Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta – New Features

RHEL 8 Beta version got released on Nov 14, 2018, and the Beta version is available for developers. This release came after IBM acquired Red Hat for $34 billion on October 28, 2018.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 – Download Links

RHEL 8 beta version is available for download. Just click on below link and it will redirect you on download page.

Red Hat Developers Subscription (no-cost subscription):

Download Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta

Red Hat Customer Subscription:

Download Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta

New features of RHEL 8

Security

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta has been supporting OpenSSL 1.1.1 and TLS 1.3
• Red Hat is enabling server applications on the platform to use the latest standards for cryptographic protection of customer data.
• The administrator can easily switch between multiple modes likes default, legacy future and fips using -crypto-policies command.
• System-wide cryptographic policies are also included which helps to manage cryptographic compliance from a single prompt.

Memory

• The biggest single change in RHEL 8 system performance is the new upper limit on physical memory capacity.
• RHEL 8 supports up to 4PB of physical memory.

Software Management

• The software is now managed by the new version of YUM which is based on DNF in Fedora.
• RPM command validates the entire package prior to installation using the hash.
• DNF is rolling out behind YUM.
• It provides fast performances and less installed dependencies.

Networking:

• RHEL8 supports more efficient Linux networking in containers through IPVLAN.
• It also includes a new TCP/IP stack with Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time (BBR) congestion control, which enables higher performance & minimized latency

Shells and command-line tools

• nobody user replaced by nfsnobody with the user and group ID of 65534 in RHEL 8

Main Features of RHEL 8

• Few software versions available with RHEL 8 are Python 3.6, Nginx 1.14, Apache 2.4.35, PHP 7.2, Ruby 2.5, Perl 5.26 and Databases like MariaDB 10.3, MySQL 8.0, PostgreSQL 10, PostgreSQL 9.6, and Redis 4.0
• Now XFS file system is supporting shared copy on write data extents functionality.
• cockpit is available in RHEL 8 default repos. Cockpit is a web-based tool used by the system administrator to manage servers.
• Desktop will use Wayland as default display server.
• Stratis is new volume management tool which allows you to easily perform complex storage tasks and manage your storage stack using unified interface.
• Firewalld now uses nftables as default backend.
• OpenLDAP is no more available.
• Supports up to 4PB of physical memory.
• nobody user replaced by nfsnobody.
• There is pre-enabled repository available in RHEL 8 for Application Stream (AppStream) which provides many developers tools.
• Composer is available in RHEL 8 which helps to deploy custom images in the cloud.
• RHEL 8 now comes with qemu–kvm v2.12.

Reference:

Red hat Official Website

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