LOTS of news this month:
* 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.
https://almalinux.org/newsletters/2026-04-21-almalinux-news-april-2026/
Thanks for everything you do!
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.*
Welcome to this month’s newsletter! Here’s what you may have missed so far
this year.
For the skimmers:
-
We have updated the shim bootloader to version 16.1 for AlmaLinux 9.7
and 10.1 - If you use Secure Boot on ARM64, take a look!
-
We’re happy to announce AlmaLinux Day: Germany 2026 and AlmaLinux Day:
LA 2026! Check out more info below in the “New on the AlmaLinux blog”
section.
-
If you missed AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo 2026 (or if you just want to relive
the experience), the sessions are now available to watch on our YouTube
channel here
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JCto0t1r98&list=PLqKzWfm6zyluvLR3A5HJDmDmj…>!
Thank you again to our Japanese User Group for making ALDT possible
-
As @Owain Kenway shared on LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/posts/owain-kenway_ucl-to-host-195m-supercomputing…>,
UCL was selected to host a £19.5m supercomputing facility! The computing
resource, Charger, uses AlmaLinux OS, and we’re so proud to be a part of
their project.
New on the AlmaLinux blogAlmaLinux Days in two great cities!
🥳 We’re happy to announce AlmaLinux Day: Germany and AlmaLinux Day: LA!
AlmaLinux Day: Germany will be taking place on March 26th in Rust, Germany,
in tandem with CloudFest.
AlmaLinux Day: LA will be on July 18th, the day before SIGGRAPH starts.
Learn more about both events in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-03-02-almalinux-days-in-two-great-cities/>
from @benny Vasquez.
2025 AlmaLinux Year in Review
🗓️ 2025 was another busy and fulfilling year for AlmaLinux, and that’s all
thanks to our wonderful community!
Highlights include:
-
AlmaLinux OS 9.6
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-05-20-almalinux_96_release/>, 10.0
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-05-27-welcoming-almalinux-10/>, 9.7
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-11-17-almalinux_97_release/>, and 10.1
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-11-24-almalinux_101_release/> releases
-
More deviations driven by ALESCo in order to better serve the AlmaLinux
community
-
New ELevate paths (and ELevate is now supported in upstream LEAPP!)
-
Tons of events where we connected directly with community members
Read the full recap here in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-02-25-almalinux-2025-recap/> from @benny
Vasquez. @Phoronix also wrote this article about it
<https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/161…>
!
Shim bootloader updated, impacting secure boot for ARM64
🔒 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.
Read more here <https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-02-18-shim-16.1-update/>
from @Andrew Lukoshko.
Announcing Returning Silver Sponsor Members - Codenotary, Fastly, and
StorPool Storage AD
🎊 We’re so happy to welcome back returning Silver sponsor members
@Codenotary, @Fastly, and @StorPool Storage AD!
We couldn’t do what we do without the support of these three and sponsors
like them.
Learn more about our sponsors in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-02-17-codenotary-fastly-storpoold/> from
@benny Vasquez.
AlmaLinux Events
We’ve got big plans for 2026! Here’s a look at the upcoming events we’re
currently planning to attend in the next two months:
-
March 5-8: SCaLE <https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x>
-
March 23-26: CloudFest <https://www.cloudfest.com/> (Want to join us
there? You can use our registration code
<https://registration.cloudfest.com/?code=g6peC9RM> for a free ticket!)
-
March 26: AlmaLinux Day: Germany
<https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-germany-2026/>
-
March 26-29: Penguicon <https://2026.penguicon.org/>
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April 24-26: LinuxFest NW <https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/>
If you have thoughts on other events that we should attend, let us know!
Our global community is growing quickly, and we love to connect with them
wherever they are.
Stay Up to Date and Join Us!If you want to make sure you catch every update
from us, sign up for the Newsletters mailing list
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or subscribe here on LinkedIn
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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.*
Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter! I know it's a little late and
includes some December news, but I couldn't help myself!
----------
For the skimmers:
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* AlmaLinux 9.7 and AlmaLinux 10.1 have both been released!! Thank you to
everyone who helped with testing and sharing feedback. Learn more below!
* The Japan AlmaLinux Users group is hosting its third AlmaLinux Day in
Tokyo! Get the details on their page: AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo 2026
<https://almalinux.connpass.com/event/377157/>
* Let us know where you’d like to see us in 2026! We are in the process of
planning out our event participation for next year.
----------
New on the AlmaLinux blog
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** Announcing the AlmaLinux Media & Entertainment SIG: The frontline for
VFX, Animation, and post
This group is dedicated to supporting and enhancing the use of AlmaLinux
within the professional visual effects (VFX), animation, and
post-production industry.
Find out more and join in our efforts
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-12-02-almalinux-media-entertainment-sig/> in
this blog post by Cristian Slavik.
** AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver Recap
This amazing event hasn’t left our minds! We recently shared our
highlights from the event earlier this year, as well as recordings of the
amazing sessions.
Check it out in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-12-01-almalinux-day-vancouver-recap/> from
benny Vasquez.
** General Availability of AlmaLinux OS 10.1 Stable!
AlmaLinux OS 10.1 aka “Heliotrope Lion” is now available! With this
release, we’ve introduced Btrf support while still maintaining
compatibility with RHEL 10.1.
Find the release notes and download links in the blog post from @Eduard
Abdullin.
** General Availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.7 Stable!
AlmaLinux OS 9.7 aka “Moss Jungle Cat” is now available for supported
architectures (Intel/AMD (x86_64), ARM64 (aarch64), IBM PowerPC (ppc64le),
IBM Z (s390x)).
Find the release notes and download links in the blog post from @Eduard
Abdullin.
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AlmaLinux Events
----------
We’re coming up on the end of the year already, and we’ve reached the end
of our planned 2025 events. 2026 event planning is in the works, including
more AlmaLinux Days and many more community events.
If you have thoughts on events that we should attend, let us know! Our
global community is growing quickly, and we love to connect with them
wherever they are.
----------
Stay Up to Date and Join Us!
----------
If you want to make sure you catch every update from us, sign up for the
Newsletters mailing list
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See you next month!
benny Vasquez
Chair, Board of Directors @AlmaLinux OS Foundation
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you will read, respond to, or act on it outside of comfortable hours for
your time zone.*
Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter! Here’s an overview of some of
the things we’ve been up to this month.
For the skimmers:
-
Beta releases for AlmaLinux 9.7 and AlmaLinux 10.1 have both been
released!! Your testing and reporting of any errors is critical to ensuring
a stable release for everyone. Learn more below!
-
Btrfs support has been introduced in AlmaLinux OS 10.1, and has also
been available and in testing in AlmaLinux OS Kitten since September.
Learn more below!
Looking for ways to get involved?
📣 CloudLinux is hiring a marketing and community specialist to support
what we're doing here for the AlmaLinux project. If you're interested, learn
more and apply here
<https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4274221851/?capColoOverride=true>!
There are also a ton of other ways to get involved. This video with
Jonathan Wright <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanspw/> and benny Vasquez
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennyvasquez/> offers a great overview!
How do I get involved in the AlmaLinux Project? - Q&A with Jonathan Wright,
Infra Team Lead <https://youtu.be/WCERQ4E_gl8?si=OkmyQwBewIz64Ndm>
New on the AlmaLinux blogAlmaLinux 10.1 Beta Now Available!
AlmaLinux 10.1 Beta “Heliotrope Lion” is available for all supported
architectures (Intel/AMD (x86_64), ARM64 (aarch64), IBM PowerPC (ppc64le),
IBM Z (s390x)).
Get the details on this beta release in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-10-21-announcing-almalinux-10-1-beta/>
from @Eduard Abdullin.
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.
Learn more about this in the blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-10-21-announcing-btrfs-support-in-almalinux…>
from @Davide Cavalca.
AlmaLinux 9.7 Beta Now Available!
AlmaLinux 9.6 Beta “Moss Jungle Cat” is available for all supported
architectures (Intel/AMD (x86_64), ARM64 (aarch64), IBM PowerPC (ppc64le),
IBM Z (s390x)).
Read more about this new beta release in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-10-07-announcing-97-beta/> from @Eduard
Abdullin.
AlmaLinux Events
We’re coming up on the end of the year already! This is where we’re
planning to visit, exhibit, or speak through the rest of this year.
-
November 5-6: CloudFest USA <https://www.cloudfest.com/usa/>
-
November 16-21: SC25 <http://supercomputing.org/>
2026 event planning is in the works, including more AlmaLinux Days and many
more community events.
If you have thoughts on events that you think we should attend, let us
know! Our global community is growing quickly, and we love to connect with
them wherever they are.
Stay Up to Date and Join Us!If you want to make sure you catch every update
from us, sign up for the Newsletters mailing list
<https://lists.almalinux.org/mailman3/lists/newsletters.lists.almalinux.org/>
or subscribe here on LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/almalinux-news-7123058222835376128/>!
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.*
Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter!
Keep reading for some updates on what is new as of this month. 👀
For the skimmers:
-
Our 2025 AlmaLinux OS Foundation election will be rescheduled to March
2026! Read more details below.
-
We’ll soon have the videos from AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver ready to share.
Stay tuned!
-
There will be 5 more places this year to find us in the wild!
Looking for ways to get involved?
📣 CloudLinux is hiring a marketing and community specialist to support
what we're doing here for the AlmaLinux project. If you're interested, learn
more and apply here
<https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4274221851/?capColoOverride=true>!
There are also a ton of other ways to get involved. This video with Jonathan
Wright <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanspw/> and benny Vasquez
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennyvasquez/> offers a great overview!
How do I get involved in the AlmaLinux Project? - Q&A with Jonathan Wright,
Infra Team Lead <https://youtu.be/WCERQ4E_gl8?si=OkmyQwBewIz64Ndm>
New on the AlmaLinux blogAlmaLinux OS Foundation Election rescheduled for
March 2026
📢 Due to some inconsistencies that we have identified internally, we will
be rescheduling the current board member election.
Transparency is to everything we do on the AlmaLinux project, so you can read
more details here <https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-09-30-election-update/>
from @benny Vasquez.
Enabling CRB by default for AlmaLinux 10
To reduce the friction in using software from Fedora Extra Packages from
Enterprise Linux (EPEL), we are enabling the CRB repository by default.
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).
Read more about this in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-09-08-enabling-crb-by-default-for-almalinux…>
from @Neal Gompa
AlmaLinux Events
Though we didn’t attend or host any events in September, there are still 5
chances left to see AlmaLinux in the wild in 2025!
This is where we’re planning to visit, exhibit, or speak so far through the
rest of this year.
-
October 3-4: TexasLinux Fest <https://2025.texaslinuxfest.org/>
-
October 12-14: All Things Open <http://allthingsopen.org/>
-
November 7-8: SeaGL <https://seagl.org/>
-
November 7-8: SFSCon <https://www.sfscon.it/>
-
November 16-21: SC25 <http://supercomputing.org/>
If you see an event missing that you think we should attend, or if you know
of any amazing open source events in Asia, South America, or Africa, let us
know! Our community is growing quickly in those areas, and we’d love a
chance to connect with them!
Stay Up to Date and Join Us!
If you want to make sure you catch every update from us, sign up for
the Newsletters
mailing list
<https://lists.almalinux.org/mailman3/lists/newsletters.lists.almalinux.org/>
or subscribe here on LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/almalinux-news-7123058222835376128/>!
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.*
Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter! We’ve had another busy month,
so let’s get into it.
In case you missed it, AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver is August 9th, just before
SIGGRAPH. Your free ticket includes a full day of talks, networking,
snacks, lunch, more snacks, and a completely unique gift just for attendees
of AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver or SIGGRAPH. Make plans to attend and take
advantage of this incredible day of content focused directly on the needs
of the VFX community, where creativity and system administration overlap.
https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-vancouver-2025/
For the skimmers:
-
You’re almost out of time to weigh in on our community survey
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-06-16-almalinux-survey/>! Take 5
minutes to share integral feedback and help shape the future of AlmaLinux
-
Our board elections for 2025 are coming up fast! You have a little less
than a month to become an official member
<https://almalinux.org/members/> that can vote.
-
We’re participating in a webinar with Tuxcare on 8/5 about AlmaLinux for
enterprise. Learn more and register here
<https://www.linkedin.com/events/poweredbycommunity-optimizedfor735385588187…>
!
Looking for Ways to Help?Volunteer at AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver
If you plan to join us at ALDV, we’re looking for volunteers to help us
out! There are a few different tasks we need help with while at the
event. Learn
more in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-07-23-volunteer-at-aldv/> from Tristan
Theroux!
Other Ways to Get Involved
There are also a ton of other ways to get involved. This video with
Jonathan Wright and benny Vasquez offers a great overview!
How do I get involved in the AlmaLinux Project? - Q&A with Jonathan Wright,
Infra Team Lead <https://youtu.be/WCERQ4E_gl8?si=OkmyQwBewIz64Ndm>
New on the AlmaLinux BlogFirst round of speakers announced for AlmaLinux
Day: Vancouver!
We’ve announced the first round of speakers for AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver!
-
Neal Gompa
-
Eric Hendricks
-
Usman
-
Chris Taylor
-
Stephen Winters
Read more about the speakers and the sessions in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-07-08-almalinux-day-schedule/> from
Tristan Théroux
ELevate to EL 10!
New ELevate path are available:
-
AlmaLinux OS 9 to AlmaLinux OS 10.0
-
AlmaLinux OS 9 to AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10
-
CentOS Stream 9 to CentOS Stream 10
Read more about 3rd party repository support and how to get started in this
blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-07-07-elevate-to-el-10/> from
Yuriy Kohut
AlmaLinux Events
Though we didn’t attend or host any events in July, we’ve been making
preparations for a number of events later this year!
This is where we’re planning to visit, exhibit, or speak so far through the
rest of this year.
-
August 9: AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver
<https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-vancouver-2025/>
-
August 10-14: Academy Open Source days
<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/about/calendar/?_sft_lfevent-category=ac…>
and SIGGRAPH <https://s2025.siggraph.org/>
-
September 23-27: nerdearla: Buenos Aires <https://nerdear.la/en/>
-
October 12-14: All Things Open <http://allthingsopen.org/>
-
November 7-8: SFSCon <https://www.sfscon.it/>
-
November 16-21: SC25 <http://supercomputing.org/>
If you see an event missing that you think we should attend, or if you know
of any amazing open source events in Asia, South America, or Africa, let us
know! Our community is growing quickly in those areas, and we’d love a
chance to connect with them!
Stay Up to Date and Join Us!If you want to make sure you catch every update
from us, sign up for the Newsletters mailing list
<https://lists.almalinux.org/mailman3/lists/newsletters.lists.almalinux.org/>
or subscribe on LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/almalinux-news-7123058222835376128/>!
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.*
Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter! It’s been another busy month,
so let’s dive into it
In case you missed it, AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver is August 9th, just before
SIGGRAPH. Your free ticket includes a full day of talks, networking,
snacks, lunch, more snacks, and a completely unique gift just for attendees
of AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver or SIGGRAPH. Make plans to attend and take
advantage of this incredible day of content focused directly on the needs
of the VFX community, where creativity and system administration overlap.
https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-vancouver-2025/
For the skimmers:
-
We’ve launched a community survey
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-06-16-almalinux-survey/>! Take a moment
to share your feedback and help shape the future of AlmaLinux
-
We announced our rebuild of EPEL for the x86-64-v2 version of AlmaLinux
OS 10
-
We released patches for security flaws in libblockdev (CVE-2025-6019)
and open-vm-tools (CVE-2025-22247)
Looking for Ways to Help?Share Your AlmaLinux Feedback
If you have 5 minutes to spare, we’d greatly appreciate you taking the time
to share your feedback in our community survey
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-06-16-almalinux-survey/>. You can also
help us spread awareness about AlmaLinux by leaving a review on G2
<https://www.g2.com/products/almalinux-os/reviews>!
Other Ways to Get Involved
There are also a ton of other ways to get involved. This video offers a
great overview!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCERQ4E_gl8
New on the AlmaLinux Blogx86-64-v2 EPEL Now Covers AlmaLinux 10 Stable
The EPEL package builds for AlmaLinux OS 10 stable are now complete and
ready for use
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-06-26-epel-v2-now-covers-almalinux-10-stabl…>
!
In March, ALESCo approved a proposal
<https://github.com/AlmaLinux/ALESCo/blob/master/rfcs/0001-build-fedora-epel…>
to build EPEL packages from Fedora EPEL'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
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-05-13-epel-10-kitten-v2/>, and today we
are happy to announce that x86-64-v2 EPEL support is now available for
AlmaLinux 10 Stable as well.
libblockdev CVE-2025-6019 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Qualys published details about a vulnerability discovered in the
libblockdev package. Two vulnerabilities were announced, CVE-2025-6018 and
CVE-2025-6019.
AlmaLinux is not impacted by CVE-2025-6018, but AlmaLinux 8, 9, 10, and
Kitten 10 are all impacted by CVE-2025-6019. While the avenues for
exploitation are limited without the impact of CVE-2025-6018, ALESCo has
approved updating this ahead of our upstream, given the potential severity
if there are other, yet to be discovered, avenues to perform the exploit.
Read more from Jonathan Wright
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-06-18-test-patches-for-cve-2025-6019/>
VMWare open-vm-tools CVE-2025-22247
About a month ago, Broadcom (VMWare) released a security advisory for
CVE-2025-22247 impacting the open-vm-tools package commonly installed
inside of virtual machines on VMWare hypervisors.
AlmaLinux 8, 9, 10, and Kitten 10 are all impacted by CVE-2025-22247. While
it is only a moderate severity, ALESCo has approved updating this ahead of
our upstream given the community requests for it over the past few weeks.
As of June 18, 2025 20:00 UTC: The patches for all versions have been
published into stable repositories. A normal dnf upgrade or dnf upgrade
open-vm-tools will pull in the updates.
Read more from Jonathan Wright
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-06-17-test-patches-for-cve-2025-22247/>
2025 AlmaLinux Community Survey
💬 To help AlmaLinux be able to make some data-based decisions without
implementing telemetry, we’re asking our users to fill out this survey
<https://survey.survicate.com/aa905da173921b82/?p=anonymous>. It shouldn’t
take anyone more than 5 minutes, and will help drive the AlmaLinux project
for a long time.
Read more from benny Vasquez
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-06-16-almalinux-survey/>
AlmaLinux Cloud, Container and Live Media Images Updates
🔔 Get the latest scoop on our cloud, container, and live media images!
This blog post shares a full list of images that we provide.
Read the post by Yuriy Kohut
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-06-05-almalinux-96-images-updates/>
AlmaLinux Events
June has been quite a busy month for events, with Flock to Fedora
<https://flocktofedora.org/>, DevConf <https://www.devconf.info/cz/>, Southeast
Linux Fest <http://southeastlinuxfest.org/>, and the Internet Governance
Forum <https://www.intgovforum.org/en> (which is happening this week!).
The rest of 2025 also has more in store. This is where we’re planning to
visit, exhibit, or speak so far through the rest of this year.
-
August 9: AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver
<https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-vancouver-2025/>
-
August 10-14: Academy Open Source days
<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/about/calendar/?_sft_lfevent-category=ac…>
and SIGGRAPH <https://s2025.siggraph.org/>
-
September 23-27: nerdearla: Buenos Aires <https://nerdear.la/en/>
-
October 12-14: All Things Open <http://allthingsopen.org/>
-
November 7-8: SFSCon <https://www.sfscon.it/>
-
November 16-21: SC25 <http://supercomputing.org/>
If you see an event missing that you think we should attend, or if you know
of any amazing open source events in Asia, South America, or Africa, let us
know! Our community is growing quickly in those areas, and we’d love a
chance to connect with them!
New on the AlmaLinux YouTube Channel
『AlmaLinux 9実践ガイド』著者が語るArmサーバー最前線@AlmaLinux Day Tokyo 2024
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J63E7V70toI>
Speaker 古賀 政純 from Hewlett-Packard took the stage at AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo
2024 to talk about open source usage on Arm servers.
Thank you for everything you do,
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.*
Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter! March was quite the whirlwind
with events and bug patches. Here’s what we’ve been up to:
Quick notes:
-
We have published patches for the Freetype Security flaw
CVE-2025-27363! Learn
more here <https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-03-13-cve-2025-27363-patches/>
-
Are you a user based in Japan? Our Japan User Group would love to chat
with you in Mattermost (https://chat.almalinux.org) or have you join
their meetups!
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日本AlmaLinuxユーザ会では定期的にMeetupを開催しています。 https://almalinux.connpass.com から
是非参加してください。
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Japan AlmaLinux User Group holds meetups regularly. Please visit
https://almalinux.connpass.com/ and join us.
Looking for ways to help? Here are a couple of good ones!
Help translate the AlmaLinux website!
The AlmaLinux website has now been more than 80% translated for 5 different
languages, and 3 more languages are poised to cross that 80% mark soon!
Contributing translations is easy and helps us reach a wider audience. Join
our community of contributors through Weblate! Here’s more information
<https://wiki.almalinux.org/Help-translating-site.html#create-an-account>.
They have questions - you have answers!
Have you ever had a question that you knew for sure someone could help with
if only you could find them? That’s what our forums are for! If you have a
few minutes, use the link lnx.rocks/forumhelp to help your fellow
sysadmins, developers, and DevOps engineers with opinions, answers, and
feedback.
Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogCall for testing (now published) - FreeType
CVE-2025-27363
Meta reported <https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2025-27363>
a flaw in FreeType versions 2.13.0 and below that can allow remote code
execution. This blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-03-13-cve-2025-27363-patches/> goes into
more detail about the CVE and how folks can help us test the now-production
patches.
Meet us at CloudFest
We were at CloudFest last week! Check out this pre-event blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-03-13-meet-us-at-cloudfest/> to learn more
about what we got up to while we were there.
ALESCo - Updates and requests!
In case you missed it ALESCo (The AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-05-21-introducing-alesco/>) that we
announced in May of 2024 has been hard at work setting up processes and
stretching our legs.
Check out this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-03-05-update-from-alesco/> to read about
their recent activity around CVE-2025-26465 and community-submitted
requests (in the form of RFCs). You’ll also learn how you can get involved
if you’re interested!
Upcoming Events
We’ve got some big plans for 2025! This is where we’ll be visiting,
exhibitor, or speaking so far through the rest of this year.
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April 25-27: Linuxfest NW
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June 5-8: Flock to Fedora
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June 12-14: DevConf
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August 10-14: SIGGRAPH and Academy Open Source days
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September 23-27: nerdearla
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October 12-14: All Things Open
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November 7-8: SFSCon
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November 16-21: SC25
If you like chatting with folks about Linux and open source and are
interested in helping us staff a booth at an event, fill out this Google
form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykd…>!
We’ll cover your travel and hotel for events that you attend on behalf of
AlmaLinux.
If you see an event missing that you think we should attend, or if you know
of any amazing open source events in Asia, South America, or Africa, let us
know! Our community is growing quickly in those areas, and we’d love a
chance to connect with them!
Stay up to date and join us!If you want to make sure you catch every update
from us, sign up for the Newsletters mailing list
<https://lists.almalinux.org/mailman3/lists/newsletters.lists.almalinux.org/>
or subscribe on LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/almalinux-news-7123058222835376128/>!
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.*
Hi friends!
Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter! February has flown by, but
here’s what we’ve been up to:
Quick notes:
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We’re looking for help testing the updates we made to address
CVE-2025-26466! Learn more here
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-02-20-test-patches-for-cve-2025-26465/>.
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We’re also looking for help to test our new ELevate upgrade path, which
allows you to upgrade from CentOS Stream 9 to CentOS Stream 10. Read
more here
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-01-30-elevate-to-centos-stream-10/>!
Looking for ways to help? Here are a couple of good ones!
Help translate the AlmaLinux website!
We're up to 5 different languages that have more than 80% translated on the
AlmaLinux website. Do you want to help us get more? Join our community of
contributors through Weblate! Here’s more information
<https://wiki.almalinux.org/Help-translating-site.html#create-an-account>.
Help on the forums!
Have you ever had a question that you knew for sure someone could help with
if only you could find them? That’s what our forums are for! If you have a
few minutes, use the link lnx.rocks/forumhelp to help your fellow
sysadmins, developers, and DevOps engineers with opinions, answers, and
feedback.
Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogCall for testing - OpenSSH CVE-2025-26465
Qualys recently announced
<https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2025/02/18/qualys-t…>
two critical vulnerabilities for OpenSSH - CVE-2025-26465 and 2025-26466.
Neither RHEL nor AlmaLinux is impacted by CVE-2025-26466 in any way.
However, both AlmaLinux 8 and 9 are impacted by CVE-2025-26465.
While it is not yet patched in RHEL 9, and is considered out of scope for
RHEL 8, some of our users are asking us to patch this for their own
security. As a result, we have pulled in the upstream patches and are
asking users to test the updates. Learn more in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-02-20-test-patches-for-cve-2025-26465/>!
ELevate to CentOS Stream 10!
Following our recent updates about the ELevate project
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-01-14-elevate-updates/> and your feedback,
we’ve added one more upgrade path. You can now upgrade from CentOS Stream 9
to CentOS Stream 10 as a part of ELevate NG!
Read this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-01-30-elevate-to-centos-stream-10/> if
you’re interested in helping with testing, contributing, or getting help!
Upcoming Events
We’ve got some big plans for 2025!
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March 6-9: SCaLE
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March 13-15: FOSSASIA
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March 17-20: CloudFest
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April 25-27: Linuxfest NW
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June 5-8: Flock to Fedora
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June 12-14: DevConf
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August 10-14: SIGGRAPH and Academy Open Source days
-
September 23-27: nerdearla
-
October 12-14: All Things Open
-
November 7-8: SFSCon
-
November 16-21: SC25
If you like chatting with folks about Linux and open source and are
interested in helping us staff a booth at an event, fill out this Google
form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykd…>!
We’ll cover your travel and hotel for events that you attend on behalf of
AlmaLinux.
If you see an event missing that you think we should attend, or if you know
of any amazing open source events in Asia, South America, or Africa, let us
know! Our community is growing quickly in those areas, and we’d love a
chance to connect with them!
Stay up to date and join us!If you want to make sure you catch every update
from us, sign up for the Newsletters mailing list
<https://lists.almalinux.org/mailman3/lists/newsletters.lists.almalinux.org/>
or subscribe on LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/almalinux-news-7123058222835376128/>!
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.*
