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

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.

Comments

Re:Just use CentOS

[Junta]

There are a few reasons to buy RHEL:

-You don't know what you are doing and you are going to be paying *someone* to know what they are doing. Many may believe that such a Linux customer is a unicorn, but I have seen many people relying heavily upon their enterprise vendor.
-You need urgent human attention to problems as they arise. Recently I worked with a company that needed to understand the root cause of a kernel panic they were hitting *immediately*, and RedHat was there for that.
-To pass the buck when things do go south.

You are correct that from a technical perspective, CentOS is all the capability but none of the hassle. It just doesn't have any of the guaranteed human attention, and that is really what you are paying for. All that said, their entitlement scheme is terribly convoluted and even if I would be willing to pay, it's enough to make me not want to use them.