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Rocky 10.2 staged for release
by Jonathan Dieter 28 May '26

28 May '26

We are pleased to announce that Rocky Linux 10.2 has been staged to production and is available for mirror synchronization at this time. US: msync.rockylinux.org EU: fra.msync.rockylinux.org Thanks! -- Jonathan Dieter - Engineering Lead The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation

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Rocky 9.8 staged for release
by Jonathan Dieter 27 May '26

27 May '26

We are pleased to announce that Rocky Linux 9.8 has been staged to production and is available for mirror synchronization at this time. A bit flip will be performed either later today or tomorrow to make the release public. US: msync.rockylinux.org EU: fra.msync.rockylinux.org Thanks! -- Jonathan Dieter - Engineering Lead The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation

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Rocky Linux 10.0 Assets Available to Sync
by Neil Hanlon 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce that Rocky Linux 10.0 release assets are now available for mirror synchronization. US: msync.rockylinux.org EU: fra.msync.rockylinux.org Please note that the rsync module names on the FRA endpoint may differ slightly from those on the US server. If you're already syncing from FRA, no changes are necessary on your end. As always, we ask that mirror operators do not publish the synced artifacts until the official release date, in accordance with our bitflip procedure. This helps ensure the final release has undergone appropriate validation and testing. If you need any assistance, please do not hesitate to reach out. Image assets are still being finalized and will be available shortly. Once your initial sync is complete, subsequent updates should be minimal. 137G 10.0/devel 9.6G 10.0/live 660K 10.0/plus 760K 10.0/SAP 1.9M 10.0/SAPHANA 3.6G 10.0/NFV 6.1G 10.0/RT 16G 10.0/images 40G 10.0/isos 20M 10.0/metadata 12G 10.0/AppStream 18G 10.0/BaseOS 3.1M 10.0/HighAvailability 142M 10.0/CRB 936K 10.0/extras 240G 10.0/ 240G total Thank you for your continued support of Rocky Linux. If you have any questions or run into issues, feel free to reach out directly, post to the mirror mailing list, or join us on Mattermost: 👉 https://chat.rockylinux.org/rocky-linux/channels/infrastructure Best regards, Neil Hanlon Infrastructure Lead, RESF

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Rocky Linux 9.4 Assets Available to Sync
by Neil Hanlon 07 May '24

07 May '24

Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce that Rocky Linux 9.4 assets are available to sync. We began allowing all mirrors to begin syncing within the last few hours from our rsync endpoints in both the US and Germany, to streamline future updates that will arrive alongside the upcoming release. US: msync.rockylinux.org EU: fra.msync.rockylinux.org For those who wish to use the FRA endpoint, the rsync modules may be different from our primary US endpoint. For those who are already using it, there is nothing you will need to change at this time. The artifacts available to all mirrors are to be kept from the public in accordance with our bitflip procedure until the release has been thoroughly tested. We have some artifacts (such as live images, containers and cloud images for ppc/s390x) that are still in the works and they will be passed out when they are complete. If you have done the initial sync, then the follow up syncs should be very quick. Thank you for your continued support of Rocky Linux. If there is anything you need, please do not hesitate to reach out directly, via the mirror list, or our mattermost at https://chat.rockylinux.org/rocky-linux/channels/infrastructure. -- Neil Hanlon Infrastructure Lead, RESF

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DDoS Downloads from China Telecom/Mobile Blocks
by Louis Abel 28 Dec '23

28 Dec '23

Hello. Recently, we've received messages from several mirror operators about large amount of traffic coming in from various China IP addresses. These connections appear to be DDoS-like traffic, attempting to download the large ISO's of our releases but never actually finishing them. This obviously consumes bandwidth which can affect your mirror traffic negatively. If you find that this is happening to your mirror, we suggest putting in filters for those subnets. Even if you are not experiencing this, it may be necessary to also add them. This is, however, your call as a mirror operator to make that judgement. Below is a list of potential subnet blocks that can be used, provided by one of our operators. # IPv4 101.64.0.0/13 106.110.0.0/15 112.0.0.0/10 112.100.0.0/14 112.109.128.0/17 112.111.0.0/16 112.94.128.0/18 114.224.0.0/12 117.24.0.0/13 117.80.0.0/12 120.32.0.0/13 124.72.0.0/16 140.224.0.0/16 175.42.0.0/15 175.44.0.0/16 180.96.0.0/11 182.200.0.0/13 183.192.0.0/10 218.5.0.0/16 221.224.0.0/13 222.184.0.0/13 222.76.0.0/14 223.113.216.0/24 223.64.0.0/10 27.152.0.0/13 27.36.0.0/14 36.248.0.0/14 49.64.0.0/11 58.22.0.0/15 58.248.0.0/13 # IPv6 2408:8000::/20 2409:8000::/20 240e::/20 If you find there are other subnets to add, please do not hesitate to reply here or contact us at chat.rockylinux.org. Thank you again for supporting Rocky Linux. -- Louis Abel, RHCE RHCSIDM Infrastructure, Release Engineering, IDM

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rsync node reboots
by Louis Abel 29 Nov '23

29 Nov '23

Hello mirror operators. We are performing patching and rebooting on all of our rsync endpoints. If your mirror was syncing, you may see an error of connections being closed or otherwise. If your rsync is on a regular schedule, this may not be an issue for you as it may start again at any time and resume, as you will connect to another node that is up. If you have any issues reconnecting to msync, please let us know. Thank you, -- Louis Abel, RHCE RHCSIDM Infrastructure, Release Engineering, IDM

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Rocky Linux 9.3 Assets Available to Sync
by Louis Abel 15 Nov '23

15 Nov '23

Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce that Rocky Linux 9.3 assets are available to sync. We began allowing all mirrors to begin syncing within the last 48 hours from our rsync endpoints in both the US and Germany, to streamline future updates that will arrive alongside the upcoming release. US: msync.rockylinux.org EU: fra.msync.rockylinux.org For those who wish to use the FRA endpoint, the rsync modules may be different from our primary US endpoint. For those who are already using it, there is nothing you will need to change at this time. The artifacts available to all mirrors are to be kept from the public in accordance with our bitflip procedure until the release has been thoroughly tested. We have some artifacts (such as live images, containers and cloud images for ppc/s390x) that are still in the works and they will be passed out in the coming hours. If you have done the initial sync, then the follow up syncs should be very quick. If all goes well with our tests, we intend to perform the bitflip (and release Rocky Linux 9.3) on Monday during US business hours (EST, UTC-5). If anything changes, we will send a follow up email. Thank you for your continued support of Rocky Linux. If there is anything you need, please do not hesitate to reach out directly, via the mirror list, or our mattermost at https://chat.rockylinux.org/rocky-linux/channels/infrastructure. -- Louis Abel, RHCE RHCSIDM Infrastructure, Release Engineering, IDM

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Rocky 8.8 Assets available to sync
by Neil Hanlon 18 May '23

18 May '23

Hello all, We are pleased to announce that Rocky Linux 8.8 is available for mirrors to sync from our mirror nodes in the US and Germany. US: msync.rockylinux.org EU: fra.msync.rockylinux.org Please note the fra nodes have a different rsync module layout which will be standardized in a future release. If you have already been using the frankfurt node, there is nothing you need to change. The artifacts available to mirrors are to be kept from the public in accordance with our bitflip procedure until the release has been thoroughly tested. If all goes well with tests, we intend to perform the bitflip (and release Rocky 8.8) tomorrow, on **Friday, May 19th, 2023**, during the afternoon of US business hours (East Coast). If anything changes to this affect, I will send a follow up email. Please see the following listing of directory sizes for this release. All artifacts should be hardlinked. ``` # du -ch --max-depth=1 8.8 102G 8.8/devel 9.3G 8.8/live 11M 8.8/plus 3.6M 8.8/ResilientStorage 4.1M 8.8/NFV 3.9M 8.8/RT 42G 8.8/images 8.8G 8.8/PowerTools 27G 8.8/isos 14M 8.8/metadata 12G 8.8/AppStream 1.9G 8.8/BaseOS 3.5M 8.8/HighAvailability 1.9M 8.8/extras 202G 8.8 202G total ``` Thank you very much for your continued support of Rocky Linux. If there is anything you need, please do not hesitate to reach out directly or via the mirrors list. Best, Neil

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Rocky 9.2 Assets available to pre-sync
by Neil Hanlon 16 May '23

16 May '23

Hello all, We are pleased to announce that Rocky Linux 9.2 is available for mirrors to sync from our mirror nodes in the US and Germany. US: msync.rockylinux.org EU: fra.msync.rockylinux.org Please note the fra nodes have a different rsync module layout which will be standardized in a future release. If you have already been using the frankfurt node, there is nothing you need to change. The artifacts available to mirrors are to be kept from the public in accordance with our bitflip procedure until the release has been thoroughly tested. If all goes well with tests, we intend to perform the bitflip (and release Rocky 9.2) on Monday during US business hours (East Coast). If anything changes to this affect, I will send a follow up email. Thank you very much for your continued support of Rocky Linux. If there is anything you need, please do not hesitate to reach out directly or via the mirrors list. Best, Neil

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Rocky Linux 9.1 Release Incoming
by Neil Hanlon 26 Nov '22

26 Nov '22

Hello all, We will be performing the "bitflip" on the Rocky Linux 9.1 artifacts (including replacing the symlink for `pub/rocky/9/` -> `pub/rocky/9.1`) at 04:00 UTC (or in about 3 hours). The 9.1 artifacts have been available on the tier 0 mirror at msync.rockylinux.org since late on the 24th of November and we've successfully syncronized them around several geo regions at this time. Thank you again for your continued support of Rocky Linux, and we hope this release has gone smoother than past releases. While we have not finalized the implementation of Tiering for the Rocky mirrors, we identified several bottlenecks in our network attached storage implementation which was contributing to really long delays when syncing from our mirrors. Please let us know if you encounter any issues, and remember we also have a European node in Frankfurt available at fra.msync.rockylinux.org. In the next few weeks we'll be adding a first-party node in the Asia-Pacific region as well. Best, Neil Hanlon

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