AlmaLinux Newsletters

AlmaLinux unveiled a new Certification Special Interest Group alongside a hardware certification program, and bootc images are now available for Intel/AMD and ARM64 architectures.

AlmaLinux is seeking contributors for various initiatives, ELevate received a major update with expanded capabilities, and the project is nominated for The Stevie Awards' People's Choice award.

Three critical security patches were released for AlmaLinux OS 9, including a same-day patch for CVE-2024-6387 (regreSSHion), and three new Silver Sponsor Members joined for 2024.

AlmaLinux now supports Raspberry Pi 5, three additional silver sponsors were announced, and the ELevate tool is featured in a user success story about migrating CentOS 6 and 7 systems.

AlmaLinux 9.4 "Seafoam Ocelot" and AlmaLinux 8.10 "Cerulean Leopard" became available in May, both restoring support for more than 10 device drivers that had been disabled in RHEL.

AlmaLinux 9.4 and 8.10 will be released in May, and both versions have re-enabled support for more than 140 PCI devices that Red Hat deprecated in RHEL 8.10 and 9.4.

This month we're celebrating AlmaLinux's 3rd birthday, and we hosted our second ever AlmaLinux Day in Germany alongside SCaLE 21x and CloudFest.

We hit three big events in February — CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, and the AlmaLinux Leadership Summit — and are now gearing up for SCaLE, CloudFest, and AlmaLinux Day: Germany in March.

A lot is happening already in 2024 — session recordings for AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo are now available, ELevate has gained 3rd party repository support and a new Next Generation release, and AlmaLinux Day: Germany has been announced for March 18th.

AlmaLinux 8 will undergo a GPG key change on January 12th due to storage issues with the original master key — users should review the blog post for preparation steps.

AlmaLinux OS 9.3 and AlmaLinux OS 8.9 are now available, representing the first minor versions since transitioning to CentOS Stream in July.

AlmaLinux 9.2 achieved FIPS compliance and the Foundation is holding elections to fill three board seats.