openSUSE 11.4 has finally reached the end of Evergreen support, a few months after it was supposed to, bringing the entire system to a halt.

The official support for OpenSuSE 11.4 officially ended back in November 2012, but the openSUSE ecosystem has things that set it apart. One of those things is called Evergreen support. Basically, after a version of OpenSUSE reaches End of Life, the community can extend the life of the system by integrating patches and fixes long after the developers are finished with it.

The same is true for openSUSE 11.4. The Evergreen support for this version of openSUSE was supposed to end in July, but it lasted for a little while longer. Now, openSUSE 11.4 is truly dead.

"While I was hoping that we can keep 11.4 alive for some time longer this is currently not possible from what I would call the 'core team' which is Stefan and myself. We are too busy nowadays to be able to scan and patch every issue we get aware of. Thanks to you all who contributed to the success of Evergreen/11.4! So if you can, we recommend to switch to openSUSE 13.1 as soon as possible which is still planned to be an Evergreen release," says Wolfgang Rosenauer, one of the maintainers of this branch.

This only means that users can still download openSUSE 11.4, but they will get no further support from now on.