Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 improves stability, security for
enterprise applications
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc, (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, announced today the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10,
the latest minor release of the mature Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Platform. With an emphasis on providing greater stability for critical
applications, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 offers enhanced features for
reliability and security, including an updated version of OpenSCAP — the
open source Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) configuration
scanner, which meets the National Institute of Standards and
Technology's (NIST) SCAP 1.2 standard.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 reiterates Red Hat's commitment to a
10-year lifecycle for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and maintains backwards
compatibility with all previous releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5,
including supported hardware and software platforms. Beyond OpenSCAP,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 also includes:
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MySQL 5.5, the most recent, stable version of that open source
database. MySQL 5.5 includes a number of improvements in terms of
speed, scalability, and ease of use. For customers' convenience, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 also includes MySQL 5.1, which is required
in order to upgrade to MySQL 5.5.
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Enhanced Subscription Management Tools, which now provide more
insight into how customers can optimize and benefit from their Red Hat
subscriptions. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10, customers can
better match subscriptions to their unique system needs, better report
on and manage subscription usage across a large inventory of systems,
and add custom, searchable key value pairs to systems, all without
having to go through the Red Hat Customer Portal.
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Red Hat Access, delivered through the Red Hat Support
Tool, provides an integrated, seamless way to get answers with
exclusive Red Hat Knowledge, use Red Hat's automated diagnostic
services for problem determination and engage with Red Hat directly
from a Linux terminal. Customers can use Red Hat Access to quickly
resolve issues and analyze log files, core dumps and error messages,
all from within Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10.
Additionally, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 customers with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Developer subscriptions will now gain access to Red
Hat Developer Toolset 2.0, which offers users a selection of
popular, open source developer tools. Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 has
a more frequent release cadence and exists on a separate lifecycle from
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, enabling developers to take advantage of the
latest stable open development tools for application innovation.
Supporting Quotes
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platform Business
Unit, Red Hat
"The release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 continues Red Hat's
commitment to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform's 10-year
lifecycle, with new capabilities to provide platform viability for years
to come. With an emphasis on security and stability, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.10 includes new tools, like Red Hat Access and OpenSCAP, to help
systems administrators enable platform reliability and enhanced security
for even the most mission-critical applications."
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