New Release: SLES 15 SP6 on IBM Z and LinuxONE

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 is out! See the official announcement here 

Highlights include

• HSM support for Secure Execution
• Concurrent HSM master key change for openCryptoki
  

See this section in the release notes for an in-depth look on IBM Z and LinuxONE support, including a detailed list of all new features.

New Publication: "Enriching Linux on IBM Z Workloads with AI"

A new Redbook titled "Enriching Linux on IBM Z  Workloads with AI" is available for download here.

Check out the abstract as follows:

This Redbook publication helps clients with the initial steps on their AI journey. The continuously increasing interest in AI led to a great variety of frameworks and tools. Implementing an AI solution requires to make selections. This publication explains which frameworks have been optimized to make best use of IBM Z and LinuxONE, and demonstrates ways to obtain them. AI applications can benefit from the ongoing full-stack optimization work reaching from the unique IBM Z and LinuxONE hardware enhancements over compiler optimizations to the topmost software layers of an AI stack. 

The exploitation of the unique IBM Z and LinuxONE hardware capabilities such as the Integrated Accelerator for AI allows Linux AI applications to run as part of transactions on the platform. Thus clients can use AI in security-sensitive environments with strict latency requirements to implement solutions, such as in-transaction fraud detection and natural language processing.

New Release: RHEL 8.10 on IBM Z & LinuxONE

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 is out! See the press release here, and Red Hat's blog entry here!

Both releases ship

• s390-tools v2.29 (renamed to s390utils)
• smc-tools v1.8.3
• openCryptoki v3.22
• qclib v2.4.0
  

Further information can be found in the release notes for RHEL 8.10.