upgrade opensuse to from 11.x to 12.x

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Opensuse 12.1 Final has been released, the following post will show How to upgrade your 11.X or 12.1 milestones to RC or Final release ?

The actual installed release:
user@linux-xq75:~> cat  /etc/issue
Welcome to openSUSE 12.1 "Asparagus" Milestone 2  - Kernel \r (\l).

Start The Upgrade by typing the following commands:

zypper ref && zypper -q dup -d 
init 3 
zypper dup --download-in-advance 
shutdown -r now (to complete the Kernel Update)

• From 11.x to 12.1 (thx  Amir)

zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-12.1 OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/ repo-12.1-oss

zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-12.1 Non-OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/non-oss/ repo-12.1-non-oss

zypper addrepo --refresh --name "openSUSE-12.1 Updates" http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/ repo-11.2-update

zypper ref

zypper dup