New RHEL 5.3

The next minor update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux was released recently. About its predecessor - RHEL 5.2 - I wrote here a few months ago.

So what news does it bring? Let's have a look at some of them:

• it's mainly update release - there are updated packages providing auditd, NetworkManger or sudo
• it contains many virtualization enhancements - the number of supported physical CPUs or maximum memory are increased, support of new Intel x86-64 CPUs is included
  
• it is the first realase with OpenJDK JAVA implementation!!!
  
• it contains enhanced Systemtap (aka dtrace for Linux)

For more details, there are official release notes and article from Red Hat NEWS.