by Anish
Posted on Monday October 21-2019
TL;DR
The RHEL8 releases on 8.0 / May 7, 2019; 5 months ago. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (Ootpa) is based on Fedora 28, upstream Linux kernel 4.18, GCC 8.2, glibc 2.28, systemd 239, and GNOME 3.28
The CentOS-8 (1905) release platform derived from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Here are the some Notable Changes to latest Release.
RHEL 8.0/Centos8 introduces the concept of Application Streams. Each application stream will be supported from two to five years.
Application streams are fully supported for a predefined lifetime for example
Application Stream | Release Date | Retirement Date | Release |
---|---|---|---|
varnish 6 | May 2019 | May 2022 | 8.0.0 |
postgresql 10 | May 2019 | May 2024 | 8.0.0. |
- | - | - | - |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is distributed through two main repositories and introduce Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI).
Both repositories are required for a basic RHEL installation, and are available with all RHEL subscriptions.
sh-4.4# dnf repolist
ubi-8-appstream Red Hat Universal Base Image 8 (RPMs) - AppStream 778
ubi-8-baseos Red Hat Universal Base Image 8 (RPMs) - BaseOS 659
sh-4.4# dnf repolist
Last metadata expiration check: 0:08:52 ago on Sun Oct 20 11:54:48 2019.
repo id repo name status
AppStream CentOS-8 - AppStream 5069
BaseOS CentOS-8 - Base 2835
extras CentOS-8 - Extras 3
Package | RHEL8/Centos8 | RHEL7/Centos7 |
---|---|---|
YUM | YUM v4: Based on DNF technology | YUM v3 used on RHEL 7/Centos7 |
Shells and command-line tools | The nobody user replaces nfsnobody |
he nobody user and group pair with the ID of 99 and the nfsnobody user and group pair with the ID of 65534, |
version control systems | Git 2.18 , Mercurial 4.8 , and Subversion 1.10 and Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and Revision Control System (RCS), available in RHEL 7, are not distributed with RHEL 8 |
Older versions |
Python | Python 3 is the default Python |
Python 2.7 is the default Python |
PHP | distributed with PHP 7.2 |
distributed with PHP 5.4 |
Nodejs | Node.js new in RHEL8 |
NA |
Perl | Perl 5.26 | Perl 5.20 |
httpd | Apache HTTP Server 2.4.37 | |
nginx | RHEL 8 introduces nginx 1.14 |
NA |
Database | MySQL 8.0, MariaDB 10.3,PostgreSQL 10 Redis 5. MongoDB database server is not included in RHEL 8.0 |
- |
squid | Squid 4.4 | Older version of squid |
Varnish | Varnish Cache new in RHEL Varnish Cache 6.0 |
NA |
webconsole | RHEL8 | RHEL7 |
---|---|---|
Subscriptions | The web console's Subscriptions page is now provided by the new subscription-manager-cockpit package. |
opensource |
firewall | The Networking page in the RHEL 8 web console now includes a Firewall section | NA |
Virtual Machine | The Virtual Machines page can now be added to the RHEL 8 web console interface, which enables the user to create and manage libvirt-based virtual machines |
NA |
Firewall | RHEL8/Centos8 | RHEL7/Centos7 |
---|---|---|
nftables | nftables replaces iptables , ip6tables , ebtables and arptables as the default network packet filtering framework |
iptables is default |
firewalld | firewalld uses nftables by default |
- |
Virtualization | RHEL8/Centos8 | RHEL7 |
---|---|---|
Virtualization | qemu-kvm 2.12 |
qemu-kvm 1.5.3 |
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