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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4

Release Notes

Abstract

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 of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 and highlights important product updates.

These release notes are updated periodically. The latest version of these release notes is always available at https://www.suse.com/releasenotes. General documentation can be found at https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP4.

Publication Date: 2026-07-09, Version: 15.4.20260709
1 About the release notes
2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2.1 Interoperability and hardware support
2.2 What is new?
2.3 Important sections of this document
2.4 Security, standards, and certification
2.5 Documentation and other information
2.6 Support and life cycle
2.7 Support statement for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2.8 Technology previews
3 Modules, extensions, and related products
3.1 Modules in the SLE 15 SP4 product line
3.2 SLE extensions
3.3 Derived and related products
4 Installation and upgrade
4.1 Installation
4.2 Upgrade-related notes
4.3 Minimal-VM and Minimal-Image
4.4 JeOS renamed Minimal-VM and Minimal-Image
4.5 Minimal-VM VMware flavor with cloud-init support
4.6 Alternative Python 3 development interpreter moved to a separate module
4.7 For more information
5 Changes affecting all architectures
5.1 Authentication
5.2 Basic utilities
5.3 Containers
5.4 Databases
5.5 Desktop
5.6 Development
5.7 Hardware
5.8 Kernel
5.9 Miscellaneous
5.10 Networking
5.11 Security
5.12 Storage and file systems
5.13 SUSE Package Hub
5.14 System management
5.15 Virtualization
6 AMD64/Intel 64-specific changes (x86-64)
6.1 System-specific and vendor-specific information
7 POWER-specific changes (ppc64le)
7.1 Hardware
7.2 Performance
7.3 Security
7.4 Virtualization
7.5 Miscellaneous
8 IBM Z-specific changes (s390x)
8.1 Hardware
8.2 Networking
8.3 Performance
8.4 Security
8.5 Storage
8.6 Virtualization
8.7 Miscellaneous
9 Arm 64-bit-specific changes (AArch64)
9.1 System-on-Chip driver enablement
9.2 New features
9.3 Known limitations
9.4 Removal of NXP Layerscape LX2160A rev. 1 silicon support
10 Removed and deprecated features and packages
10.1 Removed features and packages
10.2 Deprecated features and packages
11 Obtaining source code
12 Legal notices
A Changelog for 15 SP4
A.1 2026-07-09
A.1.1 New
A.1.2 Updated
A.2 2026-02-27
A.2.1 New
A.2.2 Updated
A.3 2025-10-31
A.3.1 New
A.4 2025-08-21
A.4.1 New
A.5 2024-01-19
A.5.1 New
A.6 2023-05-22
A.6.1 Updated
A.7 2023-05-11
A.7.1 New
A.8 2023-05-10
A.8.1 New
A.9 2023-03-01
A.9.1 New
A.9.2 Updated
A.10 2022-11-30
A.10.1 New
A.11 2022-09-30
A.11.1 New
A.11.2 Changed
A.12 2022-08-31
A.12.1 New
A.12.2 Changed
A.13 2022-07-14
A.13.1