SUSE Company release of the industrial distribution SUSE Linux Enterprise, products such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server , , SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension. The distribution can be used for free, but access to updates and fixes is limited to a 60-day trial period. The release is available in builds for x86_64, ARM64, Raspberry Pi, IBM POWER8 LE, and IBM System z architectures.
As with previous updates in the SUSE 12 branch, the distribution features Linux kernel 4.4, GCC 4.8, a desktop based on GNOME 3.20, and previous versions of system components. The changes mainly focus on supporting new hardware and virtualization. It is worth noting that the support period for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 is 13 years (until 2024 + 3 years of extended support), while SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 is 7 years (until 2021).
For those wanting more up-to-date versions, it is recommended to transition to the new branch .
in the 12 SP5 release:
- Experimental support for standalone Flatpak packages (1.4.x) has been added. Currently, only command-line applications can be installed for Flatpak;
- Updated application versions: Mesa 18.3.2, freeradius 3.0.19, Augeas 1.10.1,
autofs 5.1.5, Intel VROC, OpenJDK 1.11, Samba 4.4.2, rsync 3.1.3, squid 4.8, Perl 5.18.2, sudo 1.8.27, Xen 4.12;
- For Intel GPUs up to version 2.2, the VAAPI driver has been updated, the intel-media-driver (Intel Media Driver for VAAPI) has been added, and the Intel Media SDK (C API for accelerated video encoding and decoding) has been included. The distribution comes with the gmmlib (Intel Graphics Memory Management Library), which provides tools for working with buffers and devices for Intel Graphics Compute Runtime for OpenCL and Intel Media Driver for VAAPI;
- Basic support for
python 3.6 (default is python 3.4.1); - Utilities and extensions for PostgreSQL, including postgis, pgloader, pgbadger, orafce, and psqlODBC, have been added;
- The warnquota now includes LDAP support by default;
- Apache httpd has added support for OpenID (the mod_auth_openidc module is included);
- JeOS images (minimal builds of SUSE Linux Enterprise for containers, virtualization systems, or standalone applications) for Hyper-V and VMware are now supplied in .vhdx and .vmdk formats and compressed using the LZMA2 algorithm;
- The distribution has added the kiwi-templates-SLES12-JeOS package, which includes utilities for creating custom JeOS builds;
- NVDIMM memory support has been updated, and configuration utilities, such as ndctl, have been improved;
- The limitation on the size of core files has been removed (in /etc/systemd/system.conf, DefaultLimitCORE=0 has been set);
- Initialization scripts for ebtables have been replaced with systemd services;
- Improved log handling in sar upon shutdown;
- systemd now includes GDPR-compliant stack trace output in case of issues;
- Correct notification output for unmounting drives in Nautilus has been ensured;
- Support for Xfs has been added to quota-tools;
- Support for Chinese Hygon Dhyana CPUs based on AMD technologies has been added to the kernel;
- IOMMU passthrough support is enabled by default (no longer necessary to specify iommu=pt or iommu.passthrough=on in settings);
- The ability to enable NVDIMM operation in memory mode via the kernel option page_alloc.shuffle=1 has been added;
- Support for virtual users has been added to vsftpd;
- The policycoreutils package with utilities for configuring SELinux policies has been added;
- The kernel parameter fs.protected_hardlinks is enabled by default, providing additional protection against hard link attacks;
- A build for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) environments has been added;
- Support for Intel OPA (Omni-Path Architecture) and operation in memory mode for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory chips has been added.
- OpenSSL has implemented Chacha20 and Poly1305 algorithms, utilizing SIMD instructions for acceleration, allowing Chacha20 and Poly1305 to be used in TLS 1.3;
- A cpufreq driver has been added for Raspberry Pi, enabling audio output through the HDMI port (for Raspberry Pi 3).
Source: opennet.ru
