[rhelv6-announce] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Now Generally 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 7.3.

As the world’s leading enterprise Linux operating system, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux provides thousands of customers with a stable and
secure platform for their mission critical applications and workloads.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 enhances our flagship platform with
significant improvements to performance, security, and reliability and
through the inclusion of new capabilities in support of both Linux
containers and the Internet of Things (IoT).

As with all releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, these enhancements
are delivered over a 10-year lifecycle and are backed by Red Hat’s
award-winning customer support.

The general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 coincides
with updates to several specialized Red Hat Enterprise Linux
offerings. These include:

 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host 7.3, the latest version of Red
Hat's container workload-optimized host platform, is also now
available with most Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions.

 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Applications, a variant optimized
for running SAP environments, is now supported on IBM z Systems and
IBM Power, big endian.

 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM 7.3 Development Preview, a
version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux designed for 64-bit ARM-based
systems, has been updated to include:
   - Single host virtualization based on KVM, one of the leading open
source virtualization technologies.
   - Red Hat Ceph Storage for prototyping and deploying scale-out,
software-defined storage for object, block, and file.
   - Initial support for Red Hat Developer Toolset, which provides C
and C++ developers with the latest stable open source tools to create,
diagnose, and debug applications for 64-bit ARM platforms.


AVAILABILITY
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 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 7.3,
please visit: https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux


ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
To access documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, visit:
 * https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-enterprise-linux/
 * https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-enterprise-linux-atomic-host/

To read today’s press release, visit:
 * https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-powers-network-storage-performance-latest-version-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7

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

Sincerely,
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team