Red Hat SummitChapter 2. January 2026
Review the January 2026 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed.
2.1. Product-wide updates
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- Published blogs and resources
- Blog: Manage AI-powered inventory with Red Hat Lightspeed MCP by Samiksha Saxena (Jan 7, 2026)
- KB article: Which RHEL system facts are collected and populated by insights-client (Red Hat Lightspeed)? by Jerome Marc (Jan 13, 2026)
- Blog: AI-driven vulnerability management with Red Hat Lightspeed MCP by Samiksha Saxena (Jan 14, 2026)
2.2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux updates
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Review the January 2026 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed running on RHEL systems.
2.2.1. Inventory
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- UI fixes and improvements
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Fixed missing product names and IDs in API system profile results for
installed_products, ensuring consistency across collectors. - Fixed an issue that caused a 500 error, preventing the Inventory page from loading when specific workloads were detected on systems.
- Improved the loading performance of the Inventory table by optimizing backend queries.
- Resolved issues with drop-down lists not closing correctly and missing checkmarks on the Staleness and Deletion page.
- Fixed text clipping issues on the Staleness and Deletion page for improved readability.
- Removed the RHC status from the System Details page and deleted the RHC status filtering option from the Inventory table.
- Added collapse and expand functionality to System Details cards for easier navigation.
- Introduced RHEL AI facts on the System Details page to provide richer system insights.
- Added a link to the Managing Staleness & Deletion documentation in Learning Resources.
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Fixed missing product names and IDs in API system profile results for
2.2.2. Advisor
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- New recommendations released
- System boot failure occurs when the logical volume specified in GRUB configuration does not exist
- NFS mount fails with "Cannot allocate memory" error when the memory becomes fragmented
- The memory usage of the squid process keeps increasing on RHEL 9 due to memory leaks
- System crashes after running the ReaR recovery system due to watchdog access
- Extending a RAID LV fails due to an unreleased memory issue within LVM2
- The network performance decreases on RHEL 9.4 and later when it uses NICs with enic driver due to a known kernel bug
- System cannot detect some NVMe disks connected with to Intel VMD on RHEL 9.4 and 9.6 due to a known kernel bug
- Deprecated action attribute on the Stonith device can lead to unexpected node reboots or power-offs
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System will fail to reboot when the
resumeboot argument points to an incorrect swap partition UUID -
Kernel panic occurs when the
intel_tpmi_power_domainsmodule is loaded on affected Intel platforms - The Trend Micro Deep Security Agent service cannot start due to a library update in the RPM package
2.2.3. Patch / Content
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- Legacy errata notifications migrated to patch notifications
- The Hybrid Cloud Console eventing and notification platform now manages all Red Hat errata notifications. That includes new errata that affect account subscriptions and errata that affect installed on account systems packages. For more information, see Errata notifications changes and migration(Red Hat Knowledgebase).
2.2.4. Image builder
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- Control the package versions in your images with content templates
- You can now select a content template during blueprint creation to control the set of packages included in your image builds in the image builder service in Red Hat Lightspeed. Content templates take a set of criteria, like RHEL version, architecture, additional package repositories, and date, and translate that to a set of date-based snapshot repositories. The selection of a content template in the blueprint enables repeatable builds and encourages consistent RHEL environments by allowing image builds and system patching from the same set of packages.
- UI improvements for the blueprint creation wizard
- Renamed the OpenSCAP profile step to Security.
- Improved the description on the Ansible Automation Platform registration step.
- Enhanced field validation, blank state, package selection, and the blueprint review step.
2.3. OpenShift Container Platform updates
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Review the January 2026 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed services on OpenShift Container Platform clusters.
2.3.1. Advisor
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- Pen Drive powered by Red Hat Lightspeed - Limited Technology preview
- Pen Drive combines knowledge of Advisor and a 1-podman image design to provide Advisor services in isolated, on-premise only, and restricted systems in a single cluster mode. You can download the image to a USB flash drive or a jump drive and execute it. From the Pen Drive UI, you view issues observed on your OpenShift Container Platform cluster and recommendations on how to fix them. For more details, see Pen Drive powered by Red Hat Lightspeed.
2.3.2. Cost Management
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- Cost of GPU
Artificial Intelligence workloads require advanced GPUs for training and inference at scale. These GPUs are expensive resources in modern data centers. Cost Management can now track GPU consumption and calculate cost based on custom rates defined by the user.
This feature is currently implemented for NVIDIA GPUs running on premise.
- New currencies
- Nigerian Naira (NGN), New Taiwan Dollar (NT$), Saudi Riyal (SAR), and United Arab Emirates Dirham (AED) are now available for the Red Hat Lightspeed cost management users.
- OpenShift-attached Google Cloud storage
- An issue whereby Google Cloud storage directly attached to OpenShift nodes might not be included in the cost of the workloads is now resolved.
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