Based on the recently released Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system, Black Lab Enterprise Linux 11.0.3 uses its HWE (Hardware Enablement) Linux 4.10.0-37 kernel and comes with up-to-date components, including LibreOffice 5.4, Google Chrome 60, Mozilla Thunderbird 52.3, Webmin 1.8, and Samba 4, as well as all the latest security patches from upstream. Black Lab Enterprise Linux 11.0.3 also comes with the Ksplice component to provide users with rebootless kernel updates, the OpenLDAP free and open-source implementation of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), support for native and web-based containers, as well as support for the Btrfs, XFS, and JFS filesystems for the installation.