Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the latest update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, release 5.4 (with kernel-2.6.18-164.el5) for a family of products including:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform for x86, AMD64/Intel® 64, Itanium Processor Family, Power Systems and System z
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server for x86, AMD64/Intel® 64, Itanium Processor Family, Power Systems and System z
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop for x86 and AMD64/Intel® 64

The following list summarizes improvements to this release:

• Hardware
  • 10 GigE drivers with GRO support
  • FCoE support on standard NICs
  • SR I/OV support
• System
  • Kernel tracepoints for systemtap use
  • Per process I/O accounting
  • FIEMAP support
• Virtualization
  • Hypervisor scalability to 192 CPUS and 1GB hugepages
  • Additional hypervisor - Kernel Based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Enjoy the latest update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

News source: Red Hat
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