What's new in this update release

This release of BigFix Patch for SUSE Linux™ Enterprise provides extended support to include SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 on IBM PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian (LE).

Table 1. What's new
Enhancement or Feature	Description	Resources
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 PPC64BE support	The content for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 on IBM PowerPC 64-bit Big Endian (BE) is published in the Patches for SLE 12 PPC64BE site. This site is SLE's default package manager, and contains content from the following channels for SLES 11 PPC64BE systems: SLES11-Pool SLES11-Updates SLES11-SP1-Pool SLES11-SP1-Updates SLES11-SP2-Pool SLES11-SP2-Updates SLES11-SP3-Pool SLES11-SP3-Updates SLES11-SP4-Pool SLES11-SP4-Updates
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 PPC64LE support	The content for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 on IBM PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian (LE) is published in the Patches for SLE 12 PPC64LE site. This site is SLE's default package manager, and contains content from the following channels for SLES 12 PPC64LE systems: SLES12-SP0-Pool SLES12-SP0-Updates SLES12-SP1-Pool SLES12-SP1-Updates SLES12-SP2-Pool SLES12-SP2-Updates SLES12-SP3-Pool SLES12-SP3-Updates Ensure that you update the SCC download plug-in from the Manage Download Plug-ins dashboard.	Supported platforms and updates Supported Novell repositories

Previous updates

Table 2. Previous updates
Enhancement or Feature	Description	Resources
SCC download plug-in enhancements	The SCC Download Plug-in now has the ability to use packages that are cached by the SCC Download Cacher’s `download_dir` (referred to as localCache in the `plugin.ini` file) and get packages from the internet at the same time. Previously, the SCC Download Plug-in was used in BigFix server that was in either of the following scenarios: The BigFix Server is fully air-gapped and uses the SCC Download Cacher, or The BigFix Server is internet-enabled and does not use the SCC Download Cacher With this enhancement, you can cache the packages offline to save time downloading the packages.	Using the download plug-in Configuring the advanced SCC download plug-in settings Using the SCC download cacher for air-gapped environments Caching packages on the sha1 folder Caching packages on the local cache folder
SCC download cacher enhancements	The SCC Download Cacher contains the following enhancements: Package sha1 download support Repository access check Storage space requirement check Space-saving benchmarks	Using the download cacher SCC download cacher usage information
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and Server 12 SP3 content support	The content for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and Server 12 SP3 is published in the Patches for SLE 12 Native Tools site. Ensure that you update the SCC download plug-in from the Manage Download Plug-ins dashboard.	Supported platforms and updates Supported Novell repositories
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 on System z content support	The content for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 on System z is published in the Patches for SLE 12 on System z site. Ensure that you update the SCC download plug-in from the Manage Download Plug-ins dashboard.	Supported platforms and updates Supported Novell repositories