Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 beta

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 is now available

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 is designed to meet the needs of the hybrid cloud environment. It can be confidently deployed as a guest OS on supported hypervisors and in public cloud environments. It can also be deployed on physical infrastructure, so your applications can take advantage of cutting-edge features of the underlying hardware platform. Learn more about specifics of RHEL 9 Beta. 

 

Developers will see a simplified experience for both access and application development with a new platform.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 ships with GCC 11 and the latest versions of LLVM, Rust, and Go compilers, empowering developers to modernize their applications.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 is based on glibc 2.34 and will include support for 10+ years of enterprise-class platform stability.
• Completing the migration to Python 3, version 3.9 will be the default Python version for the life of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Python 3.9 brings several new enhancements to help developers modernize their applications, including timezone-aware timestamps, the new string prefix and suffix methods, and dictionary union operations.
• Building on the introduction of application streams and module packaging in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, all packaging methods in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 including modules, SCLs, Flatpacks, and traditional RPMs are incorporated into application streams making them easier to use.

Simplified beta experience

If you’re an existing  Red Hat Enterprise Linux customer, you should find the beta experience much easier than in the past. We’ve proactively provided your account with the beta subscription. All you need to do is download!

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