On April 10th, 2018 Red Hat announced the next regular update to their flag ship operating system.
The
kernel level for 7.5 is kernel-3.10.0-862.el7. The kernel level for 7.5-alt is kernel-4.14.0-49.el7a.
And this is actually the largest change. There is an alternate DVD with very interesting stuff. As Red hat wrote in their announcement: “This release also brings support for single-host KVM virtualization and
Open Container Initiative (OCI)-formated runtime environment and base
image to IBM z Systems.”
On top the classic kernel got a lot of bug fixes and security & crypto enhancements
Here is my usual summary of links to more information:
- Complete RHEL 7 documentation
- RHEL 7.5 release notes
- RHEL 7.5 known issues
- RHEL 7.5 kernel CVE and bugfix documentation
- RHEL 7.5-alt kernel CVE and bugfix documentation
- RHEL 7 installation guide
- RHEL 7 installation guide for z
- RHEL 7 performance tuning guide
- IBM documentation on developerworks
- RHEL limits
- RHEL lifecycle with the end date for the Extended Update Service (EUS)
- RHEL7 package list