What will be the support lifetime of Leap 15.7?

openSUSE Lifetime states “Leap 15’s lifecycle fully aligns with SUSE Linux Enterprise.”. But what does that mean? Does it refer to SLES or SLED?

SLES 15.7 will have general support until 31 Jul 2031 according to
SUSE Product Support Lifecycle. SLED until 31 Jul 2028.

Will LEAP 15.7 also have this extra long support (6 or 3 years) for the last minor version or will it be the usual 18 months as for the other 15.x versions?

Specifically it is the availability of security patches for a fixed minor version that I’m concerned with.

Next Leap Version is Leap 16.0

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That doesn’t sound like “fully aligns with SUSE Linux Enterprise”. Is it documented anywhere that LEAP will not align with SLES/SLED 15.7?

@andur openSUSE Leap 16.0 - Get openSUSE

There is no plan to make Leap 15.7.

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You can download Leap 16.0 alpha from

Also:
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap#DRAFT_Schedule_for_Leap_16.0

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