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RHEL 8 Released – New Features

Overview

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) has been released on May 7th, 2019. This release came after IBM
acquired Red Hat for $34 billion on October 28, 2018.

RHEL 8 is based on Fedora 28 and uses upstream Linux kernel 4.18. This release provides a stable,
secure and good foundation for hybrid cloud deployments to support customer’s workloads.

Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 provides support for following architectures.

 AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures
 The 64-bit ARM architecture
 IBM Power Systems, Little Endian
 IBM Z

RHEL 8 New Features

1. The Cockpit is now available by default
2. RHEL 8 comes with a new version of the YUM version which is based on DNF. This new version is
compatible with YUM v3 (RHEL 7)
3. RPM v4.14 is distributed in RHEL 8. RPM now validates the whole package contents before starting
the installation
4. RHEL 8 content is other file systems through the two main repositories: BaseOS and Application
Stream (AppStream)
5. RHEL 8 support up to 4PB of physical memory
6. Wayland is the default display server instead of the Xorg server in RHEL 8
7. XFS now supports shared copy-on-write data extents
8. nftables replaces iptables as the default network filtering framework
9. Python 3.6 is the default Python version in RHEL 8
10. PHP 7.2 comes with RHEL 8
11. Nginx 1.14 is available in core repository in RHEL 8

Cockpit

Cockpit – a web-based interface for a system admin to perform admin tasks is now available by default
RHEL repositories.The cockpit is now compatible with mobile browsers and makes it easier to manage
systems from a mobile device.

The Cockpits front page now includes the warning for missing updates and expired Red Hat subscription.

As a major enhancement, the Cockpit’s Networking page includes Firewall section that let the users to
manage (add, remove, modify) firewall rules as well as to change the status (enable or disable) of the
firewall.

A new tlog (session recorder) package and its associated Cockpit session player enables us to record and
playback the user terminal sessions.

S. Pradhan
(MCA, MBA-IT, BCA, CCNA, MCSA 2012, RHCE, ETHICAL HACKING)
Email Id:-spradhan.iiht@gmail.com
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