Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 released

Nine months after the last release Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 6.5. The kernel level is now kernel-2.6.32-431.el6, for the main bug fixes see the kernel update description.

As usual there are the release notes and the technical notes in two separate documents. For System z this has been a mainly a fix release. Only a few small enhancements have been added all described in the technical notes. Here are some of them:

• s390utils bug fix and enhancement update
• opencryptoki bug fix and enhancement update 
• adapter resiliency for crypto adapters
• fuzzy live dump
• support for large EAV volumes for installation
• Linux perf tool support for hardware performance counters
• VEPA mode support

The IBM documentation for RHEL 6.4 on developerworks still applies for this release.