KDE Applications 16.08 and Frameworks 5.26 are also included

Sep 22, 2016 14:50 GMT  ·  By

Today, September 22, 2016, the openSUSE Project proudly announced the release and immediate availability for download of the second Beta development milestone towards the openSUSE Leap 42.2 operating system.

openSUSE Leap 42.2 Beta 2 comes with several interesting improvements and up-to-date software components, including the KDE Applications 16.08.0, KDE Frameworks 5.26.0, GStreamer 1.8.3, GTK+ 2.24.31, GTK+ 3.20.9, json-glib 1.2.2, Wireshark 2.2.0, and Xen 4.7.0_12.

Other than that, the OpenSuSE KDE team did a fantastic job of integrating the recently announced Beta release of the KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS desktop environment into openSUSE Leap 42.2 Beta 2 so you can get an early taste and see if there are any show stoppers that need to be addressed before the final version lands in mid-November.

"The quality of the distribution at this point looks quite good," said Ludwig Nussel, Leap’s release manager. "Since Plasma 5.8 is still a beta version, it deserves more attention and thorough testing. We can help upstream to release a good 5.8.0 and get a decent quality default desktop in return."

openSUSE Leap 42.2 Beta 3 coming up next month

The development cycle of the openSUSE Leap 42.2 distro will continue with one more Beta version, the Beta 3, which is currently scheduled for release next month on October 6. After that, there will be two Release Candidate (RC) builds published, RC1 on October 18 and RC2 on November 2.

The final release of openSUSE Leap 42.2 should hit the streets on November 16, 2016, just one week after the annual SUSECon open source conference for SUSE Linux Enterprise customers, partners, and community enthusiasts, which will be held November 7-11 in Washington, D.C., USA.

In the meantime, you can help the openSUSE developers fix bugs and other issues in the upcoming major version, openSUSE Leap 42.2, by downloading the Beta 2 ISO images right now via our website. However, please try to keep in mind that the OS is supported on 64-bit systems only and it's not ready for production use just yet.