From eng-partner-management at redhat.com Tue Apr 10 14:48:59 2018 From: eng-partner-management at redhat.com (Engineering Partner Management) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:48:59 -0400 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Now Generally Available Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5, the latest version of the world?s leading enterprise Linux platform. Serving as a consistent foundation for hybrid cloud environments, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 provides enhanced security and compliance controls, tools to reduce storage costs, and improved usability, as well as further integration with Microsoft Windows infrastructure both on-premise and in Microsoft Azure. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 includes hundreds of new and improved features that continue to extend the central themes for the premier modern operating system: * Security and compliance: The security controls built into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 deliver added freedom for enterprises to extend their infrastructure into public clouds; build, design, and interact with Windows infrastructure; and deploy more mature workloads within containers. This includes: * Easier deployment of compliance and security configurations at scale through the integration of OpenSCAP in Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat Ansible Automation, generating Ansible Playbooks directly from scans. The resulting playbooks can be used by Ansible Automation to implement remediations rapidly and consistently across the enterprise. * Enhanced usability and security features with additional Microsoft integration, including security enhancements of data transfers within and to Microsoft Azure, streamlined management and communication with Windows Server, and performance integration improvements with complex Microsoft Active Directory architectures. * Enhanced container security that includes proactive security and compliance configuration at build, fine-grained security controls, and host layer access controls. * Secure sensitive data in the cloud and on-premise with security enhancements to Network-Bound Disk Encryption that support automatic decryption of data volumes. * Performance and efficiency: As enterprises seek to extend their existing investments, they continue to optimize storage to extend resources and reduce costs. Virtual data optimizer (VDO), new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5, is designed to reduce the costs of data in the cloud and on-premise by up to 83%. Through inline deduplication and compression, VDO eliminates data redundancy and increases effective capacity of new and existing storage up to six times. * Platform manageability: Existing skill set re-use, or lack thereof, continues to be a challenge in organizations optimizing IT investments and deploying new technologies. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 reduces the learning curve for new Linux administrators, Windows users, experts performing advanced troubleshooting, and developers with self-service needs who do not need to get into the command line. As an easy-to-use web interface, the cockpit admin console provides ongoing management of individual systems, includes additional use cases for network and storage management, including support for virtual data optimizer (VDO). * Linux containers: The Buildah utility has moved out of tech preview in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host 7.5 and is now fully supported. Customers can utilize Buildah to create and modify Linux container images without the docker engine. * Availability across multiple architectures: Red Hat continues to improve customers experience by supporting different architectural choices for datacenter infrastructure. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 introduces simultaneous availability across all supported architectures, including x86, IBM Power, IBM z Systems and 64-bit Arm. This release also brings support for single host KVM virtualization and Open Container Initiative (OCI)-formated runtime environment and base image to IBM z Systems. Also now generally available - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host 7.5 - the latest version of Red Hat's container workload-optimized host platform (available with most Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions). You may find the detailed highlights of what?s new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 in the technical brief available at http://www.redhat.com/en/resources/whats-new-rhel-75-technology-brief, or get full details in the release notes: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/ AVAILABILITY Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 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 7.5, 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-strengthens-hybrid-clouds-backbone-latest-version-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 From eng-partner-management at redhat.com Thu Apr 26 18:44:38 2018 From: eng-partner-management at redhat.com (Engineering Partner Management) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:44:38 -0400 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Beta Now Available Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Beta. For nearly eight years, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has carried our customers? critical infrastructure because of the stability, reliability, and platform security that it can offer to the modern enterprise. Today, we are pleased to announce the beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10, continuing to deliver upon Red Hat?s 10-year lifecycle support. With a focus on stability and security features that maintain hardware, application, and management tooling compatibility, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Beta is designed to support the next generation of cloud-native applications through an updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 base image. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Beta base image enables customers to migrate their existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 workloads into container-based applications - suitable for deployment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 beta is now available to customers with an active Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription. In addition, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription gives our customers the freedom to choose which supported major release to deploy; therefore, existing customers may also elect to update their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 infrastructure to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 at any time, free of charge, to take advantage of recent upstream innovations. To help simplify the upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, we offer several tools already available through a subscription, including Preupgrade Assistant and Red Hat Upgrade Tool. Learn more about the upgrade process and how to access these tools on the Red Hat Customer Portal: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/637583. AVAILABILITY Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Beta 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 6.10 Beta, please visit: https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux ADDITIONAL RESOURCES To review a full list of what has been updated with the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 beta, please visit: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/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