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