Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 beta rolled out

We have brave Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) users already moving to RHEL 8, while more cautious users are sticking with RHEL 7. This beta will be the final release of the RHEL 7 family, the end of RHEL 7 family's influence among the other Linux Distributions is in sight. But still, with its 10-year lifecycle, RHEL 7 will be running until 2024. Moving ahead, future RHEL 7 releases will emphasize production stability, rather than introducing new features. The chief updates are supports towards the latest generation of enterprise hardware and remediation for the recently disclosed ZombieLoad bugs besides the fact that RHEL still can't do anything about the underlying Intel chipset problems. Which means that the processors will still run slower on many jobs and daemons.

It has also implemented network stack performance enhancements. Which means that, with this release, you can also offload virtual switching operations to Network Interface Card [NIC] (i.e While using virtual switching and network function virtualization (NFV), better network performance on cloud and container platforms such as Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift can be enjoyed).

Red Hat's new predictive problem shooter: Red Hat Insights, can be accessed by RHEL 7.7 beta users. This uses a software-as-a-service(SaaS)-based predictive analytics to move forward to spot, assess, and mitigate potential problems in their systems before they can cause any snag or mess. And, Red Hat Image Builder which was earlier just made available in RHEL 8, is now supported for RHEL 7.7 beta. Custom RHEL system images for cloud and virtualization platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware, vSphere, and OpenStack can be easily created with this new update.