Do I need to upgrade to Leap 15.1?

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Hello everyone!

I had this doubt after reading this article:

https://news.opensuse.org/2020/12/14/opensuse-leap-offers-predictability/

“Minor releases like openSUSE Leap 15.2 sometimes get compared to a major release. The minor releases are essentially updates that people can choose rather than have forced updates.”

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Sorry, but I do not understand.

In the prefix of the thread title you say you are running LEAP 15.2.
Now you ask if you need to upgrade to 15.1. That would not be an upgrade, but a downgrade.

So please confirm what you are using:

cat /etc/os-release

or reformulate your question.

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I was actually using Leap 15.2 …
Only in an update, I got no keyboard … So I opened a bug report, and this has been fixed. Shortly afterwards, in another update, I ran out of wifi … Then I had to switch to Fedora, as it is impractical to use cable on that machine. I will have to wait for that to be fixed, to return to openSUSE.

You can kindly correct it, I feared it but I couldn’t.

The question is:

  • If I had installed Leap 15, on my machine, would I need to upgrade to 15.1?

The article I quoted left me confused.

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I still do not understand from what you want to upgrade. When I read what you say, you seem not to have any openSUSE at all at the moment. And when you have nothing, you can not upgrade.

In any case:

  • There was openSUSE 15.0 which is out of support since 2019-12-03. Thus when you have that, you better upgrade to a supported version.
  • There is still openSUSE 15.1 which will be supported until 2021-01-31. Thus if you have it, you better upgrade to 15.2 asap.
  • There is 15.2 which presumably will be supported until 2021-12-31. This is the best one to have when you want a supported (getting security updates) version.
  • There will be 15.3, which is now in alpha testing. Best only use it when you want to attribute to the testing.
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When an update in Leap breaks something you can easily revert to the previous version of the offending package and lock that to avoid updates until the problem has been fixed.
Unfortunately if a problem cuts your network connection you may have to download the previous version on another machine and then install the package manually from a pendrive or the like.
Please ask here if you don’t know how to do downgrading and locking.

Simply put, the “confusing” article states that with Leap you get about 6 months to decide whether to upgrade or not to a “minor” release. For instance, I’m still using 15.1 on hardware that still has minor problems with 15.2 but I will be “forced” to upgrade in a few weeks as @hcvv pointed out.

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Leap 15.1: https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/legacy

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Sorry for my bad English …
Thanks for responding, I believe that if I read in the documentation, I will be able to downgrade.
The problem is that I’m very noob, and I wouldn’t know which package. On the day that I was without wifi, the update was done by the terminal, I read everything … It could have been a library, anyway I wouldn’t be able to identify it.

Thak you @OrsoBruno

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Start by using YaST2-Software.
In the top menu, click Extras, then Show History, scroll down to the date of the upgrade and see which packages were updated.
If you search and select a package, in the Versions tab you can see all the versions currently available in the main or update repositories; clicking on the check boxes you can upgrade or downgrade to the version of your choice.
Please be aware that some packages (e.g. the kernel) can have multiple versions installed at the same time.

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Thank you very much!