Red Hat has announced the release of the second update for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.x series, a corporate Linux distribution with integrated support options.
Red Hat is an American multinational company that develops open source products for both personal and commercial use.
It is widely known for its funding in Fedora Project, an open source operating system, while its main commercial product is Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The company was founded in 1993 by Marc Ewing and is headquartered in Raleigh, South Carolina.
Η new edition in addition to many improvements, it also has an upgrade tool for RHEL 7.x series users:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 is available for download. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 is the latest release according to the development schedule of scheduled updates twice a year.
Highlights of the new version: improved user experience, optimized subscription registration making the process installations possible with just one click. Simplifies monitoring with Red Hat Insights, enabling on-installation, improved lifecycle management.
Simplifies upgrades from RHEL 7.8 to RHEL 8.2 with in-place upgrade tools. Reduces the time and risk of upgrading inplace with instructions recognitionand rehabilitation for her resolution potential problems.
Improved monitoring and performance, improvements in resource management for container-running processes with cgroup v2. ”
Read it announcement of the new version and detailed information from release notes for more information.
As always, Red Hat customers can download the new version from the company's customer portal, while new users can apply for download a 30 day trial version.