SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Release Notes #

Publication Date: 2025-01-09, Version: 16.0.20250109

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a modern, modular operating system for both multimodal and traditional IT. This document provides a high-level overview of features, capabilities and limitations, and highlights important product updates.

1 About the release notes #

These Release Notes are identical across all architectures, and the most recent version is always available online at https://www.suse.com/releasenotes.

Entries are only listed once but they can be referenced in several places if they are important and belong to more than one section.

Release notes usually only list changes that happened between two subsequent releases. Certain important entries from the release notes of previous product versions are repeated. To make these entries easier to identify, they contain a note to that effect.

However, repeated entries are provided as a courtesy only. Therefore, if you are skipping one or more service packs, check the release notes of the skipped service packs as well. If you are only reading the release notes of the current release, you could miss important changes.

1.1 Documentation and other information #

1.1.1 Available on the product media #

Read the READMEs on the media.
Get the detailed change log information about a particular package from the RPM (where FILENAME.rpm is the name of the RPM):
```
rpm --changelog -qp FILENAME.rpm
```
Check the ChangeLog file in the top level of the installation medium for a chronological log of all changes made to the updated packages.
Find more information in the docu directory of the installation medium of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. This directory includes PDF versions of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Installation Quick Start Guide.
Get list of manual pages with usage information about a particular package from the RPM (where FILENAME.rpm is the name of the RPM):
```
rpm --docfiles -qp FILENAME.rpm | grep man
```

1.1.2 Online documentation #

For the most up-to-date version of the documentation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, see:

https://documentation.suse.com.

2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 16.0 #

These release notes apply to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0.

2.1 Changes affecting all architectures #

2.1.1 systemd uses cgroup v2 by default #

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 uses cgroup v2 by default and v1 is unsupported. If you need to use cgroup v1, SLES 15 SP6 can be switched to hybrid mode using a boot parameter.

3 Obtaining source code #

This SUSE product includes materials licensed to SUSE under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The GPL requires SUSE to provide the source code that corresponds to the GPL-licensed material. The source code is available for download at https://www.suse.com/download/sles/ on Medium 2. For up to three years after distribution of the SUSE product, upon request, SUSE will mail a copy of the source code. Send requests by e-mail to sle_source_request@suse.com. SUSE may charge a reasonable fee to recover distribution costs.

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