Hello Leap 16.0 users,
Maintenance updates for Leap 16.0 are being released, and the remaining pending requests are actively being processed. As an example, the mentioned Firefox update PR is being processed and was updated by the maintenance team yesterday.
We are currently dealing with some challenges on secondary architectures like Power and s390x, but these are known issues and being worked on.
If you want more insight into the ongoing maintenance and release work, you can follow the relevant sections in the Release Engineering meeting minutes:
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/
For users new to Leap, this is not Tumbleweed, don’t expect GNOME or Plasma version bump post release, these happen only with minor updates. You’ll get all security and maintenance updates from the SLES 16.0 General support + updates to packages maintained by community. There we expect slower start as community is getting used to new git worklow..
Please avoid spreading unnecessary worry or assumptions. Everything is moving forward.
Lubos