Issued:
2018-10-30
Updated:
2018-10-30

RHEA-2018:3162 - new package: python-futures

Synopsis

new package: python-futures

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory None

Topic

A new python-futures package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The concurrent.futures module, included in the python-futures package, provides a high-level interface for asynchronously executing callables. The module has been backported from the Python 3 concurrent.futures standard library for use with Python 2.

This update adds the python-futures package to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 97ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A)7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 647aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • python-futures-3.1.1-5.el7.src.rpm
  • python2-futures-3.1.1-5.el7.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

Additional information