Working toward the stable openSUSE Leap 16.0 release in late 2025, the release candidate period has begun for this Linux distribution aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 sources.
The march is on for releasing openSUSE Leap 16.0 later this year and has graduated from its beta phase and onto release candidate quality builds. Meanwhile SUSE/openSUSE developers continue working on transitioning both Tumbleweed and Leap 16.0 from the OBS SCM to Git for source control as one underlying change still going on. SUSE Linux Enterprise 16.0 is also still track for its release in late September with openSUSE Leap 16.0 to follow.
The openSUSE Leap 16.0 release is going to be among the first Linux distributions delivering an Xfce desktop experience atop Wayland as one of its offered desktop options. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 16.0 packages have seen a lot of work recently for those interested in running Xfce on Wayland albeit in an experimental state.
OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 also presents its new “Agama” operating system installer, a lot of work around YaST components being replaced by Myrlyn, SELinux as the default rather than AppArmor, a new repository structure, and many other changes along with plenty of software package updates at large.
With SUSE Linux Enterprise 16.0, it’s not supporting 32-bit binary execution by default. openSUSE Leap users can install the “grub2-compat-ia32” package to set the 32-bit emulation support for the kernel.
More details on the release candidate period of openSUSE Leap 16.0 now underway via the openSUSE.org News.
