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Red Hat Linux 7.7 Beta released
While I’m still waiting for the CentOS 8 build, Red Hat released Enterprise Linux 7.7 this week as beta version. So far, the most important change is support for Python 3. Other changes include:
- The Samba package is rebased to version 4.9.1
- SSSD now fully supports sudo rules stored in AD
- The gcc-libraries are rebased to version 8.3.1
- Spectre V2 mitigation changed from IBRS to Retpoline
- The bind package is rebased to version 9.11
- NetworkManager now supports VLAN filtering on bridge interfaces
- NetworkManager now supports configuring policy routing rules
- The nss packages are updated for Firefox 60 ESR
- SCAP Security Guide supports Universal Base Image
- The chrony package is rebased to version 3.4
- The tuned package is rebased to version 2.11
- The web console (cockpit) is rebased to version 191
- The firewalld package is rebased to version 0.6.3
These services are now available in Technology Preview:
- Containerized Identity Management server
- Setting up IdM as a hidden replica
- DNSSEC (finally!)
- Use of AD and LDAP sudo providers
- Wayland desktop
- pNFS block layouts
- kexec to update running kernels
- YUM4, since Python 3 is now supported
- USB 3.0 support for KVM guests
The complete release notes can be found here on the Red Hat website.
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