Chapter 5. December 2023
5.1. Product-wide
5.1.1. Published Blogs and Resources
- Blog: Simplifying CentOS Linux to RHEL conversions with Red Hat Insights by Marty Loveless (December 5, 2023)
- Blog: How to convert CentOS Linux to RHEL with Red Hat Insights by Terry Bowling and Bob Handlin (December 5, 2023)
- Video: Pre-conversion analysis for converting to Red Hat Enterprise Linux by John Spinks (December 5, 2023)
- Video: Convert to Red Hat Enterprise Linux from CentOS 7 Linux by John Spinks (December 11, 2023)
- Video: Red Hat Insights Inventory Groups by John Spinks (December 14, 2023)
- Video: Red Hat Insights Build & Launch by John Spinks (December 19, 2023)
5.2. Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.2.1. Advisor
New Recommendations
Six new recommendations are available in Advisor:
- The kpatch fails to load on the system with isolated CPUs when the running kernel version earlier than 4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8
- The Oracle database is running with an unsupported kernel
- The system will fail to create new processes anymore when there is no available ID to assign to the new processes
- Services that communicate through D-Bus return timeout when the D-Bus cookie overruns
- The squid service ran out of file descriptors and could not handle extra requests
- Booting a system randomly fails when separating /usr filesystem with "nofail" option
5.2.2. Image Builder
RHEL lifecycle visualization available in Image Builder
You can now see a visualization of the RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 support lifecycle in Image Builder. When you select RHEL 8 for your image build, you will see a visualization that shows you how much time is left to receive full support for RHEL 8 and 9. Full support for RHEL 8 is ending in 2024. You can select RHEL 9 to receive full support through 2027.
