The following changes are notable in this image update:
Updates for bug fixes and security patches.
Includes a dracut fix for a race condition if the root device is on Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and the VM has a paravirtualized boot volume. In such scenarios, iSCSI root device login was not getting bypassed resulting in iSCSI connection errors.
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.
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: 🔗
dracut updated from 033-572.0.3.el7 to 033-572.0.9.el7
dracut-config-rescue updated from 033-572.0.3.el7 to 033-572.0.9.el7
dracut-network updated from 033-572.0.3.el7 to 033-572.0.9.el7
grubby updated from 8.28-26.0.3.el7 to 8.28-26.0.7.el7
iwl100-firmware updated from 39.31.5.1-999.8.el7 to 39.31.5.1-999.9.el7
iwl1000-firmware updated from 39.31.5.1-999.8.el7 to 39.31.5.1-999.9.el7
iwl105-firmware updated from 18.168.6.1-999.8.el7 to 18.168.6.1-999.9.el7
iwl135-firmware updated from 18.168.6.1-999.8.el7 to 18.168.6.1-999.9.el7
iwl2000-firmware updated from 18.168.6.1-999.8.el7 to 18.168.6.1-999.9.el7
iwl2030-firmware updated from 18.168.6.1-999.8.el7 to 18.168.6.1-999.9.el7
iwl3160-firmware updated from 22.0.7.0-999.8.el7 to 22.0.7.0-999.9.el7
iwl3945-firmware updated from 15.32.2.9-999.8.el7 to 15.32.2.9-999.9.el7
iwl4965-firmware updated from 228.61.2.24-999.8.el7 to 228.61.2.24-999.9.el7
iwl5000-firmware updated from 8.83.5.1_1-999.8.el7 to 8.83.5.1_1-999.9.el7
iwl5150-firmware updated from 8.24.2.2-999.8.el7 to 8.24.2.2-999.9.el7
iwl6000-firmware updated from 9.221.4.1-999.8.el7 to 9.221.4.1-999.9.el7
iwl6000g2a-firmware updated from 17.168.5.3-999.8.el7 to 17.168.5.3-999.9.el7
iwl6000g2b-firmware updated from 17.168.5.2-999.8.el7 to 17.168.5.2-999.9.el7
iwl6050-firmware updated from 41.28.5.1-999.8.el7 to 41.28.5.1-999.9.el7
iwl7260-firmware updated from 22.0.7.0-999.8.el7 to 22.0.7.0-999.9.el7
kernel-uek updated from 5.4.17-2136.302.7.2.1.el7uek to 5.4.17-2136.304.4.1.el7uek
kernel-uek-devel updated from 5.4.17-2136.302.7.2.1.el7uek to 5.4.17-2136.304.4.1.el7uek
linux-firmware updated from 20210617-999.8.git0f66b74b.el7 to 20211203-999.9.gitb0e898fb.el7
lm_sensors-libs updated from 3.4.0-8.20160601gitf9185e5.el7 to 3.4.0-8.20160601gitf9185e5.0.1.el7
ntpdate updated from 4.2.6p5-29.0.1.el7_8.2 to 4.2.6p5-29.0.3.el7_8.2
oracle-cloud-agent updated from 1.18.0-6194.el7 to 1.19.0-6296.el7
polkit updated from 0.112-26.0.1.el7 to 0.112-26.0.1.el7_9.1
python36-oci-sdk updated from 2.54.1-1.el7 to 2.57.0-1.el7
sysstat updated from 10.1.5-19.el7 to 10.1.5-19.0.3.el7