The CentOS distribution community today announced the release of CentOS Linux 8.1 (1911). The update is based on the source code του λειτουργικού συστήματος Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1.
CentOS Linux 8.1 (1911) is coming four months later the release of CentOS Linux 8, which is based on Red Hat's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 series, to add all the new features and enhancements to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 update.
New features include kernel live patching, a new routing protocol stack called FRR that supports IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, an extended version of Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) για να βοηθήσει τους sysadmins να αντιμετωπίσουν πολύπλοκα προβλήματα δικτύου, υποστήριξη για επανακρυπτογράφηση block στο LUKS2 ενώ οι συσκευές είναι σε χρήση, καθώς και ένα νέο εργαλείο για τη creation SELinux policies for containers called udica.
“Με το πρόγραμμα udica, μπορείτε να δημιουργήσετε μια προσαρμοσμένη πολιτική ασφαλείας για τον καλύτερο έλεγχο του τρόπου με τον οποίο ένα container έχει access σε πόρους του συστήματος του κεντρικού υπολογιστή, όπως αποθήκευση, συσκευές και δίκτυο”, αναφέρουν οι σημειώσεις της νέας έκδοσης.
CentOS Linux 8.1 also comes with additional FIPS-140 and Common Criteria certifications, XDP (eXpress Data Path) eBPF-based high performance data path as a Technology Preview, QCOW virtual image import support, and a new command-line tool in Identity Management called Healthcheck that helps users discover problems that could affect reliability in environments IdM.
Some packages and key components have also been updated to CentOS Linux 8.1 (1911). Among them, we can mention Tuning 2,12 a system adjustment tool, which supports CPU list negation, the chrony 3.5 suite, which can now more accurately synchronize the system clock with hardware time stamping, as well as and PHP 7.3, Ruby 2.6, Node packages. js 12, nginx 1.16, LLVM 8.0.1, Rust Toolset 1.37 and Go Toolset 1.12.8.
CentOS Linux 8.1 Installation Images (ISO) (1911) are available for download for 64-bit (x86_64), PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian (ppc64le), AArch64 (ARM 64-bit), and ARMv7hl / ARMhfp architectures. Vagrant and Generic Cloud images are also available for download from the official website.
Anyone who has CentOS Linux 8.0 (1905) installed can simply update their system.
