SUSE-RU-2026:23153-1: moderate: Recommended update for saphana-checks
SLE-UPDATES
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Fri Aug 14 12:33:33 UTC 2026
# Recommended update for saphana-checks
Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2026:23153-1
Release Date: 2026-08-07T07:09:09Z
Rating: moderate
References:
* bsc#1247554
Affected Products:
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0
An update that has one fix can now be installed.
## Description:
This update for saphana-checks fixes the following issues:
* Update to version 2607+1.g1b710f6:
* Checks:
* Refine IBM Power power-mode handling for check 1310
* lib_platf_power - fix issue "warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input"
* OS/Hyperscaler:
* SLES16.0 - OS certified
* SLES kernel - minimal versions less than 1y
* SUSE TID 000022679 - SLES15.5 Network performance issues with the Azure mana network driver
* check 2010: unify fixed-kernel logic
* IBM Cloud - add new certified instances
* new GCP instances - m4n* = Intel Emerald Rapids SP
* GCP has renamed 3 x4-megamem-metal instances
* Enhance check 0090 to log tainting kernel modules
* refactor(check/0500_selinux_rhel): Simplify logic and add SLES 16 support
* refactored check (3105_ip_port_range_width.check)
* check(0440): simplify sapconf SLES version logic and usage detection
* refactor(3301): rename Azure AAN check and adjust 1-pair result
* refactor(3304): rename gvnic check, add interface counting and unit tests
* Agents/Tools:
* Google Cloud's Agent for SAP Version 3.15
* Azure azcopy new version available
* HANA:
* check 8050 HANA Infra: update fix boundaries for SAP Notes 3680406 and 3716078
* check 8050 HANA Infra: update for SAP Notes 3680406 min_segment_size, Note 3716078 Savepoints; add Note 3782493 SQL Connections
* SAP HANA new client 2.29.25
* SLES16 - final HANA certified releases
* Code Quality and Refactoring:
* new bashunit version 0.44
* fix(tests): replace HANA_HELPER_PROGVERSION guard with test-specific _NNNN_test_loaded
* check(3100): optimize sysctl scan and add dedicated unit test
* Update to version 2605+1.g870acf3:
* Checks:
* NEW - NVMe enabled on Hyperscalers
* NEW - Azure network tuning and ring buffer checks
* fix checksets check ordering
* check 2010: adapt THP defrag check for kernels with fix
* SLES saptune version 3.2.3
* SAP Host Agent 7.22 PL71
* OS/Hyperscaler:
* SLES kernel issue - SAP HANA Backint backups are extremely slow on SLES 15 SP7
* IBM Cloud, Amazon EC2 - add + remove instances
* Add GCP support to NVMe I/O timeout check
* Amazon Backint agent - new version
* Microsoft Azure azcopy - new version
* Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 3.14
* HANA:
* SAP HANA client new version 2.28.21
* Code Quality and Refactoring
* CI - Minimal required permissions
* CI - shfmt, actions/upload-artifact
* new bashunit version 0.36
* Update to version 2603+1.gc8f2ff9:
* Checks:
* add check 5550 - Azure Premium SSD v1 Write Accelerator
* SLES 15.3 - end of support - remove from checks, framework and unit tests
* Add RC=99 detection to prevent silent check failures
* Fix OS validation to return uncertain (RC=3) for unknown versions
* OS/Hyperscaler:
* Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 3.12
* Azure azcopy new version
* GPFS versions - update to latest recommended; Error message for 5.1 which is at end of support
* Power11 - new hardware certified
* SLES saptune - new version, hotfix THP defrag
* Skip hyperthreading check on hyperscalers
* Check 3301: validate AAN paired with synthetic interfaces on Azure
* check 0102: warn on previous generation AWS EC2 instances; add missing, remove wrong
* SLES kernel - minimal versions less than 1y; THP defrag fixes
* IBM Power EnergyScale settings - Maximum Performance recommended
* GCP - minimal linux kernel requirements
* OS HANA support - SLES - Azure, IBM Power(10|11) - new SAP Note reference
* SAPHanaSR-angi 1.3.0
* SAP Host Agent 7.22 PL70
* Google Cloud's Agent for SAP Version 3.11
* HANA:
* HANA infra issue - landscapeHostConfiguration.py reports "unkown" status after "partial" and before "starting"
* HANA infra issue - Long running Savepoints - replace issue number by new SAP Note
* HANA infra - adjust affected releases, Note title, add new LSS
* HANA client version 2.28.19
* Code Quality and Refactoring:
* new bashunit version 0.34.1 (perf improvments, tap output, bugfixes)
* remove shunit2 test framework and migrate to bashunit
* refactor: Extract tcp_window_scaling check from network parameters
* Unit tests - OS validation - override adjust valid OSses
* Some Checks - cleaner unittest tweaks
* add missing unit test files for checks 7xxx - adjust check for tweaking
* CI - bashunit junit xml output; upload-artifact test-results
* fix artifact upload file paths
* Documentation:
* add guidelines and template to prevent bashunit test interference
* Update to version 2601+1.g6a546af:
* Checks:
* new Check - Add check 2010 for THP defrag parameters
* Disable check 2330_swap_space - move to staging area
* OS/Hyperscaler:
* Amazon EC2 recommends tsc clocksource
* add GCP, IBM Cloud - new certified instances
* AWS - new certified instances x8i* - Granite Rapids
* update HANA SLES support - IBM Cloud, Alibaba
* move SLES 15.3 to EOL globally
* SLES - raise minimal kernels or explicitly mentioned
* update GPFS minimal versions
* adjust GPFS versions from recent Note updates
* change 1210 SubNUMA/CoD logic to allow SNC2 and add comprehensive unit tests
* kernel semaphore - output aligned to other checks - colon : added before value
* HANA:
* Add new SAP Notes and update version ranges in HANA infra issues check
* Add new HANA infra-related issue checks
* Add SAP Note 3687338 to HANA infra issues check
* HANA client version 2.27.23
* Code Quality and Refactoring:
* ci: Add xz-compressed tarball generation to CD workflow
* Add bashunit test framework alongside existing shunit2 tests
* Update CI.yml to execute bashunit tests for CHECKS
* Migrate check unit tests from shunit2 to bashunit framework
* Updated REUSE.toml: add bashunit
* Documentation:
* Update README with recent features and enhancements
* Updated the copilot-instructions.md to reflect bashunit as the preferred testing framework
* Update to version 2511+1.gde4248f:
* fix: Use wildcard pattern for SLES4SAP detection in lib_linux_release
* Add early OS validation with centralized distribution checking
* Add OS override capability for testing
* Checks
* OS/Hyperscaler:
* Add IBM POWER11 platform support
* new CHECK - vm.swappiness check or defaults SLES=60
* Add check 2330: Validate swap space configuration
* Update IBM Power11 support matrix for SLES on IBM Cloud
* OS kernels minimal version updates
* Update SAP HANA filesystem validation check 5540
* Add VMware kernel issue detection to check 0011
* Update HANA SPS version guidance in timer and clocksource check 0300
* cpuidle - add SAP Note for VMware
* HA/Pacemaker:
* Add pacemaker version validation check 7015
* SAPHanaSR Resource Agent angi - new version
* Agents/Tools:
* Update SAP Host Agent version requirements in check 0800
* Google Cloud's Agent for SAP 3.10
* Enhance check for renamed sysstat timer
* Refactor check_0700_sysstat to prioritize systemd timer detection
* update package version of saptune to 3.2.1
* Azure azcopy - new version
* HANA:
* Add SAP Note 3665521 for HANA memory reclaim issues
* Update SAP HANA Infrastructure Issue Check 8050
* Update SAP HANA Infrastructure Issue Check 8050 - TLS1.3 issue
* HANA client version 2.26.26
* Code Quality and Refactoring:
* Standardize PROGRAM_DIR calculation across all unit test files
* Standardize PROGRAM_DIR calculation across all global unit test files
* refactor: Eliminate redundancy in 8050 check by extracting SAP Note descriptions
* refactor: Apply 8050 pattern to check 0011 - eliminate description redundancy
* refactor check 0021: Apply 8050 pattern - eliminate description redundancy
* Documentation:
* Add comprehensive AI coding agent instructions
* Update to version 2509+1.g255693d:
* OS kernel/Hyperscaler:
* new CHECK - NUMA topology - virtualization solutions not always expose pNUMA architecture
* new CHECK - HANA filesystem validation
* new CHECK - NVME io timeout Azure,Amazon
* new CHECK - kernel semaphore parameter should be at least the default
* OS HANA Support - SLES15.7 various hyperscaler
* Add Power11 support for IBM Power OS checks
* new certified hyperscaler instances - Amazon, Azure, GCP
* GCP certifications: Additional Compute Engine C4 machine types with the Intel Granite Rapids CPU platform
* IBM Cloud - new certified instances and re-arrangement of others
* IBM Cloud - new certified Intel instances
* IBM Cloud - new certified Power11 instances
* Amazon EC2 - TSX is not available at all
* OS kernels - new minimal versions:
* glibc - new versions and harmonize intel, ibmpower checks
* systemd - new minimal versions
* NFS4.1 - max_session_slots - add Info how the value is calculated
* Azure - IO scheduler also for nvme devices
* Pacemaker attributes - handle different XML output formats
* Agents/Tools:
* SAP HostAgent - make testable and create unit tests to cover all possibilities
* SHA product_list - fix bug by removing spaces from list entries
* SLES4SAP saptune - version 3.2 has been released
* Azure azcopy - new version 10.30.1
* HANA:
* HANA infra issue - SPS7 Data Volume Encryption / Decryption hanging
* HANA Infra - remove SPS6 entries (end of maintenance since 12/2023)
* HANA client - new version 2.26.18
* UNIT TESTS:
* IO NVMe - refactor, make testable, add unit tests
* Add comprehensive unit tests for 3011_network_tcp_tw_parameter check
* Pacemaker attributes - handle different XML output formats
* HANA filesystem validation
* NUMA topology - virtualization solutions not always expose pNUMA architecture
* kernel semaphore parameter should be at least the default
* CI+CD:
* shellcheck v11 disables "avoid-negated-conditions" by default - reenable
* shellcheck - external source - controlled by shellcheckrc; remove from CI cmdline
* CI+CD - checkout_V5; new shfmt
* Update to version 2507+1.ga15c86a:
* GCP agent 3.9
* fix saphana-helper-funcs: line 513: MemTotal: unbound variable (bsc#1247554)
* Update to version 2507+1.gb7149b4:
* PMEM - change internal handling to KiB and correct misspelled variable
* LIB_PLATF_RAM_KiB_AVAILABLE - keep internal value in kB to avoid rounding errors
* Unit-test HANA Infra issues - fix non running checks and rename file
* CHECKS:
* new CHECK - Intel TSXLDTRK - new with Sapphire Rapids
* SLES 15.7 - new OS certification
* SLES15.7 - Google GCP, Amazon EC2
* OS kernel/Hyperscaler:
* SLES15 kernels - new minimal versions
* SAP HANA Hardware Directory entries for some M832/M896 Azure Instances have been corrected
* Azure instances - fix M896(i)xds_16_v3 entry
* NFSv4 - max_session_slots - new value for non Cloud environments, adjust links to documentation
* Azure AAN - adjust for new mana driver; add unittest
* SLES15.6/15.7 - require kernel cmdline to enable TSX
* recent sssd issue -SLES 15.6/7 - TID 021945: Error: pam_limits(sudo:session): invalid line '#001' \- skipped
* Agents:
* SAP Host Agent 7.22 PL68
* GCP monitor agent new version 3.8
* Azure omsagent - could be installed on any other environment not only Azure
* SAPHanaSR classic - new version 0.162.5
* HANA:
* HANA client - new version 2.25.22
* HANA client - new version 2.25.29
* 3608008 - CPU Spikes and Blocked Savepoints Due to Expensive Fallocate() Syscalls on Exhausted TMPFS (NVM-FRO
* HANA infra issues - crash @ virtualized IceLake adjust SPS7; Slow logreply SPS08
* Update to version 2505+1.g930737b:
* IBM Power8 removal since out of support end of 2024
* CPUidle - VMware = none
* Azure instances - add new emerald rapid E96*; remove old baremetal-sku
* Azure azcopy - new version 10.29.1
* SLES kernel issues 15.5/15.6 - Azure mana, /proc/cpuinfo
* clock_gettime @ IBM Power - hanging HANA callstacks - fixing SLES kernel information and SAPNote
* hostname - ignore upper and lower case during comparison
* HANA client - new version
* Indexserver Crash on virtualized Intel Ice Lake hosts
## Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like
YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLES-16.0-1440=1
## Package List:
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 (noarch)
* saphana-checks-2607+1.g1b710f6-160000.1.1
## References:
* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1247554
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