(end of premier support) Oracle-Linux-7.5-2018.09.25-0

Release Notes:

Note

On January 1, 2025, Oracle Linux 7 moved from Premier Support to Oracle Linux 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.

For information about upgrading Oracle Linux 7 to Oracle Linux 8, see Upgrading Systems With Leapp.

  • Kernel transition from UEKR4 to UEKR5 with the September monthly errata, v4.14.35-1818.2.1 installed.
    • Includes the oci-utils v0.7.1-2 package which provides the following new utilities and critical bug fixes:
      • /usr/libexec/oci-growfs: Grows the root filesystem to its configured size for boot volumes larger than 50GB.
      • oci-network-inspector: Displays networking information including the security list, IP addresses and associated VNICs, and instances in all of the subnets of a given VCN, compartment, or the tenancy.
      • Bug fix: OCID needs to allow time for iSCSI connection to recover.
      • Bug fix: Configuring private IP addresses on secondary VNICs.
    • Kernel loglevel set to 4 to speed up instance boot time.
    • Excludes yum update of selinux-policy* packages due to bug impacting the syslog and oci-utils functionalities.
    • Addition of the nfs-utils package to make it easier to use the file storage service.

    For details on additional packages added or changed, see the changelog located at https://oss.oracle.com/cloud/docs/OracleLinux_ChangeLog.html

Image OCIDs

Region OCID
eu-frankfurt-1 ocid1.image.oc1.eu-frankfurt-1.aaaaaaaabfxzgyg2gbwxgkfeir3xfqtkdey3g6k6cmri7wuost35vnrmo4zq
uk-london-1 ocid1.image.oc1.uk-london-1.aaaaaaaaynxdelzap4cpziba7ahd2jbfdf5ss4r4wjmqefm6wwftrmn25vbq
us-ashburn-1 ocid1.image.oc1.iad.aaaaaaaaiu73xa6afjzskjwvt3j5shpmboxtlo7yw4xpeqpdz5czpde7px2a
us-phoenix-1 ocid1.image.oc1.phx.aaaaaaaadv2bbpnkivhi2rtfuymu2a4bvaxaj567vqdmjjffrq2vswmyr5qa