Recommended update for jq

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2020:1266-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 Business Critical Linux 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.0

An update that contains one feature and has one fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for jq fixes the following issues:

jq was updated to version 1.6:

  • Destructuring Alternation
  • many new builtins (see docs)
  • Add support for ASAN and UBSAN
  • Make it easier to use jq with shebangs
  • Add $ENV builtin variable to access environment
  • Add JQ_COLORS env var for configuring the output colors
  • change: Calling jq without a program argument now always assumes "." for the program, regardless of stdin/stdout

  • fix: Make sorting stable regardless of qsort.

  • Make jq depend on libjq1, so upgrading jq upgrades both

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-SP1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2020-1266=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • jq-1.6-3.3.1
    • libjq1-1.6-3.3.1
    • libjq-devel-1.6-3.3.1
    • jq-debuginfo-1.6-3.3.1
    • jq-debugsource-1.6-3.3.1
    • libjq1-debuginfo-1.6-3.3.1

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