RHEL 7.5 Final available
Hi everybody,
Just wanna let everyone know that RHEL 7.5 Final is available to download and install as of now :
https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/69/ver=/rhel---7/7.5/x86_64/product-software
Cheers :)
Christian
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Guru
6222 points
Unfortunately not yet compatible with RH Satellite 6.3
Expert
978 points
Hi Mr. Kootstra, Could you please expand on that? I'm running Pulp instead of Satellite 6.3, but using the same upstream cdn.redhat.com mirrors and wanted to see if what you are seeing relates to what I'm seeing.
I was able to pull down 57 new RPMs this morning from the main RHEL 7.5 server channel but attempting to do any updates on a RHEL 7.4 box shows what looks like unmet dependencies, thus an incomplete package mirror of upstream.
Thanks!
Guru
9715 points
Hi Kodiak,
I can confirm the dependency issues when trying to upgrade - hence I decided to perform a clean installation.
This is what I generally recommend to do - the installation went smoothly without any noticeable problem. :)
Regards,
Christian
Guru
6222 points
Hi Kodiak,
You can call me Jan Gerrit. See my posting about a bugzilla.
Regards,
Jan Gerrit
Kodiak,
This is a concern, can you paste in the dependency errors? Inline upgrade should definitely work out of the box.
Expert
978 points
Hi PixelDrift, The CDN network seems to have finished propagating the release, I continued to hammer it until all the packages had been mirrored to our in-house Pulp server. No more multilib! I should just relax until noon ET when these minors drop.
Historically the CDNs in APAC have had a similar problem when new releases are announced.. so this is good to know all the same. Cheers!
Expert
978 points
Sorry, but what is "APAC"? Thanks!
Asia Pacific.. sorry.. us Australians like abbreviating everything!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-Pacific
Guru
6222 points
All,
I quote from support case: 02074325
Welcome to Red Hat Technical Support!!!
1) Have you taken snapshot of your satellite server before running upgrade?
2) Its not recommended to update to RHEL7.5 as found some bugs on functionality of satellite 6.3 on RHEL 7.5, so its not recommended to upgrade to RHEL7.5 till next release of satellite server i.e. Satellite 6.3.1
For more details, please refer below bugzilla:
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330431
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3) If you have older snapshot, then please restore it and use satellite server for now. Once satellite 6.3.1 will get release then we will proceed to upgrade the base OS to RHEL7.5 along with satellite upgrade.
So it is not a simple wait for reposync's to complete.
Regards,
Jan Gerrit
Guru
6222 points
Thanks for the hint, check this out:
https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/whats-new-rhel-75-technology-brief
Guru
9715 points
Packages installed and system configured ... my first impression : it's a rock solid stable edition, a great release.
Thanks to the developers and engineers and to everybody else being involved, you all have done a great job ! :)
Regards,
Christian
Excellent that buildah is now fully supported.
https://rhelblog.redhat.com/2018/04/10/container-related-changes-in-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-5/
I have been moving build pipelines over to using buildah over the last month or so, and it is an excellent solution for container creation. The Red Hatters involved should be commended on how quickly they managed to get such a mature tool to market. https://github.com/projectatomic/buildah
One concern I have with the OverlayFS default is that XFS partitions created by the installer in 7.4 did not support OverlayFS (ftype option).. and need to be re-created to resolve the issue. Hoping this has been updated in the 7.5 installer.
Interesting also that docker-latest is dropped, so there must be some confidence in the main docker package (feature) stability/capabilities. I think this will be misinterpreted by the wider audience and Red Hat should provide some additional details advising that they aren't dropping docker, just the docker-latest package.
Guru
6222 points
Hi PixelDrift.NET and Kodiak,
We talk about EMEA. Europe Middle East and Africa. So there are more regional abbreviations.
Regards,
Jan Gerrit
If you use McAfee Endpoint Security for Linux Threat Prevention, do not upgrade to 7.5 at this time. I have confirmed that the new kernel is incompatible with this product and a panic will be the most likely result when the McAfee Endpoint Security for Linux Threat Prevention services are started. I was able to do a crash dump review and it reported a panic with the daemon process associated with this product. If I boot back to the latest 7.4 kernel or older, no issues.
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