[olug] RHCE FYI / RH_9.0

[Vincent]

Red Hat Linux 9 and your certification:



Yesterday, Red Hat announced the early availability of ISOs via RHN for 

Red Hat Linux 9, the next release. The official announcement of 

Red Hat Linux 9 is forthcoming. News travels quickly, however, and many

RHCEs and RHCTs have learned that the next version is 9, not 8.1. A 

number have expressed concerns about the effect this will have on

their certification.

Our policy has been that a certificate is considered current for two 

major releases following the major release under which it was earned. 

Consequently, certificate holders are concerned that the period for 

which their certificates remain current has been shortened.

In order to accomodate the release of Red Hat Linux 9, the policy described 

in the RHCE FAQ at

https://www.redhat.com/training/rhce/rhce_faq.html

will be changed to the text below.

Regards and best wishes,

Red Hat Certification Central

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While evidence suggests that RHCEs who stay professionally active can

evolve their skills in pace with new releases of Red Hat Linux OS

technology, it is important for Red Hat to maintain a policy for

determining whether an RHCE or RHCT certificate can be considered

current. Thus, verification services provided for all RHCEs at

Certification Central <https://www.redhat.com/training/certification/>

have always included which version a certificate was earned on, and

whether the certificate is considered current or no longer current.

The validity period for all RHCEs and RHCTs is now officially pegged to

the release of the Enterprise product commercially available at the time

certification was earned, and certification shall be current until after

one (1) major release of the Enterprise product. All RHCEs earned on Red

Hat Linux 7.3 or prior will be considered current until the release of

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS 4. All RHCEs and RHCTs earned on Red

Hat Linux 8.0 or 9 will remain current until the release of Red Hat

Enterprise Linux 5. Validity and current status of an RHCE certificate

will continue to be verified at Certification Central.