The global filter in Hybrid Cloud Console and Red Hat Lightspeed has been decommissioned.

You can now filter directly within individual services to get a more contextual experience that makes it easier act on relevant information.

Inventory now provides improved workload classification to help you identify and manage systems based on the software and services running on them.

Inventory Views provide additional options for customizing and exporting the information most important to you.

The Red Hat Lightspeed Tasks service will be retired on October 29, 2026.

Customers who need to convert CentOS systems to RHEL should use the Convert2RHEL command-line tool, either directly or through Red Hat Satellite. For more information, see Converting from a Linux distribution to RHEL using the Convert2RHEL utility.

The hosted image builder service in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console is transitioning to single-target environment blueprints.

Target environments include bare metal (.iso), virtualization platforms (.qcow2), public and private cloud providers, and other supported environments.

This change will not affect the majority of the Red Hat customers, because most users already use single-target blueprints.

Expect the transition to be completed by the end of September 2026. The change applies only to the hosted Image Builder service in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console. For more information, see Image builder hosted service is transitioning to single target environment blueprints.

Malware Detection now uses AI-generated summaries to provide additional context when a malware signature is detected.

Instead of presenting only a file name and basic match metadata, the service provides an informational summary of the malware signature along with links to relevant sources. This additional context can help administrators and security teams quickly understand the potential risk and begin their incident response.

Now you can configure the Notification service to send a monthly email message. This message includes upcoming lifecycle events, a summary of RHEL versions, and the application streams that are approaching end of life across your connected systems.

To subscribe to lifecycle events summary, go to Settings → Notifications → User Preferences → Lifecycle (Red Hat Lightspeed Planning).

Remediation plans will now expire and be automatically deleted after 4 months of inactivity, to prevent the accumulation of stale plans.

Learn more about remediation plan retention policies in Remediation plan retention policy overview.

Red Hat Lightspeed planning now sends monthly email reports with a summary of upcoming RHEL support changes across your connected systems. The summary applies to RHEL 7 and later systems. Life Cycle reports cover:

Roadmap reports on planned changes relevant to packages on your systems, including:

You can enable reports for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle and Roadmap in Settings → Notifications → User Preferences → Life Cycle and Settings → Notifications → User Preferences → Roadmap.

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With Inventory Views, you can customize the Systems table by choosing which columns to display, so you can focus on the data most relevant to your workflow. Your column selections persist across sessions, so your preferred view loads each time you return to inventory.

To get started, navigate to This content is not included.Inventory → Systems, open the Actions menu (⋮), and select Manage columns.

You can subscribe to a periodic email report that summarizes planned changes to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) roadmap. The report arrives directly in your inbox and helps you stay informed about upcoming platform updates without regularly checking the roadmap.

The Roadmap email report includes:

To subscribe, navigate to User Preferences and enable the Roadmap report under the Planning section.

A new Satellite card is available on the Details tab of the System Details page. The card displays key Red Hat Satellite metadata from system tags. You can use the metadata to identify and filter systems by Satellite configuration attributes.

Each field value is clickable and redirects to the Inventory list view with the corresponding Satellite tag filter automatically applied.

The Satellite card is displayed only when Satellite-related tags are present on the system. If individual tags are unavailable, their values display as N/A.

Users can now subscribe to a periodic email report that summarizes upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) support and lifecycle changes across connected systems. Delivered at the start of each month, this summary helps infrastructure teams anticipate platform changes instead of reacting to daily alerts.

The monthly email report covers the following topics:

To subscribe to the monthly summary reports, navigate to User Preferences and enable the monthly aggregated report in Lifecycle under the Red Hat Enterprise Linux section.

Pen Drive is a disconnected variant of OpenShift Container Platform advisor, and is available as a Technology Preview. It now includes kube-compare functionality for template-based cluster drift validation in a Knative-native workflow.

This enhancement expands the existing disconnected cluster checking capabilities that were originally developed in collaboration with Nokia.

For more information about Pen Drive, see This content is not included.Pen Drive powered by Red Hat Lightspeed.

Cost management now includes a comprehensive This content is not included.API cheat sheet designed to help users integrate cost data with external platforms. The guide includes API examples and a Bruno collection to simplify exploring and automating cost management APIs. Bruno is a git-friendly, open source tool similar to Postman.

The following are examples of common external platforms:

Because cost management is API-first, all functionality that is available through the user interface is also available through the API.

New sample integrations demonstrate how cost management data can be consumed by external tools.

Three Content from github.com is not included.reference implementations are available for Grafana:

A Content from github.com is not included.sample integration with Lago demonstrates how to do the following tasks:

These integrations complement the existing Content from github.com is not included.PowerBI sample integration.

For more information about these integrations, see the upstream Content from project-koku.github.io is not included.Project Koku.

The cost management learning library covers the most common onboarding and operational questions.

There are three new videos:

The following videos were updated:

Cost management now provides efficiency scores at the fleet, cluster, and namespace levels. These scores compare requested resources with actual consumption to help identify opportunities to improve utilization.

Each score includes estimated savings potential, enabling platform teams to prioritize optimization efforts and track improvements over time.

This feature helps organizations promote more efficient resource allocation and reduce infrastructure waste across OpenShift Container Platform environments.

Cost management now supports NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) environments. MIG technology enables a single physical GPU to be partitioned into multiple isolated GPU instances.

Cost management automatically detects GPU slices and allocates GPU costs proportionally to the workloads that consume them. The update provides more accurate GPU cost attribution without additional configuration from users.

With the release of RHEL 10.2 and RHEL 9.8, the distribution method for updates to insights-core is changing. The updates will now be delivered as standard RPM packages in the official Red Hat Enterprise Linux repositories. The insights-client continues to be delivered as an RPM package. As a result of this change, the insights-client will no longer automatically update insights-core during its operation.

A new, tailored SELinux policy will also be deployed on systems. This policy ensures that the insights-client and insights-core operate within a confined SELinux security context.

For more information about this update, see the Security improvements and new distribution method for insights-client KB article.

The Inventory UI has been reworked to align with platform standards and to improve rendering performance. This redesign lays the groundwork for upcoming capabilities such as column management and customizable views.

Users can now try the new experience in pre-production. To enable the Preview mode in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console, use the toggle at the top of the screen. Provide your feedback to help refine the experience further.

You can now build bootable images for immutable, image mode RHEL systems. Supported targets include AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and on-premise environments that use QCOW2 and ISO formats.

You can explore the image mode deployment model, become familiar with container technologies, and streamline management of image-based RHEL systems.

By combining image blueprints with Content Templates, users can create a consistent RHEL environment from image build through deployment and management.

A Content Template defines the repositories and packages that make up your standard operating environment (SOE). Associating a Content Template with an image blueprint ensures repeatable builds. Image creation is restricted to approved repositories and packages. Systems deployed from those images remain aligned to the same content set.

When SOE updates are required, you can update the Content Template, rebuild the image, and apply changes across deployed systems.

For more information about Content Templates, see Managing content templates.

Image builder now supports packages and drivers from add-on repositories. Users can build RHEL images optimized for AI hardware acceleration without manual post-deployment configuration.

Supported repositories:

This enhancement streamlines deployment workflows for AI-enabled systems and other specialized workloads.

Malware Detection in Red Hat Lightspeed now integrates with CrowdStrike, expanding malware coverage for RHEL scans.

Users can now use over 2400 CrowdStrike malware signatures with existing IBM X-Force intelligence. This integration provides broader threat detection and a unified view of findings in the Red Hat Lightspeed console.

For more information, see This content is not included.Integrating Red Hat Lightspeed with CrowdStrike for enhanced malware detection coverage.

Pen Drive is a disconnected variant of OpenShift Container Platform advisor, and is available as a Technology Preview. It now includes kube-compare functionality for template-based cluster drift validation in a Knative-native workflow.

This enhancement expands the existing disconnected cluster checking capabilities that were originally developed in collaboration with Nokia.

For more information about Pen Drive, see This content is not included.Pen Drive powered by Red Hat Lightspeed.

When you create a remediation plan, Red Hat Lightspeed now uses a system of action points to support reliable performance without timeouts or failures. Action points calculate the relative complexity and performance impact of a remediation plan. This update helps you decide how and where to execute the plan. Complex issues require a higher number of action points, and simpler issues require a lower number.

Red Hat Lightspeed includes a new Subscriptions service event type that notifies you when subscription usage exceeds defined capacity thresholds. The Exceeded Utilization Threshold event gives proactive visibility into capacity overruns and helps you identify compliance risks and take corrective action before you reach subscription limits.

The event integrates with the Hybrid Cloud Console Notifications service and follows the standard event schema. You can use it alongside other Red Hat Lightspeed events for operational monitoring and cost management. You can also forward alerts to external systems such as Splunk, ServiceNow, or Slack. You can also trigger automated workflows such as Event-Driven Ansible.