| Red Hat 4.5 boasts enhanced kernel, clustering |
May 02, 2007
 Red Hat today released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5, featuring a 2.6.9-55.EL kernel paravirtualized for i686 and x86_64 machines. RHEL 4.5 also provides NFS performance metrics and updated kernel support for Infiniband connectivity, according to the release announcement.
This update also includes the following enhancements, according to the company: - EDAC for Opteron
- diskdump support for sata_nv and ibmvscsi drivers
- netdump support to 8139cp driver
- CIFS updated to 1.45
- clustering application support through dm device ioctls.
"Several bug fixes in various parts of the kernel were also made," a company spokesperson said. "The ongoing effort to resolve these problems has resulted in a marked improvement in the reliability and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4."
Other notable additions, according to Red Hat, include:- Technology preview release of OpenOffice.org 2.0
- WPA-Supplicant driver now included
- automounter load balancing with replicated servers
- Configurable location for core dumps in netdump-server
- Selectable core dump filtering
- Microcode update
- Session keyring initialization PAM module
- gdm update for new audit system
- Linux-z/VM monitoring with established z/VM tools
- DASD awareness for multipath-tools
- Infiniband update from 1.0 to OFED-1.1 code base
- Native SAS and STAT devices are now supported
- Added Alsa support for Broadwater platforms
- Sealevel 8-port serial cards are now supported
- Support for SCSI-3 persistent group reservations
- mdadm support for RAID50
- GUI iSCSI configuration
- multipath-tools support for DASD disks
This is the first RHEL release with the new "point" numbering (instead of the old "4 Update X" version numbers), the spokesperson noted.
Red Hat Linux, founded in 1994, is used in a wide range of computers ranging from embedded devices to secure Web servers to enterprise desktops. Red Hat offerings include Red Hat Linux, development tools, embedded technologies, training, management services, and technical support.
Installable binary and source ISO images are available for "subscribers only" download from Red Hat Network.
Screenshots are available for viewing here, courtesy of The Coding Studio.
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