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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">We are thrilled to announce the <font color="#ff6a52"><strong>Beta2</strong></font>
of <font color="#30ba78"><strong>SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.1</strong></font>!</p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.1 is a modern operating system primarily targeted for edge computing.</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro leverages the enterprise-hardened technology components of SUSE Linux Enterprise and merges that with what developers want from a modern, secure, immutable OS platform. As a result, you get an ultra-reliable infrastructure platform that is also simple to use and comes out-of-the-box with best-in-class compliance.</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Using SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro, you can build and scale differentiating systems across a wide range of industries including aerospace, telecom, automotive, defense, healthcare, hospitality, and manufacturing.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.1 is available on the AMD64 and Intel* 64 (x86_64), Arm* 64, IBM* POWER (ppc64le) and IBM* z System or LinuxONE (s390x) hardware architectures.
For more information, please refer Release Notes.</p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">You can download SLE Micro 6.1 Beta2 from <a href="https://www.suse.com/betaprogram/micro-beta" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">https://www.suse.com/betaprogram/micro-beta</a>.</p>
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<center>Notable Changes</center>
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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">PED-8466 - SLE Micro 6.1 adds general support for the IBM Power platform (ppc64le) to the product. It requires at least IBM Power9. IBM Power8 is not supported. The support for IBM Power is currently still in progress and not yet finalized.</p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">PED-8686 - Added soft-reboot support (more info https://microos.opensuse.org/blog/2024-06-13-soft-reboot/ )</p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">SMO-353 - Include vhostmd for SAP Virtualization</p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">PED-8599 - Secure offline updates from USB thumb drives</p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">PED-8234 - chrony-pool-empty for Sles Micro</p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">PED-8497 - pf-bb-config available on SL Micro</p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Number of packages have been updated</p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Multiple bugfixes</p>
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<center>Known issues</center>
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<center>Functional</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229146" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1229146</a>:openQA test fails in journal_check: basic.target: Job cockpit-ws-user.service/stop deleted to break ordering cycle starting with basic.target/stop</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215377" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1215377</a>:plugin /usr/sbin/sedispatch terminated unexpectedly</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215378" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1215378</a>:libvirtd[982]: error from service: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.login1.OperationInProgress: The operation inhibition has been requested for is already running</li>
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<center>Kernel</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229138" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1229138</a>:P2 - kdump can't be setup on sl micro on s390x architecture - confirmed issue</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229207" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1229207</a>:High crashkernel memory requirements for kdump on SL Micro encrypted image</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229025" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1229025</a>:SLERT-15SP6: /proc/sys/kernel/printk does not exist</li>
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<center>Filesystems</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229160" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1229160</a>:generic/754 fails on xfs</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228321" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1228321</a>:btrfs/300 fails</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210821" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1210821</a>:NFSv3 issue, known issue from 15SP5</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218042" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1218042</a>:generic/730 fails on btrfs, known issue from 15SP6</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223284" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1223284</a>:generic/741 fails on btrfs, known issue from 15SP6</li>
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<center>Containers</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215377" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1215377</a>:plugin /usr/sbin/sedispatch terminated unexpectedly</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229231" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1229231</a>:systemd units ordering cycles</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215378" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1215378</a>:libvirtd[982]: error from service: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.login1.OperationInProgress: The operation inhibition has been requested for is already running</li>
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<center>Migration</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229132" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1229132</a>:SELinux: pam_wtmpdb module is not allowed to open wtmp database if called by /bin/login</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223259" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1223259</a>:sedispatch[1192]: Connection Error (Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused): AVC Will be dropped</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215377" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1215377</a>:plugin /usr/sbin/sedispatch terminated unexpectedly</li>
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<center>Security</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218181" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1218181</a>:[SLEM][6.0][Build7.1][x86_64][encrypted] systemd-cryptsetup reports error "Device luks is still in use" at every vm reboot</li>
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<center>Virtualization</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229131" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1229131</a>:[SLEM][6.1][Build9.15] Some guests fail to install due to "Could not run /usr/bin/swtpm_setup"</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218181" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1218181</a>:[SLEM][6.0][Build7.1][x86_64][encrypted] systemd-cryptsetup reports error "Device luks is still in use" at every vm reboot</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210429" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">bsc#1210429</a>:reduce timeout when no ignition/combustion config is provided //For now, we have to wait for almost 10 - 15 mins to boot up ppc64le qemu images successfully due to this bug</li>
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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">If you have any questions, please contact us at <a href="mailto:beta-programs@suse.com" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">beta-programs@suse.com</a>.</p>
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