Initial SP7 release

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 2.8.2.3, “Confidential Computing module” (Jira)

Section 5.3.1, “Python 3 packages staying in Basesystem” (Bugzilla)

Added note about timezone-java removal in Section 9, “Removed and deprecated features and packages” (Jira)

Section 5.5.1, “xorriso split” (Jira)

Section 2.8.2.2, “Add IAA Crypto Driver” (Jira)

Section 5.5.2, “sysctl monitoring tool” (Jira)

Section 5.6.1, “bind version 9.18” (Jira)

Section 5.2.1, “pgAdmin has been updated” (Jira)

Section 5.5.3, “IMA EVM signing plugin” (Jira)

Section 5.8.1, “Reusing LVM no longer default” (Jira)

Section 5.5.4, “Installer update URL changed” (Jira)

Section 5.1.1, “Default container registries” (Jira)

Section 5.8.2, “LUKS2 support in the installer” (Jira)

Section 6.1.1, “DLPAR remove operation fails with Emulex FC adapters” (Bugzilla)

Section 6.2.1, “Out of memory during installation” (Bugzilla)

Section 5.5.5, “kdump output directory format changed” (Jira)

Changed kernel version throughout the document to 6.4 (Jira)

Section 5.7.1, “OpenSSH and crypto policies update” (Bugzilla)

Section 5.7.2, “Automatic CPU mitigations and how to change them” (Bugzilla)

Section 5.5.6, “SSH between different architectures” (Bugzilla)

Section 5.3.2, “glibc 2.38” (Bugzilla)

Section 2.2.4, “SLE for HPC HPC no longer a separate product” (Jira)

Section 7.1.1, “Secure boot IPL requirements” (Bugzilla)

Section 5.7.3, “OpenSSL 3.1.4 is now default” (Bugzilla)

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

Changed product names:

Updated Section 5.10.2, “Searching packages across all SLE modules” to mention availability on RMT-registered systems (Bugzilla)

Changed Section 2.4, “Security, standards, and certification” to say that 15 SP7 will be submitted for certification

Section 5.11.1, “Xen” (Jira)

Section 5.11.5.2, “sanlock” (Jira)

Section 5.11.5.3, “libguestfs” (Jira)

Section 5.11.5.5, “sevctl” (Jira)

Section 5.11.2, “QEMU” (Jira)

Section 5.5.7, “systemd updated to 254” (Jira)

Section 9.3, “ceph client packages deprecation” (Jira)

Section 5.5.8, “systemd uses cgroup v2 by default” (Jira)

Added numad to Section 9, “Removed and deprecated features and packages”

Section 5.3.3, “Supported Java versions”:

Section 9.1.1, “Public Cloud module removals” (Jira)