Project OpenSUSE announced About intent Additional intermediate Respin assemblies, in addition to the assemblies published once a year during the next release. Respin assemblies will include all package updates accumulated for the current OpenSUSE LEAP release, which will provide an opportunity to reduce the amount of data downloaded over the network required to bring the freshly installed distribution to the current state.
ISO images with intermediate distinctions of the distribution is planned to publish once a quarter or as needed. For the release of OpenSUSE LEAP 15.3 Respin assemblies will have a numbering “15.3-x”. After the release of the next RESPIN assembly, the old assembly will be deleted from the site get.opensuse.org.
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