From beta-programs at suse.com Wed May 14 16:31:10 2025 From: beta-programs at suse.com (SUSE Beta Program) Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 16:31:10 +0000 Subject: SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 Beta 4 is out! Message-ID: <6824c54ee1034_9a2ac9045465f84288b@4b1aba241bb4.mail> We are happy to announce the Beta 4 of SUSE Linux Micro 6.2! The snapshot media is released internally to our partners and to the public. 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, no salt-minion) 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 x86_64 - Default Images - Same as 5.x default images (includes core OS, podman, virt-stack, cockpit, salt-minion), 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. x86_64 only - SelfInstall-Base - SelfInstalling Base Image (core OS plus podman, no virtualization, no salt-minion). X86_64, aarch64 and ppc64le - SelfInstall-Default - Same as 5.x default images (includes core OS, podman, virt-stack, cockpit, salt-minion). X86_64, aarch64 and ppc64le - Extras - Additional packages (requested by various parties) that are shipped without any support - Packages - Which are Non-bootable ISO for off-line access to the repos Some images do have also RT variant which includes real time kernel instead of the standard one Important Notice - There has been a change in /etc/os-release which is now present in Beta4 snapshot. Please make sure you understand the impact of this change. 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) - Droped LTTng for ALP (PED-258) - Provided the NVIDIA open driver CUDA KMPs with SLE Micro (SMO-436) - 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) - Switched to predictable network names with next generation of enterprise Linux (PED-248) - Dropped numad (PED-7920) - Add 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) - We should make sure nerdctl is not part of SLES 16.0 (PED-12279) - Added policycoreutils-python-utils for Micro (PED-12670) - Default OCI runtime is crun instead of runc /already present in Beta3/ (PED-12341) - Various bugfixes were made - Number of packages have been updated Changed Architecture - Added 64K page size aarch64 images Known issues General - Bug #1231458[3]:Journal log has "localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Platform Persistent Storage Archival" - Bug #1238579[4]:Journal log has "Failed to release session: No session '2' known" - Bug #1240605[5]:Failed to start TPM2 Access Broker and Resource Management Daemon Containers - Bug #1242132[6]:Failed to start toolbox container as rootless user Kernel - Bug #1238900[7]:LTP openposix test mmap_24-1 causes oom-killer reported for sle16, not tested on micro, but kernels are same - Bug #1241673[8]:6.12 based kernel from SUSE-2025 is missing backport 76486b104168a - fix submitted, but not in SLE16/Micro yet Image configuration - Bug 1228126[9]:Encrypted image fails to boot after reinstalling bootloader - Bug 1242592[10]:pam_wtmpdb(login:session): update_logout: Updating logout time did not return SQLITE_DONE - Bug 1242805[11]:Failed to start Apply settings from /etc/sysconfig/keyboard - Bug 1242806[12]:Failed to start Rollback Helper for Registration Security - Bug #1240423[13]:Encrypted system fails to boot with FIPS enabled - Bug #1238606[14]:[SELinux] default-encrypted: healthchecker: journal errors "SELinux is preventing findmnt from read access - Bug #1240606[15]:[FIPS] x509 certificate generation still uses SHA1 (stunnel openqa module) Questions? 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