{"id":147547,"date":"2025-11-06T23:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/blog\/novosti-interneta\/reliz-distributiva-suse-linux-enterprise-server-16"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:11:55","slug":"reliz-distributiva-suse-linux-enterprise-server-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/en\/blog\/news\/reliz-distributiva-suse-linux-enterprise-server-16","title":{"rendered":"Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
SUSE has published the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 branch has been formed seven years after the release of SUSE 15. SUSE 16 packages are already used as the basis in the community-supported distribution openSUSE Leap 16. 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. <\/p>\n
For the SUSE Linux 16 branch, a more predictable and flexible release cycle will be provided. Instead of Service Pack updates (SP), a scheme with interim releases (16.1, 16.2, etc.) and long-term support (LTS - Long Term Support) will be implemented. The total support time for the SUSE Linux 16 branch will be 16 years. A total of 7 interim releases are planned - from 16.0 to 16.6, each of which will be published annually in November. Updates for each individual interim release will be supported for 5 years - 2 years of general support and 3 years of extended (LTS). <\/p>\n
Key changes (1, 2, 3, 4): <\/p>\n
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A new installer, Agama, has been implemented, notable for separating the user interface from the internal components of YaST and providing a frontend for managing installations via a web interface.\n
The system management stack has been modernized. Instead of the traditional YaST stack for system management, the Cockpit package has been used, and Myrlyn replaces the YaST Software GUI. Support for SysV initialization scripts has been discontinued. Only systemd units are allowed.\n
By default, only desktop environments using Wayland are offered. The X.org Server has been removed from the distribution. Support for running X11-based applications is maintained via XWayland. The base desktop environment is based on GNOME 48. The VNC server, GTK2, Qt5, and wxWidgets have been discontinued.\n
The capabilities for automatic snapshot creation have been expanded with filesystem state snapshots based on Btrfs and the Snapper utility. Snapshots can now be used in system images for cloud platforms. By default, the ability to roll back changes is integrated into all components, and the administrator can roll back virtually any change - from system updates to applying individual patches and modifying configurations.\n
The core now includes support for Live patches, enabling the fixing of vulnerabilities and critical errors in the kernel and libraries such as glibc and openssl without the need to restart the system.\n
Support for the x86-64-v1 architecture has been discontinued. Operation is only possible on x86 systems with x86_64-v2 architecture, which has been supported by processors since around 2009 (starting with Intel Nehalem) and is characterized by the presence of extensions such as SSE3, SSE4_2, SSSE3, POPCNT, LAHF-SAHF, and CMPXCHG16B.\n
By default, kernel support for 32-bit x86 systems and running 32-bit executables is disabled. To restore support for 32-bit system calls, the parameter \"ia32_emulation=1\" should be set when booting the Linux kernel.\n
The SELinux mandatory access control system is enabled by default. AppArmor support has been deprecated.\n
The Ansible toolkit for configuration management, orchestration, centralized application installation, and parallel execution of standard tasks across a group of systems is included. System roles have been added for configuring various system components, including the firewall, ha_cluster, selinux, and podman. Support for Salt has been retained as an option.\n
Libraries with built-in support for cryptographic algorithms resistant to attacks by quantum computers, such as ML-KEM and ML-DSA, are included. Support for these algorithms is provided in OpenSSL 3.5, Libgcrypt 1.11.1, Mozilla NSS 3.112, and Go 1.24.\n
Support for reproducible builds has been implemented, allowing the creation of custom builds that match the provided ready-to-download builds bit-by-bit, ensuring that the binaries distributed in packages are built from the provided source code and do not contain hidden modifications.\n
The year 2038 problem has been fully resolved. All packages have been transitioned to use the 64-bit time_t type in the distribution ports for 32-bit architectures, where the 32-bit time_t type was still used (this cannot handle time beyond January 19, 2038, due to the overflow of the second counter since January 1, 1970).\n
The network configurator wicked has been replaced by NetworkManager.\n
NFTables is now the default packet filter instead of iptables.\n
Transitioned from the ISC DHCP server to KEA DHCP.\n
The supply of the Xen hypervisor has been discontinued - a different hypervisor will be used as the primary virtualization solution. KVM<\/a>.\n