Announcing the Beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0

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We are pleased to announce the Beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 includes new features and enhancements that deliver a more secure and consistent foundation for an open hybrid cloud environment with the ability to deliver workloads, applications, and services faster with less effort across a wide variety of footprints.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 provides developers with a simplified experience for both access and application development with a new platform:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 is built with GCC 11 and with the latest versions of LLVM, Rust, and Go compilers, helping developers modernize their applications.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 is based on glibc 2.34 and will include support for 10+ years of enterprise-class platform stability.
  • Completing the migration to Python 3, version 3.9 will be the default Python version for the life of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Python 3.9 brings several new enhancements to help developers modernize their applications, including timezone-aware timestamps, the new string prefix and suffix methods, and dictionary union operations.
  • Building on the introduction of application streams and module packaging in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, all packaging methods in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 including modules, SCLs, Flatpacks, and traditional RPMs are incorporated into application streams making them easier to use.

For further details, please read the 9.0 Beta announcement blog post and Release Notes. You can also learn more about Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle.

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