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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Inspired by the RHEL 7.8 compatibility issues (and some earlier incidents too), we have adopted a new practice for the Scale FAQ where we will list new distro releases explicitly
with a note indicating if they are not yet supported. In the past we should say things like “7.7.xxx or later” for the supported release level, and not say anything at all about new OS releases until they were supported. That would cause confusion when 7.8
came along, since 7.8 is definitely later than 7.7.xxx... Hopefully this small change will help you with your admin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Carl Zetie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Program Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">(919) 473 3318 ][ Research Triangle Park<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">carlz@us.ibm.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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