AlmaLinux Nieuwsbrieven

AlmaLinux 10.3 Beta and 9.9 Beta are available, we welcome two new board members, certification gets a big revamp, and we want to hear what AlmaLinux should do next.

AlmaLinux 10.3 Beta "Mauve Lion" is now available for all supported architectures, and voting in the 2026 board election is open through October 2nd.

Nominations for the 2026 board election are open until September 8th, we hosted the first AlmaLinux Day: LA, the Microsoft 2011 Secure Boot certificates have expired and AlmaLinux users are covered, and the Media & Entertainment SIG shows off the AlmaLinux Creative Installer.

AlmaLinux Day: LA 2026 is July 18th and the speakers have been announced, AlmaLinux OS is now Common Criteria certified, patched kernels are out for Januscape, Bad Epoll, and IPV6_FRAG_ESCAPE, and you have until July 16th to join the foundation and vote in the rescheduled election.

AlmaLinux 10.2 and 9.8 are now available, patched kernels for CIFSwitch, ssh-keysign-pwn, NGINX Rift, and Fragnesia are in production, AlmaLinux Day: LA 2026 is July 18th, and our rescheduled election is coming soon.

AlmaLinux 10.2 Beta and 9.8 Beta are now available, patched kernels for Copy Fail and Dirty Frag are in production, the AlmaLinux Day: LA 2026 CFP closes June 5th, and our rescheduled election is coming soon.

Real RISC-V support has landed, i686 userspace is now available in AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10, ELevate NG can upgrade you to AlmaLinux 10 x86_64_v2, and the CFP for AlmaLinux Day: LA 2026 is open until June 5th.

AlmaLinux Day: Germany and AlmaLinux Day: LA are announced, the shim bootloader has been updated for ARM64 Secure Boot users, and Codenotary, Fastly, and StorPool Storage AD return as Silver Sponsor Members.

AlmaLinux 9.7 and 10.1 have launched, with 10.1 introducing Btrfs support while maintaining RHEL 10.1 compatibility.

Two significant beta versions were released: AlmaLinux 9.7 and AlmaLinux 10.1, with AlmaLinux OS 10.1 introducing support for the Btrfs filesystem.

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation board member election has been moved to March 2026, and the CRB repository is now being enabled by default in AlmaLinux OS 10.

AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver was a success, and AlmaLinux OS 9 and 10 now ship native NVIDIA Open GPU driver packages signed for Secure Boot.

AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver is occurring on August 9th, preceding SIGGRAPH, featuring talks, networking, refreshments, and exclusive gifts for attendees.

AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver is scheduled for August 9th, preceding SIGGRAPH, and the organization launched a community survey to gather feedback without implementing telemetry.

AlmaLinux released two major versions this month: version 9.6 "Sage Margay" and version 10.0 "Purple Lion," which maintains RHEL 10 compatibility while introducing targeted improvements.