Red Hat Inc. has announced the availability of the beta version of your upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, which will be available for purchase sometime next year.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is a major step in the evolution of this Linux-based distribution, it promises many new features and many improvements, including the much-needed hardening of the code, with which the system will be able to offer greater reliability and security to its users.
Here's what's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
New to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 includes a new concept called Application Streams to make sending user space packages easier and faster. Red Hat ensures that this concept will not have an impact on system stability.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 will also introduce an enhanced Linux network for containers via IPVLAN interfaces, a new TCP / IP stack that has control for bandwidth congestion and BBR, as well as support for the latest OpenSSL 1.1.1 security protocols and TLS 1.3.
On security, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 promises to do better in cryptography by implementing policies throughout the system. It will have support for LUKSv2, combined with NBDE (Network Bound Disk Encryption) to offer robust data security.
Existing Red Hat subscribers can try Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta by downloading the installation images from the distribution's official portal. The rest can be downloaded from official public beta page.