Re: [PLUG] Red Hat 7.4 Just Released

[Andy Wojnarek <andy.wojnarek@theatsgroup.com>]

Nice! Some things that interest me:

* With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4, the ansible packages are distributed through the Extras channel.
* NFS server now supports copy-offload, the NFS server-side copy features now provide mechanisms that allow an NFS client to copy file data on a server or between two servers without the need to transmit the data back and forth over the network through the NFS client. (BZ#1356122)
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 includes a new multiple-queue I/O scheduling mechanism for block devices known as blk-mq. The scsi-mq package allows the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) subsystem to make use of this new queuing mechanism. This functionality is provided as a Technology Preview and is not enabled by default. To enable it, add scsi_mod.use_blk_mq=Y to the kernel command line. (BZ#1109348)

OpenSuSE 42.3 was also just released: https://fosspost.org/news/opensuse-42-3-released-heres-whats-new

Thanks,
Andrew Wojnarek |  Sr. Systems Engineer    | ATS Group, LLC
mobile 717.856.6901 | andy.wojnarek@TheATSGroup.com


On 8/1/17, 4:32 PM, "plug on behalf of Ron Guilmet" <plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org on behalf of ronpguilmet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Here are a few deprecated items I found interesting
    
    Weak ciphers and algorithms are no longer used by default in OpenSSH
    
    OpenSSH no longer uses the SHA-1-based key exchange algorithms in FIPS mode
    
    MD5, MD4, and SHA0 can no longer be used as signing algorithms in OpenSSL
    
    OpenSSL clients no longer allow connections to servers with DH shorter 
    than 1024 bits
    
    ⁠nautilus-open-terminal replaced with gnome-terminal-nautilus
    
    Several rsyslog options deprecated
    
    I believe xfs won out against btrfs
    
    A lot of drivers as well. Here is the link if you want to peruse it.
    
    https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/7.4_Release_Notes/pref-Release_Notes-Preface.html
    
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