openSUSE 13.2 was released November 4, 2014.

openSUSE 13.2 was released amidst the transition from KDE Plasma 4 to KDE Plasma 5. The default KDE experience is based on the 4th generation of KDE Technologies, although the Plasma version saw no further upgrade from version 4.11. The KDE Applications and Platform were version 4.14. Some components of KDE were based on KDE Frameworks 5, and KDE Plasma 5 was included as a preview. KDE Plasma 4 included a lighter, more teal theme, and was...

openSUSE 13.1 was released November 19, 2013.

The login screen for KDM was a revamp in openSUSE 13.1. As well, both GNOME and KDE SC saw feature releases. GNOME 3.10 saw more header bar integration in its applications and early Wayland support. KDE for some time had been rebranding its applications, platform, and Plasma desktop as separate releases. KDE SC 4.11 is the last time that all of these were released with the same version number and release date, as Plasma 4.11 was an LTS...

openSUSE 12.3 was released March 13, 2013.

Across the board, a darker and more uniform theme was adopted from the boot menus to the desktop wallpapers. GNOME 3 was a feature update, and KDE SC saw a feature update as well as a darker default theme based on Oxygen.

System V init was dropped by default in this release, leaving openSUSE 12.3 as the first exclusively systemd version of the distribution by default. Some work on PackageKit was done to optimize GUI package management...

openSUSE 12.2 was released September 5, 2012. Summer releases seem to have been troublesome for the distribution, and the release of 12.2 had to be pushed back from July.

The boot process's revamp continued, with the introduction of GRUB 2 and the introduction of the Plymouth boot screen, which lessened the screen flickering and allowed for prettier animations at boot time. The boot animation in this release of openSUSE is particularly beautiful. System V init is also still included...

openSUSE 12.1 was released November 16, 2011. openSUSE attempted to change their versioning scheme, as the major version bumps such as 10.3 -> 11.0 didn't intentionally have any meaning. The scheme was to fit with the 8 month release schedule at the time, with November releases being .1, July releases .2, and March releases .3.

This version of openSUSE introduced major changes at all levels of the distribution. Most significant perhaps is the switch to systemd, which replaced the...