Hi everyone! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.4 https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos.html codenamed "Seafoam Ocelot"! Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures: - Intel/AMD (x86_64) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/x86_64/9.4.html - ARM64 (aarch64) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/aarch64/9.4.html - IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/ppc64le/9.4.html - IBM Z (s390x) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/s390x/9.4.html Torrents are available as well at: - Intel/AMD (x86_64) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.4/isos/x86_64/AlmaLinux-9.4-x86_64.to... - ARM64 (aarch64) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.4/isos/aarch64/AlmaLinux-9.4-aarch64.... - IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.4/isos/ppc64le/AlmaLinux-9.4-ppc64le.... - IBM Z (s390x) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.4/isos/s390x/AlmaLinux-9.4-s390x.torr... <#How-we-build>How we build Matching release and software versions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL), AlmaLinux builds from the same sources as RHEL, promises complete compatibility with RHEL, and does so from freely available open source code. This makes it the only choice for anyone looking for a truly open source Enterprise Linux. If you are looking for a deeper undertanding of how AlmaLinux is built, watch this 23 minute video of our Lead Architech explaining in detail at AlmaLinux Day: Germany https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-germany-2024/, earlier this year. https://youtu.be/aMvI5E9-LYI ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers AlmaLinux also offers a variety of Cloud, Container and Live Images. The builds for these get kicked off as soon as the public repository was ready. The following images are expected to be available shortly. - Container https://wiki.almalinux.org/containers/ images including Platform and UBIs alternatives. We provide a wide variety of containers for your use. - LXC/LXD https://images.linuxcontainers.org/images/almalinux/ - Live Media https://wiki.almalinux.org/LiveMedia.html for GNOME, GNOME-mini, KDE, XFCE, MATE and more. - Cloud Images - AWS https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/AWS.html for x86_64 and AArch64 EC2 Instances - Azure https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/Azure.html for x86_64 and AArch64 VMs - Google Cloud https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/Google.html - Generic Cloud/Cloud-init https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/Generic-cloud-on-local.html for all 4 architectures - OpenNebula https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/OpenNebula.html for x86_64 and AArch64 architectures - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/OCI.html for x86_64 and AArch64 Instances - Vagrant Boxes https://app.vagrantup.com/almalinux: - Libvirt - VirtualBox - Hyper-V - VMWare for x86_64 and AArch64 - Parallels for AArch64 - Raspberry Pi https://wiki.almalinux.org/documentation/raspberry-pi.html - Windows Subsystem for Linux https://wiki.almalinux.org/documentation/wsl.html for x86_64 and AArch64 <#Release-Notes-and-More-Information>Release Notes and More Information The AlmaLinux 9.4 introduces updates to enhance machine security and data protection. Enhancements in web-console and system roles automate additional operations and promote consistency in complex IT environments. The new release's features aim to improve system availability and reliability, facilitate easier recovery operations, and enhance virtual machine snapshot capabilities in hybrid cloud environments. The new system roles introduced enable the creation and management of logical volume manager (LVM) snapshots for improved data backup and recovery processes. Additionaly, updates in the 9.4 release continues to improve performance, scalability, and reliability for developers in building and managing applications. You can read the full release notes for this version on the wiki: AlmaLinux OS 9.4 Release Notes https://wiki.almalinux.org/release-notes/9.4.html. <#Renewing-support-for-upstream-deprecated-hardware>Renewing support for upstream deprecated hardware With AlmaLinux 9.4 we have also differentiated ourselves in another way. Our community has asked us to help them stay on updated operating systems by providing support for older hardware. - The following device drivers were modified to re-add PCI IDs for hardware disabled in upstream: - aacraid - Dell PERC2, 2/Si, 3/Si, 3/Di, Adaptec Advanced Raid Products, HP NetRAID-4M, IBM ServeRAID & ICP SCSI - be2iscsi - Emulex OneConnectOpen-iSCSI for BladeEngine 2 and 3 adapters - hpsa - HP Smart Array Controller - lpfc - Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI - megaraid_sas - Broadcom MegaRAID SAS - mlx4_core - Mellanox Gen2 and ConnectX-2 adapters - mpt3sas - LSI MPT Fusion SAS 3.0 - mptsas - Fusion MPT SAS Host - qla2xxx - QLogic Fibre Channel HBA - qla4xxx - QLogic iSCSI HBA For a complete list of hardware support for which was added in this release, see the Extended hardware support https://wiki.almalinux.org/release-notes/9.4.html#extended-hardware-support section in the 9.4 release notes. While this list is quite comprehensive, we also welcome feedback from all of our users! If you use older hardware, does this list cover everything you need it to? If not, please share more here on the AlmaLinux Forums: Re-adding support for older hardware https://almalinux.discourse.group/t/re-adding-support-for-older-hardware/385... <#Pitch-In>Pitch In Join us in the AlmaLinux Community Chat https://chat.almalinux.org to get any assistance you need and help others. You can also post a question on our 9.4 Forum https://almalinux.discourse.group/c/devel/9-stable/36, on our AlmaLinux Community on Reddit https://reddit.com/r/almalinux, catch us on Twitter/X https://twitter.com/almalinux and follow us on Mastodon @almalinux@fosstodon.org https://fosstodon.org/@almalinux Please report any bugs you may see on the Bug Tracker https://bugs.almalinux.org/. Enjoy the release and have fun! benny Vasquez Chair, Board of Directors @AlmaLinux OS Foundation *I am sending this message now because it suits me, but I don’t expect that you will read, respond to, or act on it outside of comfortable hours for your time zone.*