On January 1, 2025, Oracle Linux 7 moved from Premier to Extended Support. Oracle Cloud customers using Oracle Linux are entitled to both Premier Support and Extended Support (when offered). For more information about the Extended Support program, see Oracle Linux Extended Support.
The following changes are notable in this image update:
Updates for bug fixes and security patches.
Updates to the oci-yum-repo-mapper.service to fix a race condition with the cloud-config.service.
Adds error condition handling to resolve incomplete entry addition in /etc/hosts.
Note that changes to infrastructure such that images depend on can occur outside of the release of a particular image but could impact an image nonetheless. For information about changes that are specific to Oracle Linux images but which occur outside of the image release schedule, see General Notices for Oracle Linux Images.
License files for this image are located in /usr/share/licenses.
Software Errata 🔗
Oracle releases important changes to the Oracle Linux software as individual package updates, known as errata. For more information, see Software Errata
For a consolidated list of the various features, tools and documentation relating to security and Oracle Linux, see Oracle Linux Security. To be notified when new errata packages are released, you can subscribe to the Oracle Linux errata mailing lists at https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/el-errata.
NVIDIA Fabric Manager, CUDA Packages, and CUDNN Library Information 🔗
The NVIDIA Fabric Manager, CUDA development packages, and CUDNN runtime library are installed in this image. These packages are available at the following versions:
CUDA: 11.4.4-1
CUDNN: 8.4.0.27-1
Fabric Manager: 470.103.01-1
Package Updates 🔗
The following package updates have been made in this image release.
Removed packages: 🔗
unified-monitoring-agent-2.5.8-0.el7
Modified packages: 🔗
bpftool updated from 3.10.0-1160.59.1.el7 to 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7
expat updated from 2.1.0-12.0.1.el7 to 2.1.0-14.0.1.el7_9
gtk-update-icon-cache updated from 3.22.30-6.el7 to 3.22.30-8.el7_9
gtk3 updated from 3.22.30-6.el7 to 3.22.30-8.el7_9
kernel updated from 3.10.0-1160.59.1.el7 to 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7
kernel-debug-devel updated from 3.10.0-1160.59.1.el7 to 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7
kernel-devel updated from 3.10.0-1160.59.1.el7 to 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7
kernel-headers updated from 3.10.0-1160.59.1.el7 to 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7
kernel-tools updated from 3.10.0-1160.59.1.el7 to 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7
kernel-tools-libs updated from 3.10.0-1160.59.1.el7 to 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7
kernel-uek updated from 5.4.17-2136.305.5.3.el7uek to 5.4.17-2136.306.1.3.el7uek
kernel-uek-devel updated from 5.4.17-2136.305.5.3.el7uek to 5.4.17-2136.306.1.3.el7uek
libcudnn8 updated from 8.3.3.40-1.cuda11.5 to 8.4.0.27-1.cuda11.6
libcudnn8-devel updated from 8.3.3.40-1.cuda11.5 to 8.4.0.27-1.cuda11.6
libpcap updated from 1.5.3-12.el7 to 1.5.3-13.el7_9
microcode_ctl updated from 2.1-73.11.0.1.el7_9 to 2.1-73.13.0.1.el7_9
openssl updated from 1.0.2k-24.0.3.el7_9 to 1.0.2k-25.el7_9
openssl-libs updated from 1.0.2k-24.0.3.el7_9 to 1.0.2k-25.el7_9
perf updated from 3.10.0-1160.59.1.el7 to 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7
python-perf updated from 3.10.0-1160.59.1.el7 to 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7
python36-oci-sdk updated from 2.60.1-1.el7 to 2.62.0-1.el7
rsyslog updated from 8.24.0-57.0.1.el7_9.1 to 8.24.0-57.0.1.el7_9.2