From rhelv6-announce at redhat.com Tue Oct 1 16:58:03 2013 From: rhelv6-announce at redhat.com (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) announcement mailing-list) Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:58:03 -0400 Subject: [rhelv6-announce] Red Hat Launches the Next Release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Message-ID: <524AFF1B.30508@redhat.com> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 improves stability, security for enterprise applications Raleigh, N.C. ? October 1, 2013 ? Red Hat, Inc, (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced today the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10, the latest minor release of the mature Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Platform. With an emphasis on providing greater stability for critical applications, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 offers enhanced features for reliability and security, including an updated version of OpenSCAP ? the open source Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) configuration scanner, which meets the National Institute of Standards and Technology?s (NIST) SCAP 1.2 standard. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 reiterates Red Hat?s commitment to a 10-year lifecycle for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and maintains backwards compatibility with all previous releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, including supported hardware and software platforms. Beyond OpenSCAP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 also includes: * MySQL 5.5, the most recent, stable version of that open source database. MySQL 5.5 includes a number of improvements in terms of speed, scalability, and ease of use. For customers' convenience, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 also includes MySQL 5.1, which is required in order to upgrade to MySQL 5.5. * Enhanced Subscription Management Tools, which now provide more insight into how customers can optimize and benefit from their Red Hat subscriptions. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10, customers can better match subscriptions to their unique system needs, better report on and manage subscription usage across a large inventory of systems, and add custom, searchable key value pairs to systems, all without having to go through the Red Hat Customer Portal. * Red Hat Access, delivered through the Red Hat Support Tool, provides an integrated, seamless way to get answers with exclusive Red Hat Knowledge, use Red Hat?s automated diagnostic services for problem determination and engage with Red Hat directly from a Linux terminal. Customers can use Red Hat Access to quickly resolve issues and analyze log files, core dumps and error messages, all from within Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10. Additionally, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 customers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer subscriptions will now gain access to Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 (http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2013/9/red-hat-releases-red-hat-developer-toolset-2-0-with-update-to-gcc), which offers users a selection of popular, open source developer tools. Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 has a more frequent release cadence and exists on a separate lifecycle from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, enabling developers to take advantage of the latest stable open development tools for application innovation. 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Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com. From rhelv6-announce at redhat.com Tue Oct 8 18:29:55 2013 From: rhelv6-announce at redhat.com (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) announcement mailing-list) Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:29:55 -0400 Subject: [rhelv6-announce] Latest Beta Release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Now Available Message-ID: <52544F23.70209@redhat.com> Today, we are pleased to announce the beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5. To keep pace with the demand for enterprise-class infrastructure, the newest version of the leading Linux platform extends its scalability and manageability to aid in the build-out and control of large, complex IT environments. For example, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 will be designed to simplify the operation of mission-critical SAP applications by automating the optimal configuration of common SAP deployments. The beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 also offers enhancements and new capabilities in the following key areas: Subscription Management Services -------------------------------- Red Hat Enterprise Linux seamlessly integrates with Red Hat subscription management services to manage the local system and its allocated subscriptions. The Subscription Manager agent connects the system to the Red Hat Customer Portal or to an on-premise subscription management service set-up by the customer using Subscription Asset Manager. Once connected, the customer can realize centralized control of their subscription assets and manage inventory, status, and gain enhanced reporting for the support of multiple systems. Scalability ----------- Scalability at the administrative level is increased by changes made to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 beta kernel. Kernel dump files on large systems can now scale to multiple terabytes of data, and a new compression algorithm (LZO) speeds the creation of dump files, leading to reduced down time during crash dump generation and faster troubleshooting. An enhancement to the perf tool?s tracing and testing commands also provides additional infrastructure event monitoring capabilities. Networking ---------- Networking enhancements delivered in the beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 range from improved performance to expanded compliance with industry-specific requirements. These new capabilities include: * Better analysis of multicast traffic by inspecting Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) data to list router ports and groups with active subscribers * Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) association statistics in support of SS7 M3UA (Message Transfer Part Level 3 User Adaptation Layer) implementations provide additional monitoring capabilities for customers within the telecommunications sector * The introduction of IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol Version 2 (PTPv2), used for precisely synchronizing clocks in an Ethernet network. PTPv2 is capable of achieving clock accuracy in the sub-microsecond range and supports network driver time stamping for many of the widely adopted network drivers. Storage ------- The storage additions to the beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 deliver improved scalability, performance, and ease of use. Enterprise storage customers benefit from improved control and recovery in iSCSI and Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) environments. The performance and high-availability features of multipath IO are available to a broader set of devices and multipath device automatic naming enhancements provide shorter, more convenient device names. The beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 also supports Intel's NVM Express driver, the industry standard specification for accessing PCI Express bus-based SSDs. Also, FUSE-based file systems, like GlusterFS, can now use asynchronous IO for improved performance. Virtualization -------------- The beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 continues to deliver virtualization to provide for a robust guest environment. The Red Hat guest can serve as a client to the highly scalable Gluster filesystem and Red Hat Storage. The path to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is streamlined by utilities that convert VMware OVF and Citrix Xen guests to Red Hat guests, helping customers to simplify their complex and diverse virtual infrastructure onto Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology. The maximum memory for Red Hat guests has increased to four terabytes, allowing guests to run large-scale workloads, and dynamic hot-add functionality for virtual CPUs enables customers to add compute resources to installed guests on-the-fly, reducing downtime. Security -------- Security enhancements keep the beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 up-to-date with essential government and industry regulations as well as emerging best practices. NSS, GnuTLS, OpenSSL and Java can now share a single, system-wide static data store, which can be used by crypto-toolkits as input for trusted certificate decisions, something that is required by many corporate deployments. Additional security capabilities include: * Support for smartcard authentication by providing single-sign-on capabilities across more application subsystems * The latest version of OpenSCAP, an authenticated scanner that meets the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) SCAP 1.2 certification requirements * Support for the latest Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.2) standard, allowing secure network communication. The beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 also features several desktop and graphical enhancements. Users can now remotely operate Windows 7 and Windows 8 desktops and Windows Server 2012 consoles using the RDP protocol, and customers running the Evolution mail client will now experience better integration with Microsoft Exchange, especially from a calendaring perspective. Additionally, the base LibreOffice software is updated to 4.0, which provides a host of office workflow improvements. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 beta is available now on Red Hat Network to all customers with an active Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription. For access and downloads, please visit: https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channels/Beta.do We greatly appreciate the dedication and collaboration within the company and with our community to develop and deliver the highest quality open source enterprise platform available today. Sincerely, The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Please visit the resources below for more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5. Access documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (requires login): * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 beta release notes: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html/6.5_Release_Notes/index.html * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 beta documentation: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/