After a year of development, SUSE has released the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7 distribution. The SUSE Linux Enterprise platform is the basis for such products as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing, and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension. 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 the aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, and x86_64 architectures. The release will be supported until June 2031, not counting the extended support programs LTSS and LTSS Core, which will be valid until 2034 and 2037.
Unlike previous releases, openSUSE Leap 15.7 is not planned to be based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7. openSUSE Leap 15.6 will be replaced by openSUSE Leap 16.0, which is expected to be released in the fall. openSUSE Leap 16 is based on the technologies of the SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 branch that is currently in development, but retains the features of a classic distribution that uses traditional packages. At the same time, openSUSE Leap 16 uses a new installer, has switched to the SELinux mandatory access control system, and only retains support for Wayland.
Key changes in SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7:
- The distribution continues to use the Linux 6.4 kernel, to which additional features have been backported from more recent branches. For example, changes related to UEFI, crypto key storage, and ACPI have been transferred from the 6.11 branch. Support for MSA 10 XTS, MSA 11 HMAC, and MSA 12 SHA3 has been added to the crypto subsystem. The ability to balance the CPU load has been implemented using cgroupv2. The code for USB4 support has been updated.
- Updated versions of packages include 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 (instead of Redis), PostgreSQL 17. The desktop environment continues to ship with GNOME 45, but the Mesa package has been updated to release 24.2.
- Support for post-quantum encryption algorithms available in OpenSSL, such as the ML-KEM (CRYSTALS-Kyber) key exchange algorithm, which is resistant to brute force on a quantum computer, is enabled by default.
- Expanded hardware support and updated device drivers. Support for Intel Birch Stream server platforms, Intel Arrow and Lunar Lake client CPUs, AMD Zen 5-based processors, AMD Navi 4x GPUs, and IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 platforms has been implemented. New drivers have been added: Ice, ixgbe, IPU, SR-IOV hybrid DMA.
Source: opennet.ru
