diff --git a/docs/guestfs-release-notes-1.56.pod b/docs/guestfs-release-notes-1.56.pod
index 68c6aec57..6336b385b 100644
--- a/docs/guestfs-release-notes-1.56.pod
+++ b/docs/guestfs-release-notes-1.56.pod
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Inspecting guests that have duplicated root mountpoints now works.
 Inspection of SUSE Linux guests using btrfs snapshots now ignore
 snapshots that mirror content in the root filesystem.
 
+Inspection of SUSE Linux >= 15 now returns the correct osinfo short
+name (eg. C<"sle15">) (thanks Ming Xie).
+
 =head2 API
 
 New C<command_out> and C<sh_out> APIs which allow you to capture
@@ -155,6 +158,10 @@ Lost error when opening wrong format of image readonly [rhel-10.1]
 RFE: Investigate & do something useful with btrfsvol:...snapshots in
 SUSE Linux guests
 
+=item L<https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-95791>
+
+libguestfs generates the wrong osinfo for SLES 15 guests [rhel-9.6]
+
 =item L<https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/issues/155>
 
 1.54.0: gdisk/test-expand-gpt.pl fails
diff --git a/lib/inspect-osinfo.c b/lib/inspect-osinfo.c
index f792d771a..1fc2f59ab 100644
--- a/lib/inspect-osinfo.c
+++ b/lib/inspect-osinfo.c
@@ -62,10 +62,11 @@ guestfs_impl_inspect_get_osinfo (guestfs_h *g, const char *root)
     else if (STREQ (distro, "fedora") || STREQ (distro, "mageia"))
       return safe_asprintf (g, "%s%d", distro, major);
     else if (STREQ (distro, "sles")) {
+      const char *base = major >= 15 ? "sle" : "sles";
       if (minor == 0)
-        return safe_asprintf (g, "%s%d", distro, major);
+        return safe_asprintf (g, "%s%d", base, major);
       else
-        return safe_asprintf (g, "%s%dsp%d", distro, major, minor);
+        return safe_asprintf (g, "%s%dsp%d", base, major, minor);
     }
     else if (STREQ (distro, "ubuntu"))
       return safe_asprintf (g, "%s%d.%02d", distro, major, minor);