[rhelv6-announce] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Now Generally Available

[Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) announcement mailing-list]

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.4, the latest version of our Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 platform.  With significant enhancements to security,
performance, and support for Linux containers, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7.4 continues to pair open source innovation with
enterprise-grade stability - providing enterprises with a rich and
stable foundation for both existing applications and a new generation
of workloads and solutions.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 includes hundreds of new and improved
features.  While it’s not practical to review each and every
enhancement in this announcement - highlights include:
  * Updated audit capabilities to help simplify how administrators
filter the events logged by the audit system, gather more information
from critical events and to interpret large numbers of records.
  * USB Guard, a feature that allows for greater control over how
plug-and-play devices can be used to help limit both data leaks and
data injection.
  * Support for NVMe Over Fabric helps to provide customers with
increased flexibility and reduced overhead when accessing high
performance NVMe storage devices located in the data center on both
Ethernet or Infiniband fabric infrastructures.
  * General enhancements to Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s performance
when deployed on the public cloud, highlighted by decreased boot times
to better enable mission-critical applications to start sooner, and
support for the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) on Amazon Web Services
(AWS) to enable new network capabilities.
  * Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles as a Technology
Preview[1] to provide a common management interface across all major
versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Also now generally available - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host
7.4 - the latest version of Red Hat's container workload-optimized
host platform (available with most Red Hat Enterprise Linux
subscriptions).

In addition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 is available across multiple
architectures, including IBM Power, IBM z Systems, and 64-bit ARM (as
a Development Preview). For the IBM Power Little Endian architecture,
this release enables support for the High Availability and Resilient
Storage Add-Ons as well as the Open Container Initiative (OCI) runtime
and image format.

To review a full list of new features and capabilities as included
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4, please visit:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/

AVAILABILITY
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 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 7.4,
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-bridges-hybrid-multi-cloud-deployments-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

[1] https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview