Red Hat Drives Mission-Critical Stability with Latest Update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 adds compatibility, security updates to
help maintain production environments
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.10, the latest update to the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform. This update includes resolutions
for recently discovered Spectre/Meltdown security vulnerabilities. To
make it easier for customers to plan their migration to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 provides updates to
the Pre-upgrade Assistant, Red Hat Upgrade Tool, and the accompanying
documentation.
This release also includes a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 base image to
help enterprises more easily migrate Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
workloads into container-based applications. These cloud-native
workloads can then be deployed and maintained on a more modern platform,
including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic
Host, and Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 marks the transition from the Maintenance
Support 1 lifecycle phase to the Maintenance Support 2 phase. In order
to help provide customers with a stable environment for the remainder of
the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 lifecycle, only critical security fixes
and business-impacting urgent issues have been addressed. Examples
include the addition of retpoline-based mitigations for the Spectre/Meltdown
vulnerabilities, an updated GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), and
rebased gcc-libraries packages.
Availability
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 is now available
to all Red Hat customers with an active Red Hat Enterprise Linux
subscription.
Supporting Quotes
Gunnar Hellekson, senior director,
Product Management, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Virtualization,
Red Hat
“The success of open source in the datacenter is not
just about innovation and ease of integration. It also requires support
for the enterprise IT lifecycle, which can extend long beyond a
technology’s hype cycle. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10, Red Hat
demonstrates our commitment to stability and predictability through our
extensive platform lifecycle. This provides organizations with greater
confidence that their production platforms will remain supported and
will receive the necessary stability and security updates to host
mission-critical workloads.”
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