SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (SLES 15) released

On June 25th 2018 SUSE announced the new version of their flagship operating system for Linux on Z and LinuxONE. It’s now the 8th major version from SUSE available on the mainframe! All packages and modules have been upgraded to their upstream versions. With this many new features for System Z got added to the distribution.

The kernel level has been updated to 4.12.14-23.1. SLES 15 end of support is 7/31/2028. Here is my usual list of useful links for further reading:

• SUSE certifications:
  • z14, z14 ZR1, LinuxONE Rockhopper II, Linux ONE Emperor II
  • z13
  • zEC12
• Documentation (with the release of SLES15 SP1 some part of the documentation got updated):
  • Release Notes
  • System Analysis and Tuning
  • IBM documentation on developerworks
• Code is available from SUSE’s downloads sites:
  • SLES 15
  • SLES 15 High Availability Extensions

(updated 6/24/2019)