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EuroLinux 8.7 Release Notes

This version’s code name is Brussels - the capital city of Belgium and the heart of European Union.

Dynamic programming languages, Web and Database servers

New versions of the following components are now available:

  • New: Ruby 3.1 - module ruby stream 3.1
  • New: Mercurial 6.2 - module mercurial stream 6.2
  • New: Node.js 18 - module nodejs stream 18
  • Redis 6 - module redis:6 was updated from version 6.0 to 6.2.7

Compiler Toolset

The following compiler toolsets have been updated in EL 8.6:

  • New: GCC-Toolset-12 - toolset gcc-toolset-12
  • New: Dotnet 7.0 - Dotnet 7.0 packages
  • Rust Toolset - module rust-toolset:rhel8 was updated to version 1.62.1 from 1.58.1
  • LLVM Toolset - module llvm-toolset:rhel8 was updated to version 14.0.0 from 13.0.1
  • Go Lang Toolset - module go-toolset:rhel8 that provides the Go Lang stack was updated to version 1.18.4 from 1.17.7

Containers

  • Containers tools module containers-tools stream rhel was heavily updated
  • Containers tools module containers-tools stream 4.0 was heavily updated

Security

Most of the security features are connected to rebased/updated versions of the packages. The most crucial security changes include:

  • NSS no longer support RSA keys shorter than 1023 bits and won't work with such keys.
  • Updated SCAP security guilde with new sysctl, pampwquality, grub2 rules.
  • fapolicyd rebased to 1.1.3

General updates and improvements

Among the others, the following packages were updated and enhanced:

  • QT5 toolchain and utilities were updated from 5.15.2 to 5.15.3
  • Opencryptoki was updated to version 3.18.0 from 3.17.0
  • Libva was updated to version 2.13.0 from 2.5.0
  • Chrony was updated to version 4.2 from 4.1
  • Unbound was updated to version 1.16.2 from 1.7.3
  • Fapolicyd rebased to 1.1.3 from 1.1
  • Mariadb-java-client rebased to version 2.7.1 from 2.2.5
  • open-vm-tools rebased to 12.0.5 from 11.3.5

New packages

Among the others, the following packages were added to os repository for this release:

  • Multiple qt5-docs packages
  • aardvark-dns
  • anaconda-widgets-devel
  • aspnetcore-runtime-7.0
  • aspnetcore-targeting-pack-7.0
  • dotnet-apphost-pack-7.0
  • dotnet-hostfxr-7.0
  • dotnet-sdk-7.0-source-built-artifacts
  • egl-utils
  • frr-selinux
  • fstrm-utils
  • gcc-plugin-annobin
  • gcc-toolset-12
  • gcc-toolset-12-annobin-annocheck
  • gcc-toolset-12-annobin-docs
  • gcc-toolset-12-annobin-plugin-gcc
  • gcc-toolset-12-binutils
  • gcc-toolset-12-binutils-devel
  • gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold
  • gcc-toolset-12-build
  • gcc-toolset-12-dwz
  • gcc-toolset-12-gcc
  • gcc-toolset-12-gcc-c++
  • gcc-toolset-12-gcc-gfortran
  • gcc-toolset-12-gcc-plugin-devel
  • gcc-toolset-12-gdb
  • gcc-toolset-12-libasan-devel
  • gcc-toolset-12-libatomic-devel
  • gcc-toolset-12-libgccjit
  • gcc-toolset-12-libgccjit-devel
  • gcc-toolset-12-libgccjit-docs
  • gcc-toolset-12-libitm-devel
  • gcc-toolset-12-liblsan-devel
  • gcc-toolset-12-libstdc++-devel
  • gcc-toolset-12-libstdc++-docs
  • gcc-toolset-12-libtsan-devel
  • gcc-toolset-12-libubsan-devel
  • gcc-toolset-12-runtime
  • gtk3-devel-docs
  • idm-pki-acme
  • idm-pki-base
  • idm-pki-base-java
  • idm-pki-ca
  • idm-pki-kra
  • idm-pki-symkey
  • libasan8
  • libdhash-devel
  • libestr-devel
  • liblockfile
  • libstoragemgmt-nfs-plugin
  • libverto-libev
  • make-latest (currently make43)
  • make43
  • make43-devel
  • open-vm-tools-salt-minion
  • openslp-devel
  • pam_wrapper
  • poppler-qt5
  • python-ldb-devel-common
  • python-sphinx-latex
  • python3-babeltrace
  • python3-cairo-devel
  • python3-idm-pki
  • python3-lasso
  • python3-ldb-devel
  • python3-talloc-devel
  • redhat-cloud-client-configuration
  • ssd-idp
  • systemd-resolved (technology preview)
  • tuned-profiles-postgresql
  • xmlstarlet
  • xxhash
  • yara

Branded packages

Multiple packages have names changed due to branding, including:

  • redhat-backgrounds -> el-backgrounds
  • redhat-indexhtml -> el-indexhtml
  • redhat-logos -> el-logos
  • redhat-logos-httpd -> el-logos-httpd
  • redhat-logos-ipa -> el-logos-ipa
  • redhat-release -> el-release
  • redhat-release-eula -> el-release - we include EULA in release package

All these packages have proper RPM provides declaration.

The list of the packages that are changed due to branding includes, among the others:

  • abrt
  • anaconda
  • anaconda-user-help
  • cloud-init
  • crash
  • firefox
  • httpd
  • initial-setup
  • ipa
  • libguestfs
  • libreoffice
  • libreport
  • nginx
  • opa-ff
  • opa-fm
  • openscap
  • osinfo-db
  • python3
  • redhat-rpm-config
  • scap-security-guide
  • sos
  • subscription-manager
  • thunderbird

Removed packages

The following packages were removed:

  • rhc and related packages
  • insights-client and related packages

New vault policy

With feedback from community we decided to add the -last to the EuroLinux 8.6 vaulted versions that represents the last snapshot of the EuroLinux 8.6. More about vault policy here.

Smaller base repositories

Until now we keeped all produced versions of the same package in base repositories. Upstream policy is to keep only selected versions and the rest in the vaults. It is reasonable as saves a internet bandwith, and put much less stress on the mirroring sites. From EuroLinux 8.7 we will aim to use upstream schema for packages.

Older packages are still available at EuroLinux Vault.

Installation from baseurl with .treeinfo

EuroLinux 8.7 is first release that officially supports the installation from URL leveraging .treeinfo files.

Batteries

Batteries repository contains packages that are needed to rebuild the distribution but are not included in any upstream repositories. Right now, this repository includes more than 2500 packages for each buildroot.

About 30 packages were updated for x86_64 buildroot.

Gaia build system

Gaia build system is still in the 3.0 alpha.

Additional resources