RHEA-2018:0700 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An 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 7.5 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 Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 - 1477988 - bump redhat-release for 7.5 Beta
• BZ - 1477990 - bump redhat-release for 7.5 HTB
• BZ - 1477991 - bump redhat-release for 7.5 GA
• BZ - 1483851 - [RHEL 7.5] support building qcow2 ppc64le guest images
• BZ - 1485299 - Request to limit the virt-p2v RPMs to 7Server
• BZ - 1492172 - Add ocaml-srpm-macros to comps file for release
• BZ - 1492309 - Add ocaml-ocamlbuild to comps file for release
• BZ - 1492402 - Add libzmf to comps file for release
• BZ - 1492404 - Add libstaroffice to comps file for release
• BZ - 1492578 - rhel: add criu to s390x
• BZ - 1493545 - Enable initscripts' services by default
• BZ - 1495077 - Add emacs-php-mode to comps file for release
• BZ - 1496401 - Add lz4 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1496403 - Add qt5-qtserialbus to comps file for release
• BZ - 1496405 - Add qt5-qtquickcontrols2 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1496451 - Add wayland to comps file for release
• BZ - 1496456 - Add qclib to comps file for release
• BZ - 1496463 - Add wayland-protocols to comps file for release
• BZ - 1496521 - Add ocaml-camlp4 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1497812 - Add qemu-kvm-ma to comps file for release
• BZ - 1497910 - Add qt5-qtwayland to comps file for release
• BZ - 1498041 - Add highcontrast-qt to comps file for release
• BZ - 1498048 - Add qgnomeplatform to comps file for release
• BZ - 1498806 - Add libbytesize to comps file for release
• BZ - 1498822 - Add libva to comps file for release
• BZ - 1498953 - Add libsmbios to comps file for release
• BZ - 1499043 - Add vdo to comps file for release
• BZ - 1500336 - redhat-release-7.5-0.7 ships systemd preset file in wrong directory
• BZ - 1500715 - Add libblockdev to comps file for release
• BZ - 1501193 - hostnamectl set-hostname not working - timeout
• BZ - 1501984 - Add tpm2-abrmd to comps file for release
• BZ - 1502005 - Add mpg123 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1502191 - Add kmod-kvdo to comps file for release
• BZ - 1503100 - Request to move udisks2-lvm2 and udisks2-iscsi subpackages from optional to base
• BZ - 1503433 - Add gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free to comps file for release
• BZ - 1505584 - Add parfait to comps file for release
• BZ - 1505991 - nvml adds new subpackages for 7.5
• BZ - 1506821 - new rpms invm-frameworks
• BZ - 1511570 - Add fio to comps file for release
• BZ - 1512948 - Default value of $releasever is set to "7.5" instead of "7$Variant"
• BZ - 1515258 - Add libyami to comps file for release
• BZ - 1516832 - Missing system-release(releasever) for registration client RHEL7.5 to Satellite5
• BZ - 1518411 - enable spice-vdagentd.socket by default
• BZ - 1519226 - Add librabbitmq to comps file for release
• BZ - 1520360 - ship libinput and libevdev on ComputeNode-optional
• BZ - 1520909 - Add python-jwt to comps file for release
• BZ - 1520925 - Add python-isodate to comps file for release
• BZ - 1520934 - Add python-msrest to comps file for release
• BZ - 1520947 - Add python-s3transfer to comps file for release
• BZ - 1520967 - Add python-adal to comps file for release
• BZ - 1520987 - Add python-msrestazure to comps file for release
• BZ - 1520998 - Add python-azure-sdk to comps file for release
• BZ - 1521008 - Add awscli to comps file for release
• BZ - 1536383 - [rhel-comps] Localization
• BZ - 1536558 - Add lvm2-python-boom subpackage to all composes except s390 and s390x
• BZ - 1540243 - Ensure NetworkManager-wait-online.service is enabled via presets
• BZ - 1541498 - Add insights-client to comps file for release
• BZ - 1543757 - Add python-boto3 to comps file for release
• BZ - 1547452 - Add libdbusmenu to comps file for release
• BZ - 1547456 - Add libindicator to comps file for release
• BZ - 1547533 - Add libappindicator to comps file for release

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.5_release_notes/index.html