Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 (OOTPA)

Red Hat released today the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 update to its latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 operating system series to bring stability improvements and other changes.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 comes about six months after RHEL 8.3 and introduces improvements to the edge computing capabilities by simplifying updates, adding the ability to use the OSTree repositories with OCI container images, and providing extra options for installing to disconnected systems.

This release also simplifies Red Hat’s Cloud Access program to make it easier for users to consume content when deploying cloud-based systems, as well as to manage these systems using the Red Hat Insights ecosystem, which has been recently expended to to help provide a holistic view across your IT environments.

Other changes in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 include support for the Intel “Tiger Lake” GPU family like Intel UHD and Intel Xe graphics, as well as the addition of two new system roles, namely the Reliable Event Logging Protocol (RELP) role for forwarding or receiving rsyslog log messages, and the SSH Client system role to make it easier to configure RHEL SSH.