Trying to understand nvidia drivers updates

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I’m on tumbleweed and I just did a zypper sup and now my driver is still the serie 570.169 (notice no xxx after the 169)

$ nvidia-smi
Tue Jul  1 07:01:56 2025       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.169                Driver Version: 570.169        CUDA Version: 12.8     |

I thought that tumbleweed would update to the 575 serie. Isn’t it supposed to track the current driver?

I’m not complaining, just trying to understand the decision process.

Thanks

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@elfroggio the 575 series is the latest feature and beta branches, I think they are only running with the production branch. There was talk about it, at one point I think a feature branch was produced by a third party contributor, perhaps they found out dealing with maintenance and bug reports is not that easy…

If you want it, use the hard way?

 nvidia-smi 
Tue Jul  1 09:24:20 2025       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 575.64                 Driver Version: 575.64         CUDA Version: 12.9     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
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No I don’t, I just want to follow tumbleweed and not mess it up too much.

I just was trying to understand because a while back somebody said to update to the 575 serie for “security/bug fixes” reasons.

Thanks

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@elfroggio well you can review the release notes to see if your hardware is affected?

Latest New Feature Branch Version:575.64.03: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/249044/

Latest Beta Version: 575.51.02: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/249044/