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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">We are happy to announce the <font color="#ff6a52"><strong>Beta 4</strong></font>
of <font color="#30ba78"><strong>SUSE Linux Micro 6.2</strong></font>!</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">The snapshot media is released internally to our partners and to the public. This is a public milestone.</p>
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<center>Download</center>
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<center>What we are delivering</center>
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<li><b>Base Images</b> - 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.</li>
<li><b>Base-encrypted Images</b> - Encrypted base image (as above) for use with FDE on x86_64</li>
<li><b>Default Images</b> - 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.</li>
<li><b>Default-encrypted</b> - Encrypted Default image for use with FDE. x86_64 only</li>
<li><b>SelfInstall-Base</b> - SelfInstalling Base Image (core OS plus podman, no virtualization, no salt-minion). X86_64, aarch64 and ppc64le</li>
<li><b>SelfInstall-Default</b> - Same as 5.x default images (includes core OS, podman, virt-stack, cockpit, salt-minion). X86_64, aarch64 and ppc64le</li>
<li><b>Extras</b> - Additional packages (requested by various parties) that are shipped without any support</li>
<li><b>Packages</b> - 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</li>
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<center>Important Notice</center>
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<li><b>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: <a href="https://susedoc.github.io/doc-modular/main/html/SLE-os-identification/" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">SLE-os-identification</a></b></li>
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<center>Notes</center>
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<li>Package repository is in the same directory. It is inside Packages ISO image, which contains the repository, but is not bootable.</li>
<li>Additional packages (requested by various parties) that are shipped without any support are available in the Extras ISO image.</li>
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<center>Implemented features and changes</center>
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<li>Cockpit-machines: User can choose UEFI as default when creating new virtual machines (SMO-224)</li>
<li>Droped LTTng for ALP (PED-258)</li>
<li>Provided the NVIDIA open driver CUDA KMPs with SLE Micro (SMO-436)</li>
<li>Updated python-kiwi (SMO-502)</li>
<li>Removed Salt Minion from Micro (SMO-509)</li>
<li>Added cloud-init for ppc64le raw images (SMO-517)</li>
<li>Added cloud-init for s390x raw images (SMO-518)</li>
<li>Switched to predictable network names with next generation of enterprise Linux (PED-248)</li>
<li>Dropped numad (PED-7920)</li>
<li>Add subscription status tab to cockpit and allow the customer to introduce subscription information there (PED-8548)</li>
<li>virt-v2v in SLE micro 6 (PED-8652)</li>
<li>Build 64K page size aarch64 images (PED-8758)</li>
<li>UserSpace Live Patching: support transactional system properly (PED-11009)</li>
<li>Support KVM host on IBM Power with Micro (PED-11137)</li>
<li>We should make sure nerdctl is not part of SLES 16.0 (PED-12279)</li>
<li>Added policycoreutils-python-utils for Micro (PED-12670)</li>
<li>Default OCI runtime is crun instead of runc /already present in Beta3/ (PED-12341)</li>
<li>Various bugfixes were made</li>
<li>Number of packages have been updated</li>
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<center>Changed Architecture</center>
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<li>Added 64K page size aarch64 images</li>
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<center>Known issues</center>
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<center>General</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231458" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1231458</a>:Journal log has "localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Platform Persistent Storage Archival"</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238579" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1238579</a>:Journal log has "Failed to release session: No session '2' known"</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240605" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1240605</a>:Failed to start TPM2 Access Broker and Resource Management Daemon</li>
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<center>Containers</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242132" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1242132</a>:Failed to start toolbox container as rootless user</li>
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<center>Kernel</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238900" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1238900</a>:LTP openposix test mmap_24-1 causes oom-killer reported for sle16, not tested on micro, but kernels are same</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241673" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1241673</a>:6.12 based kernel from SUSE-2025 is missing backport 76486b104168a - fix submitted, but not in SLE16/Micro yet</li>
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<center>Image configuration</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228126" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug 1228126</a>:Encrypted image fails to boot after reinstalling bootloader</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242592" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug 1242592</a>:pam_wtmpdb(login:session): update_logout: Updating logout time did not return SQLITE_DONE</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242805" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug 1242805</a>:Failed to start Apply settings from /etc/sysconfig/keyboard</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242806" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug 1242806</a>:Failed to start Rollback Helper for Registration</li>
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<center>Security</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240423" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1240423</a>:Encrypted system fails to boot with FIPS enabled</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238606" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1238606</a>:[SELinux] default-encrypted: healthchecker: journal errors "SELinux is preventing findmnt from read access</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240606" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1240606</a>:[FIPS] x509 certificate generation still uses SHA1 (stunnel openqa module)</li>
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<center>Questions?</center>
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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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