From rhelv6-announce at redhat.com Tue Oct 14 15:22:47 2014 From: rhelv6-announce at redhat.com (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) announcement mailing-list) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:22:47 -0400 Subject: [rhelv6-announce] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Now Available Message-ID: <543D3FC7.3040107@redhat.com> The Red Hat Enterprise Linux team is pleased to announce the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6, the latest version of our Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform. With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6, we continue to refine the stable and secure Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform which provides a reliable foundation for mission-critical systems across industries and regions. Whether you?re operating on bare metal, building out a virtual infrastructure, or leveraging the open hybrid cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, with enhancements to virtualization, performance and system administration, continues to be an excellent choice for deploying and managing large and complex IT projects. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 delivers a variety of improvements that provide increased system performance across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. These optimizations and tuning improvements include: * Kernel locking improvements to allow for more efficient CPU utilization on large NUMA systems * Out-of-the-box support for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) to deliver low-latency, high bandwidth network connectivity; functionality that was previously delivered through the High Performance Networking Add-on * A new optional socket polling implementation (?busy-poll?) that reduces network latency and jitter * Support for additional 40GbE network adapters (i.e. Solarflare, Intel, Emulex, Mellanox, and Chelsio) Organizations that build large, complex environments will benefit from enhancements that provide a better system administration experience. These include: * The addition of Performance Co-Pilot (PCP), a framework and set of services supporting system-level performance monitoring and management in distributed environments * Improved manageability of resource lists in large, high availability configurations * Full support for load balancer technology like HAProxy and keepalived Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 also provides enhancements to running Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a virtual guest, upholding Red Hat?s commitment to refining the overall virtualization experience. Virtualization updates in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 include support for a host to feed randomness (entropy) to a virtual machine, increasing security for cryptographic applications, multi-queue performance improvements for guest network and storage throughput when running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 host, and more. For access to the documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6, including the release notes, please visit: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/ RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 6.6 AVAILABILITY Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 is now available in the Red Hat Customer Portal to all customers with an active Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription. To access and download Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6, please visit: https://access.redhat.com/downloads/ Sincerely, The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team From rhelv6-announce at redhat.com Fri Oct 17 19:41:35 2014 From: rhelv6-announce at redhat.com (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) announcement mailing-list) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:41:35 -0400 Subject: [rhelv6-announce] Containerize Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Applications to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Message-ID: <544170EF.1030809@redhat.com> Greetings Red Hat Partners, On the heels of the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6, Red Hat has also announced the immediate availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform image for containerizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 applications. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform image provides the necessary runtime elements needed to run a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 application inside a Docker-formatted container on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 host. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform image allows for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscribers to create and deliver secure container images of existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 applications. * Deployment of those applications to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 without porting or changing source code. Red Hat ISV partners and customers to rely on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as a leading enterprise-grade container host for existing or new applications developed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. * Customers to gain additional deployment flexibility for applications developed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. * Customers to more quickly take advantage of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and containerization without compromising on the reliability and security they have gained by standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX PLATFORM IMAGE AVAILABILITY Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform image is now available in the Red Hat Customer Portal to all customers with active Standard and Premium Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions. To access and download Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform image, please visit: https://access.redhat.com/search/browse/docker-images#? Learn more at http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2014/10/14/run-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-applications-on-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7/. Sincerely, The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team From rhelv6-announce at redhat.com Thu Oct 30 15:44:29 2014 From: rhelv6-announce at redhat.com (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) announcement mailing-list) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:44:29 -0400 Subject: [rhelv6-announce] Latest Version of Red Hat Software Collections Now Available Message-ID: <54525CDD.8080304@redhat.com> Red Hat is pleased to announce the general availability of Red Hat Software Collections 1.2. The third installment of Red Hat Software Collections includes vital open developer tools, such as GCC 4.9, Maven and Git, and, for the first time, makes the Eclipse IDE available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Delivered on a separate lifecycle from Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a more frequent release cadence, Red Hat Software Collections is designed to bridge developer agility and production stability by accelerating the creation of modern applications that can be confidently deployed into production. New additions include: * Red Hat Developer Toolset 3.0, a software collection in its own right, is now included as a component of Red Hat Software Collections. As with previous releases, Red Hat Developer Toolset ensures that C and C++ developers are able compile once and deploy to multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For example, Red Hat Developer Toolset users can now compile on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to run on both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Noteworthy updates to Red Hat Developer Toolset include: GCC 4.9, GDB 7.8, the addition of ltrace 0.7.91, and a number of additional bug fixes and feature enhancements. * The availability of Dockerfiles for some of the most popular software collections, helping developers to rapidly build and deploy containerized applications. * DevAssistant 0.9.1, a useful tool for setting up development environments, publishing code, and completing other associated tasks; DevAssistant comes with both an intuitive GUI and CLI. * Maven 3.0, a build automation tool for Java projects that describes how software is built and all associated dependencies. * Git 1.9.4, formerly distributed as part of Red Hat Developer Toolset, has been updated and placed into its own collection enabling developers to be able to access and install Git without necessarily having to install Red Hat Developer Toolset. * An updated release of Nginx 1.6, giving developers access to a fully supported version of this high performance web server and web proxy. * The latest stable versions of popular dynamic languages employed to create modern web-based applications, including Ruby with Rails, Python, PHP, Perl, as well as a Technology Preview of node.js. * The latest stable versions of popular open source databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and MongoDB. As with previous releases, Red Hat Software Collections can be used to develop applications for deployment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the world?s leading enterprise Linux platform, and on OpenShift, the leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), offering customers the ultimate flexibility and choice for development and deployment. In addition, customers can deploy applications built using Red Hat Software Collections into production with confidence as most Red Hat Software Collections components are supported for 3 years. RED HAT SOFTWARE COLLECTIONS AVAILABILITY Red Hat Software Collections 1.2 is available now for use with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to customers and partners with select active Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions. For more information on how to install Red Hat Software Collections view the Red Hat Software Collections 1.2 release notes at the following link: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Software_Collections/ ADDITIONAL RESOURCES To access documentation for Red Hat Software Collections, visit: * Latest Red Hat Software Collections release notes: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Software_Collections/ * Latest Red Hat Developer Toolset release notes: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Developer_Toolset/ * Additional Red Hat Enterprise Linux documentation: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/ Sincerely, The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team