The distribution community CentOS ανακοίνωσε σήμερα την κυκλοφορία του CentOS Linux 8.1 (1911). Η ενημερωμένη έκδοση βασίζεται στον πηγαίο κώδικα 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 the Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) to help sysadmins deal with complex problems network, support for block re-encryption in LUKS2 while devices are in use, and a new tool for creating SELinux policies for containers called udica.
"With the udica program, you can create a custom security policy to better control how a container accesses host system resources, such as storage, devices, and network," report notes of the new version.
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 and helps users discover problems that could affect reliability in IdM environments.
Some packages and basics components they have also been updated in CentOS Linux 8.1 (1911). Among them, we can mention Tuning 2,12 a system tuning tool, which supports CPU list negation, chrony 3.5 suite, which can now more accurately synchronize the system clock with hardware time stamping, as and the PHP 7.3, Ruby 2.6, Node. 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.
