[El-errata] Oracle Linux Release 6 Update 4 for x86 (32 bit) and x86_64 (64 Bit) architectures

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 6.4 for x86 (32 bit) and x86_64 (64 bit) architectures.

Oracle Linux 6.4 ships with two sets of kernel packages:

      * Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.17.1.el6uek]
            o Installed and booted by default
      * Red Hat Compatible Kernel [kernel-2.6.32-358.el6]
            o Installed by default

By default, both the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel are installed.
Unbreakable Enterprise kernel Release 2 shipped in this update has following driver updates:

Storage Adapter Drivers

   Broadcom

      * NetXtreme II iSCSI driver (bnx2i) updated to 2.7.4.1f.
      * NetXtreme II Fibre Channel over Ethernet driver (bnx2fc) updated to 2.2.17.

   Emulex

       * Blade Engine 2 Open-iSCSI driver (be2iscsi) updated to 10.0.272.0o.
       * Fibre Channel HBA driver (lpfc) updated to 8.3.5.86.2p.

   Mellanox

       * ConnectX core driver (mlx4_core) released at 1.0-ofed1.5.5 (x86_64 only). Handles low-level functions such as device initialization and firmware commands processing, and controls resource allocation so that the InfiniBand and Ethernet functions can share a device without interfering with each other.
       * ConnectX Ethernet driver (mlx4_en) released at 1.5.4.24 (x86_64 only). Handles Ethernet-specific functions and plugs into the netdev mid-layer.
       * ConnectX InfiniBand driver (mlx4_ib) released at 1.0-ofed1.5.5 (x86_64 only). Handles InfiniBand-specific functions.

   QLogic

      *  Fibre Channel HBA driver (qla2xxx) updated to 8.04.00.11.39.0-k.
      *  iSCSI driver (qla4xxx) updated to 5.03.00.01.06.02-uek2. Now supports Open-iSCSI.

Network Adapter Drivers

    Broadcom

      *  NetXtreme II network adapter driver (bnx2) updated to 2.2.3e.
       * NetXtreme II 10Gbps network adapter driver (bnx2x) updated to 1.74.17.
       * Converged Network Interface Card core driver (cnic) updated to 2.5.12e.
       * Tigon3 Ethernet adapter driver (tg3) updated to 3.125g.

   Emulex

       * Blade Engine 2 10Gbps adapter driver (be2net) updated to 4.4.161.0o.

   Intel

       * PRO/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit network adapter driver (e1000e) updated to 2.1.4-NAPI.
       * Gigabit Ethernet network adapter driver (igb) updated to 4.0.17.
       * 10 Gigabit PCI-Express network adapter driver (ixgbe) updated to 3.11.33.
       * 10 Gigabit Server Adapter virtual function driver (ixgbevf) updated to 2.6.2-NAPI. The kernel must support Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV).

   QLogic

       * NetXen Multiport 1/10 Gigabit Network adapter driver (netxen_nic) updated to 4.0.80.
       * 1/10 GbE Converged/Intelligent Ethernet Adapter driver (qlcnic) updated to 5.1.27.35.
       * QLE81xx network adapter driver (qlge) updated to v1.00.00.31.
       

For more information, please refer to the online release notes available at:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/docs


Software Accessibility

All packages are available on theUnbreakable Linux Network  <http://linux.oracle.com>.

Installable binary and source ISO images will available onOracle Software Delivery Cloud  <http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux>   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

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