Red Hat Company distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 (about the new version a week ago only on the access.redhat.com portal, in and in the section the announcement never came.) RHEL 7.9 installation images for download by registered Red Hat Customer Portal users only and prepared for the x86_64, IBM POWER7+, POWER8 (big endian and little endian), and IBM System z architectures. Package sources can be downloaded from CentOS project.
RHEL 7.x branch maintained in parallel with branch and will be supported until June 2024. The first stage of support for the RHEL 7.x branch, which involves the inclusion of functional improvements, has been completed. RHEL 7.9 release prepared after to the maintenance phase, where priorities shifted towards bug fixes and security, with minor improvements related to support for critical hardware systems.
Among :
- Updated versions of some packages (SSSD 1.16.5, pacemaker 1.1.23, FreeRDP 2.1.1, MariaDB 5.5.68);
- Added EDAC (Error Detection and Correction) driver for Intel ICX systems;
- Implemented support for Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx network adapters;
- Updated drivers (QLogic FCoE, HP Smart Array Controller, Broadcom MegaRAID SAS, QLogic Fiber 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 is provided.
- Added bert_disable and bert_enable parameters to the kernel to control whether BERT (Boot Error Record Table) is enabled in problematic BIOSes, as well as the srbds parameter to enable vulnerability protection (Special Register Buffer Data Sampling).
Hot on the heels of Oracle distribution release , created on the basis of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 package base. To download without restrictions installation iso-image, 4.7 GB in size, prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 architectures (aarch64). For Oracle Linux also unlimited and free access to the yum repository with binary updates of packages with bug fixes (errata) and security issues.
In addition to the RHEL kernel package (3.10.0-1160), Oracle Linux comes with spring Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 (kernel-uek-5.4.17-2011.6.2.el7uek), which is offered by default. The kernel sources, including the breakdown into individual patches, are available in the public domain. Oracle. The kernel is positioned as an alternative to the regular kernel package supplied with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and provides a number of such as DTrace integration and improved Btrfs support. In addition to the kernel, according to the functionality of Oracle Linux 7.9 RHEL 7.9.
Source: opennet.ru