Douglas DeMaio announced that the latest development snapshot, build 665.2, has been nominated for the upcoming release version 15.2 (release candidate) scheduled for release on July 2, 2020:
“the release candidate signals the freeze of development on the software packages. Some of the packages expected to change in the new release are the long-term-support KDE Plasma version 5.18, GNOME version 3.34 and Xfce version 4.14. A new one will be released packet for artificial intelligence and data scientist.
The release will also include the Sway tiling Wayland compositor, which replaces the i3 window manager for the X11.
Ο Admin dnf packages is again based on version 4.2.19, but brings many fixes and improvements.”
Read it announcement of the new release And the release notes for more details.
This development snapshot is available (mirror list) in ISO DVD and NET install format.
Net Install iso is much smaller in size because it contains only the files needed to start the installation (boot and installer). All other files needed will be downloaded from the internet during installation.
Download links (EU mirror list):
- openSUSE-Leap-15.2-DVD-x86_64-Build665.2-Media.iso (4,077MB, SHA256)
- openSUSE-Leap-15.2-NET-x86_64-Build665.2-Media.iso (138MB, SHA256).