Customers can now skip upgrades of prior service packs

Nov 8, 2016 22:10 GMT  ·  By

Today, November 8, 2016, SUSE was extremely proud to announce the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 2 during the company's SUSECON 2016 event that takes place these days between November 7-11 in Washington, D.C., USA.

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 2 has been in Beta stages of development until today, but users can now finally update their SP1 (Service Pack 1) installations and receive all the latest GNU/Linux and Open Source technologies announced lately, some of which will also be implemented in the upcoming OpenSuSE Leap 42.2 OS, due for release on November 16, 2016.

"SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 has already earned rave reviews from partners and beta testers worldwide," said Olaf Kirch, SUSE vice president of SUSE Linux Enterprise Engineering. "SUSE is committed to enabling customers to bring their state-of-the-art solutions to market faster by leveraging the latest technologies. They also need to run mission-critical workloads with maximum uptime and proven security."

Key features of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 2

Prominent features of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 2 include I/O performance improvements, high-performance data analytics support on IBM Power Systems LC and OpenPOWER servers, better support for deployment of SAP applications, new "skip service packs" functionality for upgrading directly to Service Pack 2, better downtime for large-memory IBM POWER-based systems, as well as support for ARMv8-A and Intel’s scalable Omni-Path architecture.

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 2 includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for POWER, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for ARM, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension.

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension and Geo Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension are available as well, and it appears that the binary images of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 are available for public cloud infrastructures right now, which might come in handy to those who want to migrate to public cloud from on-premise environments and various other public cloud services. For more details visit https://www.suse.com/products/server/.