OpenLDAP server has been re-added to ease migration to 389 Directory Server. A note has been added to Section 9, “Removed and deprecated features and packages” to reflect that. (Jira)

Section 5.10.1, “Effective user limits in systemd setup” (Jira)

Section 5.6.1, “frr (FRRouting Routing daemon) has been added” (Jira)

Added warning about changing system Python to Section 5.3.1, “Alternative modern Python 3 interpreter upgraded to Python 3.11”

Changed product names:

Section 5.5.1, “TigerVNC’s vncserver has been removed” (Bugzilla)

Section 8.2.2, “Driver enablement for NVIDIA Grace” (Jira)

Section 8.4.1, “No graphics drivers on NVIDIA Grace Hopper” (Jira)

Added NVIDIA Grace* to Section 8.1, “System-on-Chip driver enablement” (Jira)

Moved Section 8.3, “64K page size kernel flavor is supported” from Section 2.8.1, “Technology previews for Arm 64-Bit (AArch64)”, updating it and replacing it with Section 2.8.1.1, “KVM virtualization with 64K page size kernel flavor” (Jira)

Section 9.2.1, “Public Cloud module deprecations” (Jira)

Section 5.11.6.1, “Deprecating host network management with libvirt” (Jira)

Section 4.1.2, “SUSE Manager installation option not available” (Bugzilla)

Section 4.5, “New Minimal VM and Minimal Image for IBM Z (s390x)” (Jira)

Section 2.8.2.1, “Support for AMD Wheat Nas GPU” (Jira)

Section 8, “Arm 64-bit-specific changes (AArch64)”

Section 2.8.1, “Technology previews for Arm 64-Bit (AArch64)”

Section 8.2.1, “Driver enablement for NVIDIA Orin” (Jira)

Section 8.4.2, “No graphics drivers on NVIDIA Jetson” (Jira)

Changed wording of Section 2.4, “Security, standards, and certification” (Bugzilla):

Section 7.4.1, “Secure Execution” (Bugzilla)

Added note about xpram removal in Section 9, “Removed and deprecated features and packages” (Bugzilla)

Section 6.3.3, “Adding changes in ibmvnic driver to assign IRQ affinity to all” (Jira)

Section 6.3.2, “ibmveth driver performance improvement” (Jira)

Added note about NVMf-FC kdump in Section 6.3, “Virtualization” (Jira)

Section 6.3.1, “Support for the new H_WATCHDOG hypercall included with P10 firmware” (Jira)

Section 6.1.3, “POWER10 performance enhancements for cryptography: OpenSSL” (Jira)

Added a note about cryptography enhancements in NSS FreeBL in Section 6.1, “Security” (Jira)

Section 6.1.2, “POWER10 performance enhancements for cryptography: libgcrypt” (Jira)

Section 6.1.1, “POWER10 performance enhancements for cryptography: nettle” (Jira)

Section 5.5.2, “cpuid has been added” (Jira)

Section 5.8.1, “dracut default persistent policy change” (Jira)

Section 7.4.2, “openCryptoki: p11sak support Dilithium and Kyber keys” (Jira)

Section 7.6.1, “KVM: Enable GISA support for Secure Execution guests” (Jira)

Section 4.1.3, “Storage requirements for Btrfs installation on PowerPC” (Bugzilla)

Section 6.2.1, “NVMe-oF on LVM with multiple NVMe disks” (Jira)

Section 5.2.1, “nouveau disabled for Nvidia Turing and Ampere GPUs / openGPU recommendation” (Bugzilla)

Section 5.1.1, “Podman upgrade from 3.4.x to 4.3.1” (Jira)

Section 7.7.5, “Add additional information to SCLP CPI” (Jira)

Section 7.7.4, “Support Processor Activity Instrumentation Extension 1” (Jira)

Section 7.7.3, “New CPU-MF Counters for IBM z16 and LinuxONE 4” (Jira)

Section 7.7.2, “Support IBM z16 and LinuxONE 4 Processor-Activity-Instrumentation Facility” (Jira)

Section 7.7.1, “NVMe stand-alone dump support” (Jira)

Section 7.8.3, “Removed ESCON from installer” (Jira)

Section 7.8.2, “Enabled installer to configure PCI-attached networking devices” (Jira)

Section 7.8.1, “Auto scale crashkernel size with hardware changes” (Jira)

Section 7.6.9, “KVM: Enablement of device busid for subchannels” (Jira)

Section 7.6.8, “Allow to list persisted driverctl definitions” (Jira)

Section 7.6.7, “KVM: Allow long kernel command lines for Secure Execution guests and QEMU” (Jira)

Section 7.6.6, “KVM: Provide virtual CPU topology to guests” (Jira)

Section 7.6.5, “KVM: Attestation support for Secure Execution (crypto), KVM: Secure Execution Attestation Userspace Tool” (Jira)

Section 7.6.4, “Secure Execution guest dump encryption with customer keys, tool to process encrypted Secure Execution guest dumps” (Jira)

Section 7.6.3, “vfio-ap enhancements” (Jira)

Section 7.6.2, “Enhanced Interpretation for PCI Functions” (Jira)

Section 7.5.6, “ROCE: Independent Usage of Secondary Physical Function” (Jira)

Section 7.5.4, “zipl: Site-aware environment block” (Jira)

Section 7.5.3, “zipl support for Secure Boot IPL and Dump from ECKD DASD” (Jira)

Section 7.5.5, “Transparent PCI device recovery” (Jira)

Section 7.5.2, “zdev: Site-aware device configuration” (Jira)

Section 7.5.1, “Transparent DASD PPRC (Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy) handling” (Jira)

Section 7.4.16, “libica: FIPS 140-3 compliance” (Jira)

Section 7.4.15, “p11-kit: add IBM specific mechanisms and attributes” (Jira)

Section 7.4.14, “openCryptoki: PKCS #11 3.1 - support CKA_DERIVE_TEMPLATE” (Jira)

Section 7.4.13, “zcryptctl support for control domains - kernel and s390-tools parts” (Jira)

Section 7.4.6, “Display PAI (Processor Activity Instrumentation) CPACF counters (s390-tools)” (Jira)

Section 7.4.12, “libica: eliminate SW fall backs - stage 2” (Jira)

Section 7.4.11, “libica: extend statistics to reflect security measures (crypto)” (Jira)

Section 7.4.10, “openCryptoki key generation with expected MKVP only on CCA and EP11 tokens” (Jira)

Section 7.4.9, “openCryptoki: support crypto profiles” (Jira)

Section 7.4.8, “openCryptoki EP11 token: vendor-specific key derivation” (Jira)

Section 7.4.7, “openCryptoki EP11 token: IBM z16 and LinuxONE 4 support” (Jira)

Section 7.4.5, “zcrypt DD: Exploitation Support of new IBM Z Crypto Hardware for kernel and s390-tools” (Jira)

Section 7.4.4, “openCryptoki ep11 token: master key consistency” (Jira)

Section 7.4.3, “In-kernel crypto: SIMD implementation of chacha20” (Jira)

Section 7.3.1, “zlib CRC32 optimization for s390x” (Jira)

Section 5.3.1, “Alternative modern Python 3 interpreter upgraded to Python 3.11” (Jira)

Section 7.2.1, “Enablement for MIO Instructions - kernel and rdma-core parts” (Jira)

Changed SLES release date year to the correct 2023

Section 5.7.2, “Replacement of gpg as recommended tool for file encryption” (Jira)

Section 5.11.5.1, “open-vm-tools” (Jira)

Section 5.11.2, “Xen” (Jira)

Section 5.11.3, “QEMU” (Jira)

Section 5.11.1, “KVM” (Jira)

Section 5.11.4, “libvirt” (Jira, Jira)

Section 4.1.4, “Installation via SSH on s390x” (Bugzilla)

Section 5.10.2, “Silence KillMode=None messages” (Jira)

Deprecation of gnote in Section 9.2, “Deprecated features and packages” (Jira)

Removal of samba-ad-dc-libs in Section 9.1, “Removed features and packages” (Jira)

Section 5.10.3, “yast2-iscsi-client drops open-iscsi and iscsiuio as dependencies” (Bugzilla)

Section 5.4.2, “Restoring default Btrfs file compression” (Jira)

Added note about openmpi2 and openmpi3 in Section 9.2, “Deprecated features and packages” (Jira)

Added note about removing Kerberos/LDAP from YaST in Section 9, “Removed and deprecated features and packages” (Bugzilla)

Added note about removing thunderbolt-user-space in Section 9, “Removed and deprecated features and packages” (Jira)

Updated Java lifecycle in Section 5.3.2, “Supported Java versions” (Jira):