Recommended update for release-notes-sles

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2019:0999-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

An update that has 11 fixes can now be installed.

Description:

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

Releases Notes were updated to 15.0.20190329 (bsc#1131031)

  • Updated template text

  • New notes:

  • PostgreSQL Has Been Upgraded to Version 10 (FATE#325659, requested via bsc#1127393)

  • Removed Kernel Modules (FATE#326411, requested via bsc#1096932)
  • LibreOffice Has Been Updated to Version 6.1 (FATE#326624)
  • Support for SAP HANA Workloads on Intel Optane DC Memory (FATE#326967, requested via bsc#1117170)

  • SMB Shares Used via mount or /etc/fstab Are Now Expected to use SMB 2.1 or Higher (FATE#327578)

  • Document fixes and changed notes:

  • ibmvnic is supported now, removed "Device Driver ibmvnic", added "Support for ibmvnic Networking Driver" (FATE#327576, update requested via bsc#1123873)

  • Clarified support status of *-devel packages (bsc#1094677)
  • Improved module table: Added CAP, Package Hub, Web/Scripting modules
  • Added openJDK 1.8.0 to table of supported Java version (bsc#1116948)
  • Updated file system table to include SLES 12 SP4 (bsc#1118664)
  • Updated "Refactored YaST iSCSI LIO server" to remove mention of Python 2 removal (FATE#319238)
  • Fixed garbled formatting in "Updated Btrfs Subvolume Layout" (FATE#325797, update requested via bsc#1115021)
  • Fixed incorrect instruction in "No Documentation Installed in SLES JeOS By Default" (FATE#326859, update requested via bsc#1127740)
  • Clarified "Support for Socket-Based Services Activation" (FATE#319428)
  • Improved wording in "ntpd Has Been Replaced With Chrony" (FATE#323432)
  • Improved wording in "YaST and AutoYaST Changes Because of Switch to firewalld" (FATE#323460)
  • Fixed grammar in "New AppArmor Features to Restrict Processes" (FATE#323500, update requested via bsc#1122405)
  • Fixed typo in "Page Cache Limit Is Now Opt-in cgroup Isolation" (FATE#323778)
  • Fixed grammar in "PostgreSQL: psqlODBC Driver Has Been Added to Replace unixODBC" (FATE#324501)
  • Accounted for the fact that "Device Error Prevention Enabled (CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM)" is also needed for SLES 12 SP4 (FATE#325368)

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-15-2019-999=1 SUSE-SLE-INSTALLER-15-2019-999=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (noarch)
    • release-notes-sles-15.0.20190329-3.10.1

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