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Nominations for this year's board election open today, August 3, and they close on September 8. There are two Cohort A seats to fill, and this is the first election under our new bylaws and election process . More details are available on the 2026 election page . Why to join the AlmaLinux OS Foundation Board AlmaLinux runs in places none of us can fully see: hospitals, banks, universities,…
AlmaLinux Day: LA happened just over a week ago, on Saturday, July 18, at the E-Central Downtown Los Angeles Hotel, and it was a genuinely great day. We got to hang out with some of our new best friends, and I left with the strong sense that we're doing something right. The day Doors opened just before 9, and we had a real rush: a big chunk of attendees showed up to the event in that first hour.…
You may have seen news that the Microsoft UEFI Secure Boot certificates from 2011 have expired. The short version for AlmaLinux users: everything is covered, and your systems will not stop booting. There is nothing you have to do right now, but a quick check will make sure you are ready for future shim updates. Here is what happened and what we recommend. What happened? The Microsoft certificates…
Update: The fix is now in production The patched kernel for GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) has been released to the production repositories for every affected AlmaLinux release — 8, 9, and 10. You no longer need to enable the testing repo. Just run: sudo dnf clean metadata && sudo dnf upgrade sudo reboot The fixed versions released to production are kernel-4.18.0-553.141.2.el8_10 (AlmaLinux 8),…
Update: All patches are now in production The patched kernels for Januscape (CVE-2026-53359) and Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) have been released to the production repositories for every affected AlmaLinux release — 8, 9, and 10. You no longer need to enable the testing repo. Just run: sudo dnf clean metadata && sudo dnf upgrade sudo reboot The fixed versions released to production are…
Update: The fix is now in production The patched AlmaLinux 10 kernel has been released to the production repositories. You no longer need to enable the testing repo to get it. Just run: sudo dnf clean metadata && sudo dnf upgrade sudo reboot The fixed version released to the public is kernel-6.12.0-211.29.1.el10_2 (or higher). Confirm you are running it with uname -r after rebooting. Most mirrors…
We announced earlier today that AlmaLinux OS 9.2 is now certified under Common Criteria , the international standard (ISO/IEC 15408) for independently evaluating the security of IT products. I keep coming back to how big this is for a community project. AlmaLinux is a community-owned non-profit foundation, with no corporate owner. For an operating system that is built in the open and given away…
The schedule is live, the speakers are confirmed, and I'm genuinely excited to finally show you what the day looks like. We're gathering Saturday, July 18, 2026 at the E-Central Downtown Los Angeles Hotel, the day before SIGGRAPH. Registration is open , it's free, but the room is capped. So if you were waiting to see the lineup before grabbing your seat, here it is! It goes both ways The thing I…
Last September, we cancelled an election in progress because we found inconsistencies in how our own processes, bylaws, and committee guidelines fit together. We wanted to fix that properly, and then to come back to you when the work was done. The work is done. I'm happy to share that as of the April Board meeting , we have adopted new bylaws , along with a reworked election process and a…
Update: CVE assigned and patched kernels are now in production 2026-06-02 15:31 UTC: The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2026-46243 , and the patched kernels have been released to the production repositories/mirrors. You no longer need to enable the testing repo to get them. Just run: sudo dnf clean metadata && sudo dnf upgrade sudo reboot Thanks to everyone in the community who helped verify…
AlmaLinux OS 9.8 and 10.2 Stable Now Available Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of two stable releases at once: AlmaLinux OS 9.8 codenamed "Olive Jaguar" and AlmaLinux OS 10.2 codenamed "Lavender Lion"! This is the first time we have ever shipped two AlmaLinux releases on the same day, and it's a milestone we're proud of. It's the direct result of…
We have a venue! AlmaLinux Day: Los Angeles will take place Saturday, July 18, 2026, at the E-Central Downtown Los Angeles Hotel at 1020 S Figueroa St — and you can register now . These are the seats waiting for you. The room is real, the date is locked, and there's enough space for a great conversation but not enough for everyone who'll want in — which brings us to the rest of the announcement.
Update: Patched kernels are now in production 2026-05-16 15:05 UTC: The patched kernels are now rolling out to production repositories/mirrors. You no longer need to enable the testing repo to get them. Just run: sudo dnf clean metadata && sudo dnf upgrade sudo reboot Most mirrors have a sync frequency of 3 hours. If the updates are not available to you yet we recommend trying again in about an…
Update: Patched kernels are now in production 2026-05-16 15:05 UTC: The patched kernels are now rolling out to production repositories/mirrors. You no longer need to enable the testing repo to get them. Just run: sudo dnf clean metadata && sudo dnf upgrade sudo reboot Most mirrors have a sync frequency of 3 hours. If the updates are not available to you yet we recommend trying again in about an…
Update: Patched nginx is now in production 2026-05-14 22:41 UTC : Patched nginx packages are now rolling out to the AlmaLinux production repositories for every supported release. This covers the default nginx package on AlmaLinux 8, 9, 10, and Kitten 10, and every nginx module stream we ship on AlmaLinux 8 ( nginx:1.16 , nginx:1.18 , nginx:1.20 , nginx:1.22 , nginx:1.24 ) and AlmaLinux 9 (…
Update: Patched kernels are now in production 2026-05-08 15:22 UTC — The patched kernels are now rolling out to production repositories/mirrors. You no longer need to enable the testing repo to get them. Just run: sudo dnf clean metadata && sudo dnf upgrade sudo reboot Most mirrors have a sync frequency of 3 hours. If the updates are not available to you yet we recommend trying again in about an…
Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the availability of AlmaLinux 10.2 Beta "Lavender Lion" for all supported architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) Intel/AMD (x86_64_v2) Intel/AMD 32-bit (i686) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Beta ISOs are available at repo.almalinux.org . A usual reminder: this is a BETA release. It should not be used for production…
Update: Patched kernels are now in production 2026-05-01 21:07 UTC — The patched kernels are now rolling out to production repositories/mirrors. You no longer need to enable the testing repo to get them. Just run: sudo dnf clean metadata && sudo dnf upgrade sudo reboot Most mirrors have a sync frequency of 3 hours. If the updates are not available to you yet we recommend trying again in about an…
As announced in the Raspberry Pi Forum , the kernel of Raspberry Pi OS is planning a move to 6.18, the next upstream LTS kernel version, in the near future. We are also considering migrating our AlmaLinux images for Raspberry Pi to the 6.18 kernel, and we now offer a pre-release Raspberry Pi kernel for users interested in these cutting-edge updates. The testing kernel is available for AlmaLinux OS…
Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the availability of AlmaLinux 9.8 Beta "Olive Jaguar" for all supported architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Beta ISOs are available at repo.almalinux.org . A usual reminder: this is a BETA release. It should not be used for production installations. The provided upgrade instructions should…
Some of you may have seen news about California's AB-1043, the "Digital Age Assurance Act," (DAAA) and are wondering what it means for AlmaLinux. To help answer that, I want to share what we know and where we stand. What we think Whether or not we like this legislation (we don’t) we believe that the DAAA may require operating systems to implement digital age verification, and communicate the…
ELevate NG (the development branch of ELevate) now supports the upgrade path from AlmaLinux OS 9 to AlmaLinux OS 10 (or AlmaLinux OS Kitten) x86_64_v2. We need your help to verify that the upgrade works smoothly. Please give it a try and report your results! Caution: Do not use it on production machines. We highly recommend making backups and/or snapshots of your system before proceeding, and…
We have added i686 support to AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 — package repositories and official container images for 32-bit x86. There is no installer ISO for i686; this is only about userspace. If you have used i686 packages on AlmaLinux 8 or 9, the setup is the same. Why ship i686 32-bit x86 has not gone away. Software that only ships as i686, CI pipelines that need a specific 32-bit glibc, containers…
We're just 9 days out from AlmaLinux Day: Germany 2026, and the full schedule is here! On Thursday, March 26 , we'll be taking over the Convento room at Europa-Park in Rust, Germany for a full day of talks, a panel, and the kind of hallway conversations that make these events so worthwhile. AlmaLinux Day: Germany happens during the final day of CloudFest 2026 , so you'll also have access to the…
RISC-V is a free and open instruction set architecture (ISA) based on RISC principles. Unlike proprietary ISAs such as x86 or ARM, the RISC-V specification is openly available, allowing anyone to implement it without licensing fees. Hardware platforms based on RISC-V are becoming more widely available, from microcontrollers to application-class processors capable of running full Linux…
For years, firewalld users across multiple Linux distributions have been hitting a painful performance issue: reloading the firewall with large ipsets (10,000+ entries) and the nftables backend takes minutes instead of seconds, often causing network disruption. The problem has been reported upstream as well as in Debian , Red Hat Bugzilla , and by our community . We've investigated the root cause,…
Today we’re rolling out AlmaLinux Astra : a new self-service platform for identity, organizations, memberships, and elections for the AlmaLinux OS Foundation. Astra is built to keep workflows clear, accountable, and easy to audit. It helps contributors and communities move from “who are you?” to “you can participate” with fewer manual handoffs and more transparent status updates. Astra will…
Every year, around FOSDEM, the AlmaLinux SIG leaders, ALESCo members, and board members are invited to attend the AlmaLinux Leadership Summit. The goal of the summit is to get everyone in a room to have discussions around the major problems we're facing, ensure that what we're doing in the year to come is focused on our goals, work out any friction between SIGs, and make sure that everyone in…
Last August we started shipping NVIDIA's open GPU kernel modules, and saw incredible amounts of adoption and excitement about that announcement! Today we are excited to share that with the release of version 13.2, NVIDIA has added official support for enterprise Linux compatible distributions, including AlmaLinux, to CUDA. That means that users of NVIDIA hardware can receive support for NVIDIA…
AlmaLinux days have been a fantastic way for us to gather parts of our community together. Whether adjacent to other events, or completely independent, we are always so happy to connect and hear from the users who are impacted by what we do every day. I’m so excited to announce the next two AlmaLinux days for 2026: Germany (in just under a month), and Los Angeles. Why AlmaLinux days exist…
2025 was another year of growth and excitement for AlmaLinux. Here's a look back at what we achieved, all thanks to our amazing community! Whether you've been involved from the start, just recently joined us, or have yet to start contributing, we'd like to thank you for being a part of this community. AlmaLinux OS versions and AlmaLinux OS Kitten Updates Our main goal is to provide stable, secure,…
We have updated the shim bootloader to version 16.1 for AlmaLinux 9.7 and 10.1, following the same pattern that users will see in RHEL releases. This update includes a change in the UEFI Secure Boot signing key for the aarch64 (ARM64) architecture that our users should be aware of. What is shim? For those unfamiliar, shim is an open-source bootloader that acts as a bridge between the UEFI firmware…
Today, we issued a press release announcing three returning silver sponsor members of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, and I wanted to thank them here as well! We're always blown away by the support of new and returning sponsor members. Here's a little bit about each of these three returning silver sponsor members. Codenotary Codenotary delivers software trust and integrity solutions that protect the…
Earlier this year at DevConf , I learned of some upcoming changes that were going to impact ELevate. The work with the team at Red Hat has completed, and we are excited to say that, as of November 18th, the newest update to ELevate has been released. What is ELevate? In case you have not yet heard of ELevate: ELevate is an AlmaLinux project that, since 2021 has provided the ability to upgrade…
Our friends in the Japan AlmaLinux Users Group are planning the next AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo! The event will be held on January 23rd at the Fujitsu Uvance Kawasaki Tower. Register today to save your spot! If you have questions, feel free to join the User Group - Japan This will be our first AlmaLinux Day in 2026, but it won't be our last! Make sure to keep an eye on events.almalinux.org , or sign up…
The AlmaLinux community is thrilled to announce the formation of our newest Special Interest Group: the Media & Entertainment SIG! This group is dedicated to supporting and enhancing the use of AlmaLinux within the professional visual effects (VFX), animation, and post-production industry. With recent changes, licensing and support costs are creating significant disruption in the M&E software…
AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver took place in August, and what a great event it was! As our virst time in Vancouver, and our first event adjacent to SIGGRAPH, we had no idea what to expect, but it was a blast! Keep reading to get a full rundown of what went on at the event. Event Preparation We had a wonderful team of volunteers help us with the set up, including prepping the swag giveaways, setting up…
AlmaLinux OS 10.1 Stable Now Available Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 10.1 codenamed "Heliotrope Lion"! Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) Intel/AMD (x86_64_v2) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Torrents are available as well at: Intel/AMD (x86_64)…
AlmaLinux OS 9.7 Stable Now Available Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.7 codenamed "Moss Jungle Cat"! Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Torrents are available as well at: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC…
Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the availability of AlmaLinux 10.1 Beta "Heliotrope Lion" for all supported architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) Intel/AMD (x86_64_v2) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Beta ISOs are available at repo.almalinux.org . A usual reminder: this is a BETA release. It should not be used for production installations. The provided…
Announcing Btrfs support in AlmaLinux OS 10.1 AlmaLinux OS 10.1 will support the Btrfs filesystem, which has already been available in AlmaLinux OS Kitten since early September. What is Btrfs? Btrfs is a modern Copy-on-Write (CoW) filesystem implementing advanced features while also focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration. Among other things, it provides snapshotting, built-in…
Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the availability of AlmaLinux 9.7 Beta "Moss Jungle Cat" for all supported architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64) ARM64 (aarch64) IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) IBM Z (s390x) Beta ISOs are available at repo.almalinux.org . A usual reminder: this is a BETA release. It should not be used for production installations. The provided upgrade instructions…
We have identified some inconsistencies within our internal guidelines that could potentially call into question the current election. To ensure that we are properly aligning our processes, bylaws, and committee guidelines, we are canceling the current election and rescheduling it for March of 2026. The inconsistencies Last week, the membership committee identified a potential problem in the way…
AlmaLinux OS 10 will have the CRB repository turned on by default via an update in AlmaLinux OS 10.0 on 2025-09-09 , while AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 has had it enabled by default since the update on 2025-08-27 ( almalinux-kitten-repos-10.0-9.el10.0.1 ). As part of our efforts to continue improving the experience for AlmaLinux users, we are enabling the CRB repository by default. This reduces the…
At AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver a couple weeks ago (videos coming shortly!) I announced the opening of nominations for this year's election. I've been on the board for more than 3 years , so I can speak with some authority about it when I say: non-profit boards, especially those in the open source space, need you. 3 reasons you should join the AlmaLinux OS Foundation's (or any other non-profit) board…
At long last, users of NVIDIA graphics cards can enjoy a drastically improved user experience with AlmaLinux. When AlmaLinux started just 5 years ago, this wouldn’t have been possible. However, with NVIDIA releasing an open source version of their graphics drivers, things changed. This open source version is slowly becoming the flagship driver, with new products being added exclusively to it.…
Hey, community! AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver is coming up fast-August 9th at the beautiful Emily Carr University of Art + Design-and we're putting together what promises to be our most exciting event yet! With speakers from across the VFX industry, hands-on workshops, and a whole lot of Linux love, this is going to be a day to remember. But here's the thing: we need YOUR help to make it happen!…
The first round of accepted talks for AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver have been announced, and we are excited to welcome these talks and speakers! This year's event is shaping up quite nicely, and we are excited to welcome speakers from across industries and across the world! Find the full list of sessions below, check out all of the plans for the day on the event page , and register for free to attend…
Hello everyone! We are excited to announce the availability of new ELevate paths: AlmaLinux OS 9 to AlmaLinux OS 10.0. AlmaLinux OS 9 to AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10. CentOS Stream 9 to CentOS Stream 10. 3rd Party Repositories Support The new upgrade paths include the following 3rd-party repository support: EPEL - available for upgrades to AlmaLinux OS only. Note, that the support works only for those…
In March, ALESCo approved a proposal to build EPEL packages from Fedora’s source RPMs (SRPMs) to maintain long-term feature parity for our x86_64_v2 support initiative. Last month, these packages became available for AlmaLinux Kitten 10 , and today we are happy to announce that x86_64_v2 EPEL support is now available for AlmaLinux 10 Stable as well. The EPEL package builds for AlmaLinux OS 10…
