[sles-beta] [sleha-beta] [ANNOUNCE] SLE 12 SP2 is GOLD!

[Stefan Behlert]

On Nov 03, 16 07:23:00 +0000, Janos.Mattyasovszky at bmw.de wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> Thanks for the update. 
> Do you have an estimate when SLES12 SP2 is officially announced?

We are planning to announce SLE 12 SP2 on November 8th.
This will also the day when the official download pages will go live.
The actual time of day depends on the timezone you are in ;)

> I have already asked some third party vendors how their products will be
> certified with sles12, but they told me they cannot give any answers
> until SUSE announces SLES12 SP2 officially.

What a pity. I unfortunately cannot help there, as I am not involved in
these certifications and partner businesses.

        Stefan
> 
> Thanks,
> Janos
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sleha-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com [mailto:sleha-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Behlert
> Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2016 08:21
> To: sleha-beta at lists.suse.com
> Cc: sles-beta at lists.suse.com; sled-beta at lists.suse.com
> Subject: Re: [sleha-beta] [ANNOUNCE] SLE 12 SP2 is GOLD!
> 
> Moin,
> 
> 
> as information for all who tried to download the ISOs in the last hours:
> 
> We see the distribution to the various mirrors for download being slow atm.
> This  might be caused by preparing the official download mirrors and the
> repositories (which wil get activated with the FCS).
> 
> If you have already downloaded GMC2, you can safely continue to use them -
> the only change compared to GMC3 is the default behavior mentioned - which
> is one file in the isos.
> The rest is binary identical.
> 
> We are sorry for the delay.
> 
>         Stefan
> 
> 
> On Nov 02, 16 23:10:59 +0100, Stefan Behlert wrote:
> > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> > !!  SUSE CONFIDENTIAL  !!  SUSE CONFIDENTIAL  !!  SUSE CONFIDENTIAL  !!
> > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> > 
> > 
> > Dear All,
> > 
> > We are happy to announce that after the final validation and acceptance
> > phase we have a Goldmaster for
> > 
> >         SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 2
> >         SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 Service Pack 2
> > 	SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 Service Pack 2
> > 	SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 Service Pack 2
> >   	SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 Service Pack 2
> > 
> > 
> > We made one slight change since GMC2, but that has no impact on installed
> > systems:
> >   The default for "self-update of yast2 when installation is started" has been
> >   set to "off". This is equivalent to add "self_update=0" as boot option in
> >   GMC2.
> > Besides that, no changes were done, you can continue to use GMC2.
> > 
> > The correct images are the one with "GMC3" in the name for Desktop and Server,
> > and "GMC2" in all other products.
> > The Goldmaster will only differentiate in the name of the images (replace GMC3
> > with GM), the SHA256SUM of the images will stay the same.
> > 
> > Thank you for the contributions in terms of code, testing, enhancement   
> > requests and bug reports that you have provided to make this a great   
> > release! 
> > 
> >         Your SUSE Linux Enterprise Team
> > 
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> > Stefan Behlert, SUSE LINUX
> > Release Manager Enterprise Server
> >  
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Phone +49-911-74053-173
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