of release-notes-openSUSE on July 1st, 2019 the SUSE

sponsored maintenance of openSUSE Leap 42.3 has ended.

openSUSE Leap 42.3 is now officially discontinued and out of support by

SUSE.

The currently maintained stable release are openSUSE Leap 15.0 and 15.1, which

will be maintained until Nov 2019 / Nov 2020. See

Upgrading is easy. See the links below for instructions:

Customers using Leap 42.3 workloads can also consider migrate to SUSE

Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 if they are not able to upgrade to openSUSE

Leap 15.

openSUSE Leap 42.3 was released in July 2017, making it 24 months of

security and bugfix support.

It was the third hybrid distribution which used sources from SUSE Linux

Enterprise and from our community developers to bridge a gap between

matured packages and newer packages found in openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Some statistics on the released patches (compared to Leap 42.2),

(reminder that 42.2 had 14 months of support runtime, while leap 42.3 had 24).

Agenda: current number (42.2...