RHEL9 Reaching GA Shortly, RHIVOS Woos GM For Software-Defined Vehicles

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RHEL9 Reaching GA Shortly, RHIVOS Woos GM For Software-Defined Vehicles

Today at the Red Hat Summit is word of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 reaching general availability status in the coming weeks...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...Red-Hat-Summit

[zxy_thf]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 was officially released on May 7, 2019.

If they were following the 5-year release mode, RHEL 9 should be released around May 2024, but now it's just 2022.

It seems they finally realized the 5-year release cycle are not competitive for various things.

[rmnscnce]

It seems they finally realized the 5-year release cycle are not competitive for various things.

Yep, I think they want to keep up at Ubuntu LTS' pace to make sure things are still fresh for the users.

[RahulSundaram]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 was officially released on May 7, 2019.

If they were following the 5-year release mode, RHEL 9 should be released around May 2024, but now it's just 2022.

It seems they finally realized the 5-year release cycle are not competitive for various things.

They never had any 5 year release cycle policy in the first place, only a set number of years of maintenance after a release. Prior releases don't show any kind of fixed interval between them for major releases. They do have a more recent policy of fixed interval for minor releases however.

[Ub42]

They never had any 5 year release cycle policy in the first place, only a set number of years of maintenance after a release. Prior releases don't show any kind of fixed interval between them for major releases. They do have a more recent policy of fixed interval for minor releases however.

The new three years release cycle policy for major releases was shared in the CentOS Stream FAQ.

[slap]

Feels like it's way too early for RHEL 9. I don't think it will be any good if they do it every 3 years.
I use some Cadence software that is still RHEL 7-only and they just began updating it for version 8. They can just start skipping versions

[Slartifartblast]

Are IBM going to rebrand it as OS2 Warp Factor 9 ?

[tent_icle]

With one notable exception, RHEL has had a 3 year release cycle since RHEL5.0 back in 2007, so this is pretty much right on schedule.

Coincidentally or otherwise, the exception - RHEL7 was the latest for 6 years rather than 3 - always felt like 'peak RHEL' to me, which I say as an old admin who first came across (from Solaris) circa RHEL3U2