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SLES 15 SP3 for Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE

By Elizabeth K. Joseph posted Fri June 25, 2021 02:18 PM

  

On Tuesday, June 22nd Mark Post of SUSE announced that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 is now GA for Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE.



He writes:

"SLES15 SP3 has now been released. The full announcement is at https://www.suse.com/c/introducing-suse-linux-enterprise-15-sp3/ The ISO images are available at https://www.suse.com/download/ or via your SUSE Customer Center (SCC) account.
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There's been some pretty significant changes made in this release. Reading the release notes would be advisable. And not just the IBM Z specific parts, but all of them."

Release notes are available here: Release Notes: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 and includes IBM Z-specific changes (s390x) including:

  • support has been added for IPL and re-IPL from local PCI NVMe storage
  • zhypinfo and zname commands added to the qclib package
  • s390x CPU topology masks have been made consistent with all other architectures
  • Various networking, security, storage, and virtualization updates!

As Mark notes, it's worth spending time exploring these new features, it really is a great release for SLES 15.

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