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<h1>Recommended update for open-vm-tools</h1>
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-RU-2026:2089-1</td>
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<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2026-05-27T10:37:31Z</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>moderate</td>
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<th>References:</th>
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<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257312">bsc#1257312</a>
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<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265304">bsc#1265304</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<th>Affected Products:</th>
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<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5</li>
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<p>An update that has two fixes can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>Update to 13.1.0 release based on build 25218885 (bsc#1265304):<ul>
<li>Support for GNOME Toolkit version 4</li>
<li>New release of the Salt-Minion integration script</li>
<li>Fallback to ignore systemd inhibitors during guest poweroff / reboot</li>
<li>Fix: vmware-vgauth-smoketest: no VGAuthLib.vmsg file</li>
<li>Fix: Inline comment breaks "disable_vmware_customization" check</li>
<li>For a more complete description of what is new in this release:
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-13.1.0/ReleaseNotes.md#whatsnew
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-13.1.0/ReleaseNotes.md#resolved-issues</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Fix build with glibc 2.43 (bsc#1257312)</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:
</p>
<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security
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<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2026-2089=1</code>
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS
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<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-2026-2089=1</code>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>libvmtools0-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>libvmtools0-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
<li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-13.1.0-4.98.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257312">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257312</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265304">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265304</a>
</li>
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