From rhelv6-announce at redhat.com Tue Jan 8 18:47:14 2013 From: rhelv6-announce at redhat.com (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) announcement mailing-list) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:47:14 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-announce] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 GA Announcement Message-ID: <50EC69B2.9050302@redhat.com> Today, Red Hat announced the general availability of the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9. We continue to work with our partners, customers and the open source community to deliver technology that is tested and stable ? and Red Hat Enterprise 5.9 illustrates that ongoing commitment. This release marks the beginning of Production Phase 2 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, demonstrating the company's continued effort to promote stability and the preservation of customers' investments. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10-year lifecycle provides stability for customers who wish to remain on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 until they are ready to migrate to a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux [1]. This release includes new functionality in the areas of virtualization, security, and networking; new support for standards and certifications; and enhancements to certificate-based Red Hat Subscription Management. New drivers for Microsoft Hyper-V enable customers to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 as a virtual guest on Hyper-V with improved performance. Also included in this release are additions to capabilities for developers as well as support for our hardware partners that take advantage of the latest performance enhancements. Key functionality in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 includes: Enhanced Hardware Enablement Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 showcases Red Hat's strong relationships with industry-leading hardware vendors. This minor release contains support for the latest CPU, chip set, and device driver enhancements from leading hardware vendors. Continued Commitment to Security, Standards, and Certifications Red Hat Enterprise Linux has always been built with security in mind ? a commitment that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 helps solidify. This update features tighter security controls, the ability to verify and check the robustness of new passwords, and support for the latest government password policy requirements. It also adds support for using Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) mode with dmraid root devices. FIPS mode now supports RAID device discovery, RAID set activation, and the creation, removal, rebuilding, and displaying of properties. New Developer Tools Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 includes several new developer-friendly features and tools, including the ability to develop and test with the latest version of open source Java available through OpenJDK 7. Many new SystemTap improvements have been added to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9, including compile-server and client support for IPv6 networks, smaller SystemTap files, faster compiles, and compile server support for multiple concurrent connections. Enhanced Application Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 includes a new rsyslog5 package that upgrades rsyslog to major version 5. The rsyslog5 package runs faster and is more reliable than existing rsyslog packages. Samba has been updated to version 3.6. New features include fully featured SMB2 support, a reworked print server, and security default improvements for all versions of Samba. New Virtualization Capabilities and Flexibility in Multi-vendor Environments Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 enhances the operating system's usability in multi-vendor environments by introducing Microsoft Hyper-V drivers for improved performance. This enhances the usability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for guests in a heterogeneous, multi-vendor virtualized environment and provides improved flexibility and interoperability for our customers. Enhanced Red Hat Subscription Management Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 uses Red Hat Subscription Management as the default, allowing customers to effectively and more easily manage their Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions locally or with tools such as Subscription Asset Manager which was enhanced to easily run reports on subscription distribution and utilization and an improved user interface. For more detail on how Red Hat customers can manage their subscriptions, please visit the Subscription Management section of the Red Hat Customer Portal. Although Red Hat Enterprise Linux will remain stable with only bug and security fixes during Production Phase 2 of its life cycle [1], we encourage our Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 customers to consider upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 so they can take advantage of the latest features and hardware support available from our hardware partners. We greatly appreciate the dedication and collaboration within the company and with our community and customers to develop and deliver the highest quality enterprise platform available today. Sincerely, The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team [1] All details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle and release schedules are available here: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ To read the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 press release with supporting customer quote, please visit: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2013/1/red-hat-announces-general-availability-of-red-hat-enterprise-linux-5-9 To access and download an evaluation copy for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9, please visit: https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channels/All.do Please note that this requires an active account on the Red Hat customer portal, and the user must filter and navigate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and the architecture of interest (e.g., x86_64, Power, System z, etc.). For access to the documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 including the release notes, please visit: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/ From rhelv6-announce at redhat.com Fri Jan 25 16:07:34 2013 From: rhelv6-announce at redhat.com (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) announcement mailing-list) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:07:34 -0500 (EST) Subject: [rhelv6-announce] Red Hat Developer Toolset 1.1 Now Available through Developer-focused Subscriptions In-Reply-To: <24080706.226.1359130026138.JavaMail.gcase@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <9279934.227.1359130049159.JavaMail.gcase@localhost.localdomain> Today Red Hat announces the general availability of version 1.1 of Red Hat Developer Toolset through Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Subscriptions. For developers, having ready access to the latest, stable development tools is key to taking advantage of open source innovation. Red Hat Developer Toolset 1.1 bridges development agility with production stability by delivering the latest stable versions of essential C and C++ development tools. By employing Red Hat Developer Toolset, organizations can significantly increase developer productivity and improve deployment times. Red Hat Developer Toolset helps to reduce development and deployment time by allowing users to compile once for multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and more easily diagnose and debug applications in development. Using Red Hat Developer Toolset, software developers can develop applications that run on multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Applications developed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 can run on both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Developer Toolset 1.1 delivers the following significant enhancements: * Updated GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 4.7.2, providing a number of fixes and improvements to the compiler and associated runtimes. * Updated GNU Project Debugger (GDB) 7.5, so developers using GCC 4.7 can also use the latest version of GDB to gain visibility into applications while they execute and to identify what occurred during a crash. * SystemTap 1.8, a diagnostic tool that allows developers to gather information about running Linux systems without going through a tedious and disruptive instrument, recompile, install, and reboot sequence. * OProfile 0.9.7, providing Linux developers with a low-overhead profiler for all code running on a system, enabling system-wide performance analysis. * Valgrind 3.8.1, an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools to detect many memory management and threading bugs, and profile programs in detail. * elfutils 0.154, a collection of utilities for processing compiled objects. * DWZ 0.7 optimizes DWARF debugging information contained in ELF shared libraries and ELF executables by compressing them into smaller debuginfo files. * Fortran in GCC 4.7, providing support for scientific and research communities through the latest version of GCC with Fortran. Red Hat Developer Toolset is available for users who develop applications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 through a variety of developer-focused subscriptions. Please see the release notes for support of specific minor releases. The version of the tools included in Red Hat Developer Toolset is an alternative to the version bundled in Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases. Developers can choose to use older versions of the tools provided with Red Hat Enterprise Linux or the versions provided with the Red Hat Developer Toolset. You can obtain Red Hat Developer Toolset by subscribing to one of the following offerings: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Support Subscriptions * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Workstation * NFR subscriptions for qualifying Partners Sign up for a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Workstation 30-day evaluation at the following link to try Red Hat Developer Toolset today: https://www.redhat.com/wapps/eval/index.html?evaluation_id=1023 To learn more about Red Hat developer offerings, visit: http://developer.redhat.com/rhel DOCUMENTATION To access documentation for Red Hat Developer Toolset (requires login), visit: Red Hat Developer Toolset documentation: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Developer_Toolset/ Documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/ Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Guide: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Developer_Guide/index.html Latest Red Hat Developer Toolset release notes: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Developer_Toolset/1/html/1.1_Release_Notes/index.html ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Red Hat Developer Program information: http://www.redhat.com/developers/rhel https://access.redhat.com/products/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/Developer/ Red Hat Developer Blog: http://developerblog.redhat.com/ The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Program online user group: https://access.redhat.com/groups/red-hat-enterprise-linux-developer-program Sincerely, The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team