Oracle Linux 7 Update 7 has been released, it has many of the same changes RHEL 7.7, but now also added Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel version 5 update based on the Linux 4.14.35, the default RHEL based Linux kernel 7 3.10 compared There many additional patches.
In addition to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 changes upstream, Oracle Linux 7 Update 7 continues to support the Btrfs file system and its Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, Oracle continues to provide the MySQL community is no longer in default package, and various other changes.
Oracle Linux 7 Update 7 comes with the following kernel packages, including bug fixes, security fixes and enhancements:
- Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) Release 5 (nuclear 4.14.14.14-1902.3.3.2.7) for x86-64 and aarch64
- Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK) (kernel -3.10.0-1062.el7) applies only to x86-64
New features
- NetworkManager: NetworkManager enables you to configure a virtual local area network (VLAN) filtering on the bridge interface, and VLAN defined directly on the port bridge. NetworkManager also add a rule using the GUI to configure policy-based routing functionality.
- Security: Security Service (Nss), scap-security- guide and the shadow-utils package update; Scap Security Guide support universal base image (UBI) container and the mirror, now available on SCAP Security Guide any profile Scan UBI container and the mirror, the mirror and the rules do not apply UBI container will automatically skipped.
change
- btrfs : beginning, is no longer recommended in RHCK btrfs from Oracle Linux 7 Update 4. Please note, BTRFS fully supports UEKR4 and UEKR5
- MySQL Community Packages: From the start Oracle Linux 7 Update 5, Oracle Linux 7 ISO no longer contains the MySQL Community Package. These packages can be downloaded from the server and the Oracle Linux yum ULN.
In RHCK may be provided as a preview of significant technical features
- Systemd: a container for export and import images properties Importd
- File Systems: Parallel NFS (PNFS) blocks and object store layout; DAX (direct access), a persistent memory mapping directly from the application ext 4 and xfs file system; OverlayFS still in the stage of technical preview
- Kernel: Heterogeneous memory management (the HMM); non IOMMU mode virtual I / O functions
- Networking: the Cisco Infiniband kernel driver for Cisco User Space Network Driver and Cisco libusnic_verbs; Quantum driver a single I / O Virtualization (SR-IOV); Cisco private user space in the network interface controller driver libusnic_verbs UCM server provided
- The Storage: the SCSI queue multiple I / O scheduler (disabled by default); libStorageMgmt API widget for managing the storage array
For details, see the release notes:
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/announcing-oracle-linux-7-update-7