We are pleased to announce the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8, the latest version of our Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform. Nearly six years into its lifecycle, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 continues to provide a stable, proven, and predictable foundation for organizations seeking to build and deploy large, complex IT projects with confidence. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 includes a number of new and updated features, including: Libreswan, an implementation of one of the most widely supported and standardized VPN protocols, giving Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 customers access to recent advances in VPN security; new capabilities to the Identity Management client code (SSSD)....

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Development Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Beta Six months following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2, Red Hat is publishing a beta for the upcoming release of version 8.3. The new beta offers updated development and hosting tools: " Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 introduced Application Streams, where software components used for application development are delivered in parallel with the underlying base operating system packages that provide the foundation for operational stability. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 beta continues to deliver on the lifecycle approach for this capability, providing access to many of the latest, stable open source tools and utilities sought by developers to build modern applications. New and updated Application Streams in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 beta include: Git 2.26, NGINX 1.18, Node.js v14, Perl 5.30, PHP 7.4, Ruby 2.7. " An effort has also been made to reduce the complexity of managing large cloud deployments of the distribution. Additional information can be found in the release announcement. The new beta can be downloaded through the company's Customer Portal.

Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Red Hat has announced the release of the second update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.x series, an enterprise-class Linux distribution with comprehensive support options. This version provides, besides many other improvements, an in-place upgrade tool for the users of RHEL 7.x series: " Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 now generally available. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 is the latest version delivered according to the twice yearly release cadence. Highlights: enhanced user experience; streamlines subscription registration by making it a step in the installation process; simplifies monitoring with Red Hat Insights by enabling activation during installation; improved lifecycle management; simplifies upgrades from RHEL 7.8 to RHEL 8.2 with in-place upgrade tooling; reduces the time and risk of inplace upgrades with identification and remediation guidance to resolve potential problems; enhanced monitoring and performance; improves isolation and resource governance for container runtime processes with cgroup v2.... " Read the release announcement and the detailed release notes for further information. As always, existing Red Hat customers can get the new release from the company's Customer Portal, while new users can apply to download a 30-day evaluation edition.

Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.8, the latest update from the enterprise-class Linux distribution provider. This is Red Hat's legacy branch which is currently in "maintenance phase" of its support cycle: " Today, we're pleased to announce the latest update to the world's leading enterprise Linux platform with the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 has entered its maintenance phase as defined in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10-year life cycle. Minor releases continue to deliver stability and reliability rather than adding new features. During this maintenance phase, customers should begin to plan their upgrade strategy. The Red Hat subscription allows users to deploy the release that suits their business needs. To facilitate moving to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat offers tools, including in-place upgrades, which streamline and simplify the migration. When general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 is announced, there will be an upgrade path from 7.8. " See the release announcement and the release notes for further details. As always, existing Red Hat customers can download this release from the company's customer portal.

Development Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Beta Two months after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1, Red Hat is publishing a beta for the upcoming release of version 8.2. The new beta offers a streamlined subscription process and more monitoring options to better help administrators keep track of their Red Hat systems: " To streamline how new and existing users register a RHEL subscription, RHEL 8.2 Beta makes subscription registration a step in the installation process. This eliminates the need to do a YUM update immediately after installation to confirm a registered RHEL subscription. Additionally, Red Hat Insights, Red Hat’s proactive management analytics service that helps to keep RHEL systems running at a high level, can be enabled during the installation process. This capability delivers Insights monitoring immediately after the installation is finished. RHEL 8.2 Beta also adds new capabilities to help IT operations teams and administrators better control the lifecycle of their RHEL estate. While the benefits of a RHEL subscription apply regardless of the version of the operating system installed, as technology and business needs change, moving to newer RHEL releases may be required. " Additional information can be found in the release announcement. The new beta can be downloaded through the company's Customer Portal.

Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Red Hat has announced the availability of the first update to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x series. The new release, 8.1, introduces a new, predictable update cycle with minor releases every six months. It also provides better SELinux controls for dealing with containers. This release also focuses on providing longer uptime with live kernel patching: " Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 adds full support for live kernel patching to help IT operations teams keep pace with a shifting threat landscape without incurring excessive system downtime. Kernel updates can now be applied to remediate Critical or Important Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) while reducing the need for a system reboot, helping to keep critical workloads running more securely. Additional security enhancements include enhanced CVE remediation, kernel-level memory protection and application whitelisting technologies. Container-centric SELinux profiles are included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1, making it possible to create more tailored security policies to control how containerized services access host system resources. " The release announcement and in the release notes. The new release can be downloaded through Red Hat's Customer Portal.

Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Red Hat has announced a new update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7. The new release, 7.7, is expected to be the final feature update to Red Hat's 7.x series as the platform is now shifting into its maintenance phase. " Beyond new capabilities, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 also marks the transition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to Maintenance Phase I within the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10-year lifecycle. Maintenance Phase I emphasizes maintaining infrastructure stability for production environments and enhancing the reliability of the operating system. Future minor releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 will now focus solely on retaining and improving this stability rather than net-new features. Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscribers are able to migrate across platform versions as support and feature needs dictate. To help with the process, Red Hat offers tools, including in-place upgrades, which helps to streamline and simplify migrating from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. " Further details can be found in the press release and in the release notes. The new media can be downloaded from the company's customer portal.

Development Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Beta Two months after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0, Red Hat is publishing a beta for the upcoming release of version 8.1. The new beta offers improvements to firewall configuration, new SELinux profiles, and more options for Image Builder. " Work on RHEL 8 has continued and we are pleased to announce the beta availability of RHEL 8.1. This update delivers several new enhancements to the world's leading enterprise Linux platform. RHEL 8.1 Beta improves manageability, adds new security enhancements and enables greater developer productivity. This release also includes updated drivers that deliver new features and bug fixes for supported hardware platforms. Improved manageability: The Red Hat Enterprise Linux web console now supports finer granularity when configuring firewall rules and system services, including: Better configuration for firewall zones; log filtering based on services; service filtering based on metadata like service name and state. " Additional information can be found in the release announcement. The new beta can be downloaded through the company's Customer Portal.

Development Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Beta Red Hat has published a development snapshot of the company's updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x series. The new beta, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.7 Beta, includes a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, along with fixes for the MDS/ZombieLoad vulnerabilities. " RHEL 7.7 Beta includes a host of enhancements and bug fixes to help deliver a powerful, flexible platform for hybrid cloud computing. Key updates include support for the latest generation of enterprise hardware as well as remediation for the recently-disclosed Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS)/ZombieLoad vulnerabilities. The beta release also includes performance enhancements for the network stack, along with the ability to offload virtual switching operations to network interface card (NIC) hardware. The value of these features also improve the operation of Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift deployments, both built on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, that use virtual switching and network function virtualization (NFV). " Further details can be found in the company's release announcement and in the release notes. Downloads are available through Red Hat's Customer Portal.