SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 Beta 4 is out!

[SUSE Beta Program]

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?

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

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[1]:https://www.suse.com/download/sle-micro/
[2]:https://susedoc.github.io/doc-modular/main/html/SLE-os-id
entification/

[3]:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231458
[4]:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238579
[5]:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240605
[6]:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242132
[7]:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238900
[8]:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241673
[9]:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228126
[10]:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242592
[11]:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242805
[12]:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242806
[13]:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240423
[14]:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238606
[15]:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240606
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