Recommended update for release-notes-sles

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:4159-1
Rating: important
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4

An update that has five fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for release-notes-sles provides the following changes (bsc#1118824):

  • Added the following notes:
  • MariaDB has been upgraded to 10.2. (fate#323756)
  • Device error prevention enabled (CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM). (fate#325368, bsc#1113809)
  • Support for SAP HANA workloads on Intel Optane DC memory. (fate#325647, bsc#1117167)
  • Product registration changes for HPC customers. (fate#326567)
  • MPI implementations identify in mpi-selector's list command by name only. (fate#326857, bsc#1098653)
  • Upgrading to PostgreSQL 10. (fate#326970, fate#325659)
  • Document fixes and changed notes:
  • Updated file system table for SLES 12 SP4. (bsc#1118664)
  • Fixed kernel version in Kernel Limits section (Linux 4.12 is correct).
  • Updated Xen virtualization limits. (fate#326692)

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 High Performance Computing 12 SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2018-2963=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2018-2963=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2018-2963=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4 (noarch)
    • release-notes-sles-12.4.20181207-2.3.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 (noarch)
    • release-notes-sles-12.4.20181207-2.3.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 (noarch)
    • release-notes-sles-12.4.20181207-2.3.1

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