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# openSUSE Leap 15.6 is a Good Upgrade
- URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/opensuse-leap-15-6-released/
- Published: 2024-06-12T12:00:01.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-14T09:12:22.000Z
- Description: openSUSE Leap 15.6 makes things a little easier for system administrators.
- Author: Ankush Das
- Tags: Distribution Releases, News, #Import 2025-11-08 21:15

**openSUSE Leap 15.6** is here 🥳

A minor update after [openSUSE 15.5](https://itsfoss.com/opensuse-15-5-leap/), but with a couple of significant improvements.

With this release, openSUSE brings in some goodness of **SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 6**. And, they also plan to have an update for Service Pack 7 later this year before Leap 16 arrives in 2025.

So, what's new?

## 🆕openSUSE Leap 15.6: Refining The Essentials

![opensuse leap 15.6](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2024/06/opensuse-15-6.jpg)

While openSUSE is already good at what it does, with Leap 15.6, they added **refinements to the management capabilities** along with other package updates.

The key highlights include 🌟

- **Cockpit package integration**
- **Upgrades to Container and Virtualization technologies**
- **Software Upgrades**
- **Desktop Environment updates**

### Cockpit Integration

A new package (Cockpit) was integrated with openSUSE Leak 15.6 which helps enhance the system and container management.

You get a web-based interface for system administration, and other advanced operations using this package.

A tool integration like this should make things easy, and let professionals do more with openSUSE.

### Containers and Virtualization

The release includes Podman 4.8, which comes with enhancements to manage containers like Nextcloud application. Along with this, Distrobox, Docker, Skipeo, and a couple of other packages also received updates.

On the virtualization side, you can find Xen 4.18, KVM 8.2.2, libvirt 10.0, and virt-manager 4.1.

### Software and Desktop Environment Upgrades

As usual, with every release, you can expect updates to the Linux Kernel and other essential packages. These include:

- Linux Kernel 6.4
- OpenSSL 3.1
- MariaDB 10.11.6
- PHP 8.2
- Node.js 20
- PostgreSQL 16
- PulseAudio 17.0
- PipeWire 1.0.4

For the graphical desktop experience, it features KDE Plasma 5.27.11 and GNOME 45 along with Qt6 version.

📋

Python 3.11 update removes many unmaintained Python packages.

## Get openSUSE Leap 15.6

You can head over to the [official site](https://get.opensuse.org/leap/15.6/?ref=news.itsfoss.com) to get the ISO.

[openSUSE Leap 15.6](https://get.opensuse.org/leap/15.6/?ref=news.itsfoss.com)

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