Oracle announced Oracle Linux version 8 first major maintenance update . Oracle Linux 8 Update 1 based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 release, Oracle 8 and released six months apart. The updated version Major update the core components, and enhance the security of the system, can provide better protection at the desktop and the cloud.
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Oracle wrote in the update log: "In Oracle Linux 8, applies to core operating environment and associated software packages traditional Oracle Linux 8 Server is released through the integration of BaseOS and Applications Streams way .BaseOS provides you with the operating environment .ApplicationStreams run in user space provides a range of applications previously distributed documents in the collection of software and other products and programs can be run in user space. "
Oracle Linux 8 Update 1 updates the most noteworthy is that for 64-bit (x86_64) Intel and AMD Red Hat compatible kernel platform (RHCK) Linux 4.18.0-147.el8 kernel packages. This package fixes a lot of BUG, security updates and enhancements, but also removed support for Btrfs and OCFS2 file system and VDO Ansible module to the Ansible package. It also adds support for installing 64-bit ARM (AArch64) platform as a developer preview.
此版本还引入了Udica，以允许用户通过创建定制的安全策略来更好地控制容器如何访问主机系统资源。其他更新的组件包括 MySQL 8.0, SELinux user-space tools 2.9 with boltd_t SELinux type for managing Thunderbolt 3 devices and bpf SELinux policy for controlling Berkeley Packet Filter, SELinux policy 3.14.3, SETools 4.2.2, OpenSSH 8.0p1, OpenSCAP 1.3.1和scap-security-guide 0.1.44.
在本次Oracle Linux 8 Update 1更新中，Cockpit Web控制台也获得了更新。支持同步多线程（SMT）配置，并具有禁用SMT的功能，对虚拟机管理页面的改进以及更新的网络页面（新功能）防火墙设置。此外该版本添加了针对英特尔Optane DC永久内存技术的内存模式。
那些对在其个人计算机或服务器上运行Oracle Linux 8 Update 1感兴趣的人可以立即从Oracle软件交付云免费下载ISO安装映像，以及通过Oracle Container Registry和Docker Hub的官方Docker映像。用户还可以从Unbreakable Linux Network（ULN）和Oracle Linux yum服务器下载单个RPM软件包。