From eng-partner-management at redhat.com Tue Aug 6 20:03:23 2019 From: eng-partner-management at redhat.com (Engineering Partner Management) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 16:03:23 -0400 Subject: [rhelv6-list] Announcing General Availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Message-ID: Today, we?re pleased to announce the latest update to the world?s leading enterprise Linux platform with the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7. This release delivers enhanced consistency and control across cloud infrastructure for IT operations teams while also providing a suite of modern, supported container creation tools for enterprise application developers. Key points to note: The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 lifecycle This release marks the transition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to Maintenance Phase I as defined in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10-year lifecycle. Future minor releases will now focus solely on retaining and improving stability and reliability rather than adding new features. Upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 The Red Hat subscription allows users to deploy the release that suits their business needs. To facilitate moving to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat offers tools, including in-place upgrades, which streamline and simplify the migration. Enhanced operational consistency across the hybrid cloud Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 delivers a consistent experience across virtualized, bare-metal and cloud-based resources, with capabilities to enhance creation, delivering and operation of critical workloads including: * Red Hat Insights, Red Hat?s expertise-as-a-service offering, which helps users proactively detect, analyze and help remediate a variety of potential software security and configuration issues. * Full support for image builder, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux utility that enables IT teams to more readily and easily build cloud images for major public cloud infrastructures, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. * Network performance improvements for Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenStack Platform by offloading virtual switching and network functions virtualization (NFV) to network controller hardware. Support for cloud-native development Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 extends support for Red Hat?s distributed container toolkit - buildah, podman and skopeo - to Red Hat Enterprise Linux workstation deployments. Along with the Red Hat 7 Universal Base Images, developer teams can build, run and manage containerized applications across the hybrid cloud. Live patching for improved OS security Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 also introduces support for live patching the underlying Linux kernel. Kernel updates can be applied to remediate Critical or Important Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) minimizing the need for system reboots. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 availability Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 is now available in the Red Hat Customer Portal for all customers with active Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions. To access and download Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7, please visit: https://access.redhat.com/downloads/ Additional Resources Share the Press Release: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-drives-cloud-native-flexibility-enhances-operational-security-latest-version-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7 Read the documentation: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/ Learn more about Red Hat Enterprise Linux: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux Learn more about the Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata Learn more about kernel live patching: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/kernel_administration_guide/index#applying_patches_with_kernel_live_patching Read about developing containerized applications: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/category/topics/containers/ubi/ Sincerely, The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team