RedHat Main Version Changes

Whats new in RHEL 7
Kernel 3.10.x (Maipo)
Init System systemd (previous System V) + Unit files
Default file system XFS, BTRFS deprecated
Firewall iptables
Virtualization Docker
RPM 4.11
Python 2.7.x
PHP 5.4
Perl 5.16.3
Rubi 2.0.0
PostgreSQL 9.2
NTP ntpd - network time protocol daemon
Whats new in RHEL 8
Kernel 4.18.x (Ootpa)
Volume managing Stratis
Network NetworkManager
Firewall nftables
Packaging DNF (compatibility for YUM)
Groups nfsnobody deprecated (⇒ nobody)
Virtualization Podman
MySQL 8 / MariaDB 10.3
new mariadb-connector-c packages provide a common client library for MySQL and MariaDB
PostgreSQL 10 or 9.6
Cockpit default install
RPM 4.14
Python 3.x Python 3.6 is going to be supported for the whole life cycle of RHEL 8
PHP 7.2
Perl 5.26.3Unicode 9.0 / current directory . removed from @INC module search path
Rubi 2.5
add Node.js 10
apache modules mod_file_cache, mod_nss and mod_perl removed
nginx 1.14
NTPchronyd
Whats new in RHEL 9
Firewall nftables
Security SHA-1 for signatures restricted in DEFAULT crypto policy except for HMAC
SHA-1 not allowed in TLS, DTLS, SSH, IKEv2, DNSSEC, and Kerberos protocols
Perl 5.32.1


Authors:
  • Jochen Schnürle