Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta – New Features

RHEL 8 Beta version got released on Nov 14, 2018, and the Beta version is available for developers. This release came after IBM acquired Red Hat for $34 billion on October 28, 2018.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 – Download Links

RHEL 8 beta version is available for download. Just click on below link and it will redirect you on download page.

Red Hat Developers Subscription (no-cost subscription):

Download Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta

Red Hat Customer Subscription:

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New features of RHEL 8

Security

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta has been supporting OpenSSL 1.1.1 and TLS 1.3
  • Red Hat is enabling server applications on the platform to use the latest standards for cryptographic protection of customer data.
  • The administrator can easily switch between multiple modes likes default, legacy future and fips using -crypto-policies command.
  • System-wide cryptographic policies are also included which helps to manage cryptographic compliance from a single prompt.

Memory

  • The biggest single change in RHEL 8 system performance is the new upper limit on physical memory capacity.
  • RHEL 8 supports up to 4PB of physical memory.

Software Management

  • The software is now managed by the new version of YUM which is based on DNF in Fedora.
  • RPM command validates the entire package prior to installation using the hash.
  • DNF is rolling out behind YUM.
  • It provides fast performances and less installed dependencies.

Networking:

  • RHEL8 supports more efficient Linux networking in containers through IPVLAN.
  • It also includes a new TCP/IP stack with Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time (BBR) congestion control, which enables higher performance & minimized latency

Shells and command-line tools

  • nobody user replaced by nfsnobody with the user and group ID of 65534 in RHEL 8

Main Features of RHEL 8

  • Few software versions available with RHEL 8 are Python 3.6, Nginx 1.14, Apache 2.4.35, PHP 7.2, Ruby 2.5, Perl 5.26 and Databases like MariaDB 10.3, MySQL 8.0, PostgreSQL 10, PostgreSQL 9.6, and Redis 4.0
  • Now XFS file system is supporting shared copy on write data extents functionality.
  • cockpit is available in RHEL 8 default repos. Cockpit is a web-based tool used by the system administrator to manage servers.
  • Desktop will use Wayland as default display server.
  • Stratis is new volume management tool which allows you to easily perform complex storage tasks and manage your storage stack using unified interface.
  • Firewalld now uses nftables as default backend.
  • OpenLDAP is no more available.
  • Supports up to 4PB of physical memory.
  • nobody user replaced by nfsnobody.
  • There is pre-enabled repository available in RHEL 8 for Application Stream (AppStream) which provides many developers tools.
  • Composer is available in RHEL 8 which helps to deploy custom images in the cloud.
  • RHEL 8 now comes with qemukvm v2.12.

Reference:

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