The legacy of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is coming to an end with the announcement of the last point release RHEL 6.9. The latest release comes with updated TLS 1.2 and better support for PCI-DSS standard. The updated RHEL 6 base image makes it easier to port RHEL 6 workloads to container-based applications and use them on other platforms. RHEL 6.9 is now available for the RHEL subscribers.
Red Hat inc. announced on Monday, the last point release, RHEL 6, for their 6-year-old open
source Linux distro family which is well-liked among the enterprise users. This
also marks the end of the second phase of RHEL 6’s development cycle.
After the Phase 2, RHEL
6 will only receive security updates till 2020 under the Phase 3 which will
commence on May 10, 2017. Red Hat’s current focus of development is the RHEL 7
platform which was updated to RHEL 7.3 last year.
RHEL 6.9 updates the TLS 1.2 protocol to
strengthen communication security and offer enhanced support for the PCI-DSS
standard – it is widely used for secure online transactions over leading
platforms like MasterCard, Visa, etc. This will benefit the retail firms using
RHEL 6 on the systems.
The latest RHEL 6.9 update is available for the RHEL subscribers
through the Red Hat Customer Portal. The ones wanting to upgrade their systems
to RHEL 7 can do so for free as a part of the subscription.
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