Hello folks,
The Rocky Linux 8.6 sources have been staged in production and are available for synchronization at this time.
The final hardlink of the repositories should be finishing up here very shortly. We will perform a bitflip
later on today to make everything available to the public.
Thank you for your continued support of Rocky Linux! As a reminder we have a secondary synchronization point in
Europe at fra.msync.rockylinux.org which can be used to pull from if it's more convenient. In combination with
the release of 9 (expected next week), the infra team will also be finally getting around to deploying some
much needed mirrors in different parts of the world.
Lastly, I am working on some policies around mirroring that we're going to be looking to implement to ensure
great user experience for people using Rocky. I am personally hoping to have these policies drafted and
starting to be implemented in mid June, but we'll see what the future holds.
Best,
--
Neil Hanlon, Infrastructure Team Lead
The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
Hi all,
All Rocky Linux releases prior to 8.5 (8.3, 8.4-RC1, and 8.4), have been moved to the Vault[1]. It is available
via HTTP(s) and rsync via the `rocky-vault` module on msync.rockylinux.org.
Thank you for your patience as we worked on migrating these releases to a vault and rearranged them a bit. This
change will help for quicker syncs, crawls, and less disk utilized. If you are able to mirror both the active
and vault content, that would be greatly appreciated, but is not a requirement generally for mirrors.
Lastly, over the next month or so, the RL infrastructure team will be working on our mirror infrastructure to
make it more geographically diverse as well as improve performance. Along with these improvements likely will
bring a more official mirroring policy and some tiering in order to reduce load on the Tier 0 mirrors. We hope
that additional geodiverse rsync servers will enable us to propagate changes faster and more reliably than
before. If you any have ideas or would like to help out, please reply to this email or reach out via IRC or
mattermost! We are incredibly thankful for your support of Rocky Linux and contribution to making Rocky
available around the globe.
More information about future changes will be communicated via this mailing list as well as via socials and our
website.
[1] https://dl.rockylinux.org/vault/rocky/
Best Regards,
Neil Hanlon
Infrastructure Team Lead, Rocky Linux