New Release: RHEL 8.5 on IBM Z

RHEL 8.5 is out, see the press release here! It ships, among others:

  • s390-tools v2.16 (renamed to s390utils), including
    • HiperSockets Converged Interface support
    • Support for transparent data set conversion in zdsfs
    • zkey
      • usability enhancements
      • storing of LUKS2 passphrases
    • pkey support for EP11 and CCA ECC protected keys
  • smc-tools v1.6, which includes, among others
    • Statistics for SMC-D and SMC-R
    • New command smc_chk
  • openCryptoki v3.16
    • ep11 token: Support attribute bound keys
    • ep11 token: Protected key support
    • Allow to exchange key objects between applications using the CCA host library and applications using openCryptoki with CCA token
For a detailed list of Linux on Z-specific changes, see the release notes.

IBM-specific documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 is available at IBM Documentation here (in particular: Device Drivers, Features and Commands on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5).
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