SUSE-RU-2026:20624-1: moderate: Recommended update for ibus, ibus-libpinyin

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# Recommended update for ibus, ibus-libpinyin

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2026:20624-1  
Release Date: 2026-03-03T10:31:48Z  
Rating: moderate  
References:

  * bsc#1246569
  * bsc#1255237
  * bsc#1257531
  * jsc#PED-14507

  
Affected Products:

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 16.0

  
  
An update that contains one feature and has three fixes can now be installed.

## Description:

This update for ibus, ibus-libpinyin fixes the following issues:

Changes in ibus,ibus-libpinyin:

  * Update the package .spec file to get rid of update-desktop-files:
    * It often duplicates upstream translation effort, wasting a human work, both community translators and contracted ones.
    * Most of these translations are ~20 years old, and they were never reviewed, so it is possible that they are worse than the upstream ones. Also Desktop Categories specification was updated, and the upstream specification now covers all aspects of former X-SuSE-* Categories extensions.
    * As a result, the SUSE desktop menu experience differs from other vendors. Applications have a different name, different translations, different placement in the structured menu etc.
    * Upstream translations have a wider impact.
    * Package maintainers have only a limited control over the contents visible to users. It is imported during the runtime, and the visible contents could be different from the contents in the package.
    * update-desktop-files is a complicated tool. It attempts to fix deprecated and obsolete stuff in the desktop files without even informing the developer that something was wrong and something was modified.
    * It uses a very complicated toolchain that requires access to SUSE intranet and access to OpenQA VPN. The complete toolchain setup was never published, so it has even problems with Open Source ideas.
    * It mixes SUSE-unique translations with translations that just duplicate the upstream translation effort. As a result it significantly increases number of strings to translate and decreases the quality of the translation (jsc#PED-14507).

Changes in ibus:

  * use return insted of exit in 20-ibus-plasma-setup.sh
    * such script is sourced not executed, when using exit other scripts in the same directory are not sourced anymore
    * fix: scripts it $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/plasma-workspace/env stop working after ibus update (bsc#1255237)

Changes in ibus-libpinyin:

  * fix: Random crashes in ibus-engine-libpinyin (bsc#1257531)
  * Update version to 1.16.5:
    * Fix bugs
  * Make libpinyin setup program could response build config to disable Lua
    script and user data input (bsc#1246569).

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like
YaST online_update or "zypper patch".  
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLES-16.0-340=1

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 16.0  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLES-16.0-340=1

## Package List:

  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    * ibus-debuginfo-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-gtk4-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-libpinyin-debugsource-1.16.5-160000.1.1
    * ibus-gtk3-debuginfo-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-libpinyin-1.16.5-160000.1.1
    * libibus-1_0-5-debuginfo-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * libibus-1_0-5-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-debugsource-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * typelib-1_0-IBus-1_0-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-libpinyin-debuginfo-1.16.5-160000.1.1
    * ibus-gtk4-debuginfo-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-gtk3-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus_gtk4-debugsource-1.5.33-160000.2.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 (noarch)
    * ibus-dict-emoji-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-lang-1.5.33-160000.2.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 16.0 (ppc64le x86_64)
    * ibus-debuginfo-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-gtk4-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-libpinyin-debugsource-1.16.5-160000.1.1
    * ibus-gtk3-debuginfo-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-libpinyin-1.16.5-160000.1.1
    * libibus-1_0-5-debuginfo-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * libibus-1_0-5-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-debugsource-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * typelib-1_0-IBus-1_0-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-libpinyin-debuginfo-1.16.5-160000.1.1
    * ibus-gtk4-debuginfo-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-gtk3-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus_gtk4-debugsource-1.5.33-160000.2.1
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 16.0 (noarch)
    * ibus-dict-emoji-1.5.33-160000.2.1
    * ibus-lang-1.5.33-160000.2.1

## References:

  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246569
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1255237
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257531
  * https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-14507

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