Thought a thread collecting those interesting blog posts which developers make announcing new features, which can be missed if you’re not tracking Planet openSUSE religiously. Sometimes new features seem to appear by stealth which does not help testing.
Ever upgraded a kernel & regretted it? Or are you sick of having to tidy up yourself, wishing openSUSE would just keep the latest & running kernel for safety? May be you like a stable golden kernel installed, which you know works and never gets touched by update. New in 12.1 factory is - openSUSE Lizard - Improved Kernel Package Retention in 12.1 tidies up multiversioned kernels allowing keeping an old fallback, as well as fresh kernels, big improvement to just enabling multiversion kernels. The developer has said if it works for enough ppl he’ll push it out to Tumbleweed to (In mail list thread Re: [opensuse-kernel] 3.0-rc7, pretty please?). Seems to me like 12.1 should make multiversion with retention of latest,running as the default if this feature works well.
Factory Tested - Announcing factory-tested which aims to avoid Factory updates which completely break things like installation, zypper & X.
For a different type of fun some blogs by Nelson Marques, as result of trawling the forum Games section :