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AlmaLinux Day: Germany 2026 — Full Schedule Announced

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We’re just 9 days out from AlmaLinux Day: Germany 2026, and the full schedule is here!

On Thursday, March 26, we’ll be taking over the Convento room at Europa-Park in Rust, Germany for a full day of talks, a panel, and the kind of hallway conversations that make these events so worthwhile. AlmaLinux Day: Germany happens during the final day of CloudFest 2026, so you’ll also have access to the legendary CloudFest BierFest to close out the evening.

AlmaLinux goes RISC-V: Kitten 10 now available for riscv64

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

RISC-V is a free and open instruction set architecture (ISA) based on RISC principles. Unlike proprietary ISAs such as x86 or ARM, the RISC-V specification is openly available, allowing anyone to implement it without licensing fees. Hardware platforms based on RISC-V are becoming more widely available, from microcontrollers to application-class processors capable of running full Linux distributions.

We are excited to announce that AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 is now available for the RISC-V architecture.

Call for testing - firewalld ipset performance fix for AlmaLinux 8

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

For years, firewalld users across multiple Linux distributions have been hitting a painful performance issue: reloading the firewall with large ipsets (10,000+ entries) and the nftables backend takes minutes instead of seconds, often causing network disruption. The problem has been reported upstream as well as in Debian, Red Hat Bugzilla, and by our community. We’ve investigated the root cause, developed a fix, and submitted it upstream where it has already been merged. Now we need your help testing the patched package for AlmaLinux 8 before releasing it to production.

Introducing AlmaLinux Astra: Self-Service Memberships and Elections Portal

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today we’re rolling out AlmaLinux Astra: a new self-service platform for identity, organizations, memberships, and elections for the AlmaLinux OS Foundation.

Astra is built to keep workflows clear, accountable, and easy to audit. It helps contributors and communities move from “who are you?” to “you can participate” with fewer manual handoffs and more transparent status updates.

Astra will replace the current Noggin-based system at https://accounts.almalinux.org. It’s inspired by Noggin, but built entirely from scratch using Django.

AlmaLinux in 2026

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every year, around FOSDEM, the AlmaLinux SIG leaders, ALESCo members, and board members are invited to attend the AlmaLinux Leadership Summit. The goal of the summit is to get everyone in a room to have discussions around the major problems we’re facing, ensure that what we’re doing in the year to come is focused on our goals, work out any friction between SIGs, and make sure that everyone in leadership is united around what we want to accomplish. This year we had one of our most productive conversations yet, and I’m excited to share some of those goals with you here.

AlmaLinux and NVIDIA Streamline Driver and CUDA Updates

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Last August we started shipping NVIDIA’s open GPU kernel modules, and saw incredible amounts of adoption and excitement about that announcement!

Today we are excited to share that with the release of version 13.2, NVIDIA has added official support for enterprise Linux compatible distributions, including AlmaLinux, to CUDA. That means that users of NVIDIA hardware can receive support for NVIDIA drivers and CUDA on AlmaLinux within NVIDIA’s supported configurations.

We are also excited to be able to ship NVIDIA’s CUDA drivers in an official AlmaLinux repository - streamlining updates and uses of NVIDIA for AlmaLinux users worldwide.

AlmaLinux Days in two great cities!

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AlmaLinux days have been a fantastic way for us to gather parts of our community together. Whether adjacent to other events, or completely independent, we are always so happy to connect and hear from the users who are impacted by what we do every day.

I’m so excited to announce the next two AlmaLinux days for 2026: Germany (in just under a month), and Los Angeles.

Why AlmaLinux days exist

AlmaLinux is built by a global community, but so much of what makes open source meaningful happens in person. When you sit across from someone and hear how AlmaLinux powers their render farm, their university lab, or their small business — that’s when the work feels real.

2025 AlmaLinux Year in Review

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

2025 was another year of growth and excitement for AlmaLinux. Here’s a look back at what we achieved, all thanks to our amazing community! Whether you’ve been involved from the start, just recently joined us, or have yet to start contributing, we’d like to thank you for being a part of this community.

AlmaLinux OS versions and AlmaLinux OS Kitten Updates

Our main goal is to provide stable, secure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux-compatible releases of AlmaLinux OS. In 2025, we released AlmaLinux OS 9.6, 10.0, 9.7, and 10.1.

Shim bootloader updated, impacting secure boot for ARM64

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We have updated the shim bootloader to version 16.1 for AlmaLinux 9.7 and 10.1, following the same pattern that users will see in RHEL releases. This update includes a change in the UEFI Secure Boot signing key for the aarch64 (ARM64) architecture that our users should be aware of.

What is shim?

For those unfamiliar, shim is an open-source bootloader that acts as a bridge between the UEFI firmware and the operating system during the boot process. It is essential for Secure Boot support, as it verifies the signature of the boot loader before loading the operating system. You can learn more about how AlmaLinux handles Secure Boot in our earlier blog post.

Announcing Returning Silver Sponsor Members - Codenotary, Fastly, and StorPool Storage AD

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today, we issued a press release announcing three returning silver sponsor members of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, and I wanted to thank them here as well! We’re always blown away by the support of new and returning sponsor members. Here’s a little bit about each of these three returning silver sponsor members.

Codenotary

Codenotary delivers software trust and integrity solutions that protect the entire software development lifecycle for hundreds of customers worldwide, including the world’s leading banks, governments, and defense organizations. Its platform brings easy-to-use trust and integrity into modern software pipelines through advanced AI models that detect attack patterns in real time. Designed for rapid deployment and seamless integration with modern CI/CD environments, Codenotary helps organizations secure their software supply chains, ensure authenticity, and reduce operational risk at scale.

Major ELevate updates - AlmaLinux now supported in upstream LEAPP

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier this year at DevConf, I learned of some upcoming changes that were going to impact ELevate. The work with the team at Red Hat has completed, and we are excited to say that, as of November 18th, the newest update to ELevate has been released.

What is ELevate?

In case you have not yet heard of ELevate: ELevate is an AlmaLinux project that, since 2021 has provided the ability to upgrade between major versions of RHEL-based distributions.

Save the date - AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo January 23rd!

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Our friends in the Japan AlmaLinux Users Group are planning the next AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo!

The event will be held on January 23rd at the Fujitsu Uvance Kawasaki Tower. Register today to save your spot! If you have questions, feel free to join the User Group - Japan

This will be our first AlmaLinux Day in 2026, but it won’t be our last! Make sure to keep an eye on events.almalinux.org, or sign up for our newsletter, so you can find out about the one closest to you!

Announcing the AlmaLinux Media & Entertainment SIG: The frontline for VFX, Animation, and post

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The AlmaLinux community is thrilled to announce the formation of our newest Special Interest Group: the Media & Entertainment SIG!

This group is dedicated to supporting and enhancing the use of AlmaLinux within the professional visual effects (VFX), animation, and post-production industry. With recent changes, licensing and support costs are creating significant disruption in the M&E software ecosystem.The need for a stable, community-owned, enterprise-grade Linux platform has never been more urgent.

AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver Recap

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver took place in August, and what a great event it was! As our virst time in Vancouver, and our first event adjacent to SIGGRAPH, we had no idea what to expect, but it was a blast! Keep reading to get a full rundown of what went on at the event.

Event Preparation

We had a wonderful team of volunteers help us with the set up, including prepping the swag giveaways, setting up the event space, staffing the check-in desk, and helping with teardown at the end. We can’t thank them enough!

General Availability of AlmaLinux OS 10.1 Stable!

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

AlmaLinux OS 10.1 Stable Now Available

Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 10.1 codenamed “Heliotrope Lion”!

Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all architectures:

Torrents are available as well at:

ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers

AlmaLinux also offers a variety of Cloud, Container and Live Images. The builds for these get kicked off as soon as the public repository is ready.

General Availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.7 Stable!

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

AlmaLinux OS 9.7 Stable Now Available

Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.7 codenamed “Moss Jungle Cat”!

Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures:

Torrents are available as well at:

ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers

AlmaLinux also offers a variety of Cloud, Container and Live Images. The builds for these get kicked off as soon as the public repository is ready.

AlmaLinux 10.1 Beta Now Available!

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community!

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the availability of AlmaLinux 10.1 Beta “Heliotrope 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.

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 looking to see how things are going to work in the stable release, you are on the right track.

Announcing Btrfs support in AlmaLinux OS 10.1

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Announcing Btrfs support in AlmaLinux OS 10.1

AlmaLinux OS 10.1 will support the Btrfs filesystem, which has already been available in AlmaLinux OS Kitten since early September.

What is Btrfs?

Btrfs is a modern Copy-on-Write (CoW) filesystem implementing advanced features while also focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration. Among other things, it provides snapshotting, built-in volume management, checksumming for data and metadata, transparent compression and efficient copying via reflinks. These features lead to better performance for most common workloads and stronger resistance against bitrot and other potential issues with the underlying storage medium. Btrfs is already supported by a variety of Linux distributions, and is the default filesystem for several of them, notably Fedora Linux and openSUSE.

AlmaLinux 9.7 Beta Now Available!

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community!

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the availability of AlmaLinux 9.7 Beta “Moss Jungle 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.

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 looking to see how things going to work in stable, you are on the right track.

AlmaLinux OS Foundation Election rescheduled for March 2026

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We have identified some inconsistencies within our internal guidelines that could potentially call into question the current election. To ensure that we are properly aligning our processes, bylaws, and committee guidelines, we are canceling the current election and rescheduling it for March of 2026.

The inconsistencies

Last week, the membership committee identified a potential problem in the way that we handled the nominations for this election, specifically with regard to who did the nominating. We also identified some problems with how we renewed memberships for existing members earlier this year.

Enabling CRB by default for AlmaLinux 10

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

AlmaLinux OS 10 will have the CRB repository turned on by default via an update in AlmaLinux OS 10.0 on 2025-09-09, while AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 has had it enabled by default since the update on 2025-08-27 (almalinux-kitten-repos-10.0-9.el10.0.1).

As part of our efforts to continue improving the experience for AlmaLinux users, we are enabling the CRB repository by default. This reduces the friction in using software from Fedora Extra Packages from Enterprise Linux (EPEL).

3 reasons to join the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 to articulate. I wanted to take a second to explain why I think it’s important.

AlmaLinux OS 9 and 10 - Now with Native Support for NVIDIA

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 enabling native NVIDIA Open GPU driver support - with Secure Boot. Thanks to ALESCo, the NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel module, and this approved RFC, AlmaLinux 9 and 10 solve many pain points of NVIDIA users by shipping NVIDIA’s open source graphics driver as a kernel module, along with a repository config for many of the common userspace and CUDA components. With AlmaLinux 9 and 10 and the new NVIDIA packages, a few dnf commands are all that stand between users and a fully-integrated NVIDIA experience.

Volunteer at AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver!

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 community-owned operating system, powered by people who care about open source and want to see it thrive. Our events are no different—they’re built by volunteers, for the community.

First round of speakers announced for AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver!

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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.

ELevate to EL 10!

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 remain on the system after the upgrade.
Docker CE
PostgreSQL

If there are additional 3rd-party repositories you’d like to see supported, it is easy for you to help us! Take a look at the ELevate Contribute Guide.

x86_64_v2 EPEL Now Covers AlmaLinux 10 Stable

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 latest stable packages, grab their SRPMs, and rebuild them using the AlmaLinux Build System. These rebuilt packages are signed with a dedicated GPG key and then released to a dedicated repository.

Call for testing - libblockdev CVE-2025-6019 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 on most Linux distributions, and allows an “allow_active” user to gain full root privileges. Although CVE-2025-6019 on its own requires existing allow_active context, chaining it with CVE-2025-6018 enables a purely unprivileged attacker to achieve full root access.

Call for testing - VMWare open-vm-tools CVE-2025-22247

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 the Moderate severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 6.1.

2025 AlmaLinux Community Survey

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 Cloud, Container and Live Media Images Updates

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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:

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. You can also get container images from GitHub packages
bootc images

If you want to contribute to Cloud or Container images, or have any questions, please check with the Cloud SIG.

Cybertrust Japan renews as a Platinum Sponsor Member

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 software has for enterprise businesses, no matter the industry.

AlmaLinux OS 10 - usability without compromising compatibility

Tue, 27 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 specific sections of our userbase. They are for users who require them and know how to use them. Anyone using AlmaLinux OS and anticipating RHEL compatibility will be happy to know that AlmaLinux 10, just as its predecessors, is fully compatible with RHEL 10.

x86_64_v2 EPEL for the Enterprise Linux 10 World

Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 will no longer cover x86_64_v2 use-cases for version 10.

General Availability of AlmaLinux 9.6 Stable!

Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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:

Torrents are available as well at:

ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers

AlmaLinux also offers a variety of Cloud, Container and Live Images. The builds for these get kicked off as soon as the public repository is ready.

AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver Set for August 9, 2025 --- Call for Speakers Now Open

Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 the VFX and post-production industries.

CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, FOSSASIA, SCaLE, CloudFest

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 already used in it production.

Announcing: AlmaLinux OS Foundation Elections

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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:

AlmaLinux OS Now Available via WSL CLI!

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 install the needed AlmaLinux OS directly from the CLI tool using a simple command:

2024 AlmaLinux Recap

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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.

AlmaLinux 9.6 Beta Now Available!

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 looking to see how things going to work in stable, you are on the right track.

Spring 2025 Raspberry Pi Updates

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 partition table are available in AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10. That means that the Raspberry Pi 3+ will not be supported for AlmaLinux OS 10 or AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10.

ELevate Testing now ready for AlmaLinux 10!

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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, the AlmaLinux Team releases them to ELevate Stable.

Today’s changes are available in ELevate NG and ELevate Testing. We expect them to be released to Stable after the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 10 Stable.

Call for testing - FreeType CVE-2025-27363

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

UPDATE March 17th, 2025 - these patches have now been released to production for AlmaLinux users.

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 allocate too small of a heap buffer. The code then writes up to 6 signed long integers out of bounds relative to this buffer. This may result in arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability may have been exploited in the wild.

Meet us at CloudFest

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 surprise longtime attendees and first-timers alike.

ALESCo - Updates and requests!

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Call for testing - OpenSSH CVE-2025-26465

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

UPDATE March 13th, 2025 - these patches have now been released to production for AlmaLinux users.

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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 pre-authentication denial-of-service attack.

ELevate to CentOS Stream 10!

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 issues and ensure a smoother upgrade for users.

AlmaLinux at CentOS Connect and FOSDEM 2025

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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!

Rsync Vulnerabilities - Patching Status

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 a malicious server to read arbitrary files (CVE-2024-12086), create unsafe symlinks (CVE-2024-12087), and, under certain conditions, overwrite arbitrary files (CVE-2024-12088). Additionally, during the coordinated response to these issues, Aleksei Gorban reported a sixth vulnerability (CVE-2024-12747) related to how the rsync server manages symlinks.

ELevate Project Updates

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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. Early testing allows us to identify and address potential issues and before the stable release ensuring the stable upgrade for users.

Meet the board - benny Vasquez

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 some other fun things. Learn a bit more about me and my background by watching the video, or check out the transcript below!

Ending 2024 with 9 events in 4 months

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 to get to know our new friend Luis.

AlmaLinux Cloud, Container and Live Media Images Updates

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 Cloud
- New langpacks-en package to add en_US.UTF-8 setting it as a default locale.
OpenNebula
- New langpacks-en package to add en_US.UTF-8 setting it as a default locale.
Microsoft Azure
- New langpacks-en package to add en_US.UTF-8 setting it as a default locale.
- Added sos and tcpdump packages for troubleshooting and log collection tools.
- Added nfs-utils and cifs-utils packages to support mounting NFS and SMB file shares from Azure Files or any NFS and SMB filesystems.

You can find more details in the Cloud Images Changelog at the AlmaLinux Wiki. The complete list of installed packages for AlmaLinux Cloud images, starting with this version, is available on the cloud-images git repository

AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Updates

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 critical changes.

A Personal Journey: Volunteering at Nerdearla, Buenos Aires with AlmaLinux

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 have a great passion for technology, and a love of the open-source community. I strongly believe in the power of collaboration and cooperation especially between a diverse group of people. AlmaLinux, being a community-driven open-source project, resonates with me deeply, and I wanted to find a way to contribute in any way I could! Even before I got to Nerdearla, I felt the incredible excitement of the intelligent minds coming together to do something new in a creative way, which eventually appears to be a highly-demanded product. And as a newcomer to Argentina, I was tempted to join a new event as well.

AlmaLinux 10.0 Beta Now Available

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 provide deeper insights into our build process.

Announcing AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo 2024

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 initiatives. Alongside me, you can expect special appearances by some foundation members, some AlmaLinux user group members, and other industry experts! There will be valuable networking opportunities as well as an opportunity for attendees to share their own story in a “lightning talk” at the social gathering.

General Availability of AlmaLinux 9.5 Stable!

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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:

Torrents are available as well at:

ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers

AlmaLinux also offers a variety of Cloud, Container and Live Images. The builds for these get kicked off as soon as the public repository is ready.

Join us for the 2025 Fosdem Distros Room!

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Announcing Silver Sponsor Members - Fastly, AMD, world4you

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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.

AlmaLinux Named an Endorsed Distro in Microsoft Azure

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 their announcement as well.

AlmaLinux at ATO - 2024!

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Nov 12th - ALESCo meetup!

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 members will be able to make it, but we’ll have a good cross-section of the SIGs present, as well as our board chair.

Introducing AlmaLinux OS Kitten

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 able to deliver bug fixes and security patches faster than ever before for our community. We still keep our promise of compatibility with RHEL, and every deviation from RHEL is recorded in our release notes, but our build and infrastructure teams have been embracing that freedom even more.

Welcoming CloudLinux and Tuxcare - Platinum Sponsor Members

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 active contributors to AlmaLinux, and for the Linux and open source communities in general.

Announcing AlmaLinux 9.5 Beta!

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Azure Marketplace Updates

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Meet the board - Alex Iribarren

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In 2023 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.

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 full content below! If you’d like to see the videos of the other members, I’ve included the playlist at the end of this post.

AlmaLinux 9.2 FIPS Validation Update

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 Federal Information Processing Standards.

ELevate Project Updates

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 more details in the ELevate changelog.

Meet the board - Jun Yoshida

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 (despite a university major that may surprise you), his history with Unix/Linux, and his hopes for AlmaLinux. Learn a bit more about Jun by watching the video, or check out the transcript below!

Meet the board - Jack Aboutboul

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 very early days. In the video, he shares his history with Unix and Linux, his hopes for AlmaLinux, and why he’s so passionate about building community. Learn a bit more about Jack by watching the video, or read the full transcript below!

Announcing the AlmaLinux Certification SIG

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 most respected hardware providers in the world. Our most active engagement has been with SuperMicro, and we are so grateful to them for helping us improve and expand the Hardware Certification Program.

Bringing bootc to AlmaLinux

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 relative to most Linux distributions, I wanted more stability.
An unexpected interruption during a traditional Linux package manager update can render the system un-bootable or otherwise broken.

2 months ago, I learned of Image mode for RHEL, a new method of deploying RHEL that used OCI images for updates. Rebasing on Enterprise Linux and using bootc, the technology behind Image mode for RHEL would solve both of the issues that I found with Debian. After various experiments, HeliumOS announced an Alpha release based on CentOS Stream.

Southeast LinuxFest, Academy Open Source Days, SIGGRAPH, Flock to Fedora

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 event was a new one for me, and I’m so glad we went! I got to meet a couple of our contributors, have some really good conversations, and, even ensure that everyone there celebrated National Donut Day.

ELevate gets a huge update, plus 2 more OSes and hardware detection

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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! Let’s dive into what has been updated.

From 1 to 400 mirrors; The AlmaLinux Mirror System Story

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 servers to over 400. The majority of these mirrors are hosted at universities, businesses, and institutions that believe in our mission and want to show their support.

Announcing Silver Sponsor Members - Codenotary, ATIX AG, StorPool Storage AD

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 cryptographically verifiable tracking and provenance for all artifacts, actions and dependencies. Codenotary’s solution allows customers to identify and track billions of artifacts within their IT organizations and make sure only trusted and known components are used. Based in Houston, Texas, Codenotary was founded in 2018.

Testers needed: glibc regression in Enterprise Linux 9.4

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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

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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 released today to CentOS Stream 9. We need your help testing the fix before we consider releasing it ourselves.

Sponsor webinar: Raise Your Application Management Game: AlmaLinux and Virtuozzo in Action

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 has a special place in my heart. If you’d like to join us, register here!

AlmaLinux Cloud, Container and Live Media Images Updates

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 9.4 and 8.10.

AlmaLinux OS 9 Patching for CVE-2024-6409

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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. The decision to build the update and push the package to production without waiting for a CentOS Stream or RHEL update was made by our newly-formed technical steering committee, ALESCo.

How to get updates after CentOS 7 end of life

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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)

Get ready for ELevateNG

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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. ELevateNG is based on leapp version 0.19.0 and includes upstream features and bugfixes.

Welcoming Cybertrust Japan again as a Platinum Sponsor Member

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 expanding our SBOM support and they played a key role in organizing the first-ever AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo.

AlmaLinux OS 9 - CVE-2024-6387: regreSSHion

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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. The openssh patch for CVE-2024-6387 has been released and is available for AlmaLinux OS 9 users. The decision to build the update and push the package to production on our own (without a CentOS Stream/RHEL update) was made by our newly-formed technical steering committee, ALESCo.

2024 Sponsors of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation (so far)

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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.

AlmaLinux with Raspberry Pi 5 Support!

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 have a hand in boosting the popularity of AlmaLinux OS.

How ELevate supports business needs

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 hosting industry whenever I can. It really is something magical! My employer Bizway, a Dutch Managed Service Provider (MSP from now on) gives me the chance to explore all the different aspects that are on the table when providing services to customers.

General Availability of AlmaLinux 8.10 Stable!

Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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:

Torrents are available as well at:

How we build

AlmaLinux matches release and software versions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and builds from the same sources as RHEL, ensuring complete compatibility with RHEL, and does so from freely available open source code. If you are looking for a deeper understanding of how AlmaLinux is built, watch this 23-minute video of our Lead Architect explaining in detail at AlmaLinux Day: Germany, earlier this year:

Sponsor meetup: Migrating from CentOS 7 and Mythbusting Linux on Microsoft Azure

Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Update to add: If you missed this chat, you can watch the recording on our YouTube channel, and see the full deck used: Migrating from CentOS 7 and Mythbusting Linux on Microsoft Azure

I’m excited to be hosting a meetup (co-hosted with Microsoft Azure) alongside Claus Wieser from the Azure Linux team at Microsoft!

Introducing ALESCo: The AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee

Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 responsibility to ensure AlmaLinux is as technically proficient and responsible as it is valuable to the Linux community.

Sponsor Webinar: ELevate: Upgrading in Place for RHEL-based Distros Has Finally Arrived with Tuxcare

Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 Stream, Oracle Linux, and others
Why many organizations are opting to migrate their CentOS 6 and 7 systems to AlmaLinux as a community-owned, forever-free replacement distribution
How organizations can level up their AlmaLinux experience with affordable commercial support that delivers premium enterprise-grade services

Webinar Summary

With the end of life (EOL) of CentOS 7 less than two months away, many organizations are turning to the AlmaLinux OS Project’s ELevate tool to enable a smooth transition to other RHEL-based distributions.

General Availability of AlmaLinux 9.4 Stable!

Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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:

Torrents are available as well at:

How we build

Matching release and software versions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL), AlmaLinux builds from the same sources as RHEL, promises complete compatibility with RHEL, and does so from freely available open source code. This makes it the only choice for anyone looking for a truly open source Enterprise Linux. If you are looking for a deeper undertanding of how AlmaLinux is built, watch this 23 minute video of our Lead Architect explaining in detail at AlmaLinux Day: Germany, earlier this year.

Introducing the AlmaLinux HPC and AI SIG

Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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, AlmaLinux has emerged as the Linux distribution of choice for those seeking to push the boundaries of computational power and innovation in enterprise, universities, research institutions, and the cloud. As a truly community-backed enterprise Linux distro, AlmaLinux provides the ideal platform for developers, administrators, and researchers to collaborate and build upon for their research and HPC and AI deployments.The HPC and AI SIG is here to ensure that users have the resources, expertise, and community support needed to maximize the benefits of AlmaLinux in their HPC and AI projects.

AlmaLinux Day: Germany - Recap

Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Expanding ELevate support: CentOS 6 to CentOS 7 migrations

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 community is to contribute to and enhance the enterprise linux ecosystem beyond just the AlmaLinux Community. Alongside the community, we do our best to cover AlmaLinux users’ needs.

Why I wanted to help translate the AlmaLinux website to Hebrew

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Announcing AlmaLinux 8.10 Beta!

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 backups and a recovery option. Now if you want to test this release to see how things will work in 8.10 stable, you’re on the right track!

Announcing AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta!

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 if something breaks. Now if you wanna test this somehow, somewhere to see how things will work in 9.4 stable, you’re on the right track.

Secure boot with AlmaLinux

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 - CVE-2024-1086 and XZ

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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!

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CVE-2024-1086 - call for testing

In January of this year, a kernel flaw was disclosed and named CVE-2024-1086. This flaw is trivially exploitable on most RHEL-equivalent systems. There are many proof-of-concept posts available now, including one from our Infrastructure team lead, Jonathan Wright (Dealing with CVE-2024-1086). In multi-user scenarios, this flaw is especially problematic.

SCaLE 21x, Hackathon, AlmaLinux Day, and CloudFest!

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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. We got to see a ton of our community, and were especially excited to connect with a number of folks who wanted to contribute to AlmaLinux.

CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, and the AlmaLinux Leadership Summit!

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 about how we automated testing here at AlmaLinux with openQA and Testinfra. The talk was recorded, so you can watch it yourself!

What to expect at AlmaLinux Day: Germany

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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, everyone is wondering where to go next. The AlmaLinux community benefits from the stability and intentionality that we take to building a stable, free operating system. At AlmaLinux Day: Germany, we’ll share what we do and how we’re supporting our community.

AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo recap, announcing AlmaLinux Day: Germany, and more!

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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. The videos are all on YouTube, but I also describe them a bit below.

ELevate Project Updates

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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. The AlmaLinux community is constantly working on improving the project.

Q&A Videos + How to Get Involved

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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! And if you are interested in sharing your AlmaLinux knowledge and want to flex your public speaking chops, we’re looking for community members to feature in the Q&A videos. You can drop a message in the ~marketing channel letting us know you’re interested.

AlmaLinux Cloud, Container and Live Media Images Updates

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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. We are planning to publish separate AMIs with enabled Secure Boot and NitroTPM(vTPM) support.
Generic Cloud
- Starting AlmaLinux OS 8.9 Generic Cloud images have hybrid - BIOS and UEFI - boot support. The download URLs of the UEFI images are symlinked to the current image for compatibility.
OpenNebula
- Starting AlmaLinux OS 8.9 Generic Cloud images have hybrid - BIOS and UEFI - boot support.
Microsoft Azure images for x86_64 and AArch64 architectures
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Container images have been updated as well. You can get official Docker images and OCI Images from Quay.io.

AlmaLinux 8 GPG key change

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Meet our two new board members!

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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 everyone in mind.

A look back at 2023 for AlmaLinux

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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, 9.2 was released the same day as RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 9.2, and 8.8 was released just 2 days after RHEL 8.8! After we changed our release process in July, we expected longer delays for AlmaLinux 9.3 and 8.9, but even those were only a week behind RHEL.

Bringing EPEL support to the ELevate project

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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 migrations between CentOS7 and AlmaLinux 8.

Join us in the Distributions Dev Room for FOSDEM 2024!

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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. The groups of folks submit a proposal to the FOSDEM organizers, and then recruit content and build a schedule for the room. Everyone involved is likely to be a volunteer, but the content is always extremely beneficial, and presented by leaders and experts on their topics.

CIS Benchmarks Update

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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 for the CIS Controls and CIS Benchmarks, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data.

Announcing AlmaLinux 8.9 Stable!

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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:

Torrents are available as well at:

Update from Other AlmaLinux 8.x, ELevate from CentOS 7

Users of earlier versions of AlmaLinux 8.x can update to the latest version via dnf update or from graphical desktop tools.

Announcing AlmaLinux 9.3 Stable!

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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:

Torrents are available as well at:

ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers

AlmaLinux also offers a variety of Cloud, Container and Live Images. The builds for these get kicked off as soon as the public repository is ready. The following images are expected to be available shortly.

Announcing AlmaLinux Day Tokyo!

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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 new friends to talk about the current state and future of AlmaLinux. Alongside me, you can expect special apparencies by Igor Seletskiy, the man who got us started, and Yohei Suzuki from Cybertrust Japan, discussing the status of the industry and all the things we’re excited to share.

Announcing AlmaLinux 8.9 Beta!

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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 don’t mind if something breaks. Now if you wanna test this somehow, somewhere to see how things will work in 8.9 stable, you’re on the right track.

Announcing AlmaLinux 9.3 Beta!

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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.

AlmaLinux for DataScience, Containers, and ARM

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Note: This post is a bit of a departure from what you normally see on the AlmaLinux blog, but we would love to share more stories like this! If you would like to write a post about how AlmaLinux helps you in your daily life, reach out to benny.

The College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) uses AlmaLinux, among other Linux distributions, in regular day-to-day operations. One such use case for AlmaLinux is the build infrastructure behind data science environments that serve hundreds to thousands of students per term.

FIPS Validation for AlmaLinux OS

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Note: We want to thank the folks at CloudLinux (one of our Platinum sponsors) for covering the nearly $400,000 in fees and costs (not to mention the time and effort that Simon put in) that it took for AlmaLinux 9.2 to achieve FIPS compliance. FIPS 140-3 will be valid for anyone using AlmaLinux OS 9.2, as long as it is supported. Once 9.3 is released, only TuxCare customers will be able to continue to receive updates for AlmaLinux 9.2 and the FIPS modules. Find more information about that at the end of the article below! – benny.

AlmaLinux OS Foundation Election - 2023

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This year has been full of all kinds of new and exciting steps for AlmaLinux. We topped 500,000 systems calling home to our now 300+ mirrors for updates. We began exploring what AlmaLinux looks like as an untethered enterprise linux operating system, and we’ve seen an outpouring of support from AlmaLinux users around the world. The opportunity to serve as chair of AlmaLinux has been extremely fulfilling, as I serve alongside dedicated board members. Today, I’m pleased to share that we’re expanding our board with the addition of two new seats.

AlmaLinux Live: Coming to a city near you

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Do you want to learn more about the AlmaLinux OS and AlmaLinux OS Foundation? Good news! We’re going to be attending a number of events through the remainder of 2023, and we might just be in your backyard.

AlmaLinux will have a presence at a number of popular events coming up soon, including:

Ohio LinuxFest (OLF) in Columbus Ohio: September 8th and 9th.
All Things Open in Raleigh, North Carolina: October 15th through October 18th.
LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, Washington: October 20th through October 22nd.
SeaGL in Seattle, Washington: November 3rd and November 4th.
SC (formerly SuperComputing) in Denver, Colorado: November 12th through November 17th.

Talks at OLF and ATO

You’ll also be able to catch talks from benny Vasquez, AlmaLinux OS Foundation Chair, at OLF and All Things Open.

Welcome new repositories for AlmaLinux OS: Testing and Synergy

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, Community! Since AlmaLinux OS has shifted its direction to RHEL compatibility, we can now provide additional content for our community. For that reason, two additional repositories have been added - Testing and Synergy. Today, we are announcing that both repositories are available for AlmaLinux OS 8 and AlmaLinux OS 9.

Testing Repository

As we mentioned last week, the Testing repository contains security updates that AlmaLinux OS is now able to release without waiting for the patches to be released upstream. As these packages require additional testing before being released, we invite the community to help test them and provide feedback.

Testers needed for security updates: Intel and AMD CPUs affected

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier this week a few vulnerabilities were reported to affect Intel and AMD CPUs. The AlmaLinux OS Foundation calls for the community to help test the freshly updated packages for AlmaLinux OS 8 and AlmaLinux OS 9.

How do I install updated packages?

As we recently changed the build process for AlmaLinux OS, and are now aiming to be RHEL compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we are now able to release updates without waiting for the patches to be released upstream. To help accommodate that, a Testing repo has been created for packages that differ from RHEL and require additional testing by our users. To be able to help with testing, the Testing repo should be enabled on the AlmaLinux machine:

Building Warpinator for AlmaLinux OS

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hi again! As I’ve begun to gain some experience in building rpm packages, I’ve decided to continue and try to build this useful app for AlmaLinux OS 8 and AlmaLinux OS 9.

About

Warpinator, a file-sharing tool by Linux Mint, exemplifies their commitment to a seamless user experience. We owe its success to the dedicated contributors - thank you!

Originally designed for Debian-based Linux, Warpinator has grown to serve Windows, Android, iOS, and now RPM-based Linux distros, expanding its capabilities to an increasingly diverse user base.

Testers needed: Zenbleed patch for AlmaLinux 8 and 9

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

EDIT, July 27th: as of 12 hours after the release we have still seen no reports of any errors from users who have applied this update. If you see any problems, feel free to report them to us: bugs.almalinux.org

EDIT, July 26: We will be releasing this patch on July 27th at 7am US Eastern time. Read more on the forums.

Edit, July 25: AMD has put out an official security bulletin that lists all of the impacted hardware and anticipated release dates of patches for older CPUs.

AlmaLinux OS brings openQA to RHEL ecosystem

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello! I’m Elkhan Mammadli and you may know me as an avid AlmaLinux contributor and the head of AlmaLinux Cloud Images SIG. Today I’d like to share an absolutely awesome story about collaboration–the open source way.

AlmaLinux OS has come a long way in a very short time. We’ve been fully committed to delivering the best possible experience for the community, no matter where or what you run. A big part of ensuring the quality of our releases is testing; lots and lots of testing. A while ago we went looking for a good testing automation framework to build into our release process.

The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a whirlwind few weeks here at AlmaLinux, and I’m elated to be able to finally share this update.

The future of AlmaLinux OS

In case you missed it, Red Hat announced they will no longer be providing the means for downstream clones to continue to be 1:1 binary copies of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Very quickly, both Jack and I shared some initial thoughts, but we intentionally took our time deciding the next right step for AlmaLinux OS. After much discussion, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board today has decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL. AlmaLinux OS will instead aim to be binary compatible with RHEL*.

Our Value Is Our Values

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We posted a follow-up update on July 13, which you can read here: The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright

As we discussed last week, on June 21 Red Hat announced that RHEL source code will only be available via the Red Hat Customer Portal.

What is the status of security updates?

Prior to Red Hat’s policy change, when RHEL published a package update of any sort (security or bugfix), they published the corresponding source code into a repository. Then AlmaLinux integrated the update into our own build and test system, produced a new RPM, and published it to our repositories.

Impact of RHEL changes to AlmaLinux

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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We posted a follow-up post on June 30, which you can read here: Our Value is our Values
We posted another follow-up update on July 13, which you can read here: The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright

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Yesterday, RedHat announced another massive shift that impacts all rebuilds and forks of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Going forward Red Hat will now only be releasing the source code for RHEL RPMs behind their customer portal. Since all RHEL clones rely on the sources being published, this is causing disruption for the entire Red Hat ecosystem, once again.

Welcome CyberTrust Japan and Miracle Linux

Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier today at a press event in Tokyo, Japan, we announced the newest member of the AlmaLinux family: CyberTrust Japan, a well known security company, and the powerhouse behind MIRACLE LINUX.

Over the last few months of getting to know the CyberTrust folks, I have been able to glimpse the considerate, thoughtful, and informed way they approach all decisions, and it has made me even more humbled when considering their decision to join forces with the AlmaLinux community. Their team brings an incredible amount of experience in building a stable, secure, and reliable Red Hat clone, as well as a proven track record of listening to their community.

AlmaLinux 8.8 - Now Available

Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Сommunity! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 8.8 codenamed “Sapphire Caracal”!

Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures:

Torrents are available as well at:

Update from Other AlmaLinux 8.x, ELevate from CentOS 7

Users of earlier versions of AlmaLinux 8.x can update to the latest version via dnf update or via graphical desktop tools in GNOME and KDE.

AlmaLinux 9.2 - Now Available

Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Сommunity. The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.2 codenamed “Turquoise Kodkod”!

Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures:

Torrents are available as well at:

ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers

Introducing AlmaLinux Accounts

Thu, 04 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Over the past few months, our infrastructure team has been hard at work preparing our single sign-on system that will provide a unified login experience to nearly all AlmaLinux websites and properties. We are happy to announce the launch of https://accounts.almalinux.org!

AlmaLinux Accounts will give you a single account to use across the array of sites and services offered by AlmaLinux! In addition it eases the process of onboarding new contributors through centralized groups and permissions.

AlmaLinux 9.2 Beta - Now Available

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello glorious community. The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce the availability of AlmaLinux 9.2 Beta “Turquoise Kodkod” for all supported architectures:

Intel/AMD (x86_64)
ARM64 (aarch64)
IBM PowerPC (ppc64le)
IBM Z (s390x)

Beta ISOs are available at repo.almalinux.org. Select a mirror closest to your geographic area listed on the mirrors.almalinux.org website to download a suitable ISO image more quickly.

Starting with the AlmaLinux 9.2 Beta release, beta repositories will now be available in the Vault to reduce storage usage on mirrors.

Building Pantheon Desktop Environment

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Building Pantheon Desktop Environment

Hello, AlmaLinux Community! Let me start off by introducing myself - my name is Sonia, and I’m a Technical Writer for AlmaLinux OS Project. In this blog post, I’m describing one of the ways that I have contributed to AlmaLinux recently. With much learning, I have successfully ported the Pantheon desktop environment to AlmaLinux 9.

The Idea

Several key factors contributed to the successful integration of AlmaLinux with the Pantheon desktop environment:

AlmaLinux 8.8 Beta - Now Available

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the availability of AlmaLinux 8.8 Beta “Sapphire Caracal” for all supported architectures:

Intel/AMD (x86_64)
ARM64 (aarch64)
IBM PowerPC (ppc64le)
IBM Z (s390x)

Beta ISOs are available at repo.almalinux.org. Select a mirror closest to your geographic area listed on the mirrors.almalinux.org website to download a suitable ISO image more quickly. Starting with the AlmaLinux 8.8 Beta release, Beta repositories are only available in the Vault to reduce storage usage on mirrors.

Welcoming OpenLogic and Hawk Host

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier today the AlmaLinux OS Foundation announced our two newest sponsors, OpenLogic by Perforce and Hawk Host, Inc. We are extremely excited to have them both join the foundation, but the most exciting thing is how this reflects on the strength of the AlmaLinux mission.

One of the things I specifically pointed out in the announcement is the support that OpenLogic provides users of AlmaLinux OS. The team they have built provides incredible end-to-end support for a plethora of open source packages, and having them present as a sponsor of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation proves that their enterprise customers see AlmaLinux as the stable RHEL clone that we know it to be.

AlmaLinux at three exciting events!

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We’re hitting the road again this year, and have three big events lined up in the next two months! If you’re already a member of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, stop by our booth and pick up your pin!

SCaLE in California, Mar 9 - 12

SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America, and is one of our absolute favorite events to attend! This year, SCaLE will take place this week from March 9th to 12th in Pasadena, CA. They have an amazing program of everything from training to traditional talks, and a huge expo hall. We will have a booth at the expo floor where you can learn more about the project, meet me, and get involved in the community!

Almalinux 9.1 Now Available

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.1 codenomaded “Lime Lynx”.

Installation ISOs are available on mirrors now for 4 architectures:

Torrents are available as well at:

ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers

AlmaLinux also offers a variety of Cloud, Container and Live Images. The builds for these get kicked off as soon as the public repository is ready. The following images are expected to be available shortly.

Almalinux 8.7 Now Available

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce general availability of AlmaLinux OS 8.7 codenamed “Stone Smilodon.”

Installation ISOs are available on mirrors now for 4 architectures:

Torrents are available as well at:

ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers

More chances to catch AlmaLinux: SuperCompute ‘22, and OLF ‘22

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

All Things Open ‘22 was AMAZING

We had a chance to attend All Things Open last week, and it was an absolute blast for us! In case you haven’t heard, All Things Open is a conference specifically designed around education and aimed at coming together to learn some of the hardest and deepest lessons in tech. It’s just full of everyone from college students to CIOs and CTOs trying to make the best decisions for their futures. Meeting so many new people is always a blast, but the highlight for us is the people who are using AlmaLinux to solve their problems every day.

How We Built AlmaLinux 8.6 for s390x

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation announced support for the IBM z (s390x) platform thanks to a collaboration with Gold Partner, Sine Nomine Associates (SNA).

The Almalinux OS Foundation continues a long history of Linux and open source software support on mainframes, which was kickstarted at the end of the last century. In this blog, we wanted to highlight some of SNA’s involvement as we open a new chapter for Linux on the mainframe.

AlmaLinux 9.1 Beta - Now Available

Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community! AlmaLinux OS is happy to announce that AlmaLinux 9.1 Beta “Lime Lynx” is available for x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le and s390x architectures.

Grab installation ISOs from mirrors now.

AlmaLinux @ All Things Open 2022

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

All Things Open 2022 is this week in Raleigh, North Carolina, and we’re here all week! It’s a great event that’s focused on the tools, people, processes and technology that make open source possible.

All Things Open has been an epicenter of open source genesis for a years, and it’s one of the best US conferences for us to meet our users and contributors face-to-face. Come see us on floor 4 of the convention center, right across from Ballroom C.

AlmaLinux 8.7 Beta - Now Available

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community! AlmaLinux OS is excited to present AlmaLinux 8.7 Beta “Stone Smilodon” for x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le and s390x architectures.

Installation ISOs are available on mirrors now.

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 don’t mind if something breaks. Now if you wanna test this to see how things will work in 8.7 stable, you’re on the right track.

This Distro Should Not Exist - AlmaLinux 8.6 for IBM Z

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, IBM Z fans and Linux world at large. Today we have an interesting story to share about a new release - AlmaLinux 8.6 for s390x. The thing is, this release should not exist! Let’s explain.

In general, we build an AlmaLinux release by consuming upstream sources from the CentOS git and pulling those into our AlmaLinux Git Server which are then built using by the AlmaLinux Build System. While the CentOS project built releases for a few architectures, CentOS 8 was never built for IBM Z!

First AlmaLinux Board Election Announces 7 New Seats

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Over a month ago I announced that we would be holding our first board election. Our nearly 300 members of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation have spent the last two weeks casting their votes for the new board, and I am very happy to announce the newest board. These seven nominees have been elected by the community to serve a three-year term as the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board members.

How the election worked

The AlmaLinux bylaws were set up to include regular elections, to ensure AlmaLinux could achieve the goal of all foundation members having a voice.

First AlmaLinux Community Election Coming Soon!

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

After a year and a half, the time has finally come! The first election for the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board of directors is set to take place in September this year. This is a big moment for us and for the community at large, so we want to be as transparent and forthcoming as possible.

Let’s take a look at where we’re at right now.

Now is the time

When we started the AlmaLinux OS Foundation we didn’t have members to vote into a board, and so all current board members were appointed. Though necessary at the start of any such organization, it is ultimately counter to our goal of ensuring that the folks who are invested in the future of AlmaLinux are the ones to choose the future of AlmaLinux. Our bylaws were setup to include regular elections from the start, to ensure we could achieve the goal of all community members having a voice.

Oracle and AlmaLinux Live Webcast – ELevate: Upgrading EL7 servers to EL8 for ISVs and DevOps

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Andrew will be covering ELevate and how to upgrade EL7 servers to EL8. ELevate is an open source project that provides the ability to migrate between major versions of RHEL-based distributions. It combines Red Hat’s Leapp framework with a community created library and service for the migration metadata set required for it. Easily go from CentOS 7.x to any 8.x of your choice.

In this session Andrew will show how you can extend ELevate to:

AlmaLinux and the Top 500 HPC Supercomputers

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The Top500 Supercomputers list released for the June 2022 update came out a short while ago and some community members spotted a familiar name on the list–AlmaLinux! CentOS was such a large part of the HPC community and AlmaLinux is continuing that tradition. We’ve been working closely with many in the HPC space including software and hardware vendors, super computer operators and researchers to make sure things continue to run smoothly for those in the HPC space looking for their next steps and providing a drop-in replacement.

Tenable Providing Nessus Security Checks for AlmaLinux

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Tenable provides coverage of AlmaLinux with the addition of a new Nessus plugin family. The plugin has been released to cover all existing advisories for AlmaLinux.

Nessus is one of the world’s most popular and deployed proprietary vulnerability scanners developed by Tenable. The security checks information is free and available immediately.

As information about new vulnerabilities is discovered and released publicly, The AlmaLinux team updates our errata and OVAL feeds. We’ve been working with the Tenable Research team to help them ingest and utilize those feeds in order to design programs to detect them. These programs are named plugins and are written in the Nessus Attack Scripting Language (NASL). The plugins contain vulnerability information, a simplified set of remediation actions and the algorithm to test for the presence of the security issue.

Introducing ALBS: The AlmaLinux Build System

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

ALBS: Announcing Our New AlmaLinux Build System - Achieving Transparency & Future Roadmap

We here at the AlmaLinux OS Foundation believe that making it easy for community members to build packages and images is a fundamental part of growing and ensuring a healthy enterprise Linux ecosystem. AlmaLinux is fully open source and supported by a growing list of members helping to improve each version. To that end, we started work long ago to make sure that our build system is also transparent and open for use by any organization that is interested in building a better Linux distribution.

AlmaLinux 9 Now Available!

Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.0. AlmaLinux 9 supports the following 4 architectures providing full parity with upstream:

Intel/AMD (x86_64)
ARM64 (aarch64)
IBM PowerPC (ppc64le)
IBM Z (s390x)

ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers

Installation ISOs are nice but AlmaLinux has got you covered for so much more. We have begun updating the following images and those will be available shortly:

AlmaLinux 8.6 Stable is Now Available!

Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hi, Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is excited to announce that AlmaLinux OS 8.6 Stable is now available. Just like a flash after the beta release. This stable release is for the x86_64, aarch64 and ppc64le architectures and is ready for production installations and to power all your computing needs and workloads. Grab it from the nearest mirror and join us on the AlmaLinux Community Chat to discuss.

Our Live Images, Raspberry Pi, Cloud and Container images updates are in process too, so stay tuned to catch the updates. Don’t blink, you might miss them.

AlmaLinux 8.6 "Sky Tiger" Beta - Now Available

Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

AlmaLinux 8.6 Beta is now available

Hello World! We proudly present to you AlmaLinux 8.6 Beta “Sky Tiger” for x86_64, ARM and ppc64le architectures.

Installation ISOs are available on mirrors now. Cloud and container images are in progress, so stay tuned for these in the next few days.

AlmaLinux now available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace

Thu, 05 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Did you know that Oracle has a cloud? Yup, that Oracle. It’s pretty cool too.

We’re pleased to announce that AlmaLinux images are now available on Oracle’s OCI Marketplace for both x86_64 and aarch64 architectures.

Thousands of developers around the world rely on Oracle technology and applications to fuel their applications, projects and businesses. Their massive, global developer network relies on Oracle Cloud to help them build some pretty amazing things. If you wanna see just some of these examples, check out some of the content from Pi Day. That’s just scratching the surface, as many enterprise customers rely on the Oracle stack, as well as increasing number of organizations relying on OCI as part of a multi-cloud deployment strategy. They too now have access to the community owned and governed, forever-free enterprise-grade distribution they deserve and have been asking for.

AlmaLinux 9 Beta--Now Available

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, Community! AlmaLinux OS is proud to announce AlmaLinux OS 9.0 Beta for all 4 architectures: x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le and s390x, achieving architecture parity with upstream.

As 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. Now if you wanna test this somehow, somewhere to see how things will work in 9.0 stable, you’re on the right track.

GitLab Moves to AlmaLinux as Supported Platform

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

GitLab has switched from CentOS 8 to AlmaLinux as a supported platform. CentOS itself reached end of life (EOL) on December 31, 2021, and enterprise users in multiple industries are looking at alternatives.

GitLab provides a DevOps platform that empowers organizations to maximize the overall return on software development by delivering software faster and efficiently, while strengthening security and compliance.. GitLab has an estimated 30 million+ registered users (both Paid and Free) from startups to global enterprises..

1 Million Docker pulls and more container updates

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Wouldya take a look at that? A million! A million pulls of our Docker Library Official Image. What a huge milestone, WOW! We’re seriously humbled and we’d like to thank the community, for all the contribution and support. AlmaLinux keeps getting better each day thanks to the efforts of our amazing community.

We’ve also officially release containers for ppc64le available on all the major registries and we’ve also gone ahead and updated our containers to 8.5.4 and patched against the latest security updates where applicable. 18 packages have been updated and you can see that work here.

AlmaLinux Web Team Call for Ideas and Contributors

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community! We’re currently in the midst of rethinking our web presence and associated entities. Our site is our face to the world and is the primary source of information and resources for tens of thousands of visitors each month. As we continue to grow we want to make sure the site gets even better and more useful, informative, localized and accessible.

To that end, we would like to put out a call for ideas, improvements and also contributors. Our current stack is django and python and lives here on github. We’re not necessarily against moving to a different stack if anyone has a good idea and thinks they can pull it off.

AlmaLinux and Oracle Developers Present Pi Day!

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hello All. We know that things have been a little rough lately, so we’re gonna try something to keep things on the lighter side.

Let’s make an irrational decision. Yes, we know it’s crazy. We’re glad to announce that we’ve teamed up with Oracle Developers to bring you everyone’s favorite unofficial holiday - Pi Day.

This 3/14 join us online for a day filled with trivia, demos, labs, tons of giveaways and more.

AlmaLinux for PowerPC 8.5 Stable Now Available!

Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Сommunity and PowerPC enthusiasts around the world! The AlmaLinux Foundation is proud to announce that the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 8.5 Stable for ppc64le is live.

Images and Release Notes

You can now grab the image and take a look at the Release Notes for the changelog and installation instructions.

Containers and Cloud Too

All you Container and cloud fans will be happy too. PowerPC 8.5 container images are already available on Docker Hub and should be updated to the latest stable images real soon and we’ll providing a generic cloud (cloud-init) image in the repository as well.

AlmaLinux Live Media and Cloud Images 8.5 Updates

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Community, just wanted to share some quick news on updates to Live Media and cloud images. All Live media have been updated to 8.5 thanks to the great efforts on the parts of our community and our Live Media SIG.

All variants are now updated to AlmaLinux 8.5 including GNOME Mini, GNOME, KDE and XFCE.

You can now grab Live Media images from repo.almalinux.org.

Sources are up on GitHub with build scripts and the configuration and kickstart files needed to produce Live Media images: github.com/AlmaLinux/sig-livemedia just in case you’d like to tweak any of them to your liking.

Generic Cloud (cloud-init) Images Now Available for PPC64LE

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Just a quick note to let everyone know that cloud-init/generic cloud images are now available for the PPC64LE architecture as part of the ongoing beta.

The image is available from: https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8/cloud/ppc64le/images/ and you can of course find the relevant documentation on the wiki here: https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/Generic-cloud.html.

Looking Back, Leaping Forward: A look back at the first year for AlmaLinux and what the future holds

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

WOW! What a first year! The AlmaLinux community finds itself looking back at a successful 12 months with so many significant advancements and milestones. We’ve managed to pull together people from all over the world and unite and unify everyone while leveling-up this new CentOS ecosystem. We’ve also delivered three releases, with download counts in the millions. We recently celebrated over 500K Docker pulls (we have almost a million now), a beta release for AlmaLinux 8.5 for PowerPC, our first Platinum sponsor Codenotary, and, of course, the release of AlmaLinux 8.5 within 48 hours of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) release. That was all just in the last couple of months.

AlmaLinux 8.5 Beta for PowerPC Now Available

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, Community! We have a belated Christmas present for you. Wanted to eek out just one more release before we ring in 2022. AlmaLinux 8.5 Beta is now available for PowerPC!

We are very proud to be able to deliver this release but please remember: this is a BETA release and should not be used for production installations. Grab it up, test it out, file your bugs and join the community to talk all about it.

Celebrating 500K Docker Pulls!

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you to our amazing community and congratulations on 500K+ Docker Pulls! What a marvelous milestone!

It seems like just a short time ago, we celebrated 100K Docker pulls together (check out this post on Reddit). Now that we’ve hit 500K+ pulls of our Docker Library Official Image, we’d like to take this opportunity to thank you again. We’re truly humbled by the support we’ve gotten from the community.

The reward for loving containers is… more containers!

We have a whole raft of images available on Docker Hub and other registries as well. Here’s a short list in case you’d like to check some of them out.

AlmaLinux for Azure HPC -- Now Available!

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hello HPC Fans. A few weeks ago we updated our images on Microsoft Azure to 8.5. Today we are proud to announce the general availability of AlmaLinux OS for Azure HPC based on AlmaLinux OS 8.5. This was a tremendous team effort starting from community requests and developed in collaboration between the AlmaLinux community and the team over at our amazing sponsors Microsoft Azure.

We had a couple of goals when we set out on this project. First, is to further enable scientific computing and research. That is something that we feel very strongly about and many across the vast expanse of scientific research have begun to start leveraging the cloud due to the lack of resource constraints there. It is much easier to do you work whether it be simulations or something else if you can add nodes instantly with a quick command in your terminal. Second, HPC is often out of reach for many due to the large investment that is typically required. Combining the benefits of cloud economies-of-scale along with HPC technology opens the door for many to be able to experience what HPC is and what it really do. We hope that it will inspire those already there to explore what more they can accomplish and inspire the next generation of scientists and researchers to begin experimenting.

Welcome Codenotary! AlmaLinux OS Foundation's First Platinum Member

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

About two months ago we eagerly announced that we were able to then open memberships for the AlmaLinux OS Foundation. I outlined why I thought it was important that we’d structured the governance of the project this way–in order to give community members true ownership and a direct voice in the direction of AlmaLinux OS. The reception was tremendous and we’ve had hundreds of applicants and we’ve so far approved, I believe over 100 community members and dozens of mirror members. It’s very encouraging and refreshing to see the community rise to the occasion. I salute each and every person who has been active in our wonderful community, has helped to make it such a welcoming, friendly and diverse place and has taken the step to make their voice heard.

AlmaLinux Mailing Lists Now Available!

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Howdy folks!

I’m happy to announce that the AlmaLinux mailing lists are now online and operational! Many users have requested this to increase accessibility to important information and announcements, and let’s be honest, many of us enjoy the nostalgia of mailing list conversations.

You can find all of the lists at https://lists.almalinux.org

Here are a few of our key lists and a brief description of each:

Announce - important notices such as release announcements as well as critical security announcements are sent here.
AlmaLinux Users/General - this list is for general discussion, help, and banter within the community.
Devel - development discussion and assistance.
Security - important security notices and discussion.
Mirror - assistance regarding mirrors for both users and mirror owners.
Mirror-announce - important announcements for mirror owners. This list is moderated and intended only for the AlmaLinux team to get important information to mirror owners.
Infrastructure - AlmaLinux infrastructure from web servers to build systems and everything in between.

We also have some localized mailing lists for Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. Check out the full assortment of lists at https://lists.almalinux.org/

AWS AMIs Updated to 8.5

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

We’ve updated our AWS AMIs to 8.5. Updated community AMI list on the wiki: https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/AWS.html#community-amis. The AWS Marketplace images will be updated in just a bit.

AlmaLinux OS 8.5 Stable Now Available

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hi, Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is thrilled to announce that AlmaLinux OS 8.5 Stable is now available. This stable release for x86_64 and ARM architectures is ready for production installations and to power all your computing needs and workloads. So grab it from the nearest mirror and join us on the AlmaLinux Community Chat to discuss.

The Raspberry Pi image is also updated to the newest version.

Our Live Images, Cloud and Container images updates are in process and will be updated shortly as well.

Official CIS Benchmark for AlmaLinux and OpenSCAP Guide Now Published

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community. Security minded people rejoice! Today, we are pleased to announce that the Center for Internet Security CIS Benchmark for AlmaLinux OS has been published and is now available.

For those less familiar, what are CIS Benchmarks you ask? CIS Benchmarks are known best methods for the secure configuration of a target system that are both developed and accepted by the government, business, industry, and academia. You can use a CIS-made tool, CIS-CAT, to run and audit and compare the system’s configuration to the benchmark and generate a report that contains all the potential issues with the security.

Announcing ELevate -- Migration between Major Versions (7.x to 8x) of RHEL Derivative Distributions

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hey, all! We’d like to share a very cool project/initiative that we’ve been working on with the community.

We are extremely happy to announce our migration project for major version of RHEL-derivative distributions. We like to call it ELevate. Get it? EL evate? Yeah, anyway…

Before we get started, let’s be smart. We HIGHLY recommend that you follow system administration best practices and make sure you have backups and/or snapshots of your system before you proceed. It is recommended to do a trial run in a sandbox to verify that migration worked as expected before you attempt to migrate any production system.

Membership updates

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hello to all of you amazing folks invested in the success of AlmaLinux!

I wanted to provide you with a bit of an update around memberships, the membership plans, and the membership committee.

Since we opened the membership application process for the AlmaLinux OS Foundation almost two weeks ago we’ve already had 76 people and organizations apply to be members at one of the membership levels. At the October meeting of the Board of Directors we also approved the plans for the governance of the membership committee, which we’ll be adding to the website shortly.

Announcing AlmaLinux OS 8.5 Beta

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Presenting the AlmaLinux OS 8.5 Beta, codenamed Arctic Sphynx, for the x86_64 and Arm architectures, now ready for testing!

We’re excited about it too, but we have to remind you: this is a BETA release and 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. Now if you wanna test this somehow, somewhere to see how things will work in 8.5 stable, you’re on the right track.

Hi, I'm benny. How can I help?

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hi, I’m benny. How can I help?

I like crocheting, reading (though it’s mostly audiobooks these days), card games, board games, baking, music, and wine. I’ve even successfully kept a Jade plant alive for more than a year (a personal record). I spent much of my early career in Windows desktop support and web hosting, moved to DevOps a couple years ago, and earlier today we announced that I’m taking on the leadership position on the Board of Directors for the AlmaLinux OS Foundation.

AlmaLinux For Raspberry Pi Updates - October 2021

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Everyone,

It’s a great day for some tasty Pi! Today we’re releasing some awesome Raspberry Pi updates. You can grab them from the AlmaLinux Raspberry Pi Github Repo.

New Raspberry Pi Repo

We’ve setup a new repo to host all Raspberry Pi packages at https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8/raspberrypi/. This will enable super easy updates in the future and that should be syncing to all of our global mirrors.

Kernel and (properly working!) Wi-Fi

We’ve bumped the Kernel to 5.10.60 and we’ve built a new linux-firmware package with Matthias Brugger’s RPi NVRAM fix which enables the Wi-Fi to work right out of the box now.

What AlmaLinux Foundation Membership Means for You

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community. Today we announced that membership in the AlmaLinux Foundation is now open to everyone (It’s 100% Free). First of all, many are probably asking what is this? Second, who cares? I wanted to take a few brief moments to share some insight, some feelings and hopefully explain why this is so important.

When CentOS was initially founded by Lance Davis in 2004 no one really knew how fundamentally important it would grow to become in the Linux ecosystem–as a concept, as a distribution and really as a lynchpin of the modern internet. The concept of a community-driven OS, which drew upon an enterprise grade base made freely and widely available was a real novelty. As far as the technical aspect, the “entOS” part of CentOS, it has been resoundingly successful.

AlmaLinux Container Images Update - Full RHEL UBI Compatibility!

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, Community, container and DevOps fans everywhere. Our Cloud and Containers SIG have been hard at work lately on a little bit of a project for you. Today we have some news to share about some container updates, new images, new registries and distribution so stick with us for all the info. Now, it’s time to announce some goodness!

FYI: All container images are available for both the x86_64 and arm64/v8 architectures too!

AlmaLinux Cloud Images Updates - September 2021

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, Community! Lots going on here in AlmaLinux land as we continue our journey through the clouds. Today we’re pleased to share the latest updates about AlmaLinux Cloud Images. Those include aarch64 support for our AWS AMIs, support for OpenNebula x86_64 and aarch64, and aarch64 support for our Generic (cloud-init) Cloud images/OpenStack.

Links for downloads: https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/Generic-cloud.html

Some general fixes and updates that were made across all cloud images:

Added IPv6 support: https://github.com/AlmaLinux/cloud-images/issues/20
Fixed Ansible leftover files and directories: https://github.com/AlmaLinux/cloud-images/issues/24

AWS AMIs

We’ve added ARM64/Graviton support to our AMIs. As always, AMIs are available both via the AWS Marketplace as well as Community AMIs.

Thank you for 100K Docker Pulls!

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you and Congratulations on 100K+ Docker Pulls!

Hey Community, we’re here to say Thank You, again, as we’ve hit another monumental milestone earlier today– 100K+ pulls of our Docker Library Official Image. Not so long ago we celebrated 50K+ Docker Pulls (check out this post on Reddit)

Thank YOU to our worldwide Community members, YOUR enormous contributions, efforts and support. YOU make doing this worth it every day. Thank you, you’re best!

Announcing CentOS SIG Repository Availability in AlmaLinux

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community. One of the top requests our team gets and many of the support inquiries that come our way are related to enabling, installing, or working with software from the CentOS SIGs. For those who are unfamiliar with SIGs, they are Special Interest Groups (SIG) within the CentOS community that focus on a small set of issues, in order to either create awareness or to focus on development along a specific topic. Some of the more popular SIGs are the Storage SIG, Virtualization SIG and the Hyperscale SIG.

AlmaLinux now available on Microsoft Azure. Azure Sponsors AlmaLinux!

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Today, we are glad to announce the availability of AlmaLinux OS on the Azure marketplace. Images are available for both Gen1 and Gen2 and are deployable from the Azure portal, Azure command line utility as well as from the marketplace link.

Aside from just images, we’ve also established a worldwide mirror network within Azure regions in order to make the user experience when installing updates or new software second to none. All updates and/or software installations will automatically use local Azure mirrors, thanks to our new mirror service released a little while ago. The best part is, its all transparent to you, the user.

AlmaLinux 8 Live Media beta – now with KDE and XFCE

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hey all! Time flies. Just last week we announced AlmaLinux Live Media beta images available in 2 options: GNOME and GNOME Mini.

Since then, community members have requested other desktop environments as well and so we’ve worked hard over the past few days to build KDE and XFCE Live Media Images and we are happy to announce those today.

You can now grab all of the Live Media images from: https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8/live/x86_64/

Here’s the GitHub repository with build scripts and configuration files: https://github.com/AlmaLinux/sig-livemedia

Thank you and Congrats on 50K+ Docker Pulls!

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

We’d like to thank all of our community members for helping us reach a monumental milestone–50K+ pulls of our Docker Library Official Image. Including our old (non-official library) image we now have over 70K pulls!

This wouldn’t have been possible without the tremendous support and contributions of community members from around the world–and for that we thank you!

Interested in containers? Looking for something you need? Wanna contribute? Join our Containers and Cloud SIG on the AlmaLinux Community Chat. We’re waiting for you.

Announcing AlmaLinux Live Media Beta

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Community! We’ve got some great news. Announcing our AlmaLinux 8 Live Media beta.

Currently, the Beta is available in 2 variants:

GNOME Mini: contains a core GNOME environment with the Firefox browser
GNOME: contains a full GNOME environment with popular workstation applications like LibreOffice, Thunderbird and so on.

Also, stay tuned because KDE and XFCE Live Media images are coming soon.

Images support both BIOS and UEFI (including Secure Boot mode), can be written to DVD or USB media.

The New and Improved AlmaLinux Mirror Service

Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Great news about our mirror service! Our mirror service is what powers distribution of ISOs, packages and updates across the world. A while ago we developed and started testing a new geolocation-based mirror service which helps you get software faster and easier based on where in the world you are and what the closest source is. Thanks to all those who were involved in testing–It’s now official: our new mirror service is coming online on August 4th at 7.00 UTC.

Join us at Fedora Flock/Nest Aug 5th-7th!

Fri, 30 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Do you plan to #NestwithFedora? We do too!

Please join us on August 5-7th for Fedora Flock/Nest. We’ll be holding a special AlmaLinux Office Hours on August 5th at 20:00-20:30 UTC(4pm Eastern) and presenting CentOS and Alma: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work at 20:30-21:00 UTC(4:30pm Eastern). Check out the site and full schedule for what is sure to be the most awesome devcon of the year: https://www.flocktofedora.org/

AlmaLinux Open Office Hours

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community!

Please join us for Open Office Hours every Monday at 4pm UTC/12pm EDT/9am PDT on The AlmaLinux Community Chat beginning Monday August 2nd, 2021.

Our community has been growing and questions keep rolling in every day. We’ll have Core team members, members of our Cloud and Containers team, Packaging and Release Engineering and Community teams as well as AlmaLinux Foundation Board members available to answer your questions live in real-time. You can also email officehours@almalinux.org if there is anything specific you would like to discuss and we’ll bring it up during the session.

AlmaLinux's new community-owned website is now live!

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

There’s been a lot of progress since the AlmaLinux Beta release was announced back in January 2021. The AlmaLinux community has grown enormously, and we’ve established the AlmaLinux governance board.

More and more partners and sponsors have joined our community. Consequently, we saw the demand for a clean and minimalistic website, localized in several languages, and with an easy-to-use interface.

So we’re excited to announce that, as of July 5th, 2021, the new-and-improved AlmaLinux website is live!

AlmaLinux OS 8.4 for Arm/AArch64 Now Available!

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce the release of the only 100% community owned and governed CentOS alternative, AlmaLinux OS 8.4 Stable for the Arm/AArch64 architecture. Available now on a mirror near you! Download a fresh copy and then join us to talk about it. Container images are also available on Docker Hub and Quay.io.

A Community Collaboration

This release was the true product of collaboration. We would like to publicly thank all those that were involved in this effort–community members, sponsors and partners–to ensure that the most popular chipsets and hardware was supported and well tested. This release would not have been possible without the tremendous efforts of the community, so first and foremost, thank you the most. We would also like to thank our sponsors and partners, Arm for their sponsorship and technical expertise and to Ampere for ensuring their processors and hardware are well supported out of the gate. Thank you to Amazon Web Services for their sponsorship and for facilitating testing of the release on Graviton processors/instances–we know this is important to many in the community. We have a Marketplace AMI available and community AMIs available in every AWS region and those will soon be updated to include AArch64 as well. The legendary Oregon State University Open Source Lab also assisted with sponsorship of build nodes and OpenStack testing infrastructure. We’d also like to give a special shout out and thank you to Equinix Metal. Equinix Metal sponsored bare metal instances for building and testing, but there is more to it. They have this awesome Open Source project called Tinkerbell, which is a bare metal provisioning and management engine and we were able to submit patches upstream that the whole community can benefit from.

Minimal Container Images now Available on Docker Hub and Quay.io

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hello All,

We’ve had a number of requests for minimal container images and we are glad to announce that those are now available on:

Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/_/almalinux
Quay.io: https://quay.io/repository/almalinuxorg/almalinux

Minimal Image

The minimal image is a stripped-down image that uses the microdnf package manager and contains a very limited package set. It is designed for applications that come with their own dependencies bundled (e.g. NodeJS, Python). The almalinux:minimal tag always points to the most recent version of the minimal image. Tags for major (e.g. almalinux:8-minimal) and minor (e.g. almalinux:8.4-minimal) releases are also available.

AlmaLinux Cloud Images Updates - June 18 2021

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Community! Here is a quick update on the various cloud images we have available as it’s one of the top things we’re asked about. The good news is we now have 150002657% more COW! That’s right! We now have generic cloud images (cloud-init/qcow) available for your clouding adventures.

Your one stop shop for all cloud images, sources and scripts is https://github.com/AlmaLinux/cloud-images. We keep that pretty updated and there is a table right at the top with quick links to all of items listed below. Here’s a quick summary of what we have and where, right now.

New Geo-Location Mirror Service

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hi all, we’ve developed a new geo-location mirror service which should make things a lot faster, simpler and easier when installing packages, updates and downloading ISOs.

When hitting https://mirrors.almalinux.org It will allow you to:

List the mirrors nearest to you when fetching a mirrorlist (https://images2.imgbox.com/b2/55/i0aCscHk_o.png)
Give you a list of the nearest servers to you with ISO images (https://images2.imgbox.com/37/b1/oJHASQ4w_o.png)

You can help test it out. Add the following record in /etc/hosts on your server:

AlmaLinux Images for Google Cloud

Fri, 04 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is glad to announce the availability of images for Google Cloud. Instructions on how to install and use the AlmaLinux OS images can be found on the Google Compute Engine Docs: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images#almalinux. Please join us on the AlmaLinux Community Chat or the AlmaLinux Forums to discuss, get help or report any feedback.

AlmaLinux OS 8.4 ARM Beta Release

Fri, 28 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

WWWW YEAAAAHHHH!!! We’re back at it again! Two releases in a week? “You must be crazy,” they said. Yup. We are. Crazy about the community and crazy about ARM. Aren’t you glad you ducked out of work early today?

Beta Release

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce AlmaLinux OS 8.4 Beta for ARM. We know you must be super stoked, and we are too, but we do need to remind everyone that this is a BETA release and should not be used for production installations. Grab it up, test it out, submit your Bug Reports and join the community to talk all about it.

AlmaLinux OS 8.4 Stable Now Available

Wed, 26 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hey, what are you doing for Memorial Day? Heading out of town? Having a few friends over (that used to be a thing once upon a time)? How about having yourself a good old fashioned installfest? That’s right! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce the release of AlmaLinux OS 8.4 Stable. Available now on a mirror near you! Download a fresh copy and then join us to talk about it.

AlmaLinux OS 8.3-Stable AWS AMI Available Now

Fri, 07 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Ahhh, another weekend laden with more tasty AlmaLinux goodness. The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce the general availability of our 8.3-Stable AWS Machine Image. Available now on the AWS Marketplace for all your production workload needs. Contribute! Join us on our GitHub, Wiki and IRC Channel where our community is currently coordinating efforts. There’s lots to do so come on by. Help squash some bugs by reporting them on the Bug Tracker or post something on our AlmaLinux Community on Reddit. Have questions or need some help, IRC or our AWS Cloud Images Forum are your best bet on this one.

AlmaLinux OS 8.4 Beta Now Available!

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

8.3? Pah! Old news. Say “Hello” to the newest distro on the block. AlmaLinux OS 8.4 Beta for all your testing needs. Now with Secure Boot goodness baked right in. This Is The Future The Future Is Here GIF - ThisIsTheFuture TheFutureIsHere YouAreLookingAtTheFuture GIFsBeta Release

Following the tremendously successful release of the 8.3 Stable release on March 30th the AlmaLinux Community is proud to announce the availability of AlmaLinux OS 8.4 Beta. Now we know everyone is all excited and all, we are too, but we do need to remind everyone that this is a BETA release and 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. Now if you wanna test this somehow, somewhere to see how things will work in 8.4 stable, you’re on the right track.

AlmaLinux OS Stable Release is live!

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

We are very happy to announce that today we are releasing the first AlmaLinux OS stable version. That’s right, you can go right ahead and download the stable version and use it everywhere you need a stable, reliable, Linux distribution. For some time now we also have the conversion script in our GitHub repository, so you can also convert your system to AlmaLinux OS stable using it if you don’t feel like reinstalling from scratch.

Live Launch Of The First AlmaLinux OS Stable Release

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Watch the live stream Recording!

To celebrate the launch of the stable release of AlmaLinux OS, we hosted an event showcasing the team, the community, and the goals we’ve achieved on March 30th, 2021. There were surprises and swag! SurpriseWATCH THE LIVE STREAM RECORDING

CloudLinux and the community are a great team! We appreciate the hard work of every member of this alliance!Come along for the ride! The journey has just begun.

Participate In The #wearealmalinux Campaign And Win a T-shirt

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The stable release of the AlmaLinux OS is just a couple of weeks away. The first stable release is a significant milestone for the Open Source community and the world at large. We intend to celebrate our team’s achievement, the achievement of the community, and the achievement of the Open Source movement at large.In the last four months, we - the mind of AlmaLinux OS - did our part in preparing the infrastructure for a stable release. But we couldn’t possibly be here without you, the community–the soul of AlmaLinux OS. With your commitment to Beta and Release Candidate testing, it’s now possible for us to deliver the release on the date we committed with the first Project Lenix announcement - Q1 2021. CloudLinux and the community are a great team! We appreciate the hard work of every member of this alliance!To commemorate a successful synergy of AlmaLinux OS’ “mind” and “soul” and cement the distribution’s place in history, we want to create an inspiring video–featuring all of YOU–and all the members of the AlmaLinux OS team saying “We Are AlmaLinux”.Well, what kind of team doesn’t have branded gear, right? If you submit your video following the instructions below by the March 20th, you’ll be entered to win one of 100 AlmaLinux branded T-shirts that we’ll be raffling off. Recording the video and sharing it will take 5 minutes tops. The instructions below are for using Zoom but you can use any other platform that can record videos with the background:Download one of our awesome AlmaLinux OS wallpapers from here.
Go to Zoom and select the wallpaper as a Virtual Background.
Start a new conference as a host.
Switch on the recording.
Look at the camera and say, “We are AlmaLinux”
Finish the recording, save it, and share it on your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or LinkedIn. You must mention #WeAreAlmaLinux in your post so we can find your video and add it to our video ‘time capsule’ and add you to our t-shirt raffle.
Follow AlmaLinux OS on social media. We will contact you via SM channels if you win a t-shirt.

Here is an example of the video by the AlmaLinux OS Community Manager, Jack Aboutboul: [video width=“1280” height=“720” mp4=“https://almalinux.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/zoom_1.mp4”][/video] We can’t wait to see each and every one of you, the soul of AlmaLinux OS.

AlmaLinux OS 8.3 RC Release Notes

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks to the community feedback, we worked on the bugs and fixed most of them. By all accounts, the beta release was pretty stable already, so the Release Candidate was the likely choice (instead of another beta).

Thank you to everyone who tested and reported issues at bugs.almalinux.org, or sent suggestions/mirror offers to hello@almalinux.org. Right now we have 24 mirrors, so there should be one close to you, wherever you live.

Installation instructions

There are three installation ISO images available:AlmaLinux-8.3-rc-1-x86_64-boot.iso - a single network installation CD image that downloads packages over the Internet.
AlmaLinux-8.3-rc-1-x86_64-minimal.iso - a minimal self-containing DVD image that makes possible offline installation.
AlmaLinux-8.3-rc-1-x86_64-dvd1.iso - a full installation DVD image that contains mostly all AlmaLinux OS packages.

Select a mirror listed on the mirrors.almalinux.org website (please, don’t use repo.almalinux.org host directly) and download a suitable ISO image from the 8.3-rc/isos/x86_64/ directory, for example:$ wget https://mirror.interserver.net/almalinux/8.3-rc/isos/x86_64/AlmaLinux-8.3-rc-1-x86_64-boot.iso Download and import the AlmaLinux public key:$ wget https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux $ gpg –import RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux Download and verify a checksums list:$ wget https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8.3-rc/isos/x86_64/CHECKSUM # we are looking for “Good signature” $ gpg –verify CHECKSUM gpg: Signature made Fri 19 Feb 2021 03:04:44 PM MSK gpg: using RSA key 51D6647EC21AD6EA gpg: Good signature from “AlmaLinux packager@almalinux.org” [unknown] gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. Primary key fingerprint: 5E9B 8F56 17B5 066C E920 57C3 488F CF7C 3ABB 34F8 Subkey fingerprint: E53C F5EF 91CE B0AD 1812 ECB8 51D6 647E C21A D6EA Verify the downloaded ISO image checksum:# calculate the downloaded ISO SHA256 checksum $ sha256sum AlmaLinux-8.3-rc-1-x86_64-boot.iso 1bf9bff6af3413f8f273e54c11fb45f7da63afea670eafc50dde22c45582be7a AlmaLinux-8.3-rc-1-x86_64-boot.iso # compare it with expected checksum, it should be the same $ cat CHECKSUM | grep -E ‘SHA256.*AlmaLinux-8.3-rc-1-x86_64-boot.iso’ SHA256 (AlmaLinux-8.3-rc-1-x86_64-boot.iso) = 1bf9bff6af3413f8f273e54c11fb45f7da63afea670eafc50dde22c45582be7a

AlmaLinux Beta Release: Live Q&A Webinar

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

On Monday, February 1st, AlmaLinux OS went live! Our public Beta version is now available to everyone, and we anticipate your active participation in testing! To facilitate the communication and address the questions you might have after the first round of tests, we are hosting a live QA webinar with AlmaLinux OS Community on February 10 at 5 PM (UTC) / 9 AM (PST). We are excited to share the results of the past month with you - the first AlmaLinux OS Beta release is live. As promised, the main development and maintenance were done by the CloudLinux team. And now, we appeal to the community for its contribution. In the spirit of the community-driven initiative, we require your assistance with testing, documentation, support and future direction.Our team has set up the internal infrastructure necessary to work with your feedback: We opened public repositories with all packages and registries for the project.
We will use Github for the finalized source code for the system.
The additional documentation is on the wiki.
Another important tool that is released with the AlmaLinux OS Beta is the bug tracker. We will rely heavily on the bug tickets for further development of the infrastructure. To avoid spam, we ask you to not report a bug without registration.We want to highlight, once again, that AlmaLinux OS is a community-driven initiative. Our hope is that the structures that were put in place will ensure your involvement in the preparation of the new distro! To facilitate the communication and address the questions you might have after the first round of tests, we are hosting a live QA webinar with AlmaLinux OS Community. The webinar will take place on February 10 at 5 PM (UTC) / 9 AM (PST). Among the participants present will be: Igor Seletskiy, CEO of CloudLinux,
Alexander Vinogradov, Head of Engineering at AlmaLinux OS,
Joao Correia, Technology Evangelist of CloudLinux.

You can send your topic suggestions or questions in advance to hello@almalinux.org, on Twitter with the hashtag #AlmaLinuxBeta and in AlmaLinux OS Reddit Community. Thank you for your contribution, input, and support throughout launching AlmaLinux OS! The infrastructure was the first step, now we need your help to make the next one!

Introducing AlmaLinux Beta: A Community-Driven Replacement for CentOS

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

CloudLinux is proud to announce the release of AlmaLinux OS Beta. We’ve collected community feedback and built our new beta release around what you would expect from an enterprise-level Linux distribution. AlmaLinux OS is a completely free 1:1 binary compatible fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, inspired by the community and built by the engineers and talent behind CloudLinux. Visit this link to download Beta images.With the Beta release deployed, we’d like to ask the community to be involved and provide feedback. We aim to build a Linux distribution entirely from community contributions and feedback. During AlmaLinux OS Beta, we ask for assistance in testing, documentation, support and future direction for the operating system. Together, we can build a Linux distribution that fills the gap left by the now unsupported CentOS distribution.The AlmaLinux team set up all the necessary infrastructure to make it convenient for our contributors to provide their input. The public repository on Github is where we will finalize the source code for the system, and any additional documentation will be posted on the wiki. We set up the wiki and repository to make it easy for the community to provide as much information and feedback as possible. The AlmaLinux team will review every comment and request, but we ask that only registered contributors file bug reports to filter out spam.To facilitate communication and help answer some of the common questions you might already have, we will be hosting a live QA webinar with the AlmaLinux OS team. The webinar will take place on February 10, 5 PM (UTC) / 9 AM (PST). Among the participants present will be Igor Seletskiy, CEO of CloudLinux, and Alexander Vinogradov, Head of Engineering at AlmaLinux.You can sign up for our webinar here.If you have any questions, comments, feedback or concerns, please feel free to send us your thoughts to hello@almalinux.org or send them during the webinar on Twitter with the hashtag #AlmaLinuxBeta.CloudLinux and the AlmaLinux OS team would like to thank the community for their input. This is just the beginning for AlmaLinux OS, and we look forward to continued improvements and updates for the next generation enterprise-level Linux operating system.Thank you for your contribution, input, and support throughout launching AlmaLinux OS! The infrastructure was the first step, now we need your help to make the next one!Release Notes for AlmaLinux OS 8 betaThe release code name: Purple Manul.CloudLinux is proud to present the beta version of AlmaLinux OS. After roughly a month and a half from the announcement, here is a 1:1 RHEL binary compatible replacement for your RHEL-based systems. This is for the community and by the community, you’re the soul of Linux. Thank you for your interest and suggestions so far, keep them coming.Use this version to thoroughly test your workloads and report any unintended features (ie, bugs) you may find, it will help make AlmaLinux OS better.Installation instructions

AlmaLinux Beta Release Update

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Throughout the last few weeks, the team at CloudLinux has worked tirelessly to gear our internal infrastructure to meet the needs of launching a free, open, public Linux distro that’s driven by the community. We’ve committed to AlmaLinux OS, and we see the associated responsibilities in a serious light. While we are preparing the new distro for launch within the next month, we are also putting in place the structures that will ensure continuity for AlmaLinux OS - and that ensures community involvement.