Recommended update for snappy

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:1675-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Business Critical Linux 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 Business Critical Linux 15-SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.2

An update that has two fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for snappy fixes the following issues:

Update from version 1.1.3 to 1.1.8

  • Small performance improvements.
  • Removed snappy::string alias for std::string.
  • Improved CMake configuration.
  • Improved packages descriptions.
  • Fix RPM groups.
  • Aarch64 fixes
  • PPC speedups
  • PIE improvements
  • Fix license install. (bsc#1080040)
  • Fix a 1% performance regression when snappy is used in PIE executable.
  • Improve compression performance by 5%.
  • Improve decompression performance by 20%.
  • Use better download URL.
  • Fix a build issue for tensorflow2. (bsc#1184507)

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:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-1675=1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP3-2021-1675=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.0-2021-1675=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • snappy-debugsource-1.1.8-3.3.1
    • snappy-devel-1.1.8-3.3.1
    • libsnappy1-1.1.8-3.3.1
    • libsnappy1-debuginfo-1.1.8-3.3.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • snappy-debugsource-1.1.8-3.3.1
    • snappy-devel-1.1.8-3.3.1
    • libsnappy1-1.1.8-3.3.1
    • libsnappy1-debuginfo-1.1.8-3.3.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • snappy-debugsource-1.1.8-3.3.1
    • libsnappy1-1.1.8-3.3.1
    • libsnappy1-debuginfo-1.1.8-3.3.1

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