After firming up a strategic alliance with IBM, Red Hat, Inc. followed up that announcement with the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9. The latest update offers more secure, stable and reliable platform for the modern enterprise.
It also delivers new hardware support developed in collaboration with Red Hat channel partners for the transition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 production deployments to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 environments. Additionally, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 adds updates to TLS 1.2 for secure communications and broader support for the latest PCI-DSS standards.
While emphasizing stability for existing IT investments, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 supports the next generation of cloud-native applications through an updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 base image. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 base image enables customers to migrate their existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 workloads into container-based applications – suitable for deployment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
Note that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 enters Production Phase 3 on May 10, 2017, meaning that subsequent updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 will be limited to qualified critical security fixes and business-impacting urgent issues.
In addition, as Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions are not tied to a release, existing customers may also elect to update their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 infrastructure to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 at any time, free of charge, to take advantage of recent upstream innovations. Red Hat simplifies the upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, through the Pre-upgrade Assistant and Red Hat Upgrade Tool.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 is now available to channel partners with an active Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription through the Red Hat Customer Portal.