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