Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 released with main focus on automation capabilities and container features

The Red Hat Inc, has announced public availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 7.4, latest stable update in RHEL 7.x series. As usual Red Hat releases this release also claims to deliver a more secure and robust operating system for enterprise infrastructures.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 offers new automation capabilities designed to limit IT complexity while enhancing workload security and performance for traditional and cloud-native applications. This provides a powerful, flexible operating system backbone to address enterprise IT needs across physical servers, virtual machines and hybrid, public and multi-cloud footprints.

From traditional physical servers and virtual machines to next-generation cloud and container services, the operating system serves as a critical linchpin in connecting deployment footprints across the enterprise. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 acts as this keystone by pairing open source innovation with enterprise-grade stability, providing a foundation for digital transformation while still maintaining existing systems and workloads.

For further information, see you checkout original release announcement and release notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 released with improved stability and enhanced features

Red Hat, Inc, world's leading open source solution provider has announced public availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9, latest update in RHEL 6 series. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 started it's journey 6 years back and during these 6 years it has proven it's capability to provide a secure, stable and reliable platform for enterprises.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 delivers new hardware support developed in collaboration with Red Hat partners which helps to provide a smooth transition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 production deployments to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 environments. Additionally, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 adds updates to TLS 1.2 to further enhance secure communications and provide broader support for the latest PCI-DSS standards, better equipping enterprises to offer more secure online transactions.

While emphasizing stability for existing IT investments, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 supports the next generation of cloud-native applications through an updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 base image. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 base image enables customers to migrate their existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 workloads into container-based applications - suitable for deployment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

For more information, see original release announcement published in Red Hat Enterprise website.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 beta is availale for testing

The Red Hat (R) release engineering team has announced availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.9 beta, latest development release in RHEL 6.x series. Over the six years of enterprise journey, RHEL 6 has acquired its space for providing a more secure, stable and reliable foundation for enterprise needs.

Though the main focus of RHEL 6.9 is to improve stability and security features for critical platform deployments, it also brings new features like support for next generation of cloud-native applications. The RHEL 6.9 beta base image enables enterprise customers to migrate existing RHEL 6 workloads to container based applications which are suitable for deployment on other enterprise platforms like RHEL 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host and Openshift Container.

In addition, as Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions are not tied toa particular release, existing customers may also elect to updatetheir Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 infrastructure to Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 7 at any time, free of charge, to take advantage of recentupstream innovations.  Red Hat simplifies the upgrade to Red HatEnterprise Linux 7, through the Preupgrade Assistant and Red HatUpdate Tool.RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 6.9 BETA AVAILABILITYRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 beta is now available in the Red HatCustomer Portal to all customers with an active Red Hat EnterpriseLinux subscription. To access and download Red Hat Enterprise Linux

For more details, see release announcement circulated through RHEL announcement mailing list.

CentOS Linux 7 (1611) released for x86_64 computers

Mr Karanbir Singh of CentOS project has announced release of CentOS Linux 7 (16.11) for x86_64 bit computers. This release of CentOS 7, tagged with the version number 1611 is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3.

This release of CentOS includes all updates from upstream project till November 2016. Updates released on later stages are available in repositories and can be updated after installing the base release. This update process in highly recommended by the project as it includes some bug fixes. This can be done using yum update command.

As with all CentOS Linux 7 components, this release was built from sources hosted at git.centos.org. In addition, SRPMs that are a byproduct of the build (and also considered critical in the code and buildsys process) are being published to match every binary RPM we release. Sources will be available from vault.centos.org in their own dedicated directories to match the corresponding binary RPMs. Since there is far less traffic to the CentOS source RPMs compared with the binary RPMs, we are not putting this content on the main mirror network. If users wish to mirror this content they can do so using the reposync command available in the yum-utils package. All CentOS source RPMs are signed with the same key used to sign their binary counterparts. Developers and end users looking at inspecting and contributing patches to the CentOS Linux distro will find the code hosted at git.centos.org far simpler to work against.

For more details, see release announcement in CentOS announcement mailing list.

Red Hat EL 7.3 released with enhanced performance for high-bandwidth applications

Red Hat Inc., worlds leading open source solution provider has announced release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 7.3, latest maintenance release of popular enterprise platform. Following the tradition of Red Hat maintenance releases, this release also comes with improved performance, security and stability.

The RHEL 7.3 introduces new technologies built around Linux Containers and Internet of Things(IoT), which will help enterprises using RHEL 7.x to expand and scale their area of work around these technologies, without investing any additional amount. This release also offers improved performance for high-bandwidth applications ranging from video conferencing technologies and voice over IP (VoIP) to web-based applications and services.

 
From a release announcement published in project corporate website:

RALEIGH, N.C. — November 3, 2016 — Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3, the latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform. This update to Red Hat’s flagship Linux operating system includes new features and enhancements built around performance, security, and reliability. The release also introduces new capabilities around Linux containers and the Internet of Things (IoT), designed to help early enterprise adopters use existing investments as they scale to meet new business demands.

 

From video conferencing technologies and voice over IP (VoIP) to web-based applications and services, the network demands of the modern enterprise can be substantial. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 helps address this need for better networking with the addition of lightweight tunnels, enabling guest instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 to be more secure, efficient, scalable and flexible. Additionally, enhancements to the bulk packet memory allocator improve performance for both 40 and 100 Gb networking interfaces.

For a complete description of highlights in this release, you can checkout release announcement available in projects website.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 released with enhanced security

The Red Hat public relation team has published press note on release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8, latest update of leading enterprise operate system. This update comes with enhanced security and improved management and monitoring features.

RALEIGH, N.C. — May 10, 2016 — Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8, the latest version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 delivers new capabilities and provides a stable and trusted platform for critical IT infrastructure. With nearly six years of field-proven success, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has set the stage for the innovations of today, as Red Hat Enterprise Linux continues to power not only existing workloads, but also the technologies of the future, from cloud-native applications to Linux containers.

 

To enhance security for virtual private networks (VPNs), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 includes libreswan, an implementation of one of the most widely supported and standardized VPN protocols, which replaces openswan as the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 VPN endpoint solution, giving Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 customers access to recent advances in VPN security.

See original press release published by Red Hat team for more information.