Topic

An update for redhat-release is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

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

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of redhat-release are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

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 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 Power, big endian 7 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 ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1174191 - On 64-bit RHEL 7.0/7.1, shared-system-certs is never active for 32-bit multiarch
• BZ - 1492575 - subscription-manager-plugin-container needs to be in Server on all supported architectures
• BZ - 1497544 - RHEL7.5 - Please ship po4a package on ppc64
• BZ - 1498078 - oVirt Guest Agent is too old (1.0.11)
• BZ - 1504736 - Please pcp zeroconf subrpm out of optional into base channels
• BZ - 1507526 - Move graphite2-devel to main repo
• BZ - 1560862 - bump redhat-release for RHEL-7.6 GA
• BZ - 1560863 - bump redhat-release for RHEL-7.6 Beta
• BZ - 1560864 - bump redhat-release for RHEL-7.6 High Touch Beta
• BZ - 1566867 - gnome-classic-session requires gnome-shell-extension-top-icons in optional repository. It causes update failure to RHEL7.5
• BZ - 1569460 - [rhel-comps] Tier 0 Localization
• BZ - 1577214 - Add librdkafka to comps file for release
• BZ - 1579318 - Add swig3 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1580513 - Add python-futures to comps file for release
• BZ - 1580515 - Add python-subprocess32 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1581172 - Add cmocka to comps file for release
• BZ - 1581174 - Add python-iso8601 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1581368 - Add libglvnd to comps file for release
• BZ - 1581721 - Add ninja-build to comps file for release
• BZ - 1582320 - Add mozjs52 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1584231 - Add meson to comps file for release
• BZ - 1589151 - Add bolt to comps file for release
• BZ - 1589774 - Add nbdkit to comps file for release
• BZ - 1590464 - Add bcc to comps file for release
• BZ - 1590969 - Add libgit2 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1590972 - Add python-semantic_version to comps file for release
• BZ - 1591201 - Add compat-exiv2-023 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1591219 - Add cockpit-composer to comps file for release
• BZ - 1591243 - Add libgit2-glib to comps file for release
• BZ - 1591786 - Add libocxl to comps file for release
• BZ - 1594116 - Add createrepo_c to comps file for release
• BZ - 1594238 - Add lorax-composer to comps file for release
• BZ - 1595142 - Add google-noto-emoji-fonts to comps file for release
• BZ - 1596217 - Add libcomps to comps file for release
• BZ - 1596219 - Add python-smartcols to comps file for release
• BZ - 1596221 - Add libmodulemd to comps file for release
• BZ - 1600519 - Add librhsm to comps file for release
• BZ - 1600531 - Add libdnf to comps file for release
• BZ - 1600615 - Add spice-streaming-agent to comps file for release
• BZ - 1600831 - Add dnf-plugins-core to comps file for release
• BZ - 1600833 - Add dnf to comps file for release
• BZ - 1608881 - Add ttembed to comps file for release
• BZ - 1610838 - Add python-sphinx-theme-alabaster to comps file for release
• BZ - 1610919 - Add python-paramiko to comps file for release
• BZ - 1610989 - Add sos-collector to comps file for release
• BZ - 1618461 - fence-agents-gce missing from compose
• BZ - 1623645 - Add dptfxtract to comps file for release
• BZ - 1624309 - RHEL 7.6 HTB snapshot 1 : Wrong 'Name' for Product in product certificate /etc/pki/product-default/230.pem
• BZ - 1626364 - Add java-11-openjdk to comps file for release

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.6_release_notes/index