After over a year of development distribution release . The release is built using a base set of packages from the development distribution of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2, on top of which newer releases of custom applications from the repository are provided. . For loading universal DVD build, 4 GB, stripped down image for installation with network download of packages (138 MB) and with KDE (910 MB) and GNOME (820 MB). The release is built for x86_64, ARM (aarch64, armv7) and POWER (ppc64le) architectures.
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- Updated distribution. As with SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2, the base Linux kernel continues to be shipped based on the (last release used kernel 4.12). The kernel is similar to that used in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 2 distribution and is maintained by SUSE.
Of the changes, support for AMD Navi GPUs and ensuring compatibility with Intel Speed ββSelect technology used in servers based on the Intel Xeon CPU are noted. Provided kernel variant with Real-Time patches for real-time systems. As with the previous two releases, systemd version 234 is shipped.
- In addition to GCC 7 (Leap 15.0) and GCC 8 (Leap 15.1), packages with a set of compilers have been added . The distribution also offers new releases of PHP 7.4.6, Python 3.6.10, Perl 5.26, Clang 9, Ruby 2.5, CUPS 2.2.7, DNF 4.2.19.
- From user applications (last release was 4.12), (was 3.26) (was 5.12) , , , , Qt 5.12, Mesa 19.3, X.org Server 1.20.3, Wayland 1.18, VLC 3.0.7, GNU Health 3.6.4, ,
. - As in the previous release, Network Manager is offered by default for setting up a network for desktops and laptops. Server builds continue to use Wicked by default. A script is used to generate Let's Encrypt certificates .
- Updated the Snapper utility responsible for creating Btrfs and LVM snapshots with slices of the file system state and rolling back changes (for example, you can return an accidentally overwritten file or restore the system state after installing packages). Snapper introduces the ability to output in a new format that is optimized for machine parsing and easier to use in scripts. The plugin for libzypp has been redesigned, which is free from being tied to the Python language and can be used in environments with a reduced set of packages.
- The installer has a simpler dialog for selecting a system role. Improved display of information about the installation progress. Improved storage device management when installed on Raspberry Pi boards. Improved detection of Windows partitions encrypted with BitLocker.
- The YaST configurator implements the separation of system settings between the /usr/etc and /etc directories. Improved compatibility of YaST Firstboot with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) on Windows.
The network configuration module has been redesigned. Improved usability of the disk partitioning interface and added the ability to create and manage Btrfs partitions spanning multiple drives. Improved performance of the Software Manager application installation interface. Extended functionality of the NFS module. - Additional settings have been added to the AutoYaST automated mass installation system and reporting of possible errors in installation profiles has been improved.
- The ability to upgrade openSUSE Leap server installations to SUSE Linux Enterprise is provided, which allows you to develop a project on openSUSE, and when ready to migrate to SLE if necessary, obtain commercial support, certification and an extended update delivery cycle.
- The repository includes packages with frameworks and applications related to machine learning. Including Tensorflow and PyTorch are now available for quick installation, support for the ONNX format is provided for distributing machine learning models.
- Grafana and Prometheus packages have been added, which allow organizing visual monitoring and analysis of changes in metrics on charts.
- Officially supported packages have been provided for deploying a container isolation infrastructure based on the Kubernetes platform. Added Helm package manager for installing Kubernetes components.
Added packages with runtime CRI-O (a lightweight alternative to Docker) that conforms to the Container Runtime Interface (CRI) specification from the Open Container Initiative (OCI). To organize secure network interaction between containers, a package with the network subsystem has been added . - Support for the Server system roles and . Server uses a traditional set of packages to create a minimal server environment, while Transactional Server offers a configuration for server systems that uses a transactional update mechanism and a read-only mounted root partition.
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