Announcing the Beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5

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We are pleased to announce the Beta release of RHEL 8.5. This release includes a host of enhancements and bug fixes to help deliver a powerful, flexible platform for hybrid cloud computing.

The Beta release of RHEL 8.5 offers:

  • New container management tools: Continuously increase collaboration between the development and operations teams to closely work together and power the adoption of containers with standardized, and secure container development tooling and base images.
  • Extended proactive management: Extended capabilities in the Red Hat Insights services - vulnerability, compliance, and subscriptions to enable organizations to more efficiently, and effectively manage their RHEL estates across the open hybrid cloud, including deployments in the public cloud.
  • More powerful data visualization: Features and new enhancements that can create simpler views of complex system performance data at scale powered by the RHEL web console, Grafana dashboard, and Red Hat Performance Co-Pilot.
  • Support for additional development tools: New RHEL support for OpenJDK (Java) and .NET 6 to continuously bring a solid foundation for developers to modernize and build next generation workloads and applications.

For further details, please read the 8.5 Beta announcement blog post and Release Notes.
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