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Notable Changes 🔗
The following changes are notable in this image update:
Updates for bug fixes and security patches.
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.
New packages: 🔗
python36-wcwidth-0.2.5-1.el7
python3-prompt-toolkit-3.0.29-1.0.2.el7
Removed packages: 🔗
unified-monitoring-agent-2.5.8-0.el7
Modified packages: 🔗
alx-utils updated from 1.0-18.el7 to 1.0-19.el7
alx-utils-libs updated from 1.0-18.el7 to 1.0-19.el7
glibc updated from 2.17-325.0.1.ksplice2.el7_9 to 2.17-326.0.1.ksplice2.el7_9
glibc-common updated from 2.17-325.0.1.ksplice2.el7_9 to 2.17-326.0.1.ksplice2.el7_9
glibc-devel updated from 2.17-325.0.1.ksplice2.el7_9 to 2.17-326.0.1.ksplice2.el7_9
glibc-headers updated from 2.17-325.0.1.ksplice2.el7_9 to 2.17-326.0.1.ksplice2.el7_9
grub2 updated from 2.02-0.87.0.17.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9
grub2-common updated from 2.02-0.87.0.17.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9
grub2-efi-x64 updated from 2.02-0.87.0.17.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9
grub2-pc updated from 2.02-0.87.0.17.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9
grub2-pc-modules updated from 2.02-0.87.0.17.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9
grub2-tools updated from 2.02-0.87.0.17.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9
grub2-tools-extra updated from 2.02-0.87.0.17.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9
grub2-tools-minimal updated from 2.02-0.87.0.17.el7_9.9 to 2.02-0.87.0.21.el7_9.9
kernel-uek updated from 5.4.17-2136.307.3.1.el7uek to 5.4.17-2136.308.9.el7uek
kernel-uek-devel updated from 5.4.17-2136.307.3.1.el7uek to 5.4.17-2136.308.9.el7uek
libsss_idmap updated from 1.16.5-10.0.1.el7_9.12 to 1.16.5-10.0.3.el7_9.12
libsss_nss_idmap updated from 1.16.5-10.0.1.el7_9.12 to 1.16.5-10.0.3.el7_9.12
microcode_ctl updated from 2.1-73.13.0.2.el7_9 to 2.1-73.13.0.5.el7_9
mokutil updated from 15.3-1.0.7.el7 to 15.6-1.0.7.el7
ntpdate updated from 4.2.6p5-29.0.3.el7_8.2 to 4.2.6p5-29.0.5.el7_8.2
oci-utils updated from 0.12.8-1.el7 to 0.12.8-2.el7
python36-oci-cli updated from 3.9.0-1.el7 to 3.10.4-1.el7
python36-oci-sdk updated from 2.67.0-1.el7 to 2.72.0-1.el7
rsyslog updated from 8.24.0-57.0.1.el7_9.2 to 8.24.0-57.0.1.el7_9.3
shim-x64 updated from 15.3-1.0.7.el7 to 15.6-1.0.7.el7
sssd-client updated from 1.16.5-10.0.1.el7_9.12 to 1.16.5-10.0.3.el7_9.12