At AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver a couple weeks ago (videos coming shortly!) I announced the opening of nominations for this year’s election. I’ve been on the board for more than 3 years, so I can speak with some authority about it when I say: non-profit boards, especially those in the open source space, need you. 3 reasons you should join the AlmaLinux OS Foundation’s (or any other non-profit) board There are many reasons for joining the board for a non-profit, but they aren’t always easy...| AlmaLinux OS
At long last, users of NVIDIA graphics cards can enjoy a drastically improved user experience with AlmaLinux. When AlmaLinux started just 5 years ago, this wouldn’t have been possible. However, with NVIDIA releasing an open source version of their graphics drivers, things changed. This open source version is slowly becoming the flagship driver, with new products being added exclusively to it. AlmaLinux’s NVIDIA support - including Secure Boot AlmaLinux OS 9 and 10 now ship packages enabli...| AlmaLinux OS
Hey, community! AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver is coming up fast—August 9th at the beautiful Emily Carr University of Art + Design—and we’re putting together what promises to be our most exciting event yet! With speakers from across the VFX industry, hands-on workshops, and a whole lot of Linux love, this is going to be a day to remember. But here’s the thing: we need YOUR help to make it happen! Volunteering Helps the Community AlmaLinux has always been about community. We’re a communi...| AlmaLinux OS
The first round of accepted talks for AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver have been announced, and we are excited to welcome these talks and speakers! This year’s event is shaping up quite nicely, and we are excited to welcome speakers from across industries and across the world! Find the full list of sessions below, check out all of the plans for the day on the event page, and register for free to attend this one-of-a-kind day in a beautiful city.| Blog on AlmaLinux
Hello everyone! We are excited to announce the availability of new ELevate paths: AlmaLinux OS 9 to AlmaLinux OS 10.0. AlmaLinux OS 9 to AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10. CentOS Stream 9 to CentOS Stream 10. 3rd Party Repositories Support The new upgrade paths include the following 3rd-party repository support: EPEL - available for upgrades to AlmaLinux OS only. Note, that the support works only for those packages from EL 9 that are currently available for EL 10. Unavailable packages from EL 9 will rem...| Blog on AlmaLinux
In March, ALESCo approved a proposal to build EPEL packages from Fedora’s source RPMs (SRPMs) to maintain long-term feature parity for our x86_64_v2 support initiative. Last month, these packages became available for AlmaLinux Kitten 10, and today we are happy to announce that x86_64_v2 EPEL support is now available for AlmaLinux 10 Stable as well. The EPEL package builds for AlmaLinux OS 10 stable are now complete and ready for use! How It Works We monitor the EPEL repository for the lates...| AlmaLinux OS
Yesterday, Qualys published details about a vulnerability discovered in the libblockdev package. Two vulnerabilities were announced, CVE-2025-6018 and CVE-2025-6019. AlmaLinux is not impacted by CVE-2025-6018, but we are impacted by CVE-2025-6019. Without the impact of CVE-2025-6018 the vulnerability in libblockdev (CVE-2025-6019) is arguably less critical, but it is impactful nonetheless. The second (CVE-2025-6019) affects libblockdev, is exploitable via the udisks daemon included by default...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Update June 18 2025 20:00 UTC: The patches for all verisons have been published into stable repositories. A normal dnf upgrade or dnf upgrade open-vm-tools will pull in the updates. --- About a month ago Broadcom (VMWare) released a security advisory for CVE-2025-22247 impacting the open-vm-tools package commonly installed inside of virtual machines on VMWare hypervisors. VMware Tools contains an insecure file handling vulnerability. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in th...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Open Source is incredible and powerful - anyone can just download your project and use it anywhere for any reason - without having to set up a business relationship with you! But, without telemetry, that also means that anyone can use your project anywhere, for any reason, and you won’t know anything about it until they send you an email, or find you at a conference to tell you about it…| AlmaLinux OS
Hey Community! Bringing the latest AlmaLinux OS 9.6 images updates. Cloud and Container Images AlmaLinux provides a variety of cloud images that are now updated to the AlmaLinux OS 9.6 version including: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Generic Cloud OpenNebula Microsoft Azure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure You can find more details in the Cloud Images Changelog at the AlmaLinux Wiki. Container images are updated to the 9.6 version as well: You can get official Docker images and OCI Images from Quay.io...| Blog on AlmaLinux
On the heels of one of our biggest releases ever, last week we announced that our friends at Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd (a subsidiary of SB Technology Corp) have renewed their platinum sponsor membership for a third year. Anticipating using AlmaLinux as the base for MIRACLE LINUX, Cybertrust Japan approached us two years ago looking for a partner. They recognized the value that AlmaLinux provided to businesses, especially in Japan. They know firsthand the benefits that adopting open source sof...| Blog on AlmaLinux
AlmaLinux OS 10.0 Stable Now Available The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 10.0 codenamed “Purple Lion”! AlmaLinux OS Improvements - usability without compromising compatibility The goal of AlmaLinux OS is to support our community, and AlmaLinux OS 10 is the best example of that yet. With an unwavering eye on maintaining compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), we have made small improvements to AlmaLinux OS 10 that target s...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Last October, when we announced AlmaLinux OS Kitten, we also announced that we would be providing support for x86_64_v2 chips for the AlmaLinux OS 10 lifecycle. We know that many users of AlmaLinux rely on Fedora EPEL for tools and packages outside the base set of packages included in AlmaLinux OS releases. Historically, our users have been able to rely on the Fedora project entirely for those packages. However, EPEL builds against RHEL, and with RHEL 10 moving to support only x86_64_v3, EPEL...| AlmaLinux OS
AlmaLinux 9.6 Stable Now Available Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.6 codenamed “Sage Margay”! Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Torrents are available as well at: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers AlmaLinux also offers a variety of C...| Blog on AlmaLinux
We are excited to share that AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver will take place Saturday, August 9, 2025, at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Like its predecessors, this community-powered, full-day event will bring together sysadmins, developers, DevOps engineers, IT leaders, and open-source enthusiasts for a packed day of technical talks, real-world case studies, and collaborative networking. With its proximity to SIGGRAPH, the event will place a special spotlight on how AlmaLinux is used in...| AlmaLinux OS
The first few months of 2025 were packed with some more big events for AlmaLinux! Learn a bit more about each of them below, and then find out how YOU can help staff AlmaLinux booths for events just like these for the rest of 2025! CentOS Connect CentOS Connect is always a great place for us to connect with the CentOS Stream community. While we were there, we hosted a meetup about Project ELevate, which was great! We got to talk to people who were brand new to the project, and folks who hadd ...| Blog on AlmaLinux
It’s been nearly three years since our first board election, and that means it’s time for us to start planning the next one! Foundation structure For those who are not aware, AlmaLinux OS is a community-owned operating system. All assets related to the project are owned by The AlmaLinux OS Foundation, a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization, that is governed by a set of Bylaws, and guided by a volunteer board of directors. Today, the foundation has 8 board members:| Blog on AlmaLinux
I’m excited to share some great news for users running AlmaLinux OS on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). You can now install AlmaLinux OS images directly via the WSL CLI tool - no extra configuration and without having to navigate the Microsoft Store interface to install it! This change also makes it possible to install AlmaLinux on Windows Server, where the Store isn’t available. What’s New? Previously, installing AlmaLinux on WSL required Microsoft Store. With this update, you can in...| AlmaLinux OS
It’s taken months for this post to get finalized, but it’s because 2024 was another big year for us! We created a slew of great new things, overcame incredible challenges, and met and supported even more community members. I tried hard to keep this summary of 2024’s work short, but it turns out you just can’t even begin to highlight all of the impact of this vast and active community without it being long-winded.| Blog on AlmaLinux
Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the availability of AlmaLinux 9.6 Beta “Sage Margay” for all supported architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Beta ISOs are available at repo.almalinux.org. A usual reminder: this is a BETA release. It should not be used for production installations. The provided upgrade instructions should not be used on production machines unless you don’t mind if something breaks. If you are look...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Hello, Community! I’m pleased to share the latest updates on Raspberry Pi with you. Have fun on the Pi! AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 is now available for Raspberry Pi As you might have already noticed, AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 is now available for Raspberry Pi! Visit AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 page for details. Both the console image and the GNOME image are available, as with previous versions; however, the MBR version has been omitted to reduce development effort. Therefore, only images with a GUID pa...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Hello everyone! We’ve got ELevate Project updates to share. The ELevate Project currently follows 3 stages for delivering updates: New upgrade paths, features, bug fixes, and new versions of leapp-repository and leapp-data are first introduced in ELevate NG. The AlmaLinux Team, along with the community, tests these enhancements. ELevate NG then moves to general Testing, during which it gathers additional data, features, and improvements. Once these updates are thoroughly tested and approved...| AlmaLinux OS
The Announcement On Monday Meta announced a flaw in FreeType versions 2.13.0 and below that can allow remote code execution. From the announcement: An out of bounds write exists in FreeType versions 2.13.0 and below (newer versions of FreeType are not vulnerable) when attempting to parse font subglyph structures related to TrueType GX and variable font files. The vulnerable code assigns a signed short value to an unsigned long and then adds a static value causing it to wrap around and allocat...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Next week, we’ll be at the world’s largest cloud industry event, CloudFest! Here’s a rundown of what we’ll be up to at the event. What is CloudFest? CloudFest 2025: The Human Edge CloudFest is the #1 internet infrastructure event in the world, connecting the global cloud computing industry: you’ll form the partnerships that help you reach your business goals, and have a great time doing it. CloudFest returns to deliver an even bigger, more engaging live event experience that will su...| Blog on AlmaLinux
In case you missed it ALESCo (The AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee) that we announced in May of 2024 has been hard at work setting up processes and stretching our legs. It’s been a bit since we’ve done this kind of update, so let’s get to it! ALESCo’s Mission As a reminder: ALESCo is a group of engineers heavily involved in using and developing AlmaLinux, formed into a committee that generally guides the technical progression and growth of AlmaLinux as an operating system.| AlmaLinux OS
Earlier this week Qualys announced two critical vulnerabilities for OpenSSH - CVE-2025-26465 and 2025-26466. We are looking for helping testing the patches for CVE-2025-26465. The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has identified two vulnerabilities in OpenSSH. The first, tracked as CVE-2025-26465, allows an active machine-in-the-middle attack on the OpenSSH client when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. The second, CVE-2025-26466, affects both the OpenSSH client and server, enabling a pr...| AlmaLinux OS
Hello everyone! Following our recent updates about the ELevate project and your feedback, we’ve added one more upgrade path. You can now upgrade from CentOS Stream 9 to CentOS Stream 10 as a part of ELevate NG! Please note: This upgrade is currently for testing purposes only and is not intended for production environments. Get Testing We’d love for you all to help us test the upgrades to CentOS Stream 10 and share your feedback. Early testing allows us to identify and address potential is...| AlmaLinux OS
In just one week we’ll be kicking off our time in Brussels as we join both CentOS Connect and FOSDEM for this year’s events, and we are so excited. It always feels special for us this year, because this is the time of year that we celebrate the 4-year anniversary of our very first beta version release. If you are in the area already or were already planning to be at FOSDEM, we’d love to say hi!| Blog on AlmaLinux
Security researchers at Google, namely Pedro Gallegos, Simon Scannell, and Jasiel Spelman, identified vulnerabilities in both the rsync server and client. These vulnerabilities range from extremely concerning to just annoying, and are at different stages of being patched. This blog post will be updated as patches are released by us. The Announcement The server vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-12084 and CVE-2024-12085) can lead to remote code execution (RCE). On the client side, vulnerabilities allow...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Hello everyone! We’ve got some updates about the ELevate Project to share with you today :) New Upgrade Path Available We are excited to announce that the upgrade path from AlmaLinux OS 9 to AlmaLinux 10.0 beta is now available in ELevate NG. Please note: This upgrade is for testing purposes only and is not intended for production environments. The AlmaLinux 9 to AlmaLinux 10 beta upgrade is a crucial part of our ongoing preparations for the version 10.0 stable release, expected in Q2. Earl...| Blog on AlmaLinux
In 2023, we launched a series in which we have community members answer common questions we’re seeing from the community. Last year we have started building another Q&A series - this time with the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board members! Our goal with this new board member Q&A series is to better introduce our board to the broader community. For our latest board member Q&A video, Noam Alum interviewed me, benny Vasquez. We talked about how I got started with Linux, my hopes for AlmaLinux, and...| Blog on AlmaLinux
The last quarter (plus the end of September) of 2024 was packed with big events for AlmaLinux, and we were so excited to join them all! Learn a bit more about each of them below, and then find out how YOU can help staff AlmaLinux booths for events just like these in 2025! NERDEARLA NERDEARLA is an event by nerds, for nerds. We attended our first NERDEARLA in Buenos Aires in September last year, and we loved it! Pavel shared his experience of staffing the booth for AlmaLinux, and he and I got ...| AlmaLinux OS
Hey Community! Bringing the latest AlmaLinux OS 9.5 images updates. Cloud and Container Images Updates and Changes AlmaLinux provides a variety of cloud images that are now updated to the AlmaLinux OS 9.5 version including: Amazon Web Services (AWS)Added sos and tcpdump packages for troubleshooting and log collection tools. Added nfs-utils package to enable built-in support for mounting Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) or any NFS filesystems. Generic CloudNew langpacks-en package to add en_US...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Back in October 2024 AlmaLinux OS Foundation officially introduced AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10. It is designed as a development-focused distribution of AlmaLinux OS, and a stable preview of AlmaLinux OS 10. Today we’re excited to share the latest updates in this project! Updated packages and ISOs Recently, the CentOS Stream 10 undertook a significant mass package rebuild to update the compiler keys used for PowerPC (ppc64le) compilation. We have also rebuilt all packages to align with these crit...| Blog on AlmaLinux
This year Buenos Aires became a center of the IT technical community in Latin America with an event which became a beacon for technical enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, students and professionals - Nerdearla, and I was honored to volunteer in this event - presenting AlmaLinux to a crowd that turned out to be massive, diverse, and passionate about open-source technology. AlmaLinux at Nerdearla It can be quite interesting to tell you why I eventually decided to become a volunteer at this event. I ha...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the availability of AlmaLinux 10.0 Beta “Purple Lion” for all supported architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) Intel/AMD (x86_64_v2) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Beta ISOs are available at repo.almalinux.org. Beta or Kitten? Newly introduced AlmaLinux OS Kitten is designed to serve for development and preparation purposes for the next AlmaLinux OS version. Kitten aims to bring more transparency, engagement, and p...| Blog on AlmaLinux
We are so happy to share that the Japanese AlmaLinux Users Group is hosting the second AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo this Saturday! Registration is free for attendance, and you can join the closing social event for a small fee. Announcing AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo 2024 This year’s AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo will take place on December 14th. I will be at Cafe Shiba - WORLD SPACE, along with some old and new friends to talk about some of the best AlmaLinux Enterprise use cases and some of our ongoing and future ...| Blog on AlmaLinux
AlmaLinux 9.5 Stable Now Available Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.5 codenamed “Teal Serval”! Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Torrents are available as well at: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers AlmaLinux also offers a variety of C...| Blog on AlmaLinux
It’s almost time for the Linux Distributions DevRoom at FOSDEM again, but the Call for Participation is OPEN NOW! Let’s dive into what we’d like to see and how you can get involved! Submit your talk to FOSDEM in the Distributions track, when you’re ready! What is the Distributions DevRoom? From the FOSDEM website: Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc.| Blog on AlmaLinux
A couple of weeks ago we issued a press release announcing three more new and returning silver sponsor members of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, and I wanted to thank them here as well! Fastly has joined us this year as a new sponsor member, and AMD and world4you have renewed their sponsorship memberships. We’re so grateful for the contributions of our every-growing list of sponsors, as more and more companies prove that they believe in what we do. Here’s a little bit about each of them.| Blog on AlmaLinux
Earlier today we announced that AlmaLinux has been selected to join the Endorsed Distributions list on Microsoft Azure, a unique distinction with only 6 other distributions. The press release is included below with all of the details. We are so grateful to the incredible Azure team for this, and are so excited to see our community supported in this way. Visit the Microsoft Linux and Open Source Blog - Announcing availability of AlmaLinux as an endorsed Linux distribution in Azure - to see the...| Blog on AlmaLinux
We are returning to ATO, one of our favorite events, next week! And on day 2 if you wear an AlmaLinux shirt, hoodie, or hat then you are eligible to win a prize (details below)! We love ATO! All Things Open is one of our favorite events, and always feels like home for us. It was the first event we attended after getting our feet under us in 2021, and the community continues to welcome us every year.| Blog on AlmaLinux
Since our inception just a few months ago, there has been a lot of exciting news coming out of ALESCo. Whether you’ve been following along via the minutes, or attending the meetings yourself, or engaging in our chat, we are so humbled by the excitement around what we’re doing. Tomorrow, Oct 24th at 10am eastern US time(Rescheduled) November 12th at 12pm Eastern US time, we’re hosting a digital meetup. We’ll be hanging out, ready to answer questions or just talk shop. Not all of our me...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Since the beginning of the AlmaLinux project, we have constantly been thinking about what comes next. Preparation has always been a cornerstone of AlmaLinux’s release agility and speed has been our hallmark. Today, we’re sharing another peak behind the curtain and showing off another cool thing we’re doing to prepare for the next step. AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Since we started building AlmaLinux directly from the sources that Red Hat uses for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), we have been ...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Earlier today we announced that CloudLinux and its sister company TuxCare have renewed their platinum-level sponsorship of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation. They are continuing the commitment they made in 2021 of providing $1 million in annual support for AlmaLinux. I want to take a minute to thank them for the support they provide. Thank you CloudLinux and Tuxcare were the reason we got off the ground, as founding sponsors. They have remained as platinum sponsors since the beginning, and are acti...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the availability of AlmaLinux 9.5 Beta “Teal Serval” for all supported architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Beta ISOs are available at repo.almalinux.org. A usual reminder: this is a BETA release. It should not be used for production installations. The provided upgrade instructions should not be used on production machines unless you don’t mind if something breaks. If you are look...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Hello Community! We’d like to share a quick update for our AlmaLinux Azure users. If you’ve been using the original AlmaLinux Azure image for x86_64 architecture (VM Image URN: almalinux:almalinux:*), you may have gotten an email like this: Your Workloads are running on images that will be deprecated soon You’re receiving this email because you have virtual machine and/or virtual machine scale set deployments that are running on images scheduled for deprecation.| Blog on AlmaLinux
Last year, we launched a video series in which we have community members answer common questions we’re seeing from the community. This year, we have also been building another Q&A series, this time with the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board members! Our goal with this new board member Q&A series is to better introduce our board to the broader community. For our latest board member Q&A, we interviewed Alex Iribarren. Alex opted for a text-based interview, rather than a video, so you can find the...| Blog on AlmaLinux
After a long wait (view the previous blog post), the AlmaLinux 9.2 kernel received FIPS validation making it the first software implementation to receive a FIPS 140-3 ESV certificate using SHA3-256 as a conditioner. It’s also the first EL9 distribution to get a FIPS 140-3 certificate for the kernel. View the certificate here. What is FIPS? When it comes to securing sensitive data, cryptographic standards play a crucial role. One of the most influential standards in this realm is FIPS, or Fe...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Hello everyone! We’re excited to share some ELevate updates with you today. Whether you’ve been following along with us for a while or are just tuning in, we’ve got some news and changes that we think you’ll find interesting :) ELevate features that we just released to Stable include: leapp rebased to upstream version 0.18.0. leapp-repository rebased to upstream version 0.21.0. Microsoft Linux Package Repositories and Docker CE support for all supported operating systems. You can find...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Hi community! As you may be aware, last year, we launched a video series in which we have community members answer common questions we’re seeing from the community. This year, we also launched another Q&A video series, this time with the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board members. Our goal with this new board member Q&A series is to better introduce our board to the broader community. For our latest board member Q&A video, we interviewed Jun Yoshida. Jun talks about how he got his start with IT ...| Blog on AlmaLinux
As you may be aware, last year, we launched a video series in which we have community members answer common questions we’re seeing from the community. This year, we’re starting another video series, this time with the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board members. Our goal with this new series is to better introduce our board to the AlmaLinux community. The first of these board member Q&A videos features Jack Aboutboul. Jack may be a familiar face to you as he has been part of AlmaLinux since the...| Blog on AlmaLinux
After months of work, we are happy to announce the AlmaLinux Certification Special Interest Group (SIG), along with our Hardware Certification Program! This SIG has tangible goals and immediate benefits for all users of AlmaLinux, and tons of ways to get involved. The Certification SIG This SIG was born out of a desire to prove that AlmaLinux works in all places that our community needs it to. The members already helping are from all over the world, and have gotten engagement from some of the...| Blog on AlmaLinux
bootc is a new deployment method that powers Image mode for RHEL and HeliumOS, a new Linux distribution. We are excited to announce that AlmaLinux now offers bootc images for Intel/AMD(x86_64) and ARM64(AArch4). How did this start? My goal as developer of HeliumOS is to produce a Linux-based desktop operating system that is user-friendly, stable, and reliable. The first foray towards this goal used a Debian base, however this had some issues: Debian has 3-5 years of support. Though stable rel...| Blog on AlmaLinux
We’ve attended quite a few events in the US this summer! In June, we attended Southeast LinuxFest in Charlotte, North Carolina. In July, we traveled to Denver, Colorado for Academy Open Source Days and SIGGRAPH 2024. This month, we went to Rochester, New York for Flock to Fedora. Let’s talk about what we loved about each of them. Southeast LinuxFest SouthEast LinuxFest is a community event for anyone who wants to learn more about Linux and Open Source Software. This relatively small eve...| Blog on AlmaLinux
We’re happy to announce that ELevate just received the biggest update since 2021 when the project was first announced. How did we get here For anyone new, ELevate allows you to upgrade in-place from older Enterprise Linux distributions to supported versions. It uses the Leapp utility with a few patches and a data library called leapp-data. Last month we announced that ELevateNG would get promoted to stable this week, and after tons of community-contributed feedback, the time is here!| Blog on AlmaLinux
This blog post is a companion to a talk that Jonathan gave at Flock to Fedora 2024: From Zero to Everywhere: AlmaLinux’s High-Speed Mirrorlist Evolution In August of 2021 we first launched our new and improved mirror system, including the geo-location feature that allows users to automatically use the closest mirror to them. This had the incredible benefit of making sure users had the fastest access to updates possible. In the time since we launched, we’ve grown from around 100 mirror ser...| Blog on AlmaLinux
I’m proud to announce three more Silver Sponsor Members of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation! We’re so grateful for the contributions of our every-growing list of sponsors, as more and more companies prove that they believe in what we do. Here’s a little bit about each of the three newly announced members. Codenotary Codenotary (www.codenotary.com), as the leading company for secure software supply chain, brings trust and integrity into the software life cycle by providing end-to-end cryptog...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Note: this package moved to stable on August 8th, 2024 If you installed this package for testing, you can revert to the stable version with these steps: dnf remove almalinux-release-testing dnf update ############# original below ############# Testers needed: glibc regression in 9.4 Recently, the VFX community was faced with a regression in glibc causing instability for very commonly used software in RHEL 9.4 and distributions based on it. The fix has been available upstream but was only rele...| AlmaLinux OS
I’m excited to be joining an upcoming webinar with Virtuozzo, one of our newest Sponsor Members at the Foundation. I’ll be talking about how and why folks use AlmaLinux and learning from Virtuozzo’s Ihor Kolodiuk (Director of Cross-Platform Architecture) and Tetiana Fydorenchyk (Director of Global Product Marketing). In my early days in the hosting industry, I was tasked with monitoring our fleet of servers often, and learning how to manage Virtuozzo instances was critical, so Virtuozzo...| Blog on AlmaLinux
Hey Community! We have been doing a ton of work to automate our image creation, and have been making some important changes for AlmaLinux 9.4 and 8.10 images. While the image updates come out quickly after version releases now, we still wanted to highlight some improvements and changes we’ve made. We have also heard from some of you that you have come to rely on this announcement, so here it is for AlmaLinux 9.| Blog on AlmaLinux
AlmaLinux OS 9 is impacted by a newly disclosed vulnerability in OpenSSH’s server (sshd) in glibc-based Linux systems similiar to last week’s CVE-2024-6387. The new vulnerability has been assigned the identifier CVE-2024-6409. It involves a signal handler race condition, which could expose your system to potential security risks. At AlmaLinux, we place security first and we are committed to delivering patches to our users as quickly as possible, especially when our community needs them.| Blog on AlmaLinux
On June 30th CentOS 7 hit end of life, ending the long-loved and widely used CentOS Linux era. While the CentOS Project continues on with CentOS Stream, much of the world still needs another option for updates or upgrading with CentOS 7. The AlmaLinux community has a few options for you. (if you are seeing this post after July of 2024, check the AlmaLinux Wiki for the Always Up To Date directions)| Blog on AlmaLinux
Hello, Community! We are excited to see our ELevate Project growing and to share updates with you. To keep it going, we need your help and support - we are looking for contributors and testers for the ELevate NG. Unless we encounter any blockers, the current version of ELevateNG will move to stable the week of August 5th. Testing time! In January we announced the availability of ELevateNG (Next Generation) for testing.| AlmaLinux OS
Earlier today, we announced that our friends at Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd, have renewed their platinum sponsor membership. As a subsidiary of SB Technology Corp, this level of commitment to the foundation is huge, and we cannot thank them enough. Last year when Cybertrust Japan approached us, we knew that we were welcoming a partners. They are anticipating using AlmaLinux as the base for MIRACLE LINUX 10, and have spent the last year contributing to AlmaLinux in a number of ways, including ex...| Blog on AlmaLinux
If you are running an AlmaLinux OS 9 machine, you need to know about a vulnerability in OpenSSH’s server (sshd) in glibc-based Linux systems that was published earlier today, July 1, 2024. It has been assigned the identifier CVE-2024-6387 and named regreSSHion. This vulnerability is exploitable remotely and grants unauthenticated root access. Security is our top priority at AlmaLinux and we aim to deliver patches to our users as quickly as possible.| AlmaLinux OS
We’re lucky to have a whole host of sponsors behind the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, and that list continues to grow. We recently issued yet another press release announcing yet another round of sponsors, but I haven’t been good about thanking those same sponsors here on our blog. Here’s a little bit about each of the sponsors we just announced, and then a little about the rest of the amazing companies that are giving back to open source by sponsoring us this year.| Blog on AlmaLinux
How Elevate supports business needs As long-time users of AlmaLinux, we were already familiar with Project ELevate for upgrading CentOS 7, but just a few weeks ago we got some exciting news. While we’ve been busy upgrading all our CentOS 7 servers to AlmaLinux 8 and higher, the ELevate Project now has the ability to upgrade CentOS 6 servers too! whoami and a bit about our systems I’m David from the Netherlands, and I try to spread the feeling I experience myself while working within the h...| AlmaLinux OS
Raspberry Pi 5 support has been much anticipated in the AlmaLinux community, and today we are very excited to share great news. AlmaLinux now has support for Raspberry Pi 5! How it all started When I joined the AlmaLinux Community, I had a keen interest in Raspberry Pi images. Raspberry Pi is widely known for its role in teaching computing and programming and is also a favorite among DIY enthusiasts. Living in Japan, where the Raspberry Pi community is exceptionally active, I felt inspired to...| AlmaLinux OS
AlmaLinux 8.10 Stable Now Available Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 8.10 codenamed “Cerulean Leopard”! Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Torrents are available as well at: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) How we build AlmaLinux matches release and software versions with Red...| AlmaLinux OS
I’m excited to be hosting a meetup (co-hosted with Microsoft Azure) alongside Claus Wieser from the Azure Linux team at Microsoft! Date/Time: Tuesday 28 May 2024, 11:00 → 11:40 America/New_York Register here to be sent the link just before the event. Highlights This was originally planned to be a more traditional webinar, but we’ve decided to shift it to something closer to a meetup. You’ll be able to ask questions directly to us, and even join us on camera!| Blog on AlmaLinux
It’s hard to believe that the first AlmaLinux stable release was over three years ago, but what a ride it’s been! In those three years, we’ve grown from a small group of interested hobbyists and professionals to a fully formed organization, 501(c)(6) registered, with contributors of all types from every stretch of the globe. To say we’re proud of the progress we’ve seen and how the Linux community has adopted us would be an understatement, and with that support comes a responsibilit...| AlmaLinux OS
I’m excited to be joining an upcoming webinar with one of our sponsors: Tuxcare. Alongside Artem Karasev, Senior Product Marketing Manager at TuxCare, I’ll be talking about the new additions to ELevate, along with all of the things our community members need for upgrading their OS using ELevate! If you’re already in, Register now! Webinar highlights How to use the ELevate tool to migrate and/or upgrade your enterprise Linux deployments to a new distribution, including AlmaLinux, CentOS...| AlmaLinux OS
AlmaLinux 9.4 Stable Now Available Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.4 codenamed “Seafoam Ocelot”! Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Torrents are available as well at: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) How we build Matching release and software versions with Red Hat Enterpri...| AlmaLinux OS
I am proud to announce the formation of the AlmaLinux community’s newest Special Interest Group, the High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence SIG. The establishment of the AlmaLinux HPC & AI SIG The AlmaLinux HPC and AI SIG is dedicated to supporting and guiding individuals and organizations in leveraging the full potential of AlmaLinux for their high-performance computing and artificial intelligence endeavors. With its exceptional performance, security, and scalability, AlmaL...| Blog on AlmaLinux
AlmaLinux Day: Germany - Recap This past March, we hosted AlmaLinux Day: Germany right next to CloudFest in Rust, Germany. Similar to AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo in December 2023, AlmaLinux Day: Germany focused on the needs and desires of the AlmaLinux community. Sessions covered everything from VFX to HPC to people using AlmaLinux as an upstream provider – from all over the world. We had nearly 300 attendees, we were elated to engage with our community in such a tangible way.| AlmaLinux OS
Last month we highlighted our achievements from the CloudFest Hackathon, including our work on a significant improvement for the ELevate project. The Hackathon Team started working on enabling the migration of CentOS 6 machines to CentOS 7 within the ELevate Project. Today, we are proud to announce that CentOS 6 to CentOS 7 migrations are now a reality in ELevate, making this migration available to users. The reasons behind One of the ways that CloudLinux gives back to the open source communi...| AlmaLinux OS
Preamble I remember back in March when I went to CloudFest I was so excited to meet benny Vasquez, the chair of AlmaLinux OS Foundation, and when I got the chance to speak to her she gave me a lot of inspiration to contribute to AlmaLinux in any way I can. First thing I did when I got back home was open an account in the AlmaLinux chat and the AlmaLinux Forums to start engaging with the community.| AlmaLinux OS
AlmaLinux 8.10 Beta Now Available Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the availability of AlmaLinux 8.10 Beta “Cerulean Leopard” for all supported architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Beta ISOs are available at repo.almalinux.org. A usual reminder: this is a BETA release. It should not be used for production installations. The provided upgrade instructions should not be used on production machines unless you have back...| AlmaLinux OS
AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Now Available Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the availability of AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta “Seafoam Ocelot” for all supported architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Beta ISOs are available at repo.almalinux.org. A usual reminder: this is a BETA release. It should not be used for production installations. The provided upgrade instructions should not be used on production machines unless you don’t mind ...| AlmaLinux OS
The new AlmaLinux releases are coming shortly (expect our beta releases for 9.4 and 8.10 over the next couple of weeks!), and we’d like to talk about one of the vital components of each system - its security. It’s important to keep your system secure and one of the easiest ways that is rarely talked about is by enabling Secure Boot. AlmaLinux OS has provided Secure Boot since its 8.4 release.| AlmaLinux OS
Update, April 3rd, 2024 The patches for CVE-2024-1086 are now available in production repos. For AlmaLinux 8, you are looking for kernel-4.18.0-513.18.2.el8_9 or higher. [root@host ~]# rpm -qa kernel kernel-4.18.0-513.18.2.el8_9.x86_64 [root@host ~]# For Almalinux 9, you are looking for kernel-5.14.0-362.24.2.el9_3 or higher [root@host ~]# rpm -qa kernel kernel-5.14.0-362.24.2.el9_3.x86_64 [root@host ~]# Thank you to everyone who tested these patches! ========= CVE-2024-1086 - call for testin...| AlmaLinux OS
March has been a whirlwind, and in the last two weeks, our event teams visited two sides of the world! In March, we saw both Pasadena, California, and Rust, Germany! Let’s talk about what we loved about each event. SCaLE 21x The 21st iteration of the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) kicked off on March 14th, and we were fortunate enough to have a booth staffed by a member of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation.| AlmaLinux OS
Earlier this month, we had three back-to-back events: CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, and our AlmaLinux Leadership Summit. Here’s what to know about them for those who weren’t there, and a little bit about what’s to come. CentOS Connect CentOS Connect is always a great place for us to connect with the folks most invested in one of our favorite upstream projects. We met tons of people and learned a ton! At this year’s event our Cloud and Virt Team Lead Elkhan Mammadli was able to share a talk ...| Blog on AlmaLinux
In December, we hosted the first AlmaLinux Day in Tokyo. As a user-focused event that brought together our community from all over Japan, this wildly successful event focused on the needs and desires of the open source community in Japan. We had nearly 100 attendees and 7 speakers from different industries! We’re excited to build on that momentum with AlmaLinux Day: Germany, coming to Europa Park Rust on March 18th. AlmaLinux Day: Germany As CentOS enters its final six months of support, ...| AlmaLinux OS
Last December we hosted the very first AlmaLinux Day in Tokyo. As a user-focused event that brought together our community from all over Japan, this wildly successful event focused on the needs and desires of the open source community in Japan. We had nearly 100 attendees and 7 speakers from different industries. The Talks We had 7 presentations throughout the day, either presented in English with real-time translation to Japanese, or in Japanese.| AlmaLinux OS
Hello, Community! We are excited to share that we are about to release a great deal of updates for the ELevate Project. ELevate now supports EPEL and more ELevate, a fork of Red Hat’s Leapp project, supports migrations between CentOS 7 and Enterprise Linux (EL) 8, and between EL8 and EL9 systems. It has helped more than 50,000 systems upgrade in place, allowing our global community to easily keep their infrastructure updated and more secure.| AlmaLinux OS
To address some of the common community questions that we are getting, we are excited to share that we will be creating short Q&A videos that will be shared on some of our most common outreach platforms. You may have seen the first of these videos shared on our channels in November, which was a short conversation between Andrew and I. Want to get involved? If you have any burning questions about AlmaLinux, let us know on the forums!| AlmaLinux OS
Hey Community! We’re just sharing some news on both AlmaLinux 9.3 and 8.9 images updates. Cloud and Container Images Updates and Changes AlmaLinux OS provides a variety of cloud images, so we’ve been updating them to 9.3 and 8.9 versions including: Amazon AWS Starting AlmaLinux OS versions 8.9 and 9.3 Amazon Machine images have UEFI boot support. Thus boot mode was changed to the uefi-preferred meaning that UEFI will be chosen on the supported instance types.| AlmaLinux OS
Late last year we experienced a system failure that resulted in the loss of the master key that would allow us to extend the life of the GPG key that we use to sign packages for AlmaLinux 8, and it is set to expire in January of 2024. While we have ensured that this won’t happen again, some users will need to take specific steps to import the new GPG key.| AlmaLinux OS
The 2023 election has concluded and I am elated to announce our two newest members: 吉田淳 (Jun Yoshida) and Alejandro (Alex) Iribarren. 2023 Election Results As you’ll recall, we are expanding the board this year to include a greater variety of voices that are driving the future of AlmaLinux. Adding to the diversity of our leadership team, Jun and Alex bring entirely new sections of AlmaLinux OS users to the group, ensuring that our leadership continues to move the project forward with ...| AlmaLinux OS
2023 was a big year for the AlmaLinux community. As the year draws to a close, let’s take a look back at some big milestones! New versions of AlmaLinux OS 2023 marked the release of AlmaLinux 9.2, AlmaLinux 8.8, AlmaLinux 9.3, and AlmaLinux 8.9! Thanks to our amazing Core, Build, and Infra SIGs, our first releases this year were out at lightning speed. Even with the expanded testing that we’ve added with our implementation of OpenQA, 9.| AlmaLinux OS
Hello, Community! Today, AlmaLinux OS Foundation is eager to share some big news concerning our ELevate project, an initiative to support migrations between major versions of RHEL-derivatives. Previously, the project only provided support for official operating systems repositories, excluding external repositories. However, the AlmaLinux Team made significant improvements. We are thrilled to announce that the first step in EPEL support is now included in the ELevate project, enabling smooth m...| AlmaLinux OS
In just over two months we’ll be returning to FOSDEM again with a stand, a bunch of friends, and this time we get to help host the Distros Dev Room! What is a Developer Room? From the FOSDEM website: Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc. The general idea is that a group of people get together to organize a mini-event inside the FOSDEM umbrella.| AlmaLinux OS
Hello again AlmaLinux Community! We last posted about the AlmaLinux OS 8 CIS benchmark almost two years ago. We’ve recently released the second update to that - v3.0.0 which was tested on AlmaLinux 8.8 and are about to start working on the first update to the AlmaLinux OS 9 CIS benchmark for 9.2. So I thought it’s about time we explained what it’s all about. What are CIS benchmarks? The Center for Internet Security, to quote their website, is a community-driven nonprofit, responsible fo...| AlmaLinux OS
AlmaLinux 8.9 Stable Now Available Hello Сommunity! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 8.9 codenamed “Midnight Oncilla”! Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Torrents are available as well at: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Update from Other AlmaLinux 8.x, ELevate from CentOS 7 Users of...| AlmaLinux OS
AlmaLinux 9.3 Stable Now Available Hello Сommunity. The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.3 codenamed “Shamrock Pampas Cat”! Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Torrents are available as well at: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers AlmaLinux also offer...| AlmaLinux OS
While the Core SIG and Infrastructure SIG have been hard at work bringing us AlmaLinux 9.3 (and prepping AlmaLinux 8.9 for next week), the Marketing SIG has been working on another exciting announcement: an event focused entirely on AlmaLinux. Already in? Reserve your spot at AlmaLinux Day Tokyo now! Announcing AlmaLinux Day Tokyo AlmaLinux Day Tokyo on December 9th, is an exciting event dedicated to all things AlmaLinux! Our team will be at the beautiful Internet Initiative, along with 150 ...| AlmaLinux OS
AlmaLinux 8.9 Beta Now Available Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the availability of AlmaLinux 8.9 Beta “Midnight Oncilla” for all supported architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Beta ISOs are available at repo.almalinux.org. As usual, a simple reminder, this is a BETA release. It should not be used for production installations. The provided upgrade instructions should not be used on production machines unless you ...| AlmaLinux OS
AlmaLinux 9.3 Beta Now Available Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the availability of AlmaLinux 9.3 Beta “Shamrock Pampas Cat” for all supported architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Beta ISOs are available at repo.almalinux.org. As usual, a simple reminder, this is a BETA release. It should not be used for production installations. The provided upgrade instructions should not be used on production machines unless y...| AlmaLinux OS