What's New in RHEL 9.3 and 8.9
Every minor RHEL release bundles up months of incremental work into one place, and the What’s New webinars are how Red Hat walks through what actually changed. This one covers RHEL 9.3 and the parallel 8.9 release.
Themes worth watching for in this one:
- Image building keeps getting easier. RHEL Image Builder continues to expand what you can produce and where you can push it, which is central to the “build once, deploy anywhere” story these releases lean into.
- Security and compliance updates. Each release refreshes security profiles, crypto policies, and hardening options — the kind of thing worth reviewing before you standardize a new base image.
- Management from the web console. More day-two tasks keep moving into the Cockpit web console, lowering the barrier for teams that do not want to live entirely on the command line.
If you run a RHEL fleet, the What’s New webinars are a fast way to decide what a minor release means for your environment. Watch the full session above.
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