New and Updated Packages

To support the newly added functionality that the UEK R6 provides, several kernel and user-space binary packages have been added or updated from the packages that are included in the base distribution. For more information about the ULN channels and Oracle Linux yum server repositories in which these packages are available, see Installation and Availability.

Kernel space packages that are added and updated for UEK R6 are labeled with the prefix kernel-uek. The linux-firmware package is also updated with the latest available firmwares.

The packages listed here are specific to user-space functionality and are updated to take advantage of features that are available in UEK R6. There is no dependency on these packages to use UEK R6. If you use any of these packages and also use UEK R6, you should update the package to the latest version for full compatibility with all of the features that are available in UEK R6.

Packages	Oracle Linux 8 version number	Oracle Linux 7 version number
`ndctl`,`ndctl-libs`, `ndctl-devel`, `daxctl`, `daxctl-libs`, `daxctl-devel`	67 (x86_64)	67 (x86_64)
`ipmctl`, `ipmctl-monitor`, `libipmctl`, `libipmctl-devel`	01.00.00.3467 (x86_64)	01.00.00.3467 (x86_64)
`libsafec`, `libsafec-check`, `libsafec-devel`	3.3 (x86_64)	3.3 (x86_64)
`btrfs-progs`, `btrfs-progs-devel`	5.4.0 (x86_64, aarch64)	5.4.0 (x86_64, aarch64)
`xfsprogs`, `xfsprogs-devel`	5.4.0 (x86_64, aarch64)	5.4.0 (x86_64, aarch64)
`ocfs2-tools`	1.8.6 (x86_64, aarch64)	1.8.6 (x86_64, aarch64)
`e2fs-progs`, `libss`, `libss-devel`, `libcom_err`, `libcom_err-devel`	1.45.4 (x86_64, aarch64)	1.45.4 (x86_64, aarch64)
`dtrace`, `dtrace-devel`, `dtrace-testsuite`	2.0.0 (x86_64, aarch64)	2.0.0 (x86_64, aarch64)
`libdtrace-ctf`,`libdtrace-ctf-devel`	N/A	1.1.0 (x86_64, aarch64)
`bcache-tools`	1.0.8 (x86_64, aarch64)	1.0.8 (x86_64, aarch64)
`cloud-init`	18.5 (x86_64, aarch64)	18.5 (x86_64, aarch64)
`crash`, `crash-devel`	7.2.7 (x86_64, aarch64)	7.2.7 (x86_64, aarch64)
`iproute`, `iproute-devel`, `iproute-doc`, `iproute-tc`	5.4.0 (x86_64, aarch64)	5.4.0 (x86_64, aarch64)
`kexec-tools`	2.0.19 (x86_64, aarch64)	2.0.15 (x86_64, aarch64)
`libzstd`, `libzstd-devel`	1.3.8 (x86_64, aarch64)	1.3.4 (x86_64, aarch64)
`linux-firmware`	20200124-999.4 (x86_64, aarch64)	20200124-999.4 (x86_64, aarch64)
`nvme-cli`	1.9 (x86_64, aarch64)	1.9 (x86_64, aarch64)
`nvmetcli`	0.7 (x86_64, aarch64)	0.7 (x86_64, aarch64)
`nbd`	3.20 (x86_64, aarch64)	3.20 (x86_64, aarch64)
`drbd-utils`	9.0.0 (x86_64, aarch64)	9.0.0 (x86_64, aarch64)
`libdnf`, `python3-libdnf`, `python3-hawkey`	0.35 (x86_64, aarch64)	N/A