<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Greetings Red Hat Partners, <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of Red Hat Certification 7.28 and its associated test suite package updates (listed below). This Red Hat Certification package update *is* an official release and should be used for all new Red Hat certification submissions. Successful results from the previous certification test suite will be accepted for a period of 90 days. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The updated Red Hat Certification packages listed below are available on the Red Hat Customer Portal at the following location: <a href="https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/282/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/282/</a> <span 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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-hardware-preview-7.28-20210511.2.el8.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-openstack-7.28-20210511.2.el8.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-software-7.28-20210511.2.el8.noarch.rpm <span 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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-cloud-7.28-20210511.2.el7.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-cloud-sap-7.28-20210511.2.el7.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-hardware-7.28-20210511.2.el7.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-hardware-preview-7.28-20210511.2.el7.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-openstack-7.28-20210511.2.el7.noarch.rpm <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-backend-7.28-20210511.2.el6.noarch.rpm<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redhat-certification-cloud-7.28-20210511.2.el6.noarch.rpm <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Red Hat Certification management interface on Red Hat Partner Connect, which is available at <a href="https://rhcert.connect.redhat.com" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://rhcert.connect.redhat.com</a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, has been updated to use these packages. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This release includes enhancements and bug fixes as follows:<h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:16pt 0pt 8pt"> </h3><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;padding:8pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Improvements</h3><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt" align="left"><table style="border:medium none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="267"><col width="357"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program</td><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Details</td></tr><tr style="height:33.5479pt"><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hardware Certification</td><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hypervisor subtest added to the INFO test <ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A new subtest, <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hypervisor/Partitioning<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, is added in the <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">info test<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, that collects the identity of the hypervisor running on the system under test using the <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">virt-what<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> command.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The information is collected in the test results file and may be used for further analysis of potential customer issues.</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></div><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"> </h3><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;padding:8pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bug fixes</h3><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt" align="left"><table style="border:medium none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="266"><col width="358"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program</td><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Details</td></tr><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hardware Certification</td><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Change in Suspend to Memory subtest planning <ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An additional check is added to the suspend test that verifies if the term “deep” also exists in the<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> /sys/power/mem_sleep<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> file in addition to the “mem” term being present in the <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">/sys/power/state<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> file. </li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The issue is now fixed and the suspend to memory subtest will be planned only if both the terms are found.</li></ul></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hardware Certification</td><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Virtual machine’s results are now visible in the FV test final results file <ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Due to a recent update to the FV data image, when the fv_tests ran on a system under test, a bug prevented the virtual machine’s results file from getting merged into the final result file, <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.xml.gz<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. This issue is now fixed.</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></div><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"> </h3><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;padding:8pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Retired features</h3><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt" align="left"><table style="border:medium none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="266"><col width="358"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program</td><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Details</td></tr><tr style="height:81.2446pt"><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Software Certification</td><td style="border-color:rgb(153,153,153);border-style:solid;border-width:1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Support for the deprecated neutron load balancer as a service v2 is removed <ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">neutron_lbaasv2<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> subtest is removed from the Red Hat OpenStack Platform neutron certification test as the feature<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,27,28);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">is no longer included in the Red Hat OpenStack Platform product.</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We value your ongoing participation in Red Hat certification, software development, and testing efforts. Thank you for your continued partnership. If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact Ecosystem Partner Management.<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Regards,<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Red Hat Certification Team</div>