14 DAY TRIAL // Today, March 21, 2017, Red Hat Inc. announced the general availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 maintenance update as the last one for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system series.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 comes ten months after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8, which landed last year on May 10, but Red Hat is maintaining the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform for more than six years, always offering a more secure, reliable and stable operating system to modern enterprises.
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 shows our continued commitment to providing a solid backbone for production deployments, adding security and stability enhancements and an updated container base image to address a variety of vital business IT needs," said Jim Tottonvice president and general manager, Platforms Business Unit, Red Hat.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 delivers new hardware support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 is packed with all sort of improvements that promise to offer support for some of the newest hardware components, support that has been developed in collaboration with numerous of Red Hat's partners, all in order to provide a solid base for customers to be able to upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 easily.
Red Hat also tried to enhance the security of the operating system by shipping Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 with TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.2, providing support for many of the latest PCI-DSS standards and offering enterprises the ability to secure their online transactions much better than before.
Support for many next-generation cloud-native applications was also implemented in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9, along with an up-to-date base image that lets customers migrate their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 workloads into container-based apps that are suitable for deployment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Atomic Host, and OpenShift Container Platform.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 is available as we speak for existing customers with an active Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription, which can update their installations via the Red Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat recommends all Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 users to upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 through the Preupgrade Assistant and Red Hat Upgrade Tool as soon as possible.