After a year of development, SUSE has released the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7 distribution. Based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform, products such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing, and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension have been formed. The distribution can be downloaded and used for free, but access to updates and fixes is limited to a 60-day trial period. The release is available in builds for architectures aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, and x86_64. The release will be supported until June 2031, excluding extended support programs LTSS and LTSS Core, which will be active until 2034 and 2037, respectively.
Unlike previous releases, the formation of the openSUSE Leap 15.7 release based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7 is not planned. The openSUSE Leap 15.6 will be succeeded by openSUSE Leap 16.0, which is expected this fall. openSUSE Leap 16 is based on the development branch of SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 but retains the characteristics of a traditional distribution using conventional packages. Additionally, a new installer is utilized in openSUSE Leap 16, mandatory access control through SELinux has been implemented, and only Wayland support has been retained.
Key changes in SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7:
- The distribution continues to use the Linux 6.4 kernel, which has backported additional features from newer branches. For instance, changes related to UEFI, cryptographic key storage, and ACPI have been transferred from branch 6.11. The cryptographic subsystem now supports MSA 10 XTS, MSA 11 HMAC, and MSA 12 SHA3. Load balancing on the CPU can be achieved using cgroupv2. The code for USB4 support has been updated.
- Package versions have been updated, including GCC 14, Python 3.13, OpenJDK 21, Node.js 22, PHP 8.3, OpenSSL 3.2, binutils 2.43.10, gdb 14.2, go 1.24.2, Rust 1.86, Ruby 3.4, Valkey 8.0.2 (replacing Redis), PostgreSQL 17. The desktop environment continues to ship with GNOME 45, but the Mesa package has been updated to version 24.2.
- By default, support for post-quantum encryption algorithms available in OpenSSL, such as the ML-KEM key exchange algorithm (CRYSTALS-Kyber), resistant to quantum computer attacks, is enabled.
- Hardware support has been extended, and device drivers have been updated. Support for Intel Birch Stream server platforms, Intel Arrow and Lunar Lake client CPUs, AMD processors based on the Zen 5 microarchitecture, AMD Navi 4x GPUs, and IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 platforms have been implemented. New drivers added include Ice, ixgbe, IPU, and SR-IOV hybrid DMA.
Source: opennet.ru
