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!