Hi all!! We are excited to announce the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 8.10 https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos.html! Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures: - Intel/AMD (x86_64) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/x86_64/8.10.html - ARM64 (aarch64) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/aarch64/8.10.html - IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/ppc64le/8.10.html - IBM Z (s390x) https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/s390x/8.10.html Torrents are available as well at: - Intel/AMD (x86_64) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8.10/isos/x86_64/AlmaLinux-8.10-x86_64.... - ARM64 (aarch64) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8.10/isos/aarch64/AlmaLinux-8.10-aarch6... - IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8.10/isos/ppc64le/AlmaLinux-8.10-ppc64l... - IBM Z (s390x) https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8.10/isos/s390x/AlmaLinux-8.10-s390x.to... <#How-we-build>How we build AlmaLinux matches release and software versions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and builds from the same sources as RHEL, ensuring complete compatibility with RHEL, and does so from freely available open source code. If you are looking for a deeper understanding of how AlmaLinux is built, watch this 23-minute video of our Lead Architect explaining in detail at AlmaLinux Day: Germany https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-germany-2024/, earlier this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMvI5E9-LYI <#ISOs-Live-Images-Cloud-and-Containers>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. - Container https://wiki.almalinux.org/containers/ images including Platform and UBI 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 AlmaLinux 8.10 brings updates to security and data protection, and improvements in web-console and system roles to automate operations and ensure consistency in intricate IT settings. The release continues to enhance system availability, reliability, and recovery processes, alongside improving virtual machine snapshot functions in hybrid cloud scenarios. New system roles have been introduced to streamline the creation and administration of logical volume manager (LVM) snapshots for better data backup and recovery processes. Performance, scalability, and reliability continue to be the focus of updates in the 8.10 version to aid developers in application development and management. You can read the full release notes for this version on the wiki: AlmaLinux OS 8.10 Release Notes https://wiki.almalinux.org/release-notes/8.10.html. <#Renewing-support-for-upstream-deprecated-hardware>Renewing support for upstream deprecated hardware With AlmaLinux 8.10 we have also differentiated ourselves by meeting another request from our community for support with older hardware to help them stay on updated operating systems. The following device drivers were modified to re-add PCI IDs for hardware disabled in upstream: - 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 OneConnect Open-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/8.10.html#extended-hardware-support section in the 8.10 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://forums.almalinux.org/t/re-adding-support-for-older-hardware/3851. <#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 8.10 Forum https://forums.almalinux.org/c/devel/8-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.*