can be said that RHEL 7 is the most important enterprise Linux version ever, but all good things must end. Now, with the release of RHEL 7.9, the end of the RHEL 7.x story is imminent. Only 6 months after the last release of
, Red Hat finally completed the last version of 7.x, version 7.9. The 8.0 version should be the main follow-up. In 2014, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (hereafter referred to as RHEL) 7.0 was released. The release of Red Hat 7.0 became one of the most influential commercial Linux distributions ever.
RHEL 6 upgrade RHEL7
Preupgrade Assistant and Red Hat Upgrade Tool have been updated
supports RHEL6.10 upgrade to RHEL 7.9, except for SAP HANA
supports UEFI-based RHEL upgrade
supports RHEL rollback function
supports 1zz0 if you customize the repository The Centos 6 or Oracle Linux 6 you used before can be converted to RHEL6 through convert2rhel, and then upgraded to RHEL7. For details, please refer to the Red Hat official website
Lifecycle
You don’t have to be too anxious to migrate from RHEL 7.x. RHEL 7.9 will be supported until June 30, 2024. This is the last RHEL 7 minor version that RHEL 7 has entered the maintenance support phase 2. In this phase, Red Hat-defined Critical and Important Impact Security Announcements (RHSA) may be issued and selected (at Red Hat's sole discretion) Emergency Priority Bug Fixing Announcements (RHBA).
new features
BZ1768718 The certificate profile extension no longer limits the maximum number of certificate policies
BZ1796352 SSSD version is upgraded to 1.16.5, some BUGs are fixed and some new functions are added
BZ#1792492 pacemaker is upgraded to 1.1.23, some changes are made bug
BZ#1775373 per-thread indicator can be used for historical analysis
BZ#1834286 FreeRDP updated to 2.1.1 supports windows Server
BZ#1801759 kernel version is 3.10.0-1160 (real-time kernel, support online update)
BZ#1514705 Intel ICX system adds EDAC driver
BZ#1855010 supports Intel Omni-Path Architecture (OPA) host software
BZ#1829777 supports Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx network adapter
BZ#1767177 rhel-system-roles update
BZ#1821633 Provides a configuration that conforms to CIS RHEL 7 Benchmark v2.2.0 File
BZ#1791583 SCAP Security Guide can now correctly disable the service
BZ#1834835 MariaDB is revised to version 5.5.68
BZ#1649493 Support data integrity field/data integrity extension (DIF/DIX)
RHEL 7 is an important Linux distribution One of the products. According to an IDC report, Red Hat is the top choice for paid Linux in the global server operating environment market, accounting for more than 33% of the total number of paid enterprise operating systems. Even now, RHEL 7 is still the mainstream server operating system in the Linux business world.
