From reading this forum and the factory mailing list I understand there were some initial problems producing updates for Leap 16.
Would someone “in the know” give a status of the current situation?
Has the problems been resolved and updates sent out as they normally would?
I installed Leap 16 on two computers in late October and have received only a few updates since then. Having never used Leap before I am not sure if the current update frequency is a normal situation.
Unfortunately, there is no information available.
Perhaps at another location or from other people?
Where can I get information?
Who should I contact or where should I go?
I don’t need long explanations about why it’s not possible.
I want to know when it will be possible.
I consider this to be extremely critical in terms of safety!
I’m not “in the know”. However, a new release usually has more updates than I have been seeing for Leap 16.
I have upgraded some systems. But I’ll keep my main desktop system on 15.6 for now.
I feel your pain.
I am still on Leap 15.6 — but getting nervous more and more by time. I wonder if openSUSE community Linux is starving…?
I just found https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/JWCJEAPARKWKCBVLLV7U5RI6O2G2ZQSE/
Maybe you can try asking
Please share, if you do so.
There are some updates for backports. Main updates should come from SLE, but I have not seen any single update for SLE 16.0. Maybe there is different announcement channel, but they are not present on the SUSE:Update Advisories | SUSE.
Nervous? Why?
Leap 15.6 will be around until 1st quarter 2026 . No stress. I’ll run 15.6 until then.
Not because it is time to upgrade. Yes, there’s time left… and I will wait. — But because of the poor state of Leap 16.0!
I have now asked a clear question here, as I understand it.
Let’s see what happens next…
I am still on Leap 15.6 (always upgrade to a new version a few month before the current is going end of life). I always update once a week. Every week there are a few security updates (as well as a few recommended ones). That did not change after 16.0 was released.
I really do not want to make 16.0 users nervous, but I can not imagine that most of those should not also be incorporated in 16.0 to keep up the reputation of Linux as a secure operating system.
Leap 16.0 is related to quite some packages (only examples above — thus security related ones…) behind 15.6!
Dann bringt doch euren Unmut auch zum Ausdruck.
Zum Beispiel hier beteiligen:
flatpak is a possible answer here.
NO IT ISN’T!
When i want flatpak i use MicroOS, Aeon or Kalpa.
But not for Leap!
And what does that have to do with missing updates?
Sic!
And:
When I want a Linux distribution relying on Flatpak, it is something different than Leap! With Leap you can use Flatpaks… additionally. But it is not intended to use them for a regular case like update state of package is poor. This is a serious question to packagers, maintainers, managers. Leap 16.0 currently is not of update quality as 15.6! That is a fact.
(And yes, I do use some Flatpaks for specific reasons…)
Already a year ago or such (long before the roll-out of 16.0) I was wondering if there is a future of Leap. Or maybe just focus on TW (and to some respect SR as a derivate). — Currently I am making up my mind whether switching to SR… or leaving openSUSE. I am on 15.6 and I will stay some more time with it. But the current state and the perspective is quite poor.
I just checked what updates are available for me at the moment. Security ones for openssl and gimp and a recommended for systemd.
Now I assume you can find a Flatpak for Gimp. But for systemd?
Sic!
You don’t manage an OS by Flatpaks!
Well, that is what @geoW suggested above.
I was wrong. There are updates (one can search e.g. for “SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0”) and most of them are available for Leap 16.0. What is missing
I do not know how much time is needed to release openSUSE patch based on SLE patch and whether this is automated or not. Still, gdm may warrant bug report.
Sorry to disagree. I can’t find anything for Leap 16.0.
And no updates have arrived here either. Except for a few at the very beginning and a kernel update a few weeks ago.
Nothing else. Definitely not.
I’m not the only one who has noticed this.
So, once again, the question:
When will the updates in Lrap 16.0 work?
Working today:
# grep 2025-11-19 history | wc -l
29
# grep 2025-11 history | grep kernel
# 2025-11-19 13:00:54 kernel-default-6.12.0-160000.6.1.x86_64.rpm installed ok
2025-11-19 13:00:54|install|kernel-default|6.12.0-160000.6.1|x86_64||OSS|...
#
Last update on this one was 5 weeks ago.