Hello,

This email is a status update on Scientific Linux 7.4.

The Scientific Linux 7.4 Release Candidate was published on August 28 
2017.  There is a serious bug in the upstream provided iptables and 
ip6tables services[1] which may result in the firewall being disabled 
rather than enabled.

The Scientific Linux team considers this to be a release blocking issue.

We are following the upstream bug reports closely and have published a 
SL bugfix package in the 'sl-testing'[2] repo.  If an official fix is 
not forthcoming soon, we will consider building the SL bugfix package 
into the release.

Thanks,

Scientific Linux Team

[1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477413
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1481207
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486803


[2]
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7rolling/testing/x86_64/repoview/

-- 
Pat Riehecky

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
www.fnal.gov
www.scientificlinux.org