With the 8th update of their venerable Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 version (first released in February 2005), RedHat switches to “production 2 lifecycle phase“, where it helps customers transition to RHEL5. Ideally everyone will upgrade to rhel5 by the end of the year – Q4 2009 (in case not done already, this is a good time to plan for this).
General Availability: February 14, 2005
End of Production 1 phase: March 31, 2009
End of Production 2 phase: No earlier than Q4 of 2009
End of Production 3 phase: February 29, 2012
Key features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 include:
- Improved virtualization performance and scale
- Improved Windows interoperability and file system support
- General performance improvements
- Storage and filesystem enhancements
- Enhanced developer support
For full details check out the press release.
Note: as usual, people using Centos4 will have to wait for a couple of weeks to have cento4.8 available for upgrade.
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