openSUSE Leap 15.5 Release Arrives With KDE Plasma 5.27 and Vim 9.0

openSUSE has been the choice of many, especially sysadmins and developers, worldwide.

openSUSE's regular-release distro, 'openSUSE Leap,' received a major release around this time last year.

And now, a new release, i.e., openSUSE Leap 15.5, promises many new additions and improvements.

Let's take a look at it.

🆕 openSUSE Leap 15.5: What's New?

Powered by Linux Kernel 5.14.21, openSUSE Leap 15.5 offers a variety of improvements. Some highlights include:

• KDE Plasma 5.27
• OpenH264 Repository
• Vim Editor Upgrade
• Updated Software Suite

KDE Plasma 5.27

openSUSE Leap finally features an updated version of the KDE Plasma desktop environment that will give it access to various improvements such as:

• Flatpak Permissions
• Enhanced Multi-Monitor Support
• Updates to KWin Tiling System
• and More!

You can go through our coverage of the same to dive deeper into the Plasma 5.27 release:

💕Valentine’s Gift for KDE Users Arrive in the Form of Plasma 5.27 Release

KDE Plasma 5.27 has landed with plenty of improvements.

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OpenH264 Repository

Yes, you read that right. openSUSE Leap now has the OpenH264 repository enabled by default, resulting in better video encoding and decoding for real-time applications such as WebRTC.

This was thanks to the contributions made by Cisco via their open-source program under Outshift.

Vim Editor Upgrades

openSUSE Leap 15.5 features the latest Vim 9.0 text editor, powered by a new script language.

This has resulted in dramatic performance improvements, with backward compatibility staying intact.

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Updated Software Suite

The software suite on openSUSE Leap has also received some major updates. Some notable ones include:

• Fully functional Python 3.11 stack, in parallel to the system Python (python36)
• Improvements to the Kate text editor
• Fixes for crashes on Kdenlive
• Qt 5.15 LTS
• netavark 1.5.0
• Flatpak 1.14.4
• fwupd 1.8.6
• Ugrep 3.11.0
• Network Manager 1.38.6
• Mozilla Firefox 102.9.0
• Thunderbird 102.8.0

For a more in-depth look at this release, you may go through the official release notes.

📥 Get openSUSE Leap 15.5

You can head over to the official site to get the ISO.

💬 Are you excited to try out this new openSUSE release?