Hi,Leap 15 finally got a fresh look and with a Plasma 5.12 beta versionthe default desktop environment got close to the target version. Thebase system also is pretty much complete. There are still two biggerchanges known to be upcoming. One is rpm 4.14 that was only includedin Tumbleweed two weeks ago. The other one is the combined /varsubvolume for fresh installations.So overall Leap 15 now enters the Beta phase with Build 109.3 thatreached the mirrors on Friday. Everyone is encouraged to download¹the current builds and help testing. In fact, this announcement wassent from a Leap 15.0 system already :-)As with 42.3, Leap 15.0 will also use a rolling development modeluntil it's final build. That means no concrete milestones but newbuilds as soon as openQA² gives a green light. Watch out forannouncements of new builds on the opensuse-factory mailinglist³.A known issue is, that upgrades from older versions lead to fileconflict errors with renamed packages. So testing should focus onfresh installs until that is fixed. Also, when installing as dualboot with Windows on UEFI, the Windows entry may be missing from thebootloader menu.Since this is a major update compared to 42, this time even moretesting is required! Please check your your own use case, workload, software deployment, hardware support etc early so there's achance left to get it fixed before the release. To help with that,live images are in the works and will be announced separately whenready.Also, please have a look at the test plan⁴ and report your findingsthere. Use bugzilla to report bugs⁵. Issues that deserve discussionin a broader audience should be taken to the opensuse-factorymailinglist.If you are maintaining a package in Factory that is not in Leap 15yet, feel free to submit it to openSUSE:Leap:15.0. Contrariwise ifyour package ended up in Leap 15 while it shouldn't, please talk tothe release team⁶.Regarding the schedule, the goal would be to be ready to release inMay. Since the openSUSE conference is there too, it would be a goodopportunity to work together to apply some final polishing.Especially documentation in the wiki, release notes andtranslations. After a bug screening session the decision whether torelease or not would be made at the conference.With that, the beta phase would last from now until mid April. Biggerversion updates should be done by end of February to leave some timefor testing. The time between mid April until the release should beused for bug fixing only.cuLudwig[1] http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.0/iso/ [2] https://openqa.opensuse.org/group_overview/50 [3] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/ [4] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AGKijKpKiJCB616-bHVoNQuhWHpQLHPWCb3m1p6gXPc/edit#gid=168760829 [5] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports [6] mailto:opensuse-releaseteam@xxxxxxxxxxxx [7] I shall limit myself to three footnotes--(o_ Ludwig Nussel//\V_/_ http://www.suse.com/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard,Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)--To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-announce+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxFor additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-announce+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx