rocky-announce May 2023

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Rocky Linux 9.2 for Power Little Endian (ppc64le) Now Available
by Neil Hanlon 31 May '23

31 May '23

Hi all, After additional testing and thorough investigation into the architecture-specific bug we discovered, the Rocky Linux team is pleased to announce the availability of Rocky 9.2 for the PowerPC (LE) or ppc64le architecture. Before upgrading your ppc64le machine to Rocky 9.2, review the section below on upgrading. Our investigation has revealed that the environments under which our tests were performed were running a “pre-production” revision to the Power 9 CPU architecture, leading to segmentation faults we are able to reproduce both in emulated and physical environments with affected processor revisions (steppings). For a more detailed explanation, please read our news post here: https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-9-2-power-le-update/ If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out via email, Mattermost, or the bug tracker. Best, Neil Hanlon Infrastructure Lead, RESF

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Rocky Linux 9.2 Released
by Louis Abel 19 May '23

19 May '23

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux 9.2. The release is currently available for the x86_64 and aarch64 architectures. Please review the release notes at https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-9-2-ga-release/ - These notes contain important information including known bugs and details about changes in this version. Notable changes: * An aarch64 kernel with a 64kb page size is now available via the package kernel-64k * nfsrahead, a tool to configure the readahead for NFS mounts, was added * Intel Arc GPU support has been added * The infamous Flatpak bug that breaks all fonts in applications using the default font (Cantarell) has been fixed! Downloads: * Minimal, DVD, boot and torrent downloads: https://rockylinux.org/download * Live images in GNOME, KDE, XFCE, MATE, and Cinnamon flavors for x86_64 and aarch64 are listed here: https://rockylinux.org/alternative-images * Cloud images are listed here: https://rockylinux.org/cloud-images Special thanks: We are grateful to the many Rocky Linux project volunteers who produced, tested, and documented this release, as well as the sponsors and partners that contribute resources that enable us to do so. We would also like to change the following individuals in particular for this release. * Al Bowles * Alan Marshall * Boris Reisig * Brian Clemens * Chris Stackpole * David H * Louis Abel * Lukas Magauer * Marie Loise Nolden * Mustafa Gezen * Neil Hanlon * Pratham Patel * Sherif Nagy * Skip Grube * Steven Spencer * Taylor Goodwill * Todd Zullinger * Trevor Cooper Getting Help / Engaging with the community: The Rocky Linux ecosystem is sustained by community-driven help, guidance, and love of RPM distributions, Enterprise Linux and its ecosystem. The best place to start for new users is at https://docs.rockylinux.org. You can communicate with us and other community members on various mediums: Mattermost: https://chat.rockylinux.org Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/rockylinux Forums: https://forums.rockylinux.org Mail list: https://lists.resf.org Libera IRC: #rockylinux Bug Tracker: https://bugs.rockylinux.org Thank you, we hope to enjoy the release! -- Louis Abel, RHCE RHCSIDM Infrastructure, Release Engineering, IDM

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Rocky Linux 8.8 Released
by Louis Abel 19 May '23

19 May '23

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux 8.8. The release is currently available for the x86_64 and aarch64 architectures. Please review the release notes at https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-8-8-ga-release/ - These notes contain important information including known bugs and details about changes in this version. Notable changes: * Intel Arc GPU support has been added. * Git has been updated to 2.39.1, enabling support of commit signing with SSH keys * FIPS mode settings in the kernel have been adjusted to conform to the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3. * Podman’s Quadlet <https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/quadlet-podman> feature is now available. Downloads: * Minimal, DVD, boot and torrent downloads: https://rockylinux.org/download * Live images in GNOME, KDE, XFCE, and MATE flavors are listed here: https://rockylinux.org/alternative-images * Cloud images are listed here: https://rockylinux.org/cloud-images Special thanks: We are grateful to the many Rocky Linux project volunteers who produced, tested, and documented this release, as well as the sponsors and partners that contribute resources that enable us to do so. We would also like to change the following individuals in particular for this release. * Al Bowles * Alan Marshall * Brian Clemens * Chris Stackpole * David H * Ezequiel Bruni * Louis Abel * Lukas Magauer * Mustafa Gezen * Neil Hanlon * Sherif Nagy * Skip Grube * Steven Spencer * Taylor Goodwill * Trevor Cooper Getting Help / Engaging with the community: The Rocky Linux ecosystem is sustained by community-driven help, guidance, and love of RPM distributions, Enterprise Linux and its ecosystem. The best place to start for new users is at https://docs.rockylinux.org. You can communicate with us and other community members on various mediums: Mattermost: https://chat.rockylinux.org Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/rockylinux Forums: https://forums.rockylinux.org Mail list: https://lists.resf.org Libera IRC: #rockylinux Bug Tracker: https://bugs.rockylinux.org Thank you, we hope to enjoy the release! -- Louis Abel, RHCE RHCSIDM Infrastructure, Release Engineering, IDM

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