14 DAY TRIAL // Red Hat was proud to announce earlier today, March 5, the availability of the first maintenance release of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating system for computers, used in numerous enterprises worldwide. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 contains a great amount of bug fixes and improvements over the previous release, as well as various new features.
The first point release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system is here to improve the stability and security of the acclaimed OS. In addition, the new release offers better deployment and development tools, and enhanced manageability and interoperability. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 is now available as a free update to existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 customers.
“The enhancements to the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, as well as the new offerings based on the update, deliver a flexible, reliable, secure and performant platform that works across nearly every industry use case,” says Jim Tottonvice, president and general manager, Platforms Business Unit, Red Hat.
Docker and OpenJDK 8 technologies have been included in RHEL 7.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 better supports heterogeneous operating system environments, especially those where Active Directory is used, integrates the CIFS (Common Internet File System) filesystem with System Security Services Daemon (SSSD), allowing users to natively access the file and print services of the Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Some OpenLMI-based hooks have been added to Logical Volume Management (LVM) in order to let users manage thinly provisioned volumes and volume groups, support for communicating with Ceph block storages has been implemented, and powerful one-time password (OTP) authentication has been implemented for Kerberos and LDAP though Improvements to Identity Management (IdM).
Additionally, a brand-new Certificate Authority (CA) management tool has been incorporated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, which delivers new developer tools for managing Linux containers. The OpenJDK 8 technology has also been included in the first maintenance release of RHEL 7.
Some additional offerings has been announced as well, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian. A free 30-day evaluation version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 is available for download from Red Hat.