What's New for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6
This update contains the following changes as compared to Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8.5.
- New information
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- This publication describes the IPL process. For installation instructions, see Performing a standard RHEL installation (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/performing_a_standard_rhel_installation/index#installing-rhel-on-ibm-z)
- You can now define variables for kernel parameters in a boot record. See Parameter overview, and zipl environment - Variables for the kernel command line.
- A new toolset can help you to use multipath information for re-IPL path failover on a running Linux instance, see Automatic path failover for re-IPL from an FC-attached SCSI disk.
- New sysfs attributes indicate whether a Linux instance detects its environment as consistent with that of a secure guest or host, see Indicators for IBM Secure Execution mode.
- Changed Information
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- A description of how to use an HSCI interface as a base device for a MacVTap or an OpenVSwitch has been added, see Using an HSCI interface as a base device for MacVTap or OpenVSwitch
- PCIe devices and cryptographic devices are now set online automatically
during the boot process of Linux in an LPAR in DPM mode.
You can enforce the previous behavior through the
rd.zdev=no-autokernel parameter, see rd.zdev=no-auto - Override initial device availability for DPM mode.
- Deprecated Information
- None.