From rhelv6-announce at redhat.com Thu May 19 18:01:37 2011 From: rhelv6-announce at redhat.com (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) announcement mailing-list) Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 14:01:37 -0400 Subject: [rhelv6-announce] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 now available Message-ID: <4DD55B01.80105@redhat.com> We announced today the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 which provides our customers with more flexibility, efficiency and control of their data center. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 is the first service pack since the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. As with every service pack, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 consolidates all patches and security updates since the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and maintains application compatibility, ISV and IHV support. Already the established leader as both a virtual machine guest and hypervisor host, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 introduces new features that solidify Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the standard operating system platform for the enterprise. To that end, this service pack: * Sets a new SpecVirt record in multi-core scaling due to its reduced overhead of networking and storage. It also brings more control to managing the virtual machine with enhanced resource management (cgroups) to ensure predictable performance of critical applications. * Achieves better performance and provides more configuration options for advanced networking storage. Enhancements to FCoE, Data Center Bridging and iSCSI offload allow networked storage to deliver the quality of service commonly associated with directly connected storage. * Achieves more enterprise reliability with support for the latest availability features like hot-plug of processor and memory. * Extends our current clustering solution (available with the High Availability Add-On) to the virtual environment allowing for high availability of virtual machines and applications running inside those virtual machines. * Includes updated developer tools that allow you to inspect additional levels of processor memory with the help of Valgrind and learn more about running processes with SystemTap. These enhancements have been integrated into the Eclipse IDE for a unified development experience. * Provides an easier transition to IPv6 catered to optimized networking, firewall and DHCP/DNS services. This service pack also introduces several new technologies that enable smoother enterprise deployments and tighter integration with heterogeneous systems. * Includes enterprise identity services based on the open source FreeIPA project to provide an authentication and authorization framework for large enterprise deployments. * Introduces new certificate-based subscription management tools that provide customers with more visibility into what type of subscription they have purchased and what systems have been entitled to that subscription(s). We are thankful to our partners and our customers who worked closely with us to develop this high quality release, and look forward to their continued collaboration in future releases. Visit www.redhat.com/rhel/server/whats_new for more details. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team