Spanish keyboard layout changed since last update

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Hi!
I’m having a very annoying issue since the last Tumbleweed update an I don’t understand how to fix it and why it happened.
I currently have two Tumbleweed installations, with the same configuration, but one is updated and the other one have some pending updates. The most updated installation changed the Spanish keyboard layout (having the same locale and keyboard configuration).

Here’s the old layout (ignore the scaling issues):
https://web.ensoft.dev/images/old_layout.png
Look at the underlined symbols.
Below the new layout:

https://web.ensoft.dev/images/new_layout.png

So, the < > symbols have been replaced for ‹› for some unknown reason.

I’m a developer and I’ve been using the same layout in openSUSE for about 15 years, this minor change is really annoying since I don’t have access to those symbols anymore and I need them to code.

Is this a bug? Anyone knows if I can replace the keymaps?

BTW: this is what localectl shows on both installations:
localectl status
System Locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
VC Keymap: es
X11 Layout: es
X11 Model: pc105
X11 Options: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

Any help will be appreciated.

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Some fine reading: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg/Keyboard_configuration

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Thanks, I was able to override the rules using xmodmap.
If anyone is having the same issue, my solution was to create a .xmodmap configuration with the following rules:

keycode  52 = z Z z Z guillemotleft less guillemotleft
keycode  53 = x X x X guillemotright greater guillemotright

And loading those rules with: xmodmap /path/to/file/.xmodmap
You can add it to the ~/.xinitrc so it autoloads the rules with the X window server.

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Great! Obviously you get what you ask for. Thanks for the feedback.

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Same (?) issue (and fixes) here for UK layout users: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/562085-AltGr-mappings-changed-in-recent-ish-Tumbleweed-(2021-H2)-–-section-sign-(§)-lost-and-other-changes

To whoever went changing default key mappings: please don’t.

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When you want a chance that that arrives at the right person(s), please make a bug-report.