RHBA-2017:1850 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated redhat-release package is now available.

Description

The redhat-release package contains licensing information regarding, and
identifies the installed version of, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The redhat-release-server package contains the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release files.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1148818 - The initial-setup-gui package is missing from RHEL 7.1 comps
• BZ - 1196539 - RHEL7.1 - Please ship perl-gettext package on ppc64/ppc64le/aarch64
• BZ - 1271839 - rhsmcertd needs to be added to the list of default enabled services
• BZ - 1281812 - Package sblim-gather is missing on aarch64
• BZ - 1316307 - Systemd Presets policy do not match preset for lvm2 in RHEL
• BZ - 1359645 - Brandbot cannot be disabled
• BZ - 1374716 - Add vm-dump-metrics and vm-dump-metrics-devel on s390x and ppc64 and ppc64le
• BZ - 1377843 - Add redhat-release-container to comps file for release
• BZ - 1389247 - Please remove release-notes from RHEL-7.4 composes
• BZ - 1397144 - Bump redhat-release for RHEL-7.4 Beta
• BZ - 1408572 - tmpfs not mounted to /tmp
• BZ - 1408694 - [ESXi][open-vm-tools][RHEL7.4]During minimal RHEL 7.3 installation, open-vm-tools-desktop force installed by anaconda/yumgroup-distro.xml
• BZ - 1416452 - Add cockpit to comps file for release
• BZ - 1416873 - Add libXfont2 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1416876 - Request to offer rrdtool-perl in supported base RHEL repo
• BZ - 1418764 - Add rdma-core to comps file for release
• BZ - 1421146 - Add gcab to comps file for release
• BZ - 1421169 - Add clutter-gst3 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1421179 - Add gspell to comps file for release
• BZ - 1421813 - Add dconf-editor to comps file for release
• BZ - 1422210 - Add http-parser to comps file for release
• BZ - 1423416 - Add opensc to comps file for release
• BZ - 1424836 - Add compat-libmediaart0 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1424838 - Add libgepub to comps file for release
• BZ - 1424847 - Add compat-grilo02 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1424930 - Add icu57 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1426247 - Add flatpak to comps file for release
• BZ - 1426315 - Add xdg-desktop-portal-gtk to comps file for release
• BZ - 1426339 - Add compat-sap-c++-6 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1427071 - Add perl-Perl4-CoreLibs to comps file for release
• BZ - 1427614 - Add nvmetcli to comps file for release
• BZ - 1427863 - Add iperf3 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1428318 - Add compat-glade315 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1428322 - Add compat-cheese314 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1428343 - Add intel-cmt-cat to comps file for release
• BZ - 1429995 - Add gsound to comps file for release
• BZ - 1430015 - Add osinfo-db-tools to comps file for release
• BZ - 1430082 - Add compat-gnome-desktop314 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1430316 - Add osinfo-db to comps file for release
• BZ - 1430432 - Add pcre2 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1430549 - Add vulkan to comps file for release
• BZ - 1430966 - Add xorg-x11-drv-libinput to comps file for release
• BZ - 1431286 - Add libusbmuxd to comps file for release
• BZ - 1431801 - Add tpm2-tss to comps file for release
• BZ - 1431809 - Add tss2 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1432585 - Add jose to comps file for release
• BZ - 1432624 - Add tang to comps file for release
• BZ - 1432721 - Add fwupdate to comps file for release
• BZ - 1433128 - Add luksmeta to comps file for release
• BZ - 1433398 - Add clevis to comps file for release
• BZ - 1434546 - [RFE] include VARIANT and VARIANT_ID in os-release
• BZ - 1435621 - RCM tracker for RHEL-7.4 ppc64le parity requests (including addons)
• BZ - 1435688 - Add PEGTL to comps file for release
• BZ - 1435775 - Add python-oauthlib to comps file for release
• BZ - 1435800 - Add python-requests-oauthlib to comps file for release
• BZ - 1435802 - Add keycloak-httpd-client-install to comps file for release
• BZ - 1436270 - Add llvm-private to comps file for release
• BZ - 1437515 - Add genwqe-tools to comps file for release
• BZ - 1437918 - Add catch to comps file for release
• BZ - 1437955 - Add dbxtool to comps file for release
• BZ - 1439014 - Add unit-api to comps file for release
• BZ - 1439016 - Add uom-parent to comps file for release
• BZ - 1439715 - Add uom-lib to comps file for release
• BZ - 1440787 - change grub2 comps records (based on architecture)
• BZ - 1441324 - Add uom-se to comps file for release
• BZ - 1441723 - Add si-units to comps file for release
• BZ - 1441725 - Add uom-systems to comps file for release
• BZ - 1442154 - Add cloud-init to comps file for release
• BZ - 1442936 - Add tpm2-tools to comps file for release
• BZ - 1443136 - Add usbguard to comps file for release
• BZ - 1443583 - Add cloud-utils-growpart to comps file for release
• BZ - 1446758 - Add fwupd to comps file for release
• BZ - 1447291 - rhel-7: most images share same /etc/machine-id (ec2 was exception)
• BZ - 1449575 - Add python-ecdsa to comps file for release
• BZ - 1455365 - please add htb pems to redhat-release-server and workstation
• BZ - 1461056 - ship fence-virt on ppc64le
• BZ - 1461546 - ppc64le: unable to use host entitlement in containers
• BZ - 1465919 - Build redhat-release packages for RHEL-7.4 GA

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.4_Release_Notes/index.html