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    <h1>Recommended update for nvme-stas</h1>

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            <th>Announcement ID:</th>
            <td>SUSE-RU-2023:4683-1</td>
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            <th>Rating:</th>
            <td>moderate</td>
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            <th>References:</th>
            <td>
                <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214078">bsc#1214078</a>
                        </li>
                    
                    
                </ul>
            </td>
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            <th>Affected Products:</th>
            <td>
                <ul class="list-group">
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">Basesystem Module 15-SP5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">openSUSE Leap 15.5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5</li>
                    
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    <p>An update that has one fix can now be installed.</p>

    


    
        <h2>Description:</h2>
    
    <p>This update for nvme-stas fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>Update to version 2.3</li>
<li>Support for NVMe Boot Firmware Table (NBFT) as configuration source</li>
<li>Optimization of udev handling (bsc#1214078)</li>
<li>Bug fixes and optimizations</li>
<li>Improve algorithm to see if we can reuse existing connections</li>
<li>udev: Optimize uevent handling</li>
<li>iputil: Reduce amount of netlink requests to the kernel</li>
<li>udev: FC/Loop - use case-insensitive comparison for traddr</li>
<li>trid: Take Host NQN into account</li>
<li>avahi: add connectivity checker to verify IP addresses are reachable</li>
<li>stafd|ctrl: Do not recreate ctrl object on nvme removed events</li>
<li>udev: Rework/simplify _cid_matches_tid()</li>
<li>udev-rules: Only react to <code>rediscover</code> events (not <code>connected</code>)</li>
<li>udev: Use ipaddress objects when comparing traddr.</li>
<li>udev: Only take src-addr into account for transport=="tcp"</li>
<li>trid: use strong comparison on host-iface</li>
<li>udev-rule: Invoke systemctl "restart" instead of "start"</li>
<li>udev: improve comparison between candidate and existing controllers</li>
<li>nbft: stafd will now use NBFT data (if found)</li>
<li>nbft: Add NbftConf() object to retrieve and cache NBFT data</li>
<li>iputil: Add mac2iface() and corresponding unit test</li>
<li>ctrl: fix inverted logic "is not None" to "is None"</li>
<li>staslib: Add method to retrieve NBFT data</li>
</ul>



    

    <h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
    <p>
        To install this SUSE  update use the SUSE recommended
        installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>

        Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
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            <li class="list-group-item">
                openSUSE Leap 15.5
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-2023-4683=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-4683=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
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                Basesystem Module 15-SP5
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP5-2023-4683=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
    </ul>

    <h2>Package List:</h2>
    <ul>
        
            
                <li>
                    openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>nvme-stas-2.3-150500.3.9.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>nvme-stas-2.3-150500.3.9.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
    </ul>

    
        <h2>References:</h2>
        <ul>
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214078">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214078</a>
                    </li>
                
            
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