[rhelv6-announce] The First Minor Release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Now Available

[Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) announcement mailing-list]

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux team is pleased to announce the general 
availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, the first minor release of 
our Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 platform.

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat redefined the operating system 
into a platform designed to facilitate innovation. The enhancements to 
the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform offered by Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux 7.1, as well as the new offerings based on the update, 
deliver a flexible, reliable, secure and performant platform that works 
across nearly every industry use case.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 offers improved development and deployment 
tools, enhanced interoperability and manageability, and additional 
security and performance features. As with all releases of Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux, these enhancements are delivered over a stable, 
secure, 10-year lifecycle backed by Red Hat’s award-winning global support.

In addition, the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 
coincides with the launch of three specialized Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
offerings. These include:

  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host is also generally available 
today, using the tools and frameworks as delivered by Project Atomic. 
Created specifically with container-based workloads in mind, Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux Atomic Host offers a minimal-footprint, streamlined 
platform perfect for running Linux containers in an enterprise environment.

  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time is Red Hat’s real-time 
computing platform for deadline-oriented and time-sensitive 
applications. Using a specialized version of the Red Hat Enterprise 
Linux 7 kernel that has been tuned to deliver consistent low-latency 
response times, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time retains the 
reliability, scalability, and performance of the world’s leading 
enterprise Linux platform.

  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian brings Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux 7.1 to enterprises using the IBM Power Systems platform 
with support for POWER8 on IBM Power Systems based on little endian. 
Running on POWER8 offers higher performance especially for big data 
applications through multi-threading, more cache and greater data 
bandwidth, while little endian mode removes an application portability 
barrier and allows datacenters running Power Systems to leverage Red 
Hat’s vast ecosystem of certified applications originally developed for 
x86 architecture. This also means that these certified applications can 
be more easily migrated between x86-based and POWER processor-based 
systems, giving customers the advantages of both architectures.

RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 7.1 AVAILABILITY
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 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 7.1, 
please visit: https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
To access documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, visit:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/

To read the press release, visit:
http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-continues-platform-innovation-general-availability-first-minor-release-red-hat-enterprise-linux

To get the latest news via the Red Hat Enterprise Linux blog, visit:
http://rhelblog.redhat.com/

Sincerely,

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team