[gpfsug-discuss] RHEL9?

[Jonathan Buzzard]

On 14/09/2022 17:41, Christof Schmitt wrote:
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> On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 19:23 +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
>> Is there any word on when we might see RHEL9 support? I noticed that
>> it
>> is not in 5.1.5.1
> 
> We are working on RHEL9 support, but that hit an unexpected problem
> with scp, which first requires a fix from Redhat. Work is still
> ongoing, with a tentative target of fourth quarter. If anything else
> comes up, that can also change again.
> 

I presume that it is related to the switch to sftp?

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/openssh-scp-deprecation-rhel-9-what-you-need-know


>> Also reading the 5.1.5.1 notices, it seems to suggest support for
>> RHEL8.5 was dropped and only 8.4 and 8.6 supported?
> 
> The general strategy is that Scale does not support any distro releases
> that are out of support by the Linux vendor. If there is a distro
> related problem, we need to have a way to get Linux support involved.
> Since the release of RHEL 8.6 ended support for RHEL 8.5, 8.5 is
> dropped from Scale. RHEL 8.4 and 8.6 receive EUS updates, so those are
> supported longer:

Fair enough. I guess I need to get my homebrew EUS 8.5 onto 8.6 now we 
have finished the switch from RHEL7 to RHEL8.


JAB.

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