OpenLDAP server has been re-added to ease migration to 389 Directory Server. A note has been added to Section 9, “Removed and deprecated features and packages” to reflect that. (Jira)
Section 5.10.1, “Effective user limits in systemd setup” (Jira)
Section 5.6.1, “frr
(FRRouting Routing daemon) has been added” (Jira)
Added warning about changing system Python to Section 5.3.1, “Alternative modern Python 3 interpreter upgraded to Python 3.11”
Changed product names:
SLE-HA to SLE HA
Minimal-VM and Minimal-Image to Minimal VM and Minimal Image, respectively
SLE High Availability Extension to SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability
SUSE Linux Enterprise-WE to SUSE Linux Enterprise WE
SLES-SAP to SLES for SAP
SLE-Software Development Kit to SLE Software Development Kit
Added NVIDIA Grace* to Section 8.1, “System-on-Chip driver enablement” (Jira)
Moved Section 8.3, “64K page size kernel flavor is supported” from Section 2.8.1, “Technology previews for Arm 64-Bit (AArch64)”, updating it and replacing it with Section 2.8.1.1, “KVM virtualization with 64K page size kernel flavor” (Jira)
Section 5.11.6.1, “Deprecating host network management with libvirt
” (Jira)
Section 4.1.2, “SUSE Manager installation option not available” (Bugzilla)
Section 4.5, “New Minimal VM and Minimal Image for IBM Z (s390x)” (Jira)
Section 2.8.1, “Technology previews for Arm 64-Bit (AArch64)”
Section 8.4.2, “No graphics drivers on NVIDIA Jetson” (Jira)
Changed wording of Section 2.4, “Security, standards, and certification” (Bugzilla):
-SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 has been submitted to the certification bodies for:
-* Common Criteria Certification, see https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/
-* FIPS 140-2 validation, see https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.FIPS.140-2
+SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 will not be submitted for certification to either Common Criteria or NIST FIPS 140-3.
+As a practice, SUSE only submits even-numbered Service Packs (for example: SLES 15, SP2, SP4, etc.) for certification.
Added note about xpram removal in Section 9, “Removed and deprecated features and packages” (Bugzilla)
Section 6.3.3, “Adding changes in ibmvnic
driver to assign IRQ affinity to all” (Jira)
Section 6.3.2, “ibmveth
driver performance improvement” (Jira)
Added note about NVMf-FC kdump in Section 6.3, “Virtualization” (Jira)
Section 6.3.1, “Support for the new H_WATCHDOG hypercall included with P10 firmware” (Jira)
Section 6.1.3, “POWER10 performance enhancements for cryptography: OpenSSL” (Jira)
Added a note about cryptography enhancements in NSS FreeBL in Section 6.1, “Security” (Jira)
Section 6.1.2, “POWER10 performance enhancements for cryptography: libgcrypt” (Jira)
Section 6.1.1, “POWER10 performance enhancements for cryptography: nettle” (Jira)
Section 5.8.1, “dracut default persistent policy change” (Jira)
Section 7.4.2, “openCryptoki: p11sak
support Dilithium and Kyber keys” (Jira)
Section 7.6.1, “KVM: Enable GISA support for Secure Execution guests” (Jira)
Section 4.1.3, “Storage requirements for Btrfs installation on PowerPC” (Bugzilla)
Section 6.2.1, “NVMe-oF on LVM with multiple NVMe disks” (Jira)
Section 5.2.1, “nouveau
disabled for Nvidia Turing and Ampere GPUs / openGPU recommendation” (Bugzilla)
Section 7.7.5, “Add additional information to SCLP CPI” (Jira)
Section 7.7.4, “Support Processor Activity Instrumentation Extension 1” (Jira)
Section 7.7.3, “New CPU-MF Counters for IBM z16 and LinuxONE 4” (Jira)
Section 7.7.2, “Support IBM z16 and LinuxONE 4 Processor-Activity-Instrumentation Facility” (Jira)
Section 7.8.2, “Enabled installer to configure PCI-attached networking devices” (Jira)
Section 7.8.1, “Auto scale crashkernel
size with hardware changes” (Jira)
Section 7.6.9, “KVM: Enablement of device busid for subchannels” (Jira)
Section 7.6.8, “Allow to list persisted driverctl
definitions” (Jira)
Section 7.6.7, “KVM: Allow long kernel command lines for Secure Execution guests and QEMU” (Jira)
Section 7.6.6, “KVM: Provide virtual CPU topology to guests” (Jira)
Section 7.6.5, “KVM: Attestation support for Secure Execution (crypto), KVM: Secure Execution Attestation Userspace Tool” (Jira)
Section 7.6.4, “Secure Execution guest dump encryption with customer keys, tool to process encrypted Secure Execution guest dumps” (Jira)
Section 7.6.2, “Enhanced Interpretation for PCI Functions” (Jira)
Section 7.5.6, “ROCE: Independent Usage of Secondary Physical Function” (Jira)
Section 7.5.3, “zipl
support for Secure Boot IPL and Dump from ECKD DASD” (Jira)
Section 7.5.2, “zdev: Site-aware device configuration” (Jira)
Section 7.5.1, “Transparent DASD PPRC (Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy) handling” (Jira)
Section 7.4.15, “p11-kit
: add IBM specific mechanisms and attributes” (Jira)
Section 7.4.14, “openCryptoki: PKCS #11 3.1 - support CKA_DERIVE_TEMPLATE” (Jira)
Section 7.4.13, “zcryptctl
support for control domains - kernel and s390-tools parts” (Jira)
Section 7.4.6, “Display PAI (Processor Activity Instrumentation) CPACF counters (s390-tools
)” (Jira)
Section 7.4.12, “libica
: eliminate SW fall backs - stage 2” (Jira)
Section 7.4.11, “libica: extend statistics to reflect security measures (crypto)” (Jira)
Section 7.4.10, “openCryptoki key generation with expected MKVP only on CCA and EP11 tokens” (Jira)
Section 7.4.9, “openCryptoki: support crypto profiles” (Jira)
Section 7.4.8, “openCryptoki EP11 token: vendor-specific key derivation” (Jira)
Section 7.4.7, “openCryptoki EP11 token: IBM z16 and LinuxONE 4 support” (Jira)
Section 7.4.5, “zcrypt DD: Exploitation Support of new IBM Z Crypto Hardware for kernel and s390-tools
” (Jira)
Section 7.4.4, “openCryptoki ep11 token: master key consistency” (Jira)
Section 7.4.3, “In-kernel crypto: SIMD implementation of chacha20
” (Jira)
Section 5.3.1, “Alternative modern Python 3 interpreter upgraded to Python 3.11” (Jira)
Section 7.2.1, “Enablement for MIO Instructions - kernel and rdma-core
parts” (Jira)
Changed SLES release date year to the correct 2023
Deprecation of gnote
in Section 9.2, “Deprecated features and packages” (Jira)
Removal of samba-ad-dc-libs
in Section 9.1, “Removed features and packages” (Jira)
Section 5.10.3, “yast2-iscsi-client
drops open-iscsi
and iscsiuio
as dependencies” (Bugzilla)
Section 5.4.2, “Restoring default Btrfs file compression” (Jira)
Added note about openmpi2
and openmpi3
in Section 9.2, “Deprecated features and packages” (Jira)
Added note about removing Kerberos/LDAP from YaST in Section 9, “Removed and deprecated features and packages” (Bugzilla)
Added note about removing thunderbolt-user-space
in Section 9, “Removed and deprecated features and packages” (Jira)
Updated Java lifecycle in Section 5.3.2, “Supported Java versions” (Jira):
OpenJDK 11 end of life is now end of 2026
OpenJDK 17 added
OpenJDK 18 end of life is now end of 2026