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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">We are happy to announce <font color="#ff6a52"><strong>Public Release Candidate</strong></font> for
<font color="#30ba78"><strong>SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 3</strong></font>!
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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">This is an important milestone towards our official release! It is without saying that now our <a href="https://www.suse.com/c/how-suse-builds-its-enterprise-linux-distribution-part-3/" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Release Management team</a> will only accept code submissions for <strong>security fixes and the most important bug fixes!</strong></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><strong>Everything else will be considered for Maintenance Updates post-release or to be integrated in the future Service Pack 4.</strong></p>
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<h2 style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; color: #30ba78;">
<center>What happened since Public Beta</center>
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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">In less than 2 months since the Public Beta, we have updated 383 packages, added 136 new ones and
removed a grant total of 26 packages.</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">All of these were provided to you as updates through our online channels, but now we have respinned
our Installation Media which are available for <a href="https://suse.com/betaprogram/sle-beta/#download" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">download</a>. Please refer to our <a href="https://suse.com/betaprogram/sle-beta/#faq-reg" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">FAQ</a>
for more information on our Update Channels.</p>
<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">You can check out our <a href="https://suse.com/betaprogram/sle-beta/#changelogs" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">complete changelog files</a> for more information,
but be aware that these files are huge and contain a lot of information. Thus we recommend you to
look for specific package entries or to check out our updated <a href="https://suse.com/betaprogram/sle-beta/#releasenotes" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Release Notes</a>
for a more general and abstracted source of information.</p>
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<center>Kernel Application Binary Interface (kABI) freeze</center>
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<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Since Online Update 20210409 there won't be any changes regarding the set of in-kernel symbols used by drivers and
other kernel modules (i.e kABI).</p>
<h3 style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center; color: #30ba78;">Updated Kernel</h3>
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<li>kernel-source: 5.3.18-56.2</li>
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<h3 style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center; color: #30ba78;">Updated packages (selection)</h3>
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<li>389-ds: 1.4.4.14~git0.37dc95673-1.1</li>
<li>autoyast2 4.3.77-1.1</li>
<li>MozillaFirefox: 78.10.0-8.38.1</li>
<li>MozillaThunderbird: 78.10.0-8.23.1</li>
<li>gcc10: 10.2.1+git583-1.3.4</li>
<li>gcc7: 7.5.0+r278197-4.25.1</li>
<li>git: 2.26.2-3.31.1</li>
<li>gnome-shell: 3.34.5-8.1</li>
<li>go1.16: 1.16.2-1.8.1</li>
<li>nginx: 1.19.8-1.1</li>
<li>nodejs14: 14.16.0-5.9.1</li>
<li>openldap2: 2.4.46-9.51.1</li>
<li>openssl-1_0_0: 1.0.2p-3.37.1</li>
<li>openssl-1_1: 1.1.1d-11.20.1</li>
<li>mariadb: 10.5.8-1.5</li>
<li>postgresql13: 13.2-5.6.1</li>
<li>python39: 3.9.0-3.21</li>
<li>qemu: 5.2.0-9.16</li>
<li>redis: 6.0.10-1.7.1</li>
<li>rmt-server: 2.6.8-1.1</li>
<li>ruby2: 2.5.8-4.14.1</li>
<li>s390-tools: 2.15.1-6.4</li>
<li>salt: 3002.2-6.1</li>
<li>scap-security-guide: 0.1.54-1.7.2</li>
<li>shim: 15.4-1.2</li>
<li>slurm: 20.11.5-bp153.1.2</li>
<li>systemd: 246.13-4.2</li>
<li>transactional-update: 3.2.2-1.1</li>
<li>wicked: 0.6.65-2.1</li>
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<h2 style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center; color: #30ba78;">openSUSE Leap 15.3 RC</h2>
<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Since openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise are developed in sync, <a href="https://news.opensuse.org/2021/04/28/opensuse-leap-153-enters-rc-phase/" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">openSUSE Leap 15.3 is also
entering the Release Candidate phase</a>.</p>
<h2 style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center; color: #30ba78;">One more thing</h2>
<p style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">William Brown from our 389-ds team taped an awesome video about <a href="https://youtu.be/qrbtWOXOhtA" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">Migrating to 389-ds from openldap2</a> on
YouTube. Please check it out and we would be happy to hear about your migration test with SLES 15 SP3.</p>
<h2 style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; color: #30ba78; text-align: center;">More information</h2>
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<a href="https://suse.com/betaprogram/sle-beta/#knownissues" class="hover-bg-jungle" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; background-color: #0c322c; display: inline-block; font-weight: 600; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1; margin-left: 14px; padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: center; color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none;">Known issues</a>
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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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