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On November 9th 2021 Red Hat released RHEL 8.5 the fourth service pack for their leading Linux enterprise version. This is an intermediate release but it has a few interesting features, which may be the reason to upgrade to this … Read the rest
On June 21st 2021 SUSE announced SLES 15 SP3 the third service pack for SLES 15. This time no kernel upgrade but still quite a lot of new features for System Z after one year of development:
On May 18th 2021 Red Hat released RHEL 8.4 the fourth service pack for their leading enterprise version. This is a long term support version and therefore a good starting point for new projects as well as an upgrade target … Read the rest
On October 29th, 2020 Red Hat announced RHEL 8.3 the third service pack for their leading enterprise version. As soon as your middleware and application are available for RHEL 8 please plan for migration from older releases.
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On June 21st 2020 SUSE announced SLES15 SP2 the second service pack SLES 15. With it’s kernel upgrade it contains many new features for System Z:
On April 21st, 2020 Red Hat announced RHEL 8.2 the second service pack for their new enterprise version. With the transition of RHEL 7.8 to Maintenance Mode 2 this is now the premier enterprise distribution.
The kernel level for 8.2 … Read the rest
On March 31th, 2020 Red Hat announced RHEL 7.8 the next regular update to their flag ship operating system. This the successor of RHEL 7.7. With this release in August RHEL 7 transitions to Maintenance Support 2 phase. So … Read the rest
On December 9th 2019, SUSE announced SLES12 SP5 the follow up service pack after SLES 12 SP4. This release is the last service pack of SLES12. The new features for System Z include:
On November 6th, 2019 Red Hat announced RHEL 8.1 the first service pack for their new enterprise version.
The kernel level for 8.1 is kernel-4.18.0-147.el8. This is a bug fix and feature release. On System Z RHEL 8.1 is better … Read the rest
On August 6th, 2019 Red Hat announced RHEL 7.7 the next regular update to their flag ship operating system. This the successor of RHEL 7.6.
The kernel level for 7.7 is kernel-3.10.0-1062.el7. Please note that the kernel-alt and the … Read the rest