Red Hat announced general availability of OpenShift 5 on November 9, 2026, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, bringing agentic troubleshooting and a single operating platform for AI workloads, virtual machines and containers. The Kubernetes-based release is available to customers with existing subscriptions through the Red Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat is pairing the release with an in-place update from OpenShift 4.22 and a longer support model, addressing two operational barriers to…