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From: nahant-list@redhat.com Reply-To: nahant-list@redhat.com To: nahant-list@redhat.com Subject: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 3 Availability Announcement Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:32:51 -0500
Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of Update 3 for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 family of products including:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 for x86, AMD64/EM64T, Itanium, POWER, S/390 and zSeries
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4 for x86, AMD64/EM64T, Itanium
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4 for x86, AMD64/EM64T, Itanium
- Red Hat Desktop 4 for x86 and AMD64/EM64T
This update includes the following enhancements:
Availability of a full set of updated installable CD ISO with OS package updates and install-time support for new hardware.
Availability of updated Extras ISO images with third party package updates.
Hardware support enhancements:
- Improved support for larger system configurations with
- up to 64 logical CPUs on AMD64 and EM64T 64 bit platforms through a new "largesmp" kernel variant depending on hardware certification.
- up to 64 logical CPUs on PPC (and IA64 carried forward from Update 2) with the existing "smp" kernel variant depending on hardware certification.
- Technology preview for support of very large system configurations on IA64 (up to 256 logical CPUs) and PPC (up to 128 logical CPUs). ** NOTE: These are the certification limits Red Hat is currently aiming at depending on partner and customer testing feedback. Theoretical limits referenced in the Kernel notes might be higher. Independent of any technology preview or theoretical limit, the actual supported system configuration limits that depend on real partner hardware to be certified are documented on the Red Hat website at http://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/rhel/details/limits/
- IA64 multi-core support
- Driver updates including cciss, hangcheck-timer, ipmi_devintf, ipmi_msghandler, ipmi_poweroff, ipmi_si, ipmi_watchdog, mptbase, e1000, ixgb, tg3, aacraid, ahci, ata_piix, iscsi_sfnet, libata, qla2100, qla2200, qla2300, qla2322, qla2xxx, qla6312, sata_nv, sata_promise, sata_svw, sata_sx4, sata_vsc, cifs
- Driver additions including bnx2, dell_rbu, ib_mthca, megaraid_sas, qla2400, typhoon
Security enhancements: * Execshield updates * Begin use of gcc FORTIFY_SOURCE build option in some package updates * SELinux policy updates * Updated kernel key management support
System tools enhancements: * SystemTap dynamic system instrumentation tool enhancements including technology preview for broader hardware architecture support * Kernel crash dump analysis tool enhancements * Technology preview of the Frysk execution analysis framework, for more information visit http://sourceware.org/frysk/ * Updated OpenIPMI support
Storage enhancements: * Improvements to autofs / automount * Device-mapper snapshot and multipath I/O improvements * Support for 4GB-versions of Fibre Channel HBAs * NFS access control lists, asynchronous I/O
Networking enhancements: * Technology preview of Infiniband support via the OpenIB stack
Updated third-party Java packages on the Extras CD
Security updates, bug fixes, and feature enhancements to numerous system packages
Errata Advisories describing specific changes in Update 3 are available online at: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel4as-errata.html (AS) https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel4es-errata.html (ES) https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel4ws-errata.html (WS) https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh-desktop-4-errata.html (Desktop)
Release notes for this update will be available on the Red Hat documentation site at: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/
This update is available immediately to all current Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscribers via Red Hat Network. Simply run 'up2date' to retrieve the latest packages or visit the following URL to download ISO images for new installations: https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/download_isos.pxt
Regards,
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team
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