Recommended update for release-notes-sles

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:4162-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

An update that has seven fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for release-notes-sles fixes the following issues:

  • New notes:
  • Support for Socket-Based Services Activation (fate#319428)
  • GPG does not support GPG V3 keys anymore, resulting in zypper/rpm warnings (fate#326526)
  • Product registration changes for HPC customers (fate#326567)
  • KIWI has been updated to 9.15.3 (fate#326646)
  • MPI implementations identify in mpi-selector's list command by name only (FATE#326857, requested via bsc#1098653)
  • No documentation installed in SLES JeOS by default (fate#326859, bsc#1114218)
  • Changed notes and fixes:
  • Fixed btrfs/journaling footnote number (bsc#1106505)
  • Mark SES/SOC/SLERT/Manager as SLE 12-based (bsc#1106545)
  • Mark live migration note as applying to both KVM and Xen (bsc#1108576) [Under TechInfo, add a new Virtualization section under which the existing Xen and KVM sections are now grouped; move the existing Live Migration note there, as it applies to both KVM and Xen]
  • Support for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (fate#322124)
  • lshw has been added (fate#322439, bsc#1100347)
  • GPU virtualization under KVM (virtio-gpu) (fate#325725)

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 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-2018-2969=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (noarch)
    • release-notes-sles-15.0.20181102-3.7.1

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