Next SUSE Rancher and SLES Previewed at SUSECON SUSECON Digital opened its event with previews of upcoming versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Rancher. A tech conference isn't a tech conference without a few product announcements, and the first day of SUSECON didn't disappoint. SUSE officially unveiled SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Service Pack 3 and SUSE Rancher 2.6, although neither is slated for release until the back half of this year. The new version of SLES had its beta release in early March. Perhaps the biggest new "feature" in the new SLES is its binary compatibility with openSUSE Leap, one of two free community editions of SUSE. This makes the two Linux distributions essentially the same, which will be good for developers who will be able to test their software on Leap before putting it in production on a SLES server.