Red Hat is doing a great job keeping RHEL/CentOS 7 up to date with latest technologies while not introducing regressions. Very welcome, they used to be more con

Red Hat is doing a great job keeping RHEL/CentOS 7 up to date with latest technologies while not introducing regressions. Very welcome, they used to be more conservative. The Software Collections are particularly useful - you can use them to install, for example, Python 3.6 or GCC 7 without introducing third party repositories (and thus additional attack surface). https://www.softwarecollections.org https://www.softwarecollections.org 7.4 even had a OpenSSL rebase for HTTP/2 and it was painless. Hats off (heh) to their QA department!