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Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4: “Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the latest update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, release 5.4. New Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 is a reorganization of the material release note, now the release notes are a condensed set of highlights major version. The following list summarizes the enhancements in this version:

* Hardware
  - 10 GigE drivers with GRO support
  - FCoE support on standard NICs
  - SR I/OV support

* System
  - Kernel tracepoints for systemtap use
  - Per process I/O accounting
  - FIEMAP support

* Virtualization
  - Hypervisor scalability to 192 cpus
  - Additional hypervisor - Kernel Based Virtual Machine
    (KVM)

Kernel Version:
kernel-2.6.18-164.el5

Family of products:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform for x86,
   AMD64/Intel(r) 64, Itanium Processor Family, Power
   Systems and System z
 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server for x86,
   AMD64/Intel(r) 64, Itanium Processor Family, Power
   Systems and System z
 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop for x86 and
   AMD64/Intel(r) 64