SMT Guide is now part of the documentation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.
Add-ons provided by SUSE have been renamed as modules and extensions. The manuals have been updated to reflect this change.
Numerous small fixes and additions to the documentation, based on technical feedback.
The registration service has been changed from Novell Customer Center to SUSE Customer Center.
In YaST, you will now reach Network Settings via the System group. Network Devices is gone (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867809).

Chapter 4, Authentication Server and Client

Updated the chapter to reflect new GUI improvements for Kerberos/LDAP client (Fate #316349).

Chapter 8, Configuring Security Settings with YaST

Updated chapter because of systemd-related changes (Fate #318425).

Chapter 15, Masquerading and Firewalls

Added Section 15.4.1.2, “Opening Ports”.

Bugfixes

Removed obsolete acpid.service (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918655).
Removed /etc/sysconfig/auditd from Section 30.2, “Configuring the Audit Daemon”—this configuration file has been removed without replacement (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918655).
Extend Firewall Documentation to Describe How to Open a Port (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914076).

A.4 February 2015 (Documentation Maintenance Update) #

Bugfixes

A.5 October 2014 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12) #

General

Removed all KDE documentation and references because KDE is no longer shipped.
Removed all references to SuSEconfig, which is no longer supported (Fate #100011).
Move from System V init to systemd (Fate #310421). Updated affected parts of the documentation.
YaST Runlevel Editor has changed to Services Manager (Fate #312568). Updated affected parts of the documentation.
Removed all references to ISDN support, as ISDN support has been removed (Fate #314594).
Removed all references to the YaST DSL module as it is no longer shipped (Fate #316264).
Removed all references to the YaST Modem module as it is no longer shipped (Fate #316264).
Btrfs has become the default file system for the root partition (Fate #315901). Updated affected parts of the documentation.
The dmesg now provides human-readable time stamps in ctime()-like format (Fate #316056). Updated affected parts of the documentation.
syslog and syslog-ng have been replaced by rsyslog (Fate #316175). Updated affected parts of the documentation.
MariaDB is now shipped as the relational database instead of MySQL (Fate #313595). Updated affected parts of the documentation.
SUSE-related products are no longer available from http://download.novell.com but from http://download.suse.com. Adjusted links accordingly.
Novell Customer Center has been replaced with SUSE Customer Center. Updated affected parts of the documentation.
/var/run is mounted as tmpfs (Fate #303793). Updated affected parts of the documentation.
The following architectures are no longer supported: IA64 and x86. Updated affected parts of the documentation.
The traditional method for setting up the network with ifconfig has been replaced by wicked. Updated affected parts of the documentation.

A lot of networking commands are deprecated and have been replaced by newer commands (usually ip). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

arp: ip neighbor

ifconfig: ip addr,

ip
      link

iptunnel: ip tunnel

iwconfig: iw

nameif: ip link, ifrename

netstat: ss, ip route, ip -s link, ip maddr

route: ip route

Numerous small fixes and additions to the documentation, based on technical feedback.

Chapter 2, Authentication with PAM

The pam_pwcheck module has been replaced with pam_cracklib and pam_pwhistory. Updated chapter to reflect this change.

Chapter 4, Authentication Server and Client

Added a chapter about the new YaST authentication module for Kerberos and LDAP (Fate #316349). The chapter consists of two parts: Section 4.1, “Configuring an Authentication Server” and Section 4.2, “Configuring an Authentication Client with YaST (SSSD)” (Fate #308902).

Chapter 5, LDAP—A Directory Service

Updated chapter to reflect the changes in YaST regarding authentication setup (Fate #316349).

Chapter 7, Network Authentication with Kerberos

Updated chapter to reflect the changes in YaST regarding authentication setup (Fate #316349).

Chapter 9, Authorization with PolKit

Updated chapter to reflect major software updates.

Chapter 14, SSH: Secure Network Operations

Mentioned that SSH on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop uses cryptographic hardware acceleration if available (Fate #308239).
New section Section 14.3.2, “Setting Permissions for File Uploads” (Fate #312774).

Chapter 17, Managing X.509 Certification

The YaST CA module now allows to export key and certificate into different files. See Section 17.2.5, “Changing Default Values” (Fate #305490).

Part IV, “Confining Privileges with AppArmor”

Added short description of supported AppArmor profile flags in Section 21.6.1, “Profile Flags”.
Thoroughly explained the syntax and subtle differences in meaning for AppArmor include statements in Section 21.3, “Include Statements”.
Introduced extended ways to map a profile: Added Section 21.6.3, “Pattern Matching”, Section 21.6.4, “Namespaces” and updated Section 21.6.6, “Alias Rules”.
Added description for new optional allow and file keywords for AppArmor profiles in Section 21.7.7, “Optional allow and file Rules”.
Added description for new safe and unsafe keywords for AppArmor profiles to Section 21.8.10, “safe and unsafe Keywords”.
New PUx/pux and CUx/cux profile transitions added in Section 21.8.8, “Fallback Modes for Profile Transitions”.
Added new section Section 21.6.3, “Pattern Matching”.
Restructured and completely rewrote Chapter 25, Profiling Your Web Applications Using ChangeHat.
Removed old content describing the YaST method.
Introduced a command line example on creating a hat for the Adminer application.

Part V, “The Linux Audit Framework”

Numerous small fixes and additions, based on technical feedback.

Obsolete Content

Section Adding a Profile Using the Wizard has been removed from Chapter 23, Building and Managing Profiles with YaST (Fate #308684).
Section Updating Profiles from Log Entries has been removed from Chapter 23, Building and Managing Profiles with YaST (Fate #308683).
Chapter Using the Fingerprint Reader has been removed from Part I, “Authentication” (Fate #313128).

Bugfixes

Updated the AppArmor documentation to version 2.8 AppArmor (http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722915).

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