After a six-month development cycle, the Red Hat team has finally released the beta version of the next Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.3. The new beta succeeds the current version of RHEL 8.2 to bring more production stability and innovation to the company.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Beta: What's New
RHEL 8.3 beta introduced new system roles for system logging, system metrics, storage, disk encryption, kernel, and boot loader. The new role aims to help manage large facilities by ensuring consistent and repeatable configurations at scale.
The beta also includes pre-configured Ansible playbooks to simplify the automation and consistent configuration of common administrative tasks such as allocating storage resources.
Continuing to provide development agility and production stability, RHEL 8.3 beta has updated its Application Streams (AppStream) repository which includes languages and tools. Here are the notable packages of Application Streams with their new version:
Another new feature of RHEL 8.3 beta is the addition of security profiles for the Benchmark Center for Internet Security (CIS) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). System administrators can use these new Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) profiles to configure their RHEL systems according to security best practices and standards.
For a complete list of new features, improvements and fixes, you can read the RHEL 8.3 beta. release notes.
If you have an active subscription for RHEL, you can directly try out RHEL 8.3 beta from Red Hat Customer Portal. Or you can download it from developer.redhat.com where it is available as part of the free Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Subscription.