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Rocky Linux 8.10 Released
by Louis Abel 01 Jun '24

01 Jun '24

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux 8.10. The release is available for the x86_64 and aarch64 architectures. Please review the release notes at https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-8-10-ga-release/ - These notes contain important information including known bugs and details about changes in this version. Notable changes: * Since Rocky Linux 8.9, Azure images are be published under the new publisher name: resf, moving away from the earlier, less intuitive name. * In addition to the Azure Marketplace, Rocky Linux is available for free on the Azure Community Gallery, providing incredibly easy access to run Rocky on Microsoft Azure. * Git rebased to 2.43.0 * Python 3.12 now available * Postgresql 16 now available * The podman build farm command for creating multi-architecture container images is available as a Technology Preview * The container-tools:4.0 module is now deprecated - Please use the "rhel8" stream 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 * Alexia * Brian Clemens * Bryan (@codedude) * Chris Stackpole * Louis Abel * Lukas Magauer * Michael Kinder * Mustafa Gezen * Neil Hanlon * Sherif Nagy * Skip Grube * Steven Spencer * Taylor Goodwill * Trevor Cooper * @grayeul 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 9.4 Release
by Brian Clemens 10 May '24

10 May '24

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux 9.4. The release is currently available for the x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures. Please review the release notes at https://docs.rockylinux.org/release_notes/9_4/ - These notes contain important information including known bugs and details about changes in this version. Notable changes: * Since Rocky Linux 9.3, Azure images are be published under the new publisher name: resf, moving away from the earlier, less intuitive name. * In addition to the Azure Marketplace, Rocky Linux is available for free on the Azure Community Gallery, providing incredibly easy access to run Rocky on Microsoft Azure. Special Interest Group notes: * AWS images should now be able to boot in IPv6-only subnets, closing a longstanding bug that the Cloud SIG has worked with upstream to resolve * Most images are now built with KIWI and our empanadas toolkit, with the exception of a few variants that are still using the old imagefactory method. If you have any trouble, please get in touch. More information is available in the full release notes. Downloads: * Minimal, DVD, boot and torrent downloads: https://rockylinux.org/download * Live images in GNOME, KDE, XFCE, and MATE flavors: https://rockylinux.org/alternative-images * Cloud images: 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. * Adam Augustine * Al Bowles * Alan Marshall * Alexia Steinberg * Anthony Navarro * Bob Robison * Boris Reisig * Brian Clemens * Bryan (@codedude) * Chris Stackpole * Frank Schwichtenberg * Krista Burdine * Louis Abel * Lukas Magauer * Maxine Hayes * Mustafa Gezen * Neil Hanlon * Pablo Greco * Pratham Patel * 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 you enjoy the release! -- Brian Clemens Vice President Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation

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Rocky Linux 8.9 is now available
by Brian Clemens 23 Nov '23

23 Nov '23

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux 8.9. This release is currently available for the x86-64 and aarch64 architectures. Please review the release notes at https://docs.rockylinux.org/release_notes/8_9 - These notes contain important information including known bugs and more comprehensive details about changes in this version. Notable / Breaking Changes: * java-21-openjdk was introduced providing a new version of Java * Node.js 20 is now available as a new module stream * gcc-toolset-13 was introduced as a new compiler toolset * Azure images for Rocky Linux 8.9 will be published under a new publisher name: "resf", instead of the previous long, unreadable name. These images are not published yet, but should be available by the end of the week and will be accompanied by another news post. * The optional guest-agents group, previously available within both the Minimal Install and Custom Operating System base environments in anaconda, is no-longer available for selection as additional software for those environments. Consult release notes for more details. * The KDE live image for Rocky Linux 8.9 had problems during the testing phase. For this, we will be providing the older 8.8 images until we can build and provide a working image. * AWS AMI images now set the boot-mode parameter to "uefi-preferred” per https://bugs.rockylinux.org/view.php?id=4390 Testing: Rocky Linux releases are put through thorough testing to ensure correctness and stability. Testing consists of hundreds of manual and automated checks covering all manner of environments and configurations. Rocky Linux 8.9 was subjected to a week of testing before receiving the team's approval. Testing logs, discussion, and the release checklist can be viewed at https://chat.rockylinux.org/rocky-linux/channels/rocky-release-v89. We encourage users interested in the process to join the team on Mattermost. Downloads: * Minimal, DVD, boot and torrent downloads: https://rockylinux.org/download * Live images in GNOME, KDE, XFCE, MATE, and Cinnamon flavors: https://rockylinux.org/alternative-images * Cloud images: https://rockylinux.org/cloud-images Upgrades and Conversions: Current users of Rocky Linux 8 can upgrade to 8.9 from the terminal via dnf update, or from the desktop with GNOME Software, KDE Discover, etc. Users of other Enterprise Linux 8 distributions can upgrade and convert to Rocky Linux 8.9 via the conversion script at https://rockylinux.org/migrate2rocky.sh. Special thanks: We are grateful to the many Rocky Linux project volunteers and leaders for producing, testing, and documented this release. As well at the sponsors and partners who provide the resources to build, test, and produce Rocky. We would like to thank the following individuals in particular for their contributions to this release: * Al Bowles * Alan Marshall * Adam Augustine * Boris Reisig * Brian Clemens * Bryan (@codedude) * Chris Stackpole * Krista Burdine * Louis Abel * Lukas Magauer * Mustafa Gezen * Neil Hanlon * Omer Sen * Pratham Patel * 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 <https://chat.rockylinux.org/> Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/rockylinux Forums: https://forums.rockylinux.org <https://forums.rockylinux.org/> Mail list: https://lists.resf.org <https://lists.resf.org/> Libera IRC: #rockylinux Bug Tracker: https://bugs.rockylinux.org <https://bugs.rockylinux.org/> Thank you, we hope to enjoy the release! Sincerely, Release Engineering @ The Rocky Linux Project

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Rocky Linux 9.3 is now available
by Neil Hanlon 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux 9.3 which is available for the x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures. Please review the release announcement at https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-9-3-ga-release/ - These notes contain important information including known bugs and details about changes in this version. Notable/Breaking changes: * The 9.3 release brings back cloud and container images for ppc64le that were not released with 9.2 due to issues with QEMU. These images may be divergent from the other architecture's images in some small ways, but we will work to reduce this delta in future releases of the images. * Azure images for Rocky Linux 9.3 will be published under a new publisher name: `resf`, instead of the previous long, unreadable name. These images are not published yet, but should be available by the end of the week. * The optional guest-agents group, previously available within both the Minimal Install and Custom Operating System base environments in anaconda, is no-longer available for selection as additional software for those environments. Consult release notes for more details. * The KDE live image for Rocky Linux 9.3 had problems during the testing phase. For this, we will be providing the older 9.2 images until we can build and provide a working image. 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 * Adam Augustine * Boris Reisig * Brian Clemens * Bryan (@codedude) * Chris Stackpole * Krista Burdine * Louis Abel * Lukas Magauer * Mustafa Gezen * Neil Hanlon * Omer Sen * Pratham Patel * 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! Sincerely, Release Engineering @ The Rocky Linux Project

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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 20 May '23

20 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 20 May '23

20 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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[RFO] [2023-04-17] Public-facing services outage
by Neil Hanlon 21 Apr '23

21 Apr '23

On April 17, 2023, we had planned maintenance that was aimed to be transparent in nature. In our current work of standing up new infrastructure, we needed to migrate Rocky Linux 8 to 9 for our FreeIPA domain (that runs our DNS and auth for our services internal and external). The plan was to essentially: * Remove one node * Add new node, configure as needed via ansible * Repeat the above until all nodes are migrated As FreeIPA handles the internal DNS and responds to internal requests from our external services where necessary, this should be fairly routine. Most internal services won’t notice IPA servers coming and going as the SRV records will have changed and things will move on as normal. This is mostly transparent, following the proper documentation for FreeIPA migrations between major releases of Enterprise Linux. However, among this work, our internal firewall and unbound DNS caching were not made aware of the new IPA systems as we added and removed nodes, and thus the problems began to start and eventually cascade externally. The remaining 8 node that was still available was the only server responding to requests from our haproxy and unbound. Though this was the case, this essentially caused the following issues: * The CDN would fallback to our appropriate parameters to ensure mirror manager would still respond with at least one mirror (dl.rockylinux.org) * The CDN would detect our services to be back up briefly * Some users will have success, while some would time out. * Anyone hitting mirrors.rockylinux.org would eventually timeout * The CDN would detect it down again and try to fallback * The above would loop endlessly This also unfortunately prevented us from being able to login to our VPN by normal means. The appropriate infrastructure contacts were notified to assist in getting in and fixing the internal resolver to bring all services back online. After all services were back online, we were able to migrate the final 8 node to 9, without further impact to our infrastructure and our users. Corrections have been made to the infrastructure configuration to provide better fault tolerance in the case of DNS outages like this. If you have any questions, please reach out. Best, Neil Hanlon Infrastructure Team Lead, Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation

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Installing Rocky 9.x in a system with CPU not x86-64-v2
by Gestió Servidors 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

Hello, if there any way to install Rocky-9.x in a system with CPU not x86-64-v2? Any kernel boot install parameter or similar? Thanks

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Rocky Linux 9.1 Released
by Brian Clemens 27 Nov '22

27 Nov '22

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux 9.1. This release is currently available for the x86-64, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures. Please review the release notes at https://docs.rockylinux.org/release_notes/9_1 - These notes contain important information including known bugs and more comprehensive details about changes in this version. Notable Changes: - Keylime, a remote boot attestation and runtime integrity management solution using Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) is now available. - New module stream versions include node.js 18, php:8.1, maven:3.8, and ruby:3.1. - New compiler toolset versions include GCC 12, LLVM 14.0.6, Rust 1.62, and Go 1.18. - Container images are now available for all x86-64, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x. - Vagrant images are now available for x86-64 and aarch64 - Official Rocky Linux images are now available on Oracle Cloud Platform. - LVM variants of the generic, EC2, and Azure images are now available. Downloads: - Minimal, DVD, Boot, and torrent downloads are listed at https://rockylinux.org/download - Live images in GNOME, GNOME Lite, KDE, XFCE, and MATE flavors are listed at https://rockylinux.org/alternative-images - Cloud images are listed at https://rockylinux.org/cloud-images Upgrades and Conversions: Current users of Rocky Linux 9 can upgrade to 9.1 via `dnf update` or via PackageKit and its interfaces (GNOME Software, etc). Users of other Enterprise Linux 9 distributions can upgrade and convert to Rocky Linux 9.1 via the migrate2rocky script available at https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/blob/main/migrate2rocky/migrate2… 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 the resources that enable us to do so. We would like to thank the following individuals in particular for their contributions to this release: - Al Bowles - Alan Marshall - Brian Clemens - Chris Stackpole - David Roth - Ezequiel Bruni - Ian Walker - Louis Abel - Lukas Magauer - Mustafa Gezen - Neil Hanlon - Rich Alloway - Sherif Nagy - Skip Grube - Steven Spencer - Taylor Goodwill - Trevor Cooper We are thankful for the upstream development work in Fedora Linux, the curation efforts in CentOS Stream, and the countless developers and projects from which these distributions are built. 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 <https://chat.rockylinux.org/> - Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/rockylinux - Forums: https://forums.rockylinux.org <https://forums.rockylinux.org/> - Mail list: https://lists.resf.org <https://lists.resf.org/> - IRC: ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/#rockylinux - Bug Tracker: https://bugs.rockylinux.org <https://bugs.rockylinux.org/> Thank you, and enjoy the release!

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