[ANNOUNCE] SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 Public Beta is out!

[SUSE Beta Program]

We are delighted to announce the Public Beta for SUSE Linux Enterprise
15 Service Pack 3!

Download[1]

openSUSE Leap 15.3 & SLE 15 SP3

Starting with SP3, we are now offering packages pre-built binaries
from SLE in addition to the sources we were previously providing to
openSUSE. This means that openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise are
closer together than before, thus easing the migration from openSUSE
Leap to SLES.

This article[2] will tell you more about how openSUSE and SLE was made
in the past years but also the important changes with openSUSE Leap
15.3 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 3.

You can find our documentation about the migration from here[3], but
also on the openSUSE wiki[4].

Notable Changes since SLE 15 SP2

Selection

Please note that information mentioned here are just the tip of the
iceberg, i.e it's just a selection so check out our Release Notes[5]
and Changelog files[6] for more details and a full list of changes.

- New SUSE branding (fonts, wallpaper, etc)
- SLES 15 SP3 Beta Base container is available in the SUSE registry and
they will be updated weekly.
- Linux Kernel 5.3.18
- glibc 2.31
- perl 5.26.1, nodejs 14.15.4, ruby 2.5.8, python3 3.6.12, python39
3.9.0
- Mozilla Firefox 78.7.1 and Mozilla Thunderbird 78.7.0
- Many packages were updated for FIPS compliance
- Rootless Container feature is now supported with podman
- xca is replacing YAST2 CA Management
- Adding betaversion to PRETTY NAME and remove it from VERSION_ID in
/etc/os-release
- systemd 246.10 which now provides OCI container management via
systemd
- PostgreSQL13 is now the default PostgreSQL version on SLE 15 SP3.
PostgreSQL12 and PostgreSQL10 have been moved to the Legacy Module
for migration purposes. Please check out here[7] for more
information.
- MariaDB 10.5 is now the default mariaDB version on SLE 15 SP3, it's
also the current upstream major stable version, first release in June
2020. Please check out here[8] for more information.•

Migration issues on aarch64

bsc#1182776[8] and bsc#1182749[9] are breaking Service Pack
migration using Installer/YaST on aarch64 with SecureBoot enabled.
As a workaround, migrate with zypper migration or disable SecureBoot
before doing the migration.

More information

Schedule[10]
Changelog[11]
Known issues[11]

Questions?

If you have any question, please contact us at
beta-programs at suse.com.

Your SUSE Linux Enterprise team

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[1]:https://scc.suse.com/products/2140
[2]:https://www.suse.com/c/how-suse-builds-its-enterprise-lin
ux-distribution-part-5/

[3]:https://susedoc.github.io/doc-sle/main/single-html/SLES-u
pgrade/#sec-upgrade-online-leap-to-sle

[4]:https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:How_to_migrate_to_SLE
[5]:https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/15-SP3
/

[6]:https://suse.com/betaprogram/sle-beta/#changelogs
[7]:https://suse.com/betaprogram/sle-beta/#notable
[8]:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182776
[9]:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182749
[10]:https://suse.com/betaprogram/sle-beta/#releases
[11]:https://suse.com/betaprogram/sle-beta/#knownissues
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