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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">Release Candidate 3 (Public RC)</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;">This is a public milestone!</p>
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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) 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 aarch64 and x86_64</li>
<li><b>Default Images</b> - 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.</li>
<li><b>Default-encrypted</b> - Encrypted Default image for use with FDE. aarch64 and x86_64 only</li>
<li><b>SelfInstall-Base</b> - SelfInstalling Base Image (core OS plus podman, no virtualization). X86_64, aarch64 and ppc64le</li>
<li><b>SelfInstall-Default</b> - Same as 5.x default images (includes core OS, podman, virt-stack, cockpit). X86_64, aarch64 and ppc64le</li>
<li><b>RaspberryPi</b> - RaspberryPi-specific raw image</li>
<li><b>Packages</b> - Which are Non-bootable ISO for off-line access to the repos</li>
<li><b>Extras</b> - 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</li>
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<center>Important Notice</center>
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<li><b>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: <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>Provided the NVIDIA open driver CUDA KMPs with SLE Micro (SMO-436)</li>
<li>Package HELM added (SMO-471)</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>Included podmansh in Micro (SMO-561)</li>
<li>Speed-up image reencryption (SMO-572)</li>
<li>Package sensors added (SMO-575)</li>
<li>"Declarative networking" support based on nm-configurator (SMO-582)</li>
<li>Switched to predictable network names with next generation of enterprise Linux (PED-248)</li>
<li>Droped LTTng for ALP (PED-258)</li>
<li>Dropped numad (PED-7920)</li>
<li>Added 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>Added support for systemd-sysext (PED-12183)</li>
<li>We should make sure nerdctl is not part of SLES 16.0 (PED-12279)</li>
<li>Removed docker-compose-switch from SLFO/Micro (PED-12302)</li>
<li>Default OCI runtime is crun instead of runc /already present in Beta3/ (PED-12341)</li>
<li>Full-Disk Encryption for aarch64 (PED-12343)</li>
<li>The contents of os-release file harmonized across SLFO products (PED-12396)</li>
<li>Make podman not require iptables (PED-12518)</li>
<li>Revisit aarch64 images (PED-12522)</li>
<li>Added policycoreutils-python-utils for Micro (PED-12670)</li>
<li>Removal of criu from SLE16 repos (PED-12787)</li>
<li>Various bugfixes were made</li>
<li>Number of packages have been updated</li>
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<center>Image changes</center>
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<li>Added new images for aarch64:
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<li>PXE boot Base and Default image with 64kb page size kernel</li>
<li>Encrypted RAW Base and Default image for aarch64 with 64kb page size kernel</li>
<li>Raw image for RaspberryPi</li>
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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=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>
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<center>Kernel</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245591" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1245591</a>:ltp cgroup regression test failing to mount cgroup filesystem</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246450" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1246450</a>:LTP case ioctl10 failed in openQA test</li>
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<center>Filesystems</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246235" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1246235</a>:fstests generic/478 fails with pnfs</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;">Bug #1210821</a>:fstests generic/444 fails in nfs3</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246131" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1246131</a>:fstests btrfs/282 fails</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244684" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1244684</a>:fstests generic/753 fails on xfs (waiting for upstream to fix)</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235837" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1235837</a>:fstests xfs/273 fails</li>
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<center>Containers</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246348" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1246348</a>:[Build 28.4][SElinux] dockerd-rootless-setuptool.sh install raises denials</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244035" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1244035</a>:might impact 6.2 as well, current docker version in 6.2 RC1 is the same as reported in the bug</li>
<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244448" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1244448</a>:docker-compose package pulls all docker dependencies when used with podman</li>
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<center>Image configuration</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223349" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1223349</a>:grub's gfxpayload sets wrong resolution in vmware UEFI VM</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=1244078" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1244078</a>:health-checker.service/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with cloud-final.service/start</li>
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<center>Security</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246134" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1246134</a>:[Build 15.14] kernel: basic hdkf test(hmac(sha256-generic)): hkdf_extract failed with -22</li>
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<center>Virtualization</center>
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<li><a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239993" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Bug #1239993</a>:[Kubevirt][Build5.5] http: server gave HTTP response to HTTPS client</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>
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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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