What’s new?

Introduction

To assist readers already familiar with NSP installation and upgrade, this section summarizes the major changes introduced in this release and provides links to the affected content.

Not all changes are noted; it is recommended that you always perform an installation or upgrade by carefully following the directions in the most recent issue of the Installation and Upgrade Guide on the Documentation Center.

Release 26.4 features

The following table identifies the 26.4 feature areas that have significantly affected the NSP deployment information in this guide.

Table 1-1: What’s new in Release 26.4

Feature

Description / reference

RHEL 9 support on Kubernetes platform

New upgrade pathways and procedure

See Chapter 9, NSP system upgrade from Release 25.11 or later

See To upgrade the NSP Kubernetes environment for detailed instructions.

RHEL 9 support on NSP components

See Chapter 15, NSP component upgrade from Release 25.11 or earlier

Generating custom NSP TLS certificates

New procedure for NSP

See To generate custom TLS certificates for NSP

Removing the NSP Kubernetes registry procedure

See Removing NFM-P information