SUSE-RU-2026:23505-1: moderate: Recommended update for chrony

[SLE-UPDATES]

# Recommended update for chrony

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2026:23505-1  
Release Date: 2026-09-08T09:16:27Z  
Rating: moderate  
References:

  * bsc#1254411
  * bsc#1257934

  
Affected Products:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.2

  
  
An update that has two fixes can now be installed.

## Description:

This update for chrony fixes the following issues:

Changes in chrony:

  * Extend UsrEtc (/usr/etc) support to the main configuration (bsc#1254411):
    * Ship the vendor chrony.conf and the chrony.d pool defaults under /usr/etc instead of /etc.
    * chronyd.service now uses /etc/chrony.conf when it exists and falls back to /usr/etc/chrony.conf otherwise
    * Use the confdir directive for chrony.d so that files in /etc/chrony.d override same-named vendor files in /usr/etc/chrony.d
    * Preserve admin-modified /etc/chrony.conf and /etc/chrony.d/pool.conf across the upgrade via the standard .rpmsave migration scriptlets.
    * chrony.keys stays in /etc.
    * To add the new chrony.d overlay/fallback mechanism to existing configurations the "include" line at the end of /etc/chrony.conf needs to be replaced by the "confdir" line from the new /usr/etc/chrony.conf file.
  * Fix: libnettle: update to 4.0 breaks dnsmasq and gnutls (bsc#1257934):
    * support libnettle 4.0

## 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 6.2  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SL-Micro-6.2-1638=1

## Package List:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    * chrony-debuginfo-4.8-160000.2.1
    * chrony-debugsource-4.8-160000.2.1
    * chrony-4.8-160000.2.1
  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 (noarch)
    * chrony-pool-empty-4.8-160000.2.1
    * chrony-pool-suse-4.8-160000.2.1

## References:

  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254411
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257934

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/attachments/20260910/f7690a6d/attachment-0001.htm>