Red Hat’s major additions around RHEL 10.2 and 9.8 appear to center on post-quantum cryptography, scalable sudo management, and Lightspeed-based automation/operations capabilities, but the supplied evidence does not include direct RHEL 10.2 or 9.8 release notes. Because of that, some version-specific detail is insufficiently evidenced.
Security features
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RHEL 10.0 release notes say system-wide cryptographic policies, OpenSSL, GnuTLS, NSS, and OpenSSH gained Technology Preview support for post-quantum algorithms, which is the clearest cited security direction in the available evidence.[
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RHEL 10.0 also introduced a new sudo RHEL system role to manage sudo configuration consistently at scale across RHEL systems.[
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RHEL 9 security-hardening documentation covers automated remediation against security baselines, including remediation with SSG Ansible playbooks, creation of remediation Ansible playbooks, Bash remediation scripts, and scanning workflows.[
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AI automation and operations features
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Red Hat Insights has been renamed Red Hat Lightspeed, and Red Hat’s documentation says users will see updated product language reflecting that change.[
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