Synopsis

redhat-release bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM
redhat-release-server-7.6-4.el7.src.rpm	SHA-256: 578d0047812641f3c199ca1ce077ec21799ca3fa060ab9458b4eb518d84eee32
x86_64
redhat-release-server-7.6-4.el7.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 1b516f459e6e873b1fbaf9b3f1b7e96ed51fb4cb7f8d75ddbe7225b96431e033

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
redhat-release-workstation-7.6-5.el7.src.rpm	SHA-256: c701795630c810f2478d8a8fb36f952f86124ae615b2cc73237f1854d72ce576
x86_64
redhat-release-workstation-7.6-5.el7.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 2437993bbaca9760330b44434cd856eedecf72c40316e2b9fab9db21ac651ca1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
redhat-release-client-7.6-2.el7.src.rpm	SHA-256: 389c20bb5cb66004d2b4a567bb1a1cb805e41d4c85d3f2ca12aa0ad60e2cfbf6
x86_64
redhat-release-client-7.6-2.el7.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8680387e41a72cca1d2bce03156cba193b3f08de5db23db8efa427aad1967e93

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7

SRPM
redhat-release-server-7.6-4.el7.src.rpm	SHA-256: 578d0047812641f3c199ca1ce077ec21799ca3fa060ab9458b4eb518d84eee32
s390x
redhat-release-server-7.6-4.el7.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 4ddcec5671129f4ba0cb4cbf0724d54fbe879a119d1722b08cb74c9808e83003

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7

SRPM
redhat-release-server-7.6-4.el7.src.rpm	SHA-256: 578d0047812641f3c199ca1ce077ec21799ca3fa060ab9458b4eb518d84eee32
ppc64
redhat-release-server-7.6-4.el7.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 2d8064476a0ed9101a4b1b2eecd7db7e2f3ed4ad0fe466bf7393a82a0c0290d7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7

SRPM
redhat-release-computenode-7.6-2.el7.src.rpm	SHA-256: 7c7cbc736dd97a4efd5e22fb11e54222a380b272a963842ed04c61e5e701853f
x86_64
redhat-release-computenode-7.6-2.el7.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8cf5a7ae84e27b4f3f6c5bcb81f4db825c5adfce62f6dc060e5a256fe19942ff

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM
redhat-release-server-7.6-4.el7.src.rpm	SHA-256: 578d0047812641f3c199ca1ce077ec21799ca3fa060ab9458b4eb518d84eee32
ppc64le
redhat-release-server-7.6-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm	SHA-256: 3f13b1062f1712d3c655e727c8104471ff1da2861f5537d4a99ddf564efb62cf

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7

SRPM
aarch64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7

SRPM
ppc64le

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7

SRPM
s390x