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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 7.5 Released (redhat.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the Red-Hat-from-Raleigh dept.

On Tuesday Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.5. An anonymous reader writes: Serving as a consistent foundation for hybrid cloud environments, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 provides enhanced security and compliance controls, tools to reduce storage costs, and improved usability, as well as further integration with Microsoft Windows infrastructure both on-premise and in Microsoft Azure.

New features include a large combination of Ansible Automation with OpenSCAP, and LUKS-encrypted removable storage devices can be now automatically unlocked using NBDE. The Gnome shell has been re-based to version 3.26, the Kernel version is 3.10.0-862, and the kernel-alt packages include kernel version 4.14 with support for 64-bit ARM, IBM POWER9 (little endian), and IBM z Systems, while KVM virtualization is now supported on IBM POWER8/POWER9 systems.
See the detailed release notes here.

3 of 64 comments (clear)

  1. I Hope by jmccue · · Score: 3, Informative

    I hope the replaced kernel 3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64 with a better kernel :). For some laptops models, DRI had to be disabled in X to prevent hangs. That kernel was applied in 7.3 to fix a vulnerability and was carried over to 7.4.

    1. Re:I Hope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      why in earth would you use an enterprise / server side distro for a laptop?

      RHEL Workstation is a good OS for laptops, especially if you want to maintain binary and package version compatibility with your servers.
      Development is a good example of where this is useful. Automounts that contain binaries and/or libraries is another. And remote X. Sometimes compatibility wins over bleeding edge.

      RHEL won't work on hardware that is released after it was. You'll get warnings at boot time and your hardware will not work. Software updates will not fix the problems because the updates are not coming. RHEL is for certified hardware and you can't certify hardware that doesn't exist yet.

  2. Python 2: goodbye in RHEL 8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the "Deprecated Functionality" chapter, it is mentioned that Python 2 will not be shipped in the OS:

    * https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.5_release_notes/chap-red_hat_enterprise_linux-7.5_release_notes-deprecated_functionality

    If you need it in RHEL 8, you need to either get it via EPEL, another third-party repo, or compile-from-source.