Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8 (UEK 8)
Help Net Security, Monday, April 21st, 2025
Oracle has released version 8 of its Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK), a custom Linux kernel built for Oracle Linux. UEK 8 includes updates to memory management, better file system support, faster networking, and improvements for specific hardware platforms. It also pulls in changes from the wider Linux community.
UEK 8 is designed to handle heavy workloads. It builds on the combination of Oracle Linux and UEK to support large enterprise systems. That includes setups using Oracle Database, Oracle Exadata, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), across distributed environments.
'This is our eighth release of UEK, and I think it's the best one yet,' said Greg Marsden, senior VP of Linux software development, Oracle. 'In addition to bringing in significant improvements like memory folios, UEK 8 is built on the foundation of the UEK-next project.