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<pre style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 6.7 for x86 (32 bit) and x86_64 (64 bit) architectures.
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tt>Oracle Linux 6 Update 7
ships with three sets of kernel packages:</tt></p>
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<p style="font-size: 14px; display: block; max-width: 720px;"><tt>Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 3 (</tt><tt><code
class="literal" style="font-size: 13.3px; font-weight:
bold; background-color: white;">kernel-uek-3.8.13-68.3.4.el6uek</code></tt><tt>)
for x86-64</tt></p>
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<p style="font-size: 14px; display: block; max-width: 720px;"><tt>Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 2 (</tt><tt><code
class="literal" style="font-size: 13.3px; font-weight:
bold; background-color: white;">kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.250.7.el6uek</code></tt><tt>)
for i386</tt></p>
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<p style="font-size: 14px; display: block; max-width: 720px;"><tt>Red
Hat Compatible Kernel (</tt><tt><code class="literal"
style="font-size: 13.3px; font-weight: bold;
background-color: white;">kernel-2.6.32-573.el6</code></tt><tt>)
for i386 and x86-64</tt></p>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tt>By default, both the
Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel
for the specific architecture (i386 or x86-64) are installed and
the system boots the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel.</tt></p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; display: block; max-width: 720px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tt>The ISO image for
Oracle Linux 6 Update 7 for i386 includes the Red Hat Compatible
Kernel and the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 but not
the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3, which does not
support i386.</tt></p>
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14px; display: block; max-width: 720px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);"><tt>The ISO image for Oracle Linux 6 Update 7 for x86-64
includes the Red Hat Compatible Kernel and the Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 3 but not the Unbreakable Enterprise
Kernel Release 2.</tt><br>
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rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255);"><tt>UEK R3 includes the following major improvements:</tt></p>
<ul>
<li><tt>OpenSCAP</tt></li>
</ul>
<blockquote><tt>The Open Security Content Automation Protocol
(OpenSCAP) Guide package, scap-security-guide, provides
guidance, baselines, and validation mechanisms for implementing
security hardening of an Oracle Linux 6 system. OpenSCAP
includes the oscap utility that you use to test the security
compliance of a system and produce an online report that
describes security policy requirements and how your system
measures up to these requirements. OpenSCAP allows you to check
system compliance as required by your site security policy.</tt><br>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li><tt>Load Balancing and High Availability</tt></li>
</ul>
<blockquote><tt>Oracle Linux 6 now includes the Keepalived and
HAProxy technologies for balancing access to network services
while maintaining continuous access to those services.</tt><br>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li><tt>Hyper-V Daemons</tt></li>
</ul>
<blockquote><tt>The hyperv-daemons package, which includes the
hypervfcopyd, hypervkvpd, and hypervvssd packages, provides the
Hyper-V file-copy, key-value pair (KVP), and volume shadow copy
service (VSS) daemons for an Oracle Linux guest that is running
under Hyper-V on a Microsoft Windows host.</tt><br>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li><tt>Enhanced SSSD Support for Active Directory</tt></li>
</ul>
<blockquote><tt>The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) now
supports the following features when using Oracle Linux clients
with Active Directory (AD):</tt><br>
<ul>
<li><tt>Dynamic updates to DNS.</tt></li>
<li><tt>Group and user lookups of NetBIOS names.</tt></li>
<li><tt>Site discovery of domain controllers.</tt></li>
<li><tt>User and group resolution and user authentication for
trusted domains within a single AD forest.</tt></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<tt> </tt><br>
<pre style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">For more information, please refer to the online release notes available at:
<a href="http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/docs">http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/index.html</a>
Software Accessibility
All packages are available on the <a href="http://linux.oracle.com">Unbreakable Linux Network</a>.
Installable binary and source ISO images will available on <a href="http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux">Oracle Software Delivery Cloud </a> shortly.
If ISO images are needed before they are available on Oracle Software Delivery Cloud, please request these via a My Oracle Support service request.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
The Oracle Linux Team</pre>
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