14 DAY TRIAL // Launched a little over two years ago, OpenSuSE 11.0 has now reached the end of its life cycle. The developers announced the release of the final security fix for the Linux distribution and said there will be no more updates coming. Support for openSUSE 11.0 has now been officially dropped.
“With the release of a rpm security fix on Friday 23rd July we have released the last update for openSUSE 11.0. It is now officially discontinued and out of support. openSUSE 11.0 was released on June 17 2008, making it 2 years and 1 month of security and bugfix support,” Marcus Meissner openSUSE’s security team leader, announced.
With the announcement, openSUSE also released some stats about security patches for the outgoing version. Overall, there have been fewer security updates than in the version it replaced, openSUSE 10.3, but there’s been an increase in the number of CVE’s (common vulnerabilities and exposures).
A total of 644 updates have been pushed in the two years of support, that’s 71 fewer than in openSUSE 10.3. Of those, specific security updates also dropped by 36, to 485. However CVE entries grew by 135, up to 1141.
When it comes to specific software, the biggest trouble-maker was Mozilla Firefox with a number of 18 issues, five more than in the previous release. Opera had its fair share as well, 12 issues, one less than before. Other trouble-making software: ClamAV - 10 issues (-2), Acrobat Reader - 10 issues (+1), Linux kernel - 9 issues (-2).
In terms of CVEs, Firefox also took the crown with 143 entries, 20 more than in the version before it. The Java 1.6 runtime came second with 102 entries, 27 more. Java 1.5 was close to the top as well with 64 entries, seven less than in openSUSE 10.3.