[ANNOUNCEMENT] SLE15 SP6 is GOLD

[Michal Svec]

This is great news - thanks a lot to all involved!

SLE 15 SP6 is a key release for SUSE, it brings a lot of changes, updates 
and new features and is an important milestone in the SLE 15 timeline.

We will now work on the preparations for the public release. We are going 
to announce it on SUSECON in a few weeks, and our customers will be able 
to install it on June 26th.

Again, thanks to everyone who has helped with the release!

Regards
Michal

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Michal Svec
Senior Product Manager
SUSE Linux Enterprise



On Thu, 30 May 2024, Radoslav Tsvetkov wrote:

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> Hello everyone,
> 
> We are happy to announce a Gold Master for SLE15 SP6 with some really cool features and a new kernel.
> 
> The Gold Master media is only released to our partners in the Partner Beta Program. The updated online channels are accessible to all members of the Public Beta Program.
> The images are identical to the GMC-202405 released for the Gold Master Acceptance Week.
> 
> First Customer Shipment (FCS) is planned for Wednesday, June 26th, 2024.
> 
> The Release Management Team wants to say a big
> 
>            THANK YOU !
> 
> to everybody who made this release possible!
> 
> Thank you for your contributions of code, documentation, testing, enhancement requests, and bug reports, which made SLE15 SP6 a great release!
> 
> Download Links
> ==============
> You can get the GM ISO images from:
> http://download.suse.de/install/SLE-15-SP6-Full-GM
> http://download.suse.de/install/SLE-15-SP6-Online-GM
> http://download.suse.de/install/SLE-15-SP6-Minimal-GM
> 
> 
> Next Steps
> ==========
> - GA Branch will be locked immediately
> - First Customer Shipment (FCS): 2024-06-26
> 
> 
> Upgrading a PublicRC-202404 installation to the latest Snapshot
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> During the development of SLE15 SP6 all packages are delivered via the
> Pool channel. These channels are updated with every new Release
> Milestone. To not override an existing installation, the Pool channel
> repositories on a Beta installation are set to not auto-refresh when
> `zypper` is called.
> 
> If a customer wants to do an unsupported upgrade to a newer Release
> Milestone release, they either need to enable the auto-refresh of all
> Pool channels via `sudo zypper -r <repo-ID` or call `sudo zypper ref -
> -force` before every update. The `<repo-ID` can be looked up via
> `zypper lr`. Just like with Tumbleweed the usage of `sudo zypper dup`
> is the recommended way of updating the system afterwards
> 
> Your Release Team
> 
> 
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> Radoslav TsvetkovSenior Program Manager SUSE BCL Linux
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