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Abstract
Red Hat Enterprise Linux minor releases are an aggregation of individual enhancement, security and bug fix errata. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 Release Notes documents the major changes made to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system and its accompanying applications for this minor release.

1. Installation
2. Red Hat Subscription Manager and the Subscription Service
3. Virtualization
3.1. Xen
3.2. KVM
4. Device Drivers
4.1. Storage Drivers
4.2. Network Drivers
4.3. Graphics Drivers
5. File System / Storage Management
5.1. Global File System 2 (GFS2)
5.2. The XFS File System
6. System Security Services Daemon (SSSD)
A. Revision History
Red Hat Enterprise Linux minor releases are an aggregation of individual enhancement, security and bug fix errata. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 Release Notes documents the major changes made to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system and its accompanying applications for this minor release.
The Release Notes provide high level coverage of the improvements and additions that have been implemented in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7. For detailed documentation on all changes to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the 5.7 update, refer to the Technical Notes.

Note

Refer to the Online Release Notes for the most up-to-date version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 Release Notes.

Note

Under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7, please use RHN Classic Subscription Management if you have subscriptions for the following products:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for HPC Compute Node
  • Load Balancer Add-on
For more information on the new features of subscription management, please refer to the Red Hat Knowledgebase.