From beta-programs at suse.com Wed Aug 6 14:58:46 2025 From: beta-programs at suse.com (SUSE Beta Program) Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 14:58:46 +0000 Subject: SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 Release Candidate 3 (Public RC) is out! Message-ID: <68936da668455_2c02ae6ef3e660090925@5dd3827e6f42.mail> We are happy to announce the Release Candidate 3 (Public RC) of SUSE Linux Micro 6.2! This is a public milestone! Download Download from SUSE web page[1] What we are delivering - Base Images - Base image (core OS plus podman, no virtualization) for all architectures, Including QCOW2 and VMDK (x86_64 only) versions. For s390x includes FBA, DASD and KVM image. - Base-encrypted Images - Encrypted base image (as above) for use with FDE on aarch64 and x86_64 - Default Images - Same as 5.x default images (includes core OS, podman, virt-stack, cockpit), all architectures. Including QCOW2 and VMDK (x86_64) versions. For s390x includes FBA, DASD and KVM image. - Default-encrypted - Encrypted Default image for use with FDE. aarch64 and x86_64 only - SelfInstall-Base - SelfInstalling Base Image (core OS plus podman, no virtualization). X86_64, aarch64 and ppc64le - SelfInstall-Default - Same as 5.x default images (includes core OS, podman, virt-stack, cockpit). X86_64, aarch64 and ppc64le - RaspberryPi - RaspberryPi-specific raw image - Packages - Which are Non-bootable ISO for off-line access to the repos - Extras - Additional packages (requested by various parties) that are shipped without any support Some images do have also RT variant which includes real time kernel instead of the standard one Important Notice - The already announced change for /etc/os-release is present in this milestone. Please make sure you understand the impact of this change. There is a dedicated topic about that change in the release notes. For details see: SLE-os-identification[2] Notes - Package repository is in the same directory. It is inside Packages ISO image, which contains the repository, but is not bootable. - Additional packages (requested by various parties) that are shipped without any support are available in the Extras ISO image. Implemented features and changes - Cockpit-machines: User can choose UEFI as default when creating new virtual machines (SMO-224) - Provided the NVIDIA open driver CUDA KMPs with SLE Micro (SMO-436) - Package HELM added (SMO-471) - Updated python-kiwi (SMO-502) - Removed Salt Minion from Micro (SMO-509) - Added cloud-init for ppc64le raw images (SMO-517) - Added cloud-init for s390x raw images (SMO-518) - Included podmansh in Micro (SMO-561) - Speed-up image reencryption (SMO-572) - Package sensors added (SMO-575) - "Declarative networking" support based on nm-configurator (SMO-582) - Switched to predictable network names with next generation of enterprise Linux (PED-248) - Droped LTTng for ALP (PED-258) - Dropped numad (PED-7920) - Added subscription status tab to cockpit and allow the customer to introduce subscription information there (PED-8548) - virt-v2v in SLE micro 6 (PED-8652) - Build 64K page size aarch64 images (PED-8758) - UserSpace Live Patching: support transactional system properly (PED-11009) - Support KVM host on IBM Power with Micro (PED-11137) - Added support for systemd-sysext (PED-12183) - We should make sure nerdctl is not part of SLES 16.0 (PED-12279) - Removed docker-compose-switch from SLFO/Micro (PED-12302) - Default OCI runtime is crun instead of runc /already present in Beta3/ (PED-12341) - Full-Disk Encryption for aarch64 (PED-12343) - The contents of os-release file harmonized across SLFO products (PED-12396) - Make podman not require iptables (PED-12518) - Revisit aarch64 images (PED-12522) - Added policycoreutils-python-utils for Micro (PED-12670) - Removal of criu from SLE16 repos (PED-12787) - Various bugfixes were made - Number of packages have been updated Image changes - Added new images for aarch64: -- PXE boot Base and Default image with 64kb page size kernel -- Encrypted RAW Base and Default image for aarch64 with 64kb page size kernel -- Raw image for RaspberryPi Known issues Functional - Bug #1231458[3]:Journal log has "localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Platform Persistent Storage Archival" Kernel - Bug #1245591[4]:ltp cgroup regression test failing to mount cgroup filesystem - Bug #1246450[5]:LTP case ioctl10 failed in openQA test Filesystems - Bug #1246235[6]:fstests generic/478 fails with pnfs - Bug #1210821[7]:fstests generic/444 fails in nfs3 - Bug #1246131[8]:fstests btrfs/282 fails - Bug #1244684[9]:fstests generic/753 fails on xfs (waiting for upstream to fix) - Bug #1235837[10]:fstests xfs/273 fails Containers - Bug #1246348[11]:[Build 28.4][SElinux] dockerd-rootless-setuptool.sh install raises denials - Bug #1244035[12]:might impact 6.2 as well, current docker version in 6.2 RC1 is the same as reported in the bug - Bug #1244448[13]:docker-compose package pulls all docker dependencies when used with podman Image configuration - Bug #1223349[14]:grub's gfxpayload sets wrong resolution in vmware UEFI VM - Bug #1242805[15]:Failed to start Apply settings from /etc/sysconfig/keyboard - Bug #1244078[16]:health-checker.service/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with cloud-final.service/start Security - Bug #1246134[17]:[Build 15.14] kernel: basic hdkf test(hmac(sha256-generic)): hkdf_extract failed with -22 Virtualization - Bug #1239993[18]:[Kubevirt][Build5.5] http: server gave HTTP response to HTTPS client - Bug #1242592[19]:pam_wtmpdb(login:session): update_logout: Updating logout time did not return SQLITE_DONE Questions? 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