Udgivelse af Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 og Oracle Linux 7.9

Firmaet Red Hat udgivet Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 distribution (about the new version a week ago tilkendegivet only available on the portal access.redhat.com, in the mailing list and in the section of press releases the announcement has not appeared). Installation images of RHEL 7.9 tilgængelige kan kun downloades af registrerede brugere i Red Hat Customer Portal og er tilpasset arkitekturerne x86_64, IBM POWER7+, POWER8 (big endian og little endian) og IBM System z. Kildekoderne til pakkerne kan downloades fra Git-repositoriet af CentOS-projektet.

RHEL 7.x-grenen understøttes parallelt med RHEL 8.x and will be supported until June 2024. The first phase of support for the RHEL 7.x branch, which included functional enhancements, is completed. The release of RHEL 7.9 was prepared after af overgangen transitioning to the maintenance stage, where the priorities shifted towards bug fixes and security, along with minor enhancements related to support for important hardware systems.

Blandt ændringer:

  • Versions of some packages have been updated (SSSD 1.16.5, pacemaker 1.1.23, FreeRDP 2.1.1, MariaDB 5.5.68);
  • An EDAC (Error Detection and Correction) driver for Intel ICX systems has been added;
  • Support for Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx network adapters has been implemented;
  • Drivers have been updated (QLogic FCoE, HP Smart Array Controller, Broadcom MegaRAID SAS, QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver, Microsemi Smart Family Controller);
  • Support for SCSI T10 DIF/DIX (Data Integrity Field/Data Integrity Extension) and Intel Omni-Path Architecture (OPA) technologies has been ensured.
  • The kernel has added parameters bert_disable and bert_enable to control the activation of BERT (Boot Error Record Table) in problematic BIOS, as well as the srbds parameter to activate protection against the vulnerability SRBDS (Special Register Buffer Data Sampling).

In the wake of it, Oracle har lavet udgivelsen af distributionen Oracle Linux 7.9, created based on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9. For unrestricted downloads distribueres installations iso-billede, der er 4,7 GB stort, forberedt til x86_64 og ARM64 (aarch64) arkitekturer. Også til Oracle Linux åbnet ubegrænset og gratis adgang til yum-repositoriet med binære opdateringer af pakker med fejlrettelser (errata) og sikkerhedsproblemer.

In addition to the kernel package from RHEL (3.10.0-1160), Oracle Linux also provides udgivet in the spring the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 (kernel-uek-5.4.17-2011.6.2.el7uek), which is offered by default. The source code of the kernel, including breakdown into separate patches, is available in the public Git-repositorier Oracle. Kernen positioneres som et alternativ til den standard kernepakke, der leveres med Red Hat Enterprise Linux, og tilbyder en række udvidede funktioner, such as DTrace integration and improved Btrfs support. Besides the kernel, in functionality, Oracle Linux 7.9 er analog med RHEL 7.9.

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