I just did a zypper dup.

I just checked and saw this - it was vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-6.9.7-1-default :

slowroll:~ # ll /boot | tail -5 ; date
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       23 Jul  2 10:02 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-6.9.3-1-default
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       42 Jul  2 10:02 vmlinuz-6.9.3-1-default -> ../usr/lib/modules/6.9.3-1-default/vmlinuz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       42 Jun 15 06:55 vmlinuz-6.9.4-1-default -> ../usr/lib/modules/6.9.4-1-default/vmlinuz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       42 Jun 20 06:41 vmlinuz-6.9.5-1-default -> ../usr/lib/modules/6.9.5-1-default/vmlinuz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       42 Jul  1 06:46 vmlinuz-6.9.7-1-default -> ../usr/lib/modules/6.9.7-1-default/vmlinuz
Tue Jul  2 17:42:33 CDT 202