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Abstract

These release notes highlight the latest features and improvements implemented in the Red Hat Lightspeed application and services.

Chapter 1. About Red Hat Lightspeed
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Red Hat Lightspeed is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application included with almost every subscription to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift Container Platform, and Ansible Automation Platform.

Red Hat Lightspeed can discover relevant insights, recommend tailored, proactive, next actions, and automate tasks. Using Red Hat Lightspeed, customers benefit from the experience and technical knowledge of Red Hat Certified Engineers, to identify, prioritize and resolve issues for business operations.

As a SaaS offering, located at Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console, Red Hat Lightspeed is regularly updated. Regular updates expand the Red Hat Lightspeed knowledge archive in real time to reflect new IT challenges that can impact the stability of mission-critical systems.

Chapter 2. January 2026
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Review the January 2026 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed.

2.1. Product-wide updates
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Published blogs and resources

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
  • 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.

2.2.2. Advisor
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New recommendations released

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.

Chapter 3. December 2025
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Review the December 2025 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed.

3.1. Product-wide updates
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Published blogs and resources

3.2. RHEL updates
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Review the December 2025 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed running on RHEL systems.

3.2.1. Inventory
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UI fixes and improvements
  • System Details Layout: Separate Overview and Details tabs now contain system details. This improves navigation and aligns consistency with Red Hat Satellite.
  • Last Seen Logic: The Last seen field now accurately reflects the system’s last_check_in time rather than the updated timestamp.
  • Link Repairs: Fixed broken links previously found in Inventory information popovers.
  • Tag Filtering: Resolved an issue where filtering by tags would fail after loading additional tags (selecting more tags available).

3.2.2. Remediations
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UI fixes and improvements
Playbook Generation:compliance service playbooks are now generated in the expected order when the issue precedence field is used.

3.2.3. Advisor
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New recommendations released

3.2.4. Image Builder
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Compliance integration support
Integration with Red Hat Lightspeed compliance for custom policies, enforcement, and reporting is now fully supported for production use.
Repeatable builds support
Image Builder can now generate builds from Red Hat Lightspeed Content Templates in Preview mode, offering greater control and expanded content repository options during the build process.
UI fixes and improvements
  • Registration visibility: The registration step is no longer collapsed by default and now displays all available options.
  • Activation Key details: Added a View details button to Activation Keys, allowing users to view attributes for the selected key.
  • Terminology update: The Compliance section has been renamed to Security.
  • RHEL 10 Support: CIS and other OpenSCAP benchmark profiles are now available for RHEL 10.
  • Partitioning Modes: Standard disk partitioning now allows selection from Auto-LVM, Raw, or LVM modes.
  • Minimum Disk Size: Users can now specify a minimum disk size for advanced partitioning.
  • Volume Management: Added the ability to create and name Volume Groups and Logical Volumes (LVM).
  • EPEL Support: Use of the common EPEL community repository for image builds is now fully supported for production use. This removes the requirement for you to manually define the EPEL community repository as a custom repository.

Chapter 4. November 2025
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Review the November 2025 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed.

4.1. Product-wide updates
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Red Hat Insights is now Red Hat Lightspeed

Red Hat Insights is now Red Hat Lightspeed, reflecting the addition of AI-powered management to Red Hat platforms. With Red Hat Lightspeed, you can continue using the same workflows, console entry points, and integrations that you rely on. There is no action required for users.

The Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console and tools like Red Hat Satellite have updates including the new name, updated navigation and iconography, and user interface adjustments designed to surface AI-driven insights and recommendations more intuitively. The changes will continue gradually through the end of 2025 and into 2026. Our goal is to make the evolution seamless while continuously improving the performance, usability, and intelligence of the experience.

For more information, see Red Hat Insights is now Red Hat Lightspeed: Accelerating AI-powered management.

Published blogs and resources

4.2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux updates
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Review the November 2025 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed running on RHEL systems.

4.2.1. General
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Red Hat Lightspeed advisor in Red Hat Satellite (GA)
The advisor service is now generally available for disconnected environments in Satellite 6.18. This service offers broad assessments of RHEL infrastructure health across availability, stability, performance, and security. Users can now view risk levels, affected systems, and remediation playbooks directly within the Satellite console.
Red Hat Lightspeed advisor in Satellite (Tech Preview)
The vulnerability service is now available as a technology preview for on-premise use. This service provides a security-focused view for identifying systems at risk. You can view detailed CVE information, such as severity and CVSS scores, to enable more effective risk triage compared to traditional errata views.
Red Hat Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Entitlement Network Modernization

On January 14, 2026, Red Hat will update its CDN and entitlement networks. This affects customers who use RHEL 7.3 or earlier and customers who use specific IP allowlists. These network updates directly impact the insights-client. After the hostname is updated to the legacy endpoint, insights-client will stop reporting to Red Hat Lightspeed services on RHEL 6 and RHEL 7. To maintain Red Hat Lightspeed functionality on these legacy versions, you must register your systems to a Satellite server.

If you maintain systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 or earlier, or if you configure your firewall to allowlist particular IP addresses to connect to Red Hat networks, you must make configuration changes before January 14th, 2026 to avoid losing access to content.

For more information, see Red Hat Content Delivery Network (CDN) & Entitlement Network Modernization.

Red Hat Lightspeed API Cheat Sheet update

The Red Hat Lightspeed API cheat sheet has the following updates:

  • A new section about troubleshooting common failures
  • Improved instructions for service account creation and usage
  • Status values and build times for image builder APIs
  • Documentation on workspaces for inventory management
  • Examples for retrieving supported RHEL versions and EOL dates
  • Removal of the policies service section due to its upcoming decommission in December 2025
Updated certified Red Hat Lightspeed Splunk application
A new version of the certified Splunk application (v0.22.202511251015) is now available on Splunkbase. This release includes enhancements for eventHandles and links in the Vulnerability dashboard widget. The deprecated Drift functionality was also removed. This update includes mandatory Splunk Cloud recertification to maintain compliance and availability.

4.2.2. Inventory
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UI fixes and improvements
  • Workspace name validation now checks all pages to prevent duplicate names
  • Modals that are opened from table components in the System Details page have a consistent design
  • The workspace filter now uses lazy loading to improve performance when users load workspace options
  • The delete modal bug on the Systems page is fixed
  • Changes to Display Name and Ansible Hostname update without a page refresh
  • The tag filter bug is fixed and filters systems correctly

4.2.3. Advisor
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New recommendations released

4.2.4. Policies
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Policies decommissioning is set for December 12, 2025

The Red Hat Lightspeed policies service will be decommissioned on December 12, 2025. Customers should use inventory APIs or Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) to standardize system profiles and report use cases.

The Red Hat Lightspeed compliance service, which evaluates systems against OpenSCAP policies for security compliance, is not impacted.

4.2.5. Patch / Content
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Advisory tables can now be filtered by severity
You can now sort and filter Advisory tables by severity.

4.2.6. Planning
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Expanded lifecycle support and RHEL 10 readiness

The Planning team expanded the following capabilities to support long-term planning:

  • Added RHEL 10 Application Streams to the Lifecycle tab to enable early preparation (RSPEED-1815).
  • System lifecycle views now correctly identify and display SAP, EUS, and ELS statuses to provide a clearer view of your environment (RSPEED-1889).
  • Roadmap recommendations now strictly match your installed RHEL version to prevent warnings for versions that customers do not use
  • RHEL release dates are aligned to the standard May and November windows. The Planning team also fixed filtering in the AppStream All view (RSPEED-1871, RSPEED-1767)
Enhanced visualization and user experience
The Lifecycle tab was updated to PatternFly 6 standards to improve usability. Planning also resolved data crowding issues in the RHEL Lifecycle chart and replaced generic roadmap failure notifications with descriptive messages.
Insights MCP Server expanded with Planning capabilities
The Planning team published their first tool (get_upcoming_changes) to the Developer Preview of the Insights MCP Server. Future work is planned for get_rhel_lifecycle and get_appstreams_lifecycle to further enhance developer workflows.

Chapter 5. October 2025
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Review the October 2025 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed.

5.1. Product-wide updates
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Red Hat Insights is now Red Hat Lightspeed

Red Hat Insights is now Red Hat Lightspeed, reflecting the addition of AI-powered management to Red Hat platforms. With Red Hat Lightspeed, you can continue using the same workflows, console entry points, and integrations that you rely on. There is no action required for users.

The Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console and tools like Red Hat Satellite have updates including the new name, updated navigation and iconography, and user interface adjustments designed to surface AI-driven insights and recommendations more intuitively. The changes will continue gradually through the end of 2025 and into 2026. Our goal is to make the evolution seamless while continuously improving the performance, usability, and intelligence of the experience.

For more information, see Red Hat Insights is now Red Hat Lightspeed: Accelerating AI-powered management.

Published blogs and resources

5.2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux updates
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Review the October 2025 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed running on RHEL systems.

5.2.1. General
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Red Hat Lightspeed: Model Context Protocol (MCP)

The Developer Preview of insights-mcp is live. The insights-mcp utility is a new, lightweight tool from Red Hat that enables you to explore and integrate Red Hat Lightspeed services with large language models (LLMs) through an MCP server.

Built and maintained by Red Hat, the insights-mcp utility is a self-hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes core Red Hat Lightspeed services like Advisor, Vulnerability, Inventory, and Image Builder. It enables seamless interaction with the preceding services through a standardized MCP interface. You can connect LLM-based agents, for example Claude Desktop, VSCode, or other MCP-compatible tools to interact with your Red Hat environment. This integration enables you to explore read-only workflows and use AI to better understand your system health without the risk of autonomous AI decision making.

To learn more, see the following resources:

Enhanced Insights automation with AAP 2.6

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 introduced automatic job labeling for Red Hat Lightspeed-triggered automation. This enhancement brings EDA and AAP closer together, making event-driven operations more transparent and easier to manage at scale.

This update includes the following benefits for Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) users working with Red Hat Lightspeed:

  • Identify jobs that Red Hat Lightspeed initiated in the AAP job history.
  • Automatically attach context-rich labels like source application, event type, or affected system.
  • Improve your ability to audit, troubleshoot, and report automated remediations.
  • Use Red Hat Lightspeed events to drive controller-managed automation, not only local playbooks.
  • EDA rule books can trigger AAP Job Templates with dynamic labels based on the originating Red Hat Lightspeed event to improve traceability and operational visibility across automation runs.

5.2.2. Remediations
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Enhanced AAP integration: now supports Service Account authentication

Red Hat Lightspeed now supports Service Account authentication for playbook retrieval by Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). This enhancement creates a more secure, scalable, and automation-friendly integration between the platforms.

To enable this integration, assign the following permissions to a service account:

  • inventory:hosts:read which is included in the Inventory Hosts viewer role
  • remediations:remediation:read and playbook-dispatcher:run:read which are included in the Remediations User role
Depreciation Notice

Basic authentication with a username and password is deprecated. Transition to Service Account authentication to maintain compatibility and improve security posture.

For help with setup and configuration, see to the following resources:

UI fixes and improvements
  • Host connection types now correctly display in Execution History for a remediation plan.
  • A contextual tooltip appears for the disabled Plan remediation button.
  • Performance is improved when users create large remediation plans.
  • The messaging is improved when a user checks the connectivity status of a remediation plan when the RHC Manager or config-manager permission is absent.

5.2.3. Inventory
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UI fixes and improvements
  • Extended default retention to 30 days to match Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM), ensuring better data continuity
  • Improved custom staleness reset logic; resetting now properly removes custom values and returns to default settings
  • Added Last Seen and Workspaces filters to filter consistently across Red Hat Lightspeed applications
  • Fixed the Delete workspace button refresh issue
  • Disabled the Export button during downloads to prevent duplicate exports
  • Refined workspace actions and modals for consistency and usability
  • Updated system action names like Edit display name and Delete from inventory
  • Created a new notification alert when you delete systems
  • Updated the client setup instructions to use dnf instead of yum for compatibility with RHEL 8 and later

5.2.4. Advisor
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UI fixes and improvements
Advisor recommendations that conflict with active compliance policies are now flagged with a note under Steps to resolve. To find flagged recommendations, expand the Operations → Advisor → Recommendations drop-down in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
New recommendations

5.2.5. Vulnerability
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New security rule released
A new security rule is now available for CVE-2025-41244 - Vulnerability of open-vm-tools. Product Security identified this CVE because it had public visibility and multiple customer inquiries.

5.2.6. Policies
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Policies decommissioning is set for December 12, 2025

The Red Hat Lightspeed policies service will be decommissioned on December 12, 2025. Customers should use inventory APIs or Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) to standardize system profiles and report use cases.

The Red Hat Lightspeed compliance service, which evaluates systems against OpenSCAP policies for security compliance, is not impacted.

5.2.7. Patch / Content
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The Community EPEL is available in production
The Community Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is available in production for all users. With this update, users do not need to wait for EPEL to create a snapshot. For more information, see How to use Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL).

5.2.8. Subscriptions Service
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Daily digest is available for errata notifications
Users can now choose to receive daily digests of security, bugfix, and enhancement errata that affect the organization’s subscriptions.

5.2.9. Image builder
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Improved configuration options

Image builder added configuration improvements for the following options:

  • Users
  • Timezone
  • Locale
  • Firewall
  • Systemd services
Registration to Red Hat Satellite
The registration step now includes the option to register to a Satellite server. Registering to a server adds you to its inventory and provides ongoing management.
Callbacks to Ansible Automation Platform
A new configuration option enables a system that is launched from an image to automatically call back to Ansible Automation Platform. This process adds the system to the inventory and provides further provisioning automation.
Enable FIPS mode
When applying OpenSCAP security policy profiles, a checkbox is now available to enable FIPS mode. FIPS mode is automatically enabled when you select the DISA STIG profile. You can also manually enable it with other profiles.
Integration with Red Hat Lightspeed Compliance - Preview
Preview mode now enables you to apply a custom security policy defined by Insights Compliance service. This feature is currently available only in Preview.
Build images using Red Hat Lightspeed Content Templates - Preview
Image builder can now build images using content from the Content Templates feature. You can select the Content Template in Repeatable build in the image builder workflow. This feature is currently available only in Preview.
Build images using the community EPEL repositories - Preview
Image builder can now build images using the new community EPEL repositories provided by Red Hat Lightspeed Content. This feature is currently available only in Preview and can be selected from either the Custom repositories or by using Content Templates.

5.3. OpenShift Container Platform update
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Review the October 2025 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed services on OpenShift Container Platform clusters.

5.3.1. Advisor
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Incident detection via MCP External

Incident detection, a Red Hat Lightspeed technology that identifies cluster incidents, was introduced as Technology preview during September 2025. The tool is now available in the MCP server. For more information, see Integrate incident detection with OpenShift Lightspeed via MCP.

Incident detection is also now generally availabile. For more information, see Incident detection overview.

Chapter 6. September 2025
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Review the September 2025 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed.

6.1. Product-wide updates
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Published blogs and resources

6.2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux updates
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Review the September 2025 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed running on RHEL systems.

6.2.1. General
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Red Hat Lightspeed API cheat sheet updated

The Red Hat Lightspeed API Cheatsheet has been updated with expanded coverage, improved clarity, and new resources to help you make the most of the Red Hat Lightspeed API. Important changes include:

  • Added example for retrieving a list of affected hosts in a compliance report (Compliance section).
  • Clarified support for using multiple filter queries when working with hosts.
  • Added a note about the 15-minute expiration for authentication access tokens.
  • Highlighted the base endpoint (previously only mentioned in the introduction).
  • Introduced a Verify your setup section after authentication.
  • Added an example for filtering inventory by tag(s).
  • Renamed the Patch section to Content advisories.
  • Updated Python and Ansible examples to use access token authentication (service accounts).
  • Added section covering for RHEL Application Streams lifecycle.
  • Added section for Runtimes Inventory.

6.2.2. Remediations
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UI fixes and improvements
Hostnames of RHC-connected systems no longer populate as localhost in the Execution History tab of the Remediation Plan details.

6.2.3. Inventory
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UI fixes and improvements
  • Fixed a bug where RHSM display name updates incorrectly overridden names set by the user, insights-client, or API.
  • Improved clarity of the tags filter documentation for the /hosts endpoint.
  • Removed the uniqueness restriction on inventory workspaces.
  • Updated staleness settings to follow conventional standards for all host types.
  • Fixed an issue to ensure that the correct system name displays when opening the window for a system tag.
  • Completed PatternFly 6 migration.

6.2.4. Advisor
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UI fixes and improvements
Advisor recommendations that conflict with active compliance policies are now flagged with a note under Steps to resolve. To find the flagged recommendations, expand the Operations → Advisor → Recommendations drop-down in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
New recommendations

Chapter 7. August 2025
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Review the August 2025 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed.

7.1. Product-wide updates
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Published blogs and resources

7.2. RHEL updates
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Review the August 2025 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed running on RHEL systems.

7.2.1. Remediations
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UI fixes and improvements
On the Remediation Plans page, you can now filter and sort the remediation plan table by execution status to help organize your remediation efforts.

7.2.2. Inventory
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UI fixes and improvements
  • Usage, role, and SLA information are now correctly displayed in the Subscriptions section of the system details page.
  • Filtering for package-based and image-based types has been enhanced for more accurate and consistent results.
  • Fixed an issue that caused a 500 error when deleting a workspace.

7.2.3. Advisor
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New recommendations

7.2.4. Malware detection
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New malware signatures released
  • XFTI_BERT_Linux_Ransomware: A ransomware variant that targets Linux systems, encrypting files and demanding a ransom.
  • XFTI_CCMiner: A command-line cryptocurrency mining application that uses a computer’s GPU to mine various cryptocurrencies.
  • XFTI_Chaos_RAT: A remote access trojan (RAT) that allows an attacker to remotely control a compromised system.
  • XFTI_Koske_Rootkit: A Linux rootkit designed to hide malicious processes, files, and network connections from system administrators.
  • XFTI_LuckyVolunteer: A trojan that can steal information and deploy additional malware on a compromised system.
  • XFTI_Plague: A modular malware loader that can download and execute other malicious payloads.
  • XFTI_Termux: A legitimate Android application that provides a Linux command-line environment on a mobile device.
  • XFTI_VShell: A legitimate, secure file transfer and remote access server software.
  • XFTI_XMRig_Starter_Linuxsys: A script or dropper used to install the XMRig cryptocurrency miner on Linux systems.

7.2.5. Planning
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Clearer system display names and increased roadmap items
The Red Hat Lightspeed Planning applications have been enhanced to provide clearer and more detailed information for both Life cycle and the Digital Roadmap. Now, instead of listed systems displaying their unique IDs (UUIDs), the Planning apps display the actual hostname. This makes it easier to identify and manage your systems. In addition, the number of items on the Digital Roadmap has increased from 16 to 24, which provides a more comprehensive view of upcoming tasks and features for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

7.3. OpenShift Container Platform updates
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Review the August 2025 updates and fixes for Red Hat Lightspeed services on OpenShift Container Platform clusters.

7.3.1. Cost Management
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Cost Management Metrics Operator 4.0 and 4.1

The Red Hat Lightspeed cost management service processes the data gathered by the Red Hat OpenShift agent, the Cost Management Metrics Operator. Two new versions of the operator have been released within a short period of time.

CMMO 4.0 brings FIPS compliance and enhancements for chargeback of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

FIPS 140-3 compliance External

The Federal Information Processing Standard 140-3 (FIPS 140-3) is a US Government computer security standard for cryptographic modules. It is mandatory for the protection of sensitive and/or valuable data in Federal systems.

Red Hat has been shipping FIPS 140-3 compliant modules since OpenShift Container Platform 4.11, but the Cost Management Metrics Operator still used a RHEL 8 base container image that only provided FIPS 140-2 compliance.

Since the release of Cost Management Metrics Operator 4.0, the operator now uses a RHEL 9 base container image that provides FIPS 140-3 compliance In addition, the operator is now built with FIPS 140-3 compliance. This change is transparent to all users, whether or not FIPS is enabled in your OpenShift Container Platform clusters.

For more information about FIPS, refer to:

Hourly chargeback of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Since December 2024, Red Hat Lightspeed cost management supports the chargeback of OpenShift Virtualization virtual machines, regardless of operating system version Find all the details in the March 2025 blog post Charge back the cost of OpenShift Virtualization cost management.

To offer more precise calculation for OpenShift Virtualization costs, Cost Management and Virtualization now provide and consume metrics that allow for hourly chargeback. This change requires you to install the Cost Management Metrics Operator 4.0 and OpenShift Container Platform 4.19.

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