RHEL tidbits

[Ian Young]

I've been watching some of the videos from last week's Red Hat summit:

	http://www.youtube.com/user/redhatsummit/videos

There are some interesting tidbits in there for us:

* RHEL 6.5 will rebase openssl to 1.0.1.  The main reason for them to do this is to get TLS 1.2 support, but I think the other implication is that we'll see GCM support in the crypto stack that the SP uses in RH 6 after all.

* I think they are also talking about putting their new shared certificate system in 6.5, which will undoubtedly break something we care about.

* They have significantly delayed RHEL 7.  They are now saying that the beta will be at the end of calendar 2013, which still sounds pretty vague so I wouldn't count on it.  They are not talking about a GA date at all, but presumably they would be aiming for some time in 2014.

* With the delay, it sounds like they are rebasing RHEL 7 on Fedora 19 rather than 18 as previously planned.  Fedora 19 is in beta now, release expected early July.  Features include gcc 4.8 and rpm 4.11.  I'll take a look at this when it comes out to see if anything breaks.

* RH are saying that they have taken over maintenance of OpenJDK 6 from Oracle, presumably so that they can back-port fixes to RHEL 5 and 6 indefinitely.

	-- Ian



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