Section 5.10.2, “set-hostname has been deprecated” (Bugzilla)
Section 5.15.2.1, “Dom0 suspend/resume not supported” (Bugzilla)
In Appendix B, Kernel parameter changes, a new value has been added to the table:
Setting | Previous value | New value | Caused by package | More details |
| 264241152 | 528482304 |
|
-* FIPS 140-2 validation, see https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.FIPS.140-2
+* NIST FIPS 140-3 validation, see https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.140-3.pdf
+The status of SUSE submitted modules can be reviewed at: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Cryptographic-Module-Validation-Program/Modules-In-Process/Modules-In-Process-ListSection 5.6.1.1, “Python 3.10 modules, Reduced Python Stack” (Jira)
Mention removal of systemd-journal-remote in Section 10, “Removed and deprecated features and packages” ([Bugzilla])
Add explicit note about Vagrant box removal to Section 10.1, “Removed features and packages”
-SUSE has enabled the system libraries glibc, libgcrypt, and openssl for live patching.
+SUSE has enabled the shared libraries from the system packages glibc and openssl for live patching.Section 4.5, “Minimal-VM VMware flavor with cloud-init support” (Jira)
Section 5.9.3, “Change of SUSEConnect handling of licenses” (Jira)
Section 5.6.3.1, “debuginfod packages have been added” (Jira)
Section 5.5.1, “SLES-specific Windows Terminal shortcuts in WSL” (Jira)
Section 4.2.1, “Migration from SLES 11 to SLES 15 SP4 no longer supported” (Jira)
Updated Java lifecycle in Section 5.6.4, “Supported Java versions”
Updated Section 5.6.3.9, “PHP 8 has been added, replacing PHP 7” to add note about PHP 7 (Bugzilla)
Updated wording of Section 6.1.1, “User Space Live Patching (ULP) infrastructure and live patches for shared libraries” to also mention libgcrypt (Bugzilla)
Fixed spelling of SUSEConnect and suseconnect-ng in Section 5.9.10, “New version of SUSEConnect eliminates Ruby requirements” (Bugzilla)
Fixed incorrect information about ODBC driver location in Section 5.4.3, “The ODBC driver location has changed” (Bugzilla)
Added Section 5.8.1, “Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) instruction support” (Jira)
Added Section 5.5.2, “Graphical application support in Windows Subsystem for Linux” (Jira)
Added Section 5.15.5.1, “cloud-init has been updated” (Jira)
Added Section 5.6.2.2, “nodejs-common has been changed” (Jira)
Announce that Eclipse has been removed in Section 10.1, “Removed features and packages”
Changed Section 5.6.3.9, “PHP 8 has been added, replacing PHP 7” to refer to version 8.0.10 instead of the much newer 8.1 (Bugzilla)
Mentioned permanent way of enabling the single transaction mode in Section 2.8.1.4, “zypper single transaction mode”
Added Section 5.10.4.4, “NT Domain Controller has been deprecated” and Section 5.10.4.5, “Samba NIS support has been deprecated” (Jira)
Added Section 5.10.5.2, “NFS readahead size has been decreased” (Bugzilla)
Added Section 5.9.5, “modinfo does not show driver versions” (Bugzilla)
Added note about improved AES-GCM algorithm performance in Section 8.3, “Performance” (Jira)
Added Section 8.6.1, “Fix for "Host does not support any virtualization options"” (Bugzilla)
Added note on the libmodman removal (Jira)
Improved wording and added missing product version in Section 10, “Removed and deprecated features and packages”:
Improved wording in Section 7.5.1, “LPM and DLPAR cannot be used with Secure Boot”:
Added this changelog
Added note about OpenBlas in Section 7.2, “Performance”
Added note about GZIP engines on PowerVM in Section 7.2, “Performance”
Added note about Strict RWX support for IBM Power in Section 7.3, “Security”
Added note about fadump robustness in Section 7.5, “Miscellaneous”
Added note about improving the numa locality of workload allocations in Section 7.5, “Miscellaneous”
Added Section 7.5.1, “LPM and DLPAR cannot be used with Secure Boot” (Bugzilla)
Added Section 7.3.3, “Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)” (Jira)
Added Section 7.4.1, “Logical partition migration when using NX coprocessor” (Jira)
Added Section 4.2.2, “Hibernation requires manual intervention” (Jira)
Added note about NIS being deprecated in Section 10, “Removed and deprecated features and packages” (Jira)
Added note about abbreviated options in Section 5.9.10, “New version of SUSEConnect eliminates Ruby requirements” (Bugzilla)
Fixed typo by changing "TMP" to "TPM" in the following notes:
Removed link to SUSE Resource Library as the link was no longer working
Removed mention of subscription conditions in Section 2.1, “Interoperability and hardware support” (Bugzilla)
Updated link to FIPS 140-2 validation in Section 2.4, “Security, standards, and certification”
Updated Section 5.10.4.3, “SMB1 support has been deprecated” to specify all the affected parts
Updated warning in Section 2.8.2.1, “64K page size kernel flavor is available” to provide information how to configure stripe size
Updated link to documentation in Section 8, “IBM Z-specific changes (s390x)” (Bugzilla)
Added Section 7.2.3, “Enhanced NSS FreeBL cryptography performance” (Jira)
Added Section 7.2.1, “Enhanced libgcrypt cryptography performance” (Jira)
Added Section 7.2.2, “Enhanced OpenSSL cryptography performance” (Jira)
Added note about dump capture support to HNV-based dump target in Section 7.4, “Virtualization” (Jira)
Added HNV support in Wicked in Section 7.4, “Virtualization” (Jira)
Added support for IBM vNIC in Section 7.5, “Miscellaneous” (Jira)
Added note about improved management of cached writes in Section 7.5, “Miscellaneous” (Jira)
Added note about deprecating OSN support on IBM Z (Jira)
Added Section 7.3.1, “POWER guest secure boot with static keys” (Jira, Jira, Jira, Jira)
Added Section 7.3.2, “The LPAR security flavor in human-readable format” (Jira, Jira)
Added Section 7.4.2, “Multiqueue support for ibmvfc SCSI driver (NPIV)” (Jira)
Added Section 7.5.2, “Enhanced mechanism to handle the installer errors” (Jira)
Added Section 8.7.1, “SCLP (Service-Call Logical Processor) extended length SCCBs” (Jira)
Added Section 8.6.6, “Enabled vfio-ccw and vfio-ap in virt-* tools in virt-manager” (Jira)
Added Section 8.5.1, “zfcp: handling of firmware update notifications” (Jira)
Added Section 8.4.7, “libzpc” (Jira)
Added Section 8.4.5, “openssl-ibmca” (Jira)
Added Section 8.4.4, “libica” (Jira)
Added Section 8.2.1, “zdsfs: transparent dataset conversion” (Jira)
Added Section 8.4.2, “openCryptoki” (Jira, Jira)
Added Section 8.4.1, “zcrypt” (Jira, Jira)
Added Section 8.3.1, “Improved performance on RoCE ConnectX-4 hardware” (Jira)
Added Section 8.2.9, “RoCE: predictable interface names” (Jira, Jira)
Added Section 8.2.8, “HSCI (HiperSockets Converged Interface): multi-MAC support” (Jira)
Added Section 8.2.7, “wireshark: updated to include SMC-D support” (Jira)
Added Section 8.2.6, “SMC: user-defined EID (Enterprise ID) support” (Jira)
Added Section 8.2.4, “SMC-Rv2 support” (Jira)
Added Section 5.11.7, “/dev is not mounted noexec anymore” (Bugzilla)
Added Section 5.10.4.3, “SMB1 support has been deprecated” (Jira)
Added Section 2.8.1.2, “Redfish-finder functionality in wicked” (Jira)
Added Section 5.12.4, “Improved booting from remote disks” (Jira)
Added Section 5.3.1, “Samba size improved for container usage” (Jira)
Added Section 5.9.6, “Use /dev/mapper instead of UUID in fstab for LUKS-back-up devices” (Jira)
Added Section 2.8.1.3, “Support for Intel’s Alderlake graphics platform” (Jira)
Added Section 5.8.3, “New functionality in the SUSE kernel module tools package” (Jira)
Added Section 5.6.3.4, “bzr has been replaced with breezy” (Jira)
Added Ruby BCI in Section 5.3.2, “SLE BCI language container images” (Jira)
Added Section 5.3.2, “SLE BCI language container images” (Jira)
Added Section 5.3.3, “SLE BCI minimal container image” (Jira)
Added Section 5.14.5, “YaST now offers several visual themes” (Jira)
Added Section 5.14.6, “YaST now assigns subuids/subgids” (Jira)
Added Section 5.14.6, “YaST now assigns subuids/subgids” (Jira)
Added Section 5.9.7, “adcli now supports setting password expiry” (Jira)
Added Section 5.8.4, “zstd compression of kernel modules” (Jira)
Added Section 5.8.5, “Unified cgroups hierarchy support” (Jira)
Added Section 2.8.1.4, “zypper single transaction mode” (Jira)
Added Section 5.9.8, “NTLM support in the Unified Installer” (Jira)
Added Section 5.8.6, “SEV instance live migration in GCE” (Jira)
Added Section 5.3.4, “Busybox SLE BCI (Base Container Image)” (Jira)
Added Section 9.2.1, “Uacce support” (Jira)
Added Section 5.9.9, “chrony Network Time Security (NTS) support” (Jira)
Added Section 5.9.10, “New version of SUSEConnect eliminates Ruby requirements” (Jira)
Added Section 9.2.2, “Support execute-only permissions with Enhanced PAN on ARMv8.7” (Jira)
Added Section 9.2.3, “OpenSSL 3 improvements backported to OpenSSL 1.1.1k” (Jira)
Added Section 5.9.11, “Boot-time graphics DRM enablement for UEFI and VESA framebuffers” (Jira)
Added Section 5.12.6, “/etc/fstab option to disable fstrim has been added” (Jira)
Added note about removal of NodeJS 12 in Section 10.1, “Removed features and packages” (Jira)
Added Section 5.14.9, “AutoYaST GRUB2 password protection” (Jira)
Added Section 2.8.3.1, “LUKS2 support in the installer” (Jira)
Added Section 5.6.3.5, “'subversion' has been updated” (Jira)
Added Section 5.6.3.6, “sccache and rustup have been added” (Jira)
Added Section 5.14.10, “zram is now officially supported” (Jira)
Added Section 5.11.9, “Unlocking LUKS volumes with TPM 2.0 or FIDO2” (Jira)
Added Section 5.8.7, “The kernel-preempt kernel variant has been replaced with a boot-time option” (Jira)
Added Section 5.15.1.1, “Virtualized TPM (vTPM) support for Windows Server 2022” (Jira)
Added Section 5.5.6, “High-quality Bluetooth codecs are now supported” (Jira)
Added Section 2.8.3.2, “Wayland now works with the latest NVIDIA proprietary driver” (Jira)
Added Section 5.6.1.2, “Python 3.10 has been added, replaces Python 3.9” (Jira)
Added Section 5.2.2, “fish has been updated and moved to SUSE Package Hub” (Jira)
Added Section 5.6.1.3, “All Python packages have been updated” (Jira)
Added Section 5.15.5.2, “apparmor-parser is now installed by default in Minimal-VM images” (Jira)
Added Section 5.3.6, “Supported 389 Directory Server has been added” (Jira)
Added Section 6.1.1, “User Space Live Patching (ULP) infrastructure and live patches for shared libraries” (Jira)
Added Section 5.3.5, “RPM Repository Mirroring Tool (RMT) container has been added” (Jira)
Added Section 5.9.12, “Adding a new welcome screen for jeos-firstboot to all consoles” (Jira)
Added Section 5.8.8, “Loading lpfc driver in INTx mode” (Bugzilla)
Added Section 5.2.3, “Some RPM 4.15 macros have been added” (Jira)
Added Section 5.1.1, “User negation in sudoers.ldap now works” (Jira)
Renamed JeOS to Minimal-VM and Minimal-Image throughout the documentation, but especially in Section 4.3, “Minimal-VM and Minimal-Image” (Jira)
Added Section 5.6.1.5, “Alternative Python 3 development interpreter moved to a separate module” (Jira)
Added Section 5.8.10, “Kernel firmware files are now compressed” (Jira)
Added note about mkinitrd in Section 10.2, “Deprecated features and packages” (Jira)
Added Section 5.6.3.8, “TCK compliance testing in SUSE Linux Enterprise” (Jira)
Added Section 5.10.4.1, “Samba has been updated to 4.15” (Jira)
Added Section 5.15.1.2, “Native graphical installer with virtio-gpu” (Jira, Bugzilla)
Added Podman update information (Jira) (replaced later with Section 5.3.7, “Podman upgrade from 3.4.x to 4.3.1”)
Added note about lftp_wrapper in Section 10.2, “Deprecated features and packages” (Jira)
Added Section 5.6.3.9, “PHP 8 has been added, replacing PHP 7” (Jira)
Added Section 5.12.7, “XFS V4 format file systems have been deprecated” (Jira)
Added note about removal of udev in Section 10.1, “Removed features and packages” (Jira)
Added Section 5.4.2, “unixODBC package drivers not for production” (Jira)
Added Section 5.11.11, “sigstore support has been added” (Jira)
Added Section 5.15.2.2, “Automatic virtual firmware selection” (Jira)
Added Section 5.8.12, “Btrfs sub-page block size support” (Jira)
Added Section 5.4.2, “unixODBC package drivers not for production” (Jira)
Added Section 5.15.5.4, “virt-manager” (Jira)
Added Section 9.4, “Removal of NXP Layerscape LX2160A rev. 1 silicon support” (Jira)
Added Section 5.8.12, “Btrfs sub-page block size support” (Jira)
Added note about thunderbolt-user-space in Section 10.2, “Deprecated features and packages” (Jira)
Added Section 5.8.19, “Shared Virtual Addressing support” (Jira)
Added Section 5.8.15, “Unprivileged eBPF usage has been disabled” (Jira)
Added Section 5.14.12, “Hibernation proposal in installer” (Jira)
Updated note about Vagrant boxes (removed in Section A.13, “2022-03-23”) (Jira)
Linked items in Section 2.2, “What is new?” to their respective topics (Jira)
Initial SP4 release
Added note about opa-fmgui deprecation in Section 10.2, “Deprecated features and packages” (Jira)