Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 6.8 Release Notes Release Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Edition 8 Red Hat Customer Content Services Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 6.8 Release Notes Release Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Edition 8 Red Hat Customer Content Services [email protected] Legal Notice Copyright © 2016-2017 Red Hat, Inc. This document is licensed by Red Hat under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. If you distribute this document, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat, Inc. and provide a link to the original. If the document is modified, all Red Hat trademarks must be removed. Red Hat, as the licensor of this document, waives the right to enforce, and agrees not to assert, Section 4d of CC-BY-SA to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. 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Security 7 Authentication and Interoperability 7 System and Subscription Management 7 Storage 7 File Systems 7 Deploy Anywhere 7 Red Hat Insights 8 Red Hat Customer Portal Labs 8 .P .a .r t. .I .. N. e. w. F. e. a. t.u . r.e .s . .9 . .C .h .a .p . t.e .r .2 .. .G . e. n. e. r. a. l. U. p. d. .a .t e. s. .1 .0 . Cross channel package dependency improvements 10 Packages moved to the Optional Channel 10 .C .h .a .p . t.e .r .3 .. .A . u. t.h .e .n . t.i c. a. t.i o. n. .a .n . d. .I n. t.e .r .o .p .e .r a. b. .i l.i t.y . .1 .1 . SSSD smart card support 11 Cache authentication in SSSD 11 The ou=sudoers,$DC part of the IdM server compatibility plug-in tree can now be disabled for better performance 11 SSSD enables UID and GID mapping on individual clients 11 Caching for initgroups operations 11 New packages: adcli 12 SSSD is now able to automatically renew the host credentials of Linux clients joined to AD 12 SSSD can now automatically adjust ID ranges for AD clients in environments with large RIDs 12 SSSD now supports GPOs from different domain controllers 12 Support for SSLv2 has been disabled 12 OpenLDAP now supports TLSv1.2 12 nss now supports ECDSA certificates 13 New SSSD default values for group names 13 .C .h .a .p . t.e .r .4 .. .C . l.u .s .t e. r. i.n .g . .1 .4 . New Pacemaker features 14 Graceful migration of resources when the pacemaker_remote service is stopped on an active Pacemaker Remote node 14 Support for SBD fencing with Pacemaker 14 The glocktop tool has been added to gfs2-utils 14 pcs now supports exporting a cluster configuration to a list of pcs commands 14 Fence agent for APC now supports firmware 6.x 15 .C .h .a .p . t.e .r .5 .. .C . o. m. .p .i l.e .r . a. n. d. .T .o . o. l.s . .1 .6 . dmidecode now supports SMBIOS 3.0.0 16 mcelog now supports additional Intel processors 16 python-linux-procfs rebased to version 0.4.9 16 trace-cmd rebased to version 2.2.4 16 tcsh now supports $anyerror and $tcsh_posix_status 16 OpenJDK 8 now supports ECC 16 RC4 is now disabled by default in OpenJDK 6 and OpenJDK 7 17 rhino rebased to version 1.7R4 17 pcp rebased to version 3.10.9 17 openmpi rebased to version 1.10.2 17 1 6.8 Release Notes openmpi rebased to version 1.10.2 17 Changes in Open MPI distribution 17 Omping is now fully supported 18 elfutils rebased to version 0.164 18 glibc now supports BIG5-HKSCS-2008 19 Human-readable installed-rpms 19 OProfile now supports 6th Generation Intel Core processors 19 OProfile updated to recognize the Intel Xeon Processor D-1500 product family 19 SystemTap rebased to version 2.9 19 powerpc-utils rebased to version 1.3.0 19 ipmitool rebased to version 1.8.15 19 memtest86+ rebased to version 5.01 19 New package: java-1.8.0-ibm 20 New option for arpwatch: -p 20 .C .h .a .p . t.e .r .6 .. .D . e. s. k. t.o .p . .2 .1 . LibreOffice rebased to version 4.3.7.2 21 mesa now supports additional Intel 3D graphics 21 New Vinagre features 21 vmwgfx now supports 3D operations under VMware Workstation 10 21 x3270 rebased to version 3.3.15 21 icedtea-web rebased to version 1.6.2 22 .C .h .a .p . t.e .r .7 .. .D . i.r e. c. t.o . r.y . S. e. r. v. e. r. i.n . R. .e .d . H. .a .t .E .n . t.e .r p. .r i.s .e . L. i.n .u . x. .2 .3 . About Directory Server for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 23 Improved performance when deleting large quantities of multi-valued attributes 23 .C .h .a .p . t.e .r .8 .. .F .i l.e . S. .y .s .t e. m. .s . .2 .4 . ..