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See Product Highlights/11.0 for a cumulated view up to openSUSE 11.0 Beta 2.

This page gives a summary of the important changes as they happen. Unless stated otherwise, all changes (ChangeLog) are done for all our architectures and therefore are available for x86, x86-64 and PowerPC architectures.

DistroWatch maintains a daily updated list of the main Factory packages with version tracking.

Changes since openSUSE 11.0 Beta 2

• Linux 2.6.25.2
• cmake 2.6

Important updates and package additions compared to 10.3:

Changes between openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1 and Beta 2

• Linux 2.6.25
• glibc 2.8 branch
• updated gcc 4.3 branch
• ConsoleKit 0.2.10
• Samba 3.2pre2

Important updates and package additions compared to 10.3:

Changes between openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3 and Beta 1

• Linux 2.6.25-rc9, AppArmor 2.3, Xen 3.2.1 RC1
• glibc 2.8 CVS
• updated gcc 4.3 branch
• gdb 6.8
• CUPS 1.3.7
• D-Bus 1.2.1
• PackageKit 0.2.0
• PulseAudio 0.9.10
• updated NetworkManager 0.7 SVN
• rpm payload switch to lzma (results in smaller rpm packages)
• DVD uses images for installation (speed-up)

Important updates and package additions compared to 10.3:

Changes between openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2 and Alpha 3

• Linux 2.6.25-rc5
• gcc 4.3 final
• updated binutils 2.18.50 SVN
• updated gdb 6.7.50 SVN
• continued work on the installation work flow
• libzypp uses a new much faster solver
• CUPS 1.3.6
• D-Bus 1.1.20
• updated NetworkManager 0.7 SVN
• PackageKit 0.1.9.1
• PolicyKit 0.7
• PulseAudio 0.9.9

Important updates and package additions compared to 10.3:

Changes between openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1 and Alpha 2

• Linux 2.6.24
• updated gcc 4.3 SVN
• updated binutils SVN
• Alsa 1.0.16
• D-Bus 1.1.20rc2
• Sax2 ported to Qt4
• Continued work on the installation work flow
• Live CDs for both GNOME and KDE
• German language support on all CD media
• DVDs have only OSS software
• KDE 4.0.1 as default KDE desktop shell

Important updates and package additions compared to 10.3:

Changes between openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 0 and Alpha 1

• Linux 2.6.24_rc7-git3
• glibc 2.7 CVS
• updated gcc 4.3 SVN
• Perl 5.10
• NetworkManager 0.7 SVN
• PulseAudio 0.9.7 package
• CUPS 1.3.5
• "SAT Solver" is now the default package solver for libzypp
• YaST Qt frontend has been ported to Qt4
• themed installation

Important updates and package additions compared to 10.3:

Changes between openSUSE 10.3 and 11.0 Alpha 0

• Linux 2.6.24-rc3_git1
• gcc 4.3 svn
• gdb 6.7.1
• Alsa 1.0.15
• CUPS 1.3.4
• X.org 7.3

Important updates and package additions compared to 10.3:

openSUSE 10.3

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openSUSE 10.2

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SUSE Linux 10.1

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