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About

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the commercial market
  • Released in server versions for x86-64, Power ISA, AArch64, and IBM Z, and a desktop version for x86-64

RHEL status

Version GA End of Full Support End of Maintenance Support 1 Product retirement Last Minor Release
9 May 2022 May 2027 N/A May 2032 TBD
8 May 2019 May 2024 N/A May 2029 TBD
7 (Arm) Nov 2017 Nov 30, 2020 N/A N/A 7.6
7 (x86) Jun 2014 Aug 06, 2019 Aug 6, 2020 Jun 30, 2024 7.9
6 Nov 2010 May 10, 2016 May 10, 2017 Nov 30, 2020 6.10

RHEL 8

Releases

Version Release date Configuration
RHEL 8.0 May 07, 2019 Linux kernel 4.18.0-80
RHEL 8.1 Nov 05, 2019 Linux kernel 4.18.0-147
RHEL 8.2 Apr 28, 2020 Linux kernel 4.18.0-193
RHEL 8.3 Oct 29, 2020 Linux kernel 4.18.0-240
RHEL 8.4 May 18, 2021 Linux kernel 4.18.0-305
RHEL 8.5 Nov 09, 2021 Linux kernel 4.18.0-348
RHEL 8.6 May 10, 2022 Linux kernel 4.18.0-372

Release cycle

Life cycle

Link with RHEL and CentOS

fedora-redhat-centos

Red Hat Developer Toolset

  • Delivers the latest stable versions of essential GCC C, C++, Fortran, and supporting development tools

See also