Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.5 beta: Red Hat's main goal with the new release is security.
The RHEL 7.5 Beta is designed to provide a solid foundation in the hybrid cloud. It also brings basically new and improved features for security, compliance, platform efficiency and manageability.
The youngest member of the RHEL 7 family supports not only x86 chips but also IBM Power, IBM System z and ARM.
For security reasons, in addition to improvements for Meltdown and Specter, Red Hat also brings the following security features to RHEL 7.5:
- Security and usability improvements for cloud and remote hosted systems that can more securely unlock encrypted devices connected to the network at startup. This will eliminate the need for manual intervention in one procedure startup which is often timed.
- Embedding Red Hat Ansoft DevOps Automation with OpenSCAP will facilitate the automation of damage recovery. It will also allow administrators to more effectively process policies on servers and clouds.
- Compliance improvements for precise timing and synchronization needs with the propcase failover with connection interfaces for the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and Network Time Protocol (NTP).
In addition to RHEL's greater security, Red Hat is also looking to improve storage capacity by introducing the virtual data optimizer (from virtual data optimizer or VDO). This is a new technology that comes from the acquisition by Permabit from Red Hat.
Want to know more about the beta version? You can read the release notes of RHEL 7.5. Or better, you can download RHEL 7.5 and try it yourself.
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