Red Hat adds agentic AI operations, stronger security in OpenShift 5 and RHEL updates

Red Hat OpenShift 5 hits general availability with agentic troubleshooting, post-quantum crypto and a longer support window

Red Hat today announced the general availability of OpenShift 5 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Salt Lake City. The release turns OpenShift Lightspeed from a conversational assistant into an agent that can troubleshoot problems and assess upgrade risk, and it stretches the platform’s support lifecycle. The company said OpenShift 5 lets teams run... … continue reading

Red Hat Preps Two Secure RHEL Updates for the AI Era

Red Hat today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 conference announced it will make available a pair of updates to its distribution of Linux that promise to make it simpler to securely deploy workloads in a way that can also be managed by artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Version 9.9 of Red Hat Enterprise [...]

Red Hat Unfurls OpenShift Platform for the Agentic AI Era

Red Hat today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 conference revealed it has extended its OpenShift platform to add multiple artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, including a built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Additionally, Red Hat has extended the Lightspeed AI tools it provides to include an AI agent

Red Hat adds agentic AI operations, stronger security in OpenShift 5 and RHEL updates

Red Hat Inc. today announced a major update to its OpenShift Kubernetes-based application development platform that adds artificial intelligence-powered troubleshooting, stronger security controls and simplified upgrades as the company seeks to make its hybrid cloud infrastructure easier to manage. The company also announced new versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with enhanced protection against software […]