The press release noted that the new SP4 is available for Intel Xeon Processor E7-8800/4800 v3, IBM z13 and IBM POWER8 products. The new service pack also enables more efficient memory management during complex calculations.

“The new release is automatically granted to our customers who subscribed to the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server,” said Zsolt Hargitai, business development manager of NetIQ Novell Hungary. According to Hargitai, the company will not provide new service packs for the previous SLES for the Vmware system.