SUSE-RU-2026:23180-1: important: Recommended update for python-kiwi

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# Recommended update for python-kiwi

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2026:23180-1  
Release Date: 2026-08-18T08:20:23Z  
Rating: important  
References:

  * bsc#1260340
  * bsc#1263564
  * bsc#1263973
  * bsc#1271367
  * jsc#PED-15927

  
Affected Products:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.1
  * SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.1

  
  
An update that contains one feature and has four fixes can now be installed.

## Description:

This update for python-kiwi fixes the following issues:

New features and enhancements:

  * Add support for OCI format for disk images: the (oci|docker):image_format
    format stores the disk image in the disk/ directory of an OCI-compliant
    container, optionally layered on top of a reference container via the
    derived_from attribute, with custom naming via bundle_format. Useful to
    bundle a disk image and its runtime requirements into one artifact
  * Add support for sha512sum: select between shasum size 256 and 512 via the
    new 'shasum' runtime config section
  * Refactor use of the kiwi settings file: additionally read
    /etc/kiwi.yml.d/_.yml, /usr/share/kiwi/kiwi.yml and
    /usr/share/kiwi/kiwi.yml.d/_.yml, and install the default settings as
    /usr/share/kiwi/kiwi.yml.example from the main package instead of from kiwi-
    man-pages
  * Drop the parted requirement for the msdos partitioner; the active flag on a
    partition in the DOS table is now set via sfdisk
  * Do not hardcode the dracut omit module list in the live builder; special
    settings should come from /etc/dracut.conf.d/*.conf as part of the image
    description (bsc#1260340)

Bug fixes:

  * Fix reading of runtime config files: honor both vendor (/usr) and admin
    (/etc) locations per the systemd/uapi spec instead of only one, and take
    drop-in directories into account even if their main file is not present
  * Do not require qemu variant packages on 32bit architectures (bsc#1263564)
  * Fix rereading of the DASD partition table with partprobe: require parted and
    partprobe in the dracut code only for DASD disks on s390, and skip the
    active device locking for parted and partprobe on DASD devices to avoid a
    dead-lock caused by libparted applying flock() itself (bsc#1263973)
  * Fix system resize: the resize via sfdisk --relocate failed when the device
    was locked beforehand, and the pre-resize filesystem check is no longer
    applied for btrfs, which expectedly reports an outdated free space cache
    after the partition table was resized
  * Fix the caller environment for non-chroot scripts so they also know about
    the kiwi profile environment, e.g. the current profile name
  * Fix the result bundler dropping the container format type (e.g. ".docker")
    from result names when container images are built uncompressed
  * Update the package build instructions for the new SUSE immutable mode
    package restrictions: kiwi-pxeboot now uses systemd-tmpfiles for files
    outside /usr and /etc
  * Drop the erofs requirement for SUSE, where it does not exist on SLES

## 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 Micro Extras 6.1  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-Extras-6.1-674=1

## Package List:

  * SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    * python3-kiwi-10.2.33-slfo.1.1_2.1
    * kiwi-systemdeps-core-10.2.33-slfo.1.1_2.1

## References:

  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260340
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263564
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263973
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271367
  * https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-15927

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