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 in oci-utils 0.14.0-2 to support IPv6.
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: 🔗
ca-certificates updated from 2021.2.50-72.el7_9 to 2022.2.54-74.el7_9
grub2 updated from 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.23.el7_9.9
grub2-common updated from 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.23.el7_9.9
grub2-efi-x64 updated from 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.23.el7_9.9
grub2-pc updated from 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.23.el7_9.9
grub2-pc-modules updated from 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.23.el7_9.9
grub2-tools updated from 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.23.el7_9.9
grub2-tools-extra updated from 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.23.el7_9.9
grub2-tools-minimal updated from 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.23.el7_9.9
iproute updated from 5.12.0-1.0.3.el7 to 5.15.0-1.0.1.el7
iproute-tc updated from 5.12.0-1.0.3.el7 to 5.15.0-1.0.1.el7
kernel-uek updated from 5.4.17-2136.310.7.el7uek to 5.4.17-2136.311.6.1.el7uek
kernel-uek-devel updated from 5.4.17-2136.310.7.el7uek to 5.4.17-2136.311.6.1.el7uek
libgudev1 updated from 219-78.0.9.el7_9.5 to 219-78.0.9.el7_9.7
oci-utils updated from 0.12.8-2.el7 to 0.14.0-2.el7
oracle-cloud-agent updated from 1.25.0-7569.el7 to 1.26.1-7725.el7
python36-oci-sdk updated from 2.79.0-1.el7 to 2.83.0-1.el7
rsync updated from 3.1.2-10.el7 to 3.1.2-11.el7_9
sos updated from 3.9-5.0.13.el7_9.11 to 3.9-5.0.17.el7_9.10
systemd updated from 219-78.0.9.el7_9.5 to 219-78.0.9.el7_9.7
systemd-libs updated from 219-78.0.9.el7_9.5 to 219-78.0.9.el7_9.7
systemd-python updated from 219-78.0.9.el7_9.5 to 219-78.0.9.el7_9.7
systemd-sysv updated from 219-78.0.9.el7_9.5 to 219-78.0.9.el7_9.7
tuned updated from 2.11.0-11.0.1.el7_9 to 2.11.0-12.0.1.el7_9
tuned-profiles-oci updated from 2.11.0-11.0.1.el7_9 to 2.11.0-12.0.1.el7_9
tuned-profiles-oci-recommend updated from 2.11.0-11.0.1.el7_9 to 2.11.0-12.0.1.el7_9
tzdata updated from 2022a-1.el7 to 2022c-1.el7
unzip updated from 6.0-24.el7_9 to 6.0-24.0.1.el7_9