RHEL 10.1, the latest major release, ushers in a new era for the operating system. Now preinstalled and ready for use on Azure Virtual Machines, this powerful combination delivers a robust and agile platform featuring AI readiness and advanced capabilities designed to optimize your cloud environment.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a leading enterprise-grade Linux OS developed by Red Hat. It provides a stable, secure, and high-performance foundation for modern IT environments and supports a wide range of workloads across physical servers, virtual machines, containers, and cloud platforms.

RHEL is renowned for its robust security, long-term support, a certified software ecosystem, and consistent performance. It remains a trusted choice for enterprises worldwide thanks to regular updates, extensive documentation, and comprehensive support.

RHEL 10.1 – What’s New

Zero-Downtime Innovation

• Soft-reboots let you refresh the system state without rebooting the kernel, slashing downtime and keeping services alive.

Security Reinvented

• Post-quantum cryptography (ML-KEM, ML-DSA) enabled by default for future-proof protection.
• OpenTelemetry Collector + TPM support for hardware-level security in major clouds.
• ACME GA for hands-free certificate automation and renewals.

Modern Dev & Ops Power

• Reproducible builds ensure identical container images and stronger supply-chain integrity.
• Offline assistance for documentation and troubleshooting without internet.
• Upgraded toolchains: Go 1.24, LLVM 20, GCC 15, Rust 1.88, Valkey 8, and more.