Oracle has released the first update of Oracle Linux 8

Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 8 Update 1. Individual RPM packages are available on the Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) and the Oracle Linux yum server. ISO installation images will soon be available for download from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud and Docker images will soon be available via Oracle Container Registry and Docker Hub.

Oracle Linux 8 Update 1 ships with Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK) (kernel-4.18.0-147.el8) kernel packages for x86_64 Platform (Intel & AMD), that include bug fixes, security fixes, and enhancements; the 64-bit Arm (aarch64) platform is also available for installation as a developer preview release.

Notable new features for all architectures

Security

Udica package added

You can use udica to create a tailored security policy, for better control of how a container accesses host system resources. This capability enables you to harden container deployments against security violations.

SELinux

SELinux user-space tools have been updated to release 2.9

SETools collection and libraries have been updated to release 4.2.2

New boltd_t SELinux type added (used to manage Thunderbolt 3 devices)

New bpf SELinux policy added (used to control Berkeley Packet Filter)

SELinux policy packages have been updated to release 3.14.3

OpenSCAP

OpenSCAP packages have been updated to release 1.3.1

OpenSCAP includes SCAP 1.3 data stream version

scap-security-guide packages have been updated to release 0.1.44

OpenSSH have been updated to 8.0p1 release

Other

Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory

Memory Mode for the Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory technology has been added; this technology is transparent to the operating system.

Database

Oracle Linux 8 Update 1 ships with version 8.0 of the MySQL database.

Cockpit Web Console

Capability for Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) configuration using the Cockpit web console. The ability to disable SMT in the Cockpit web console is also included. For further details please see Oracle Linux Simultaneous Multithreading Notice

Networking page updated with new firewall settings on the web console's Networking page

Several improvements to the Virtual Machines management page

Important changes in this release

virt-manager

The Virtual Machine Manager application (virt-manager) is deprecated in Oracle Linux 8 Update 1. Oracle recommends that you use the web console (Cockpit) for managing virtualization in a graphical user interface (GUI).

RHCK

Btrfs file system removed from RHCK.

OCFS2 file system removed from RHCK.

VDO Ansible module moved to Ansible packages; the VDO Ansible module is provided by the ansible package and is located in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/modules/system/vdo.py

  Oracle Linux 8 Update 1 Release Notes
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