SUSE Company industrial distribution release . Based SUSE Linux Enterprise also formed products such as , , SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension. Distribution can be and is free to use, but access to updates and patches is limited to a 60-day trial period. The release is available in builds for the x86_64, ARM64, Raspberry Pi, IBM POWER8 LE, and IBM System z architectures.
As with past updates to the SUSE 12 branch, the distribution offers a Linux 4.4 kernel, GCC 4.8, a GNOME 3.20-based desktop, and legacy system components. The changes are mainly focused on support for new hardware and virtualization. Recall that the support time for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 is 13 years (until 2024 + 3 years of extended support), and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 is 7 years (until 2021).
For those who want to get more recent versions, it is recommended to switch to using the new branch .
release 12 SP5:
- Added experimental support for self contained Flatpak packages (1.4.x). For Flatpak, only command-line applications can be installed so far;
- 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, the VAAPI driver has been updated to version 2.2, the intel-media-driver (Intel Media Driver for VAAPI) has been added, and the Intel Media SDK (C API for accelerating video encoding and decoding) has been added. The distribution includes the gmmlib (Intel Graphics Memory Management Library) library, which provides tools for working with buffers and devices for Intel Graphics Compute Runtime for OpenCL and Intel Media Driver for VAAPI;
- Added basic support
python 3.6 (default python 3.4.1); - Added postgis, pgloader, pgbadger, orafce and psqlODBC utilities and add-ons for PostgreSQL;
- warnquota has LDAP support enabled by default;
- OpenID support added to Apache httpd (mod_auth_openidc module enabled);
- JeOS images (minimal builds of SUSE Linux Enterprise for containers, virtualization, or standalone app launches) for Hyper-V and VMware now come in .vhdx and .vmdk formats and are compressed using the LZMA2 algorithm;
- The kiwi-templates-SLES12-JeOS package has been added to the distribution package, which includes utilities for creating your own JeOS builds;
- Updated support for NVDIMM memory and improved configuration utilities such as ndctl;
- The limit on the size of core files has been removed (in /etc/systemd/system.conf the value DefaultLimitCORE=0 is set);
- Replaced ebtables init scripts with systemd service;
- Improved log handling in sar at shutdown;
- systemd has enabled output of GDPR-compliant stack traces on problems;
- Ensured correct display of drive unmount notification in Nautilus;
- Xfs support 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 (you no longer need to specify iommu=pt or iommu.passthrough=on in the settings);
- Added ability to enable NVDIMM in memory mode via kernel option page_alloc.shuffle=1;
- Support for virtual users has been added to vsftpd;
- Added package policycoreutils with utilities for configuring SELinux policies;
- By default, the fs.protected_hardlinks kernel option is enabled, which enables additional protection against hard link attacks;
- Added assembly for WSL environments (Windows Subsystem for Linux);
- Added support for Intel OPA (Omni-Path Architecture) and operation in memory mode of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory chips.
- Implementation of the Chacha20 and Poly1305 algorithms has been added to OpenSSL, using SIMD instructions to speed up, which allows the use of Chacha20 and Poly1305 in TLS 1.3;
- Added cpufreq driver for Raspberry Pi and enabled audio output via HDMI port (for Raspberry Pi 3).
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