Get.opensuse.org (LEAP 16) points to 1/2 year old images

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Hello!

Just found today that official download page https://get.opensuse.org/leap/16.0/ points to 1/2 year old images which is not good - considering both security and need to upgrade lot of packages after each install.

Anybody knows what is the cause?

Example output for ISO image:

$ curl -fsSL -X HEAD -i https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/offline/Leap-16.0-offline-installer-x86_64.install.iso | grep -ie last-modified -e content-length -e ^http -e location

curl: (18) end of response with 4469030912 bytes missing
HTTP/2 302 
location: https://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/opensuse/distribution/leap/16.0/offline/Leap-16.0-offline-installer-x86_64.install.iso
HTTP/2 200 
content-length: 4469030912
last-modified: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:54:01 GMT

And Cloud image that I tried today:

$ curl -fsSL -X HEAD -i https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/appliances/Leap-16.0-Minimal-VM.x86_64-kvm-and-xen.qcow2 | grep -ie last-modified -e content-length -e ^http -e location

curl: (18) end of response with 289996800 bytes missing
HTTP/2 302 
location: https://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/opensuse/distribution/leap/16.0/appliances/Leap-16.0-Minimal-VM.x86_64-kvm-and-xen.qcow2
HTTP/2 200 
content-length: 289996800
last-modified: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:08:54 GMT

Thank you for clarification in advance!

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That’s about when it went gold I think the Install ISO rarely changes you get new stuff from updates

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That’s perfectly normal.

OpenSUSE Leap 16 was released on 1st October 2025.

As this is a ‘Fixed Release’ distribution, there won’t be any new ISOs until the next version (16.1).

If you want the very latest, you should opt for:

If you have the skills, you can create your own ISO using StudioExpress.

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I just downloaded an ISO (of course, it’s Leap 16.1, so gonna be more recent :slight_smile: )… check the output of curl I captured:

user@machine :~/vms> curl -fsSL -X HEAD -i https://distro.ibiblio.org/opensuse/distribution/leap/16.1/iso/Leap-16.1-offline-installer-x86_64-Build14.4.install.iso | grep -ie last-modified -e content-length -e ^http -e location
curl: (18) end of response with 4515168256 bytes missing

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Last-Modified: ====> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:01:18 GMT <====
Content-Length: 4515168256
user@machine :~/vms>
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I just downloaded a 16.1 ISO that was built yesterday … see my previous Reply

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Alpha version testers should know the difference between an alpha ISO release and a GA version. Wolfheri is completely correct. There won’t be any new ISO for Leap 16.0
That’s quite some basics. For Alphas and Betas you have many refreshed ISO’s until final release. And the final release (GA) is published on day x. After that, the updates are only available via repos and not via new ISOs.

Some linux distributions had to relase a refreshed ISO of a fixed release due to some issues. As example a serious issue was only discovered after final release which made it necessary to publish new ISOs. Or the release schedule was missed for over a year and the devs decided to publish a new ISO so that you don’t have to update everything after installation.

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That is “of course” not a released and supported version, thus it is most probably not where the OP is after.

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I’m sorry for confusion: I’m not talking about rolling (Slowroll) or bleeding edge (Tumbleweed) updates:

I’m talking about installation images with latest Fixes and Security updates (these are actually already published to stock repo-oss and repo-non-oss in case of Leap 16).

At least up-to-date Cloud images would be fine as is the case of:

The problem is exaggerated in case of Cloud image - because normally it is converted to read-only template and every VM created from such template need to install bunch of updates again and again.

It is generally not possible to manually update such template VM, because it requires post clean-up - remove of all instance specific data.

Having up-to-date cloud images (as does Debian and Fedora) would really help to save bandwidth and speed up instance createion.

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From my memory.

There always only was the release ISO. All updates (security and recommended) came via the Update repos).

But, somewhere during the lifetime of some 15.x version (sorry, not knowing exactly which one) the idea to have from time to time a re-mastered ISO was implemented. This was done to avoid very large updates to be done direct after an installation e.g. half a year after release. I have no idea if this is still (to be) done with 16.0. In any case, it is was/is a bit of an ad hoc extra service when the stack of updates increased considerable and not a standard feature of the leap release/update policy.

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Hello, @hcvv!

There always only was the release ISO. All updates (security and recommended) came via the Update repos).

That’s no longer true for LEAP 16. There is single “rolling” repository (with updates) as clearly stated on https://en.opensuse.org/Package_repositories

Version: Leap 16.0 No dedicated update repository as we use repo-oss for updates as well.

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Yes, I know. But that does not change the possibility of a re-mastered ISO. If the re-mastered ISO includes to contents of the Update repos (< 16.0), or the now contents of the altered main repos (16.0) results in the same: an installation with a smaller update action direct after it. And again, I do not know what “they” are going to do with 16.0 in this respect.

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@lkocman are there plans to do a respin/fresh image like on earlier releases?