RHEA-2025:20712 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for rhel-system-roles is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Description

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 s390x

Fixes

• RHEL-17564 - support for gathering spark metrics
• RHEL-81755 - Systemd unmask should run at the begin to allow the role to manage the units
• RHEL-84197 - Network role should remove MAC address matching from SysUtil.link_info_find()
• RHEL-84362 - Network role should refine MAC validation using interface name
• RHEL-84910 - fix: Do not restart logind unless absolutely necessary
• RHEL-84920 - Directory .config/containers mode constantly changed
• RHEL-84930 - podman_registries_conf TOML tables not supported
• RHEL-84940 - bug in toml rendering of `podman_containers_conf`
• RHEL-84951 - Add `includes` when defining a custom service
• RHEL-85079 - rhel-system-roles.timesync doesn't work when IPv6 is disabled in environment
• RHEL-85569 - docs links should not use rhel-system-roles.github
• RHEL-85702 - fix: render boolean option values correctly in toml files
• RHEL-85872 - Incorrect attribute checks for routing rule validation
• RHEL-88772 - fix: files and templates in nested directories are not placed correctly
• RHEL-89120 - [storage] LVM grow_to_fill feature doesn't work with latest blivet
• RHEL-87579 - Add functionality to set default kernel with bootloader

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.7_release_notes/index