Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 Version History

Last Updated on April 3, 2019

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (Maipo) is based on Fedora 19, upstream Linux kernel 3.10, systemd 208 (updated to 219 in RHEL 7.2), and GNOME 3.8 (re-based to GNOME 3.28 in RHEL 7.6) The first beta was announced on 11 December 2013, and a release candidate was made available on 15 April 2014. On June 10, 2014 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 was officially released.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 (Maipo), June 10, 2014; 4 years ago, uses Linux kernel 3.10.0-123^[26]
  • 7.1, also termed Update 1, March 5, 2015
    • kernel 3.10.0-229
  • 7.2, also termed Update 2, November 19, 2015
    • kernel 3.10.0-327
    • systemd updated to 219
    • GNOME rebased to 3.14
  • 7.3, also termed Update 3, November 3, 2016
    • kernel kernel 3.10.0-514
  • 7.4, also termed Update 4, August 1, 2017
    • kernel kernel 3.10.0-693
    • GNOME rebased to 3.22
  • 7.5, also termed Update 5, April 10, 2018
    • kernel 3.10.0-862
    • GNOME rebased to 3.26^[32]
  • 7.6, also termed Update 6, October 30, 2018
    • kernel 3.10.0-957
    • GNOME rebased to 3.28