Chapter 2. August 2026

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).