Redhat announced that they are going to release RHEL7 by second half of 2013 on the occasion of their 10th anniversary of RHEL1 release some 10 years back. Jim Totten,
vice president and general manager at Red Hat’s Platform business unit announced this in a webcast. There will be 2000 packages upgraded in this release and more improvements to support many hardware, security, Filesystems and performance.
Redhat releases their flagship distro for every 3 years and patches for every 6 months. Here is a quick release dates of all the Versions of RHEL taken from Wikipedia.org
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS (Pensacola), 2002-03-26
- Update 1, 2003-02-14 (Release Notes)
- Update 2, 2003-05-02 (Release Notes)
- Update 3, 2003-12-19 (Release Notes)
- Update 4, 2004-04-30 (Release Notes)
- Update 5, 2004-08-18 (Release Notes)
- Update 6, 2004-12-13 (Release Notes)
- Update 7, 2005-04-28 (Release Notes, redhat-release-as-2.1AS-121.src.rpm)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 ES (Panama), May 2003
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon), 2003-10-22. Uses Linux 2.4.21 (Release notes also for updates)
- Update 1, 2004-01-16 (Release Notes)
- Update 2, 2004-05-18 (Release Notes)
- Update 3, 2004-09-03 (Release Notes)
- Update 4, 2004-12-21 (Release Notes)
- Update 5, 2005-05-20 (Release Notes)
- Update 6, 2005-09-28 (Release Notes)
- Update 7, 2006-03-15 (Release Notes)
- Update 8, 2006-07-20 (Release Notes)
- Update 9, 2007-06-15 (Release Notes)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Nahant), 2005-02-15. Uses Linux kernel 2.6.9-5
- 4.1, also termed Update 1, 2005-06-09 (kernel 2.6.9-11, Release Notes)
- 4.2, also termed Update 2, 2005-10-05 (kernel 2.6.9-22, Release Notes)
- 4.3, also termed Update 3, 2006-03-07 (kernel 2.6.9-34, Release Notes) (Release Notes on centos.org)
- 4.4, also termed Update 4, 2006-08-11 (kernel 2.6.9-42, Release Notes)
- 4.5, also termed Update 5, 2007-05-01 (kernel 2.6.9-55, Release Notes)
- 4.6, also termed Update 6, 2007-11-15 (kernel 2.6.9-67, Release Notes)
- 4.7, also termed Update 7, 2008-07-24 (kernel 2.6.9-78, Release Notes)
- 4.8, also termed Update 8, 2009-05-18 (kernel 2.6.9-89, Release Notes)
- 4.9, also termed Update 9, 2011-02-16 (kernel 2.6.9-100, Release Notes)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga), 2007-03-14. Uses Linux kernel 2.6.18-8 (Release notes)
- 5.1, also termed Update 1, 2007-11-07 (kernel 2.6.18-53, Release Notes)
- 5.2, also termed Update 2, 2008-05-21 (kernel 2.6.18-92, Release Notes, single file)
- 5.3, also termed Update 3, 2009-01-20 (kernel 2.6.18-128, Release Notes)
- 5.4, also termed Update 4, 2009-09-02 (kernel 2.6.18-164, Release Notes)
- 5.5, also termed Update 5, 2010-03-30 (kernel 2.6.18-194, Release Notes)
- 5.6, also termed Update 6, 2011-01-12 (kernel 2.6.18-238, Release Notes and Errata for release)
- 5.7, also termed Update 7, 2011-07-21 (kernel 2.6.18-274, Release Notes and Errata for release)
- 5.8, also termed Update 8, 2012-02-21 (kernel 2.6.18-308, Release Notes and Errata for release)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago), 2010-11-10 Uses Linux kernel 2.6.32-71 (Release Notes).
- 6.1 also termed Update 1, 2011-05-19 (kernel 2.6.32-131, Release Notes and Release Announcement)
- 6.2 also termed Update 2, 2011-12-06 (kernel 2.6.32-220, Release Notes and Errata for release)
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