RHEL 7.3 Beta schedule

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Is there any indication from Red Hat of the RHEL 7.3 Beta being released soon? or a schedule for RHEL 7.3 release? I have a project that is scheduled over the next couple of months that I would like to base on a RHEL 7.3 image if it's available in time.

Is it expected that RHEL 7.3 Beta will be public?

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DG Newbie 14 points
7 August 2016 4:15 AM

At Red Hat Summit they said that 7.3 Beta was just a couple weeks away, but that was back at the end of June. It seems it has been delayed. I don't care as much about it being soon as much as having the fixes in it that need to be made. So far RHEL 7.x has not been a raging success in my opinion - and a lot of that has to do with GNOME 3.

PS Guru 6494 points
7 August 2016 11:11 PM

I must admit this has been my experience as well. RHEL 7 in the environments I manage has really turned into RHEL6 + systemd, with many of the other 'features' ignored. It is nice to have a new kernel. I feel some of the packages just can't keep pace with their upstream (thus the rebasing within minor releases) especially with the historically slower minor releases of RHEL.

My major point of interest with RHEL 7.3 is what exactly is going to be rebased in this release. I am assuming systemd, docker and potentially gnome?

Duncan.Innes@rbs.com's picture Guru 2190 points
25 August 2016 12:15 PM

FreeIPA/IdM was up for rebasing too. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1292141

Not sure how that's going since FreeIPA 4.4 had troubles.

Ticket rebasing rsyslog to v8: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313490 Ticket rebasing to LibreOffice 5.0: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290148 Ticket rebasing QEMU to 2.6: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289417

Alexander Bokovoy's picture Red Hat Community Member 30 points
26 August 2016 9:00 AM

Not sure what did you mean by "FreeIPA 4.4 had troubles". Care to expand?

Duncan.Innes@rbs.com's picture Guru 2190 points
26 August 2016 9:11 AM

I'm not sure of the exact circumstances, but the mailing lists showed the 4.4 release ended up with quite a few regressions, so it became a silent release. Much work is going on right now to get 4.4.1 out of the door with everything fixed for Fedora 25 and possibly (hopefully) RHEL 7.3. https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2016-August/msg00118.html

Alexander Bokovoy's picture Red Hat Community Member 30 points
26 August 2016 9:21 AM

No, it was planned to be a silent release from the beginning because it was an intermediate point to produce a release for rebase for RHEL 7.3 due to RHEL 7.3 internal milestones. This is reflected by the fact that it is not branched in FreeIPA git and the first branch for ipa-4-4 will come with 4.4.1.

There are no 'troubles' with it, the process was expected and dealt with. Notice that there are no official releases for Fedora yet.

Sachin Patil's picture Red Hat Active Contributor 217 points
9 August 2016 4:59 AM

Where do I find the builds?

thomas.jones2@dodiis.mil's picture Guru 6435 points
19 August 2016 3:51 PM

Yeah, no doubt. I can't (effectively) use CodeCommit until curl-7.29.0-30 comes out. :(

PS Guru 6494 points
3 November 2016 9:38 PM

Looks like you're in luck: curl-7.29.0-35.el7.x86_64.rpm

thomas.jones2@dodiis.mil's picture Guru 6435 points
4 November 2016 1:48 AM

Yeah. Got the bugzilla email earlier this week.

Akemi Yagi's picture Guru 2404 points
25 August 2016 5:13 PM

RHEL 7.3 beta announced:

Announcement

Release Note

Duncan.Innes@rbs.com's picture Guru 2190 points
30 August 2016 4:57 PM

Any Red Hatter able to comment on the status of Skylake graphics support in RHEL 7.3 Beta? I don't see it explicitly listed in the release notes other than a mention of "Hard lock-up of the screen can occur on laptops using integrated graphics in the 6th Generation Intel Core processors" under Known Issues. My issue under RHEL 7.2 was that it failed to load any Intel driver for Skylake gfx and reverted somehow to a VMware driver. Not useful on a laptop where I regularly drive external displays. I know it's not the biggest thing for Red Hat to work on, but this is my main laptop running all my demo KVMs and the like. They all run RHEL/CentOS 7, so it would be nice if I could run the same on the host system. Fedora is nice, but I can't install things like Foreman Smart Proxies so that my Katello KVM instance can control libvirt on the host.

Kodiak Firesmith's picture Expert 973 points
7 September 2016 7:14 PM

It'd better! Skylake is out in full force and it totally sucks on 7.2 until you enable elrepo kernels and backport NetworkManager packages...

AK Community Member 50 points
12 September 2016 3:17 PM

I have another project pending on this release date. So when is RHEL 7.3 going to be released??????

Radek Bíba's picture Red Hat Guru 1517 points
14 September 2016 9:23 AM

I'm sorry, David, but we don't publish release dates of future RHEL versions. Please be patient.

Duncan.Innes@rbs.com's picture Guru 2190 points
14 September 2016 10:11 AM

From previous Beta to Gold releases, the time delta is around 3 months. Sometimes as short as 10 weeks, but also as much as 4 months. Just a guideline mind you. I'd go for 1st week December if there's a sweepstake on this :-)

Duncan.Innes@rbs.com's picture Guru 2190 points
3 November 2016 4:15 PM

Looks like I was out by a month.

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-powers-network-storage-performance-latest-version-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7

In the right direction though, so \o/ yayyy.

PS Guru 6494 points
3 November 2016 9:26 PM

Thanks for posting this Duncan. Seems strange that this was my first notification of the 7.3 release.. especially when I seem to receive 'marketing material' from Red Hat fairly frequently!

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 9580 points
3 November 2016 6:34 PM

The final version of RHEL 7.3 was released today and it is available from the Customer Portal :
https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/69/ver=/rhel---7/7.3/x86_64/product-software

R. Hinton's picture Guru 6827 points
3 November 2016 7:55 PM

thanks Christian!

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 9580 points
4 November 2016 8:54 AM

You're welcome ! :)

te Community Member 20 points
3 November 2016 8:48 PM

Do we know why RHEL 7.3 still at 3.10 Linux kernel version? The Linux community is now at 4.8 edition.

PS Guru 6494 points
3 November 2016 9:23 PM

This is normal and expected. 3.10 will remain for the life of the major 7.x OS version.

Major kernel version will only be rebased at the release of RHEL 8.0, until then fixes/features will be backported into the 3.10 kernel version.

This is the support/consistency you pay Red Hat money for.

te Community Member 20 points
3 November 2016 10:47 PM

What does the unofficial roadmap for RHEL 8.0 look like?

PS Guru 6494 points
4 November 2016 3:06 AM

I can honestly say I have no idea, I have no affiliation with Red Hat.

As with my above post, I think it's safe to assume that the kernel will be rebased in line with a new major RHEL release.

Duncan.Innes@rbs.com's picture Guru 2190 points
4 November 2016 10:28 AM

The unofficial roadmap for RHEL 8 requires running the latest Fedora releases (25 coming along next week or 2) and a fair amount of guesswork. RHEL 7 ended up being a mostly Fedora 19 based branch. As I have no affiliation with Red Hat either, my guess is that we will see at least RHEL 7.4 arrive before any branching for RHEL 8. At least another year. But that's purely guesswork based on looking as past RHEL lifecycles.

PS Guru 6494 points
3 November 2016 9:35 PM

Good to see that 7.3 includes cockpit for Atomic and also nice to see that the ARM preview now includes KVM support and is moving forward. I am hoping the ARM schedule firms up and we start seeing a move to GA.

I think the mention of CANbus is interesting in the IoT notes, especially that Red Hat wanted to point this out specifically. Is anyone on the community forum using Red Hat for automotive applications utilising CANbus? (might need to start a new thread).

Anyone else noticed anything of particular interest to enterprise deployments in the 7.3 notes? I am sure I will find some more when I deploy 7.3 over the weekend.

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