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Suse Linux Enterprise Server is a modular linux distribution for both multimodal and traditional IT.

Release Released Active Support Security Support Latest
15 4 years and 5 months ago
(15 Jul 2018)
Ends in 5 years and 7 months
(31 Jul 2028)
Ends in 8 years
(31 Jul 2031)
SLES 15 SP4
12 8 years ago
(27 Oct 2014)
Ends in 1 year and 10 months
(31 Oct 2024)
Ends in 4 years and 10 months
(31 Oct 2027)
SLES 12 SP5
11 13 years ago
(23 Mar 2009)
Ended 3 years and 9 months ago
(31 Mar 2019)
Ended 9 months ago
(31 Mar 2022)
SLES 11 SP4
10 16 years ago
(17 Jul 2006)
Ended 9 years ago
(31 Jul 2013)
Ended 6 years ago
(31 Jul 2016)
SLES 10 SP4

SLES has a thirteen-year product lifecycle. The current support model consists of 10 years of general support, followed by 3 years of Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS). Major versions are released at an interval of 3–4 years, while minor versions (called “Service Packs”) are released about every 12 months. SLES receives more intense testing than the upstream openSUSE community product.

SLES 13 and SLES 14 version numbers were skipped. Advisories are published at https://www.suse.com/support/update/.

More information is available on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server website.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.

You can check the version that you are currently using by running:
cat /etc/os-release

You can submit an improvement to this page on GitHub :octocat: . This page has a corresponding Talk Page.

A JSON version of this page is available at /api/sles.json. See the API Documentation for more.

This page was last updated on 20 December 2022.