Hello Сommunity! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.2 https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos.html codenamed “Turquoise Kodkod”! Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures: - Intel/AMD (x86_64) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/x86_64/9.2.html - ARM64 (aarch64) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/aarch64/9.2.html - IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/ppc64le/9.2.html - IBM Z (s390x) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/s390x/9.2.html Torrents are available as well at: - Intel/AMD (x86_64) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.2/isos/x86_64/AlmaLinux-9.2-x86_64.to... - ARM64 (aarch64) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.2/isos/aarch64/AlmaLinux-9.2-aarch64.... - IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.2/isos/ppc64le/AlmaLinux-9.2-ppc64le.... - IBM Z (s390x) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.2/isos/s390x/AlmaLinux-9.2-s390x.torr... 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 is ready. *The following images are expected to be available shortly.* We will post a separate “Images Update” announcement soon, to keep the community informed. - Docker https://wiki.almalinux.org/containers/docker-images.html#about-almalinux-doc... images including Platform and UBIs alternatives. We provide a wide variety of containers for your use. Please see our Docker Official Image https://hub.docker.com/_/almalinux as well as all AlmaLinux images https://hub.docker.com/u/almalinux. *IMPORTANT!* Starting from AlmaLinux 9.2 Docker’s “latest” and “minimal” tags will point to the latest 9 version. If you’re using these tags and want to stay on AlmaLinux 8 please update your Dockefiles. - 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 AMIs https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/AWS.html for x86_64 and Graviton Instances - Azure https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/Azure.html Images for in standard and HPC flavors for x86_64 and aarch64 - 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 - Open Nebula https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/OpenNebula.html for all 4 architectures - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/OCI.html for x86_64 and aarch64 - Vagrant Boxes https://app.vagrantup.com/almalinux: - Libvirt - VirtualBox - Hyper-V - VMWare - Parallels - Raspberry Pi https://wiki.almalinux.org/documentation/raspberry-pi.html - Windows Subsystem for Linux https://wiki.almalinux.org/documentation/wsl.html Release Notes and More Information AlmaLinux 9.2 provides enhancements and features to the hybrid cloud’s foundation and helps deliver workloads, applications and services for multiple environments faster and with less effort. This release includes security updates such as the realmd system role, a SCAP profile, and Ansible content for enhanced system checks to simplify managing security and compliance. Improvements to application streams provide compilers, runtime languages, databases and web server updates. Enhancements to the web console and new system roles make it easier to automate and standardize systems. As for containers, new capabilities allow the development and management of containerized deployments more easily. You can read more about this release by checking out the Release Notes https://wiki.almalinux.org/release-notes/9.2.html. Join us on Mastodon! Have you jumped on Mastodon yet? Follow us! @almalinux@fosstodon.org https://fosstodon.org/@almalinux 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 9.2 Forum https://almalinux.discourse.group/c/devel/9-2-stable/40, on our AlmaLinux Community on Reddit https://reddit.com/r/almalinux or catch us on Twitter https://twitter.com/almalinux. Please report any bugs you may see on the Bug Tracker https://bugs.almalinux.org/. Enjoy the release and have fun! *Happy Hacking!* -- Jonathan Wright AlmaLinux Foundation Mattermost: chat https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/messages/@jonathan