AlmaLinux Newsletters

Real RISC-V support has landed, i686 userspace is now available in AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10, ELevate NG can upgrade you to AlmaLinux 10 x86_64_v2, and the CFP for AlmaLinux Day: LA 2026 is open until June 5th.

AlmaLinux Day: Germany and AlmaLinux Day: LA are announced, the shim bootloader has been updated for ARM64 Secure Boot users, and Codenotary, Fastly, and StorPool Storage AD return as Silver Sponsor Members.

AlmaLinux 9.7 and 10.1 have launched, with 10.1 introducing Btrfs support while maintaining RHEL 10.1 compatibility.

Two significant beta versions were released: AlmaLinux 9.7 and AlmaLinux 10.1, with AlmaLinux OS 10.1 introducing support for the Btrfs filesystem.

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation board member election has been moved to March 2026, and the CRB repository is now being enabled by default in AlmaLinux OS 10.

AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver was a success, and AlmaLinux OS 9 and 10 now ship native NVIDIA Open GPU driver packages signed for Secure Boot.

AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver is occurring on August 9th, preceding SIGGRAPH, featuring talks, networking, refreshments, and exclusive gifts for attendees.

AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver is scheduled for August 9th, preceding SIGGRAPH, and the organization launched a community survey to gather feedback without implementing telemetry.

AlmaLinux released two major versions this month: version 9.6 "Sage Margay" and version 10.0 "Purple Lion," which maintains RHEL 10 compatibility while introducing targeted improvements.

AlmaLinux 9.6 Beta and AlmaLinux 10 Beta are now available for testing, and board elections are planned for August 2025.

AlmaLinux published patches addressing the Freetype Security vulnerability CVE-2025-27363, and the AlmaLinux Japan User Group invites community members to connect via Mattermost.

AlmaLinux is seeking community assistance with testing patches for CVE-2025-26466 and a new ELevate upgrade path enabling transitions from CentOS Stream 9 to CentOS Stream 10.

AlmaLinux released its beta version of AlmaLinux 10, opening the platform for broader testing and community feedback before the stable release.

AlmaLinux 10.0 Beta 'Purple Lion' is now available for all supported architectures.

AlmaLinux OS 9.5, codenamed "Teal Serval," is now generally available across four architectures, and Fastly joined as a new silver sponsor member.