[El-errata] Oracle Linux 7 Update 2 Release for x86_64

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 7 Update 2

Oracle Linux 7 Update 2 includes the following kernels:

     kernel-3.10.0-327.el7
            Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK).

     kernel-uek-3.8.13-98.6.1.el7uek
            Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 (UEK R3), which is the default kernel.

The following features are still under development, but are made available for testing and evaluation purposes with UEK R3:

       * DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device)
         
       * Transcendent memory

       * Ceph

       * Deo Network Bound Disk Encryption

       * SCAP Workbench and the OSCAP Anaconda add-on

       * UEFI Secure Boot

For the RHCK, the following features are currently under technology preview:

   *  Active Directory and LDAP sudo providers.

   *  Block and object storage layouts for parallel NFS (pNFS).

   *  Block device caching by LVM, which allows small, fast devices to act as caches for large, slow devices.

   *  btrfs file system. Oracle supports btrfs with UEK R3.

   *  Crash kernel can be configured to boot with more than a single CPU.

   *  DIF/DIX for data integrity checking on SCSI devices other than certain, specified native HBA and storage hardware. Oracle supports DIF/DIX with UEK R3.

   *  LSI Syncro CS feature in the megaraid_sas driver to support High-Availability Direct-Attached storage (HA-DAS) adapters.

   *  LVM API.

   *  More than 32 PCI slots can be configured with PCI Bridge in QEMU.

   *  OpenLMI Software Provider.

   *  PCI Express Bus, AHCI Bus, and USB 3.0 host adapter emulation are provided for KVM guests.

   *  Single-Root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) in the qlcnic driver.

   *  Storage array management, which includes a command-line interface and the libStorageMgmt API.

   *  The dm-era device-mapper target records changes made to blocks over a specified time period.

   *  Trusted Network Connect.

   *  virtio-blk-data-plane in Quick EMUlator (QEMU) improves block I/O performance


For more information, please refer to the online release notes available at:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E52668_01/E67200/html/index.html 
<https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E52668_01/E60259/html/index.html>  


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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