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:
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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
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We announced our rebuild of EPEL for the x86-64-v2 version of AlmaLinux
OS 10
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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.
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August 9: AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver
<https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-vancouver-2025/>
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August 10-14: Academy Open Source days
<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/about/calendar/?_sft_lfevent-category=ac…>
and SIGGRAPH <https://s2025.siggraph.org/>
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September 23-27: nerdearla: Buenos Aires <https://nerdear.la/en/>
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October 12-14: All Things Open <http://allthingsopen.org/>
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November 7-8: SFSCon <https://www.sfscon.it/>
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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:
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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/>
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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
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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.*
(I'm a bit late sending this out, and already one thing is out of date, but
I hope you'll forgive me!)
Hi there!
Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter! January has been an
incredibly busy month already, so let’s dive in!
Quick notes:
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AlmaLinux 10 beta is now available!
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We need your input for patching Rsync
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ELevate has been updated for use with AlmaLinux 10 beta and AlmaLinux OS
Kitten (with CentOS Stream 10 support coming soon!)
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We’re starting to plan our 2025 event schedule!
First ALESCo RFC live!
The RFC process for the AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee is getting
its first test with an RFC for rebuilding EPEL for x86_64_v2
<https://github.com/AlmaLinux/ALESCo/pull/2>. Take a look and share your
insights!
Looking for ways to help? Here are a couple of good ones!
Help on the forums!
The traffic to the AlmaLinux forums has been steadily increasing over the
last year, and that means having answers to the questions there is more
important than ever! 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.
THIS WEEKEND - Volunteer for the Distros Room at FOSDEM!
This weekend we’re at both CentOS Connect and FOSDEM, and we’d love to have
your help staffing the Linux Distributions room at FOSDEM. It’s Sunday,
February 2nd, and if you want to help staff the door (and remind folks to
be quiet), announce speakers and help the audience ask questions, or help
the speaker get set up and then stay on time, then we’d love to see you!
Sign up for the FOSDEM Distributions Devroom
<https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/distributions-devroom> mailing list and
let us know if you’re interested! You can also learn more in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-11-14-fosdem-2025-distros-room/>.
Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogAlmaLinux at CentOS Connect and FOSDEM 2025
We’re kicking off this week with CentOS Connect and FOSDEM 2025! If you’re
in town for either, read this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-01-23-centos-connect-and-fosdem/> to see
how you can connect with us.
Rsync Vulnerabilities - Patching Status
Security researchers at Google, namely Pedro Gallegos, Simon Scannell, and
Jasiel Spelman, identified vulnerabilities in both the rsync server and
client.
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The server vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-12084 and CVE-2024-12085) can lead
to remote code execution (RCE).
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On the client side, vulnerabilities allow a malicious server to read
arbitrary files (CVE-2024-12086), create unsafe symlinks (CVE-2024-12087),
and, under certain conditions, overwrite arbitrary files (CVE-2024-12088).
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Additionally, during the coordinated response to these issues, Aleksei
Gorban reported a sixth vulnerability (CVE-2024-12747) related to how the
rsync server manages symlinks.
These vulnerabilities were responsibly disclosed to us through the CERT/CC
Vulnerability Notes Database, ahead of the public disclosure
<https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657> on January 14, 2025.
You can read more about the impact and mitigation of these vulnerabilities
in AlmaLinux OS on our blog
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-01-17-rsync-vulnerabilities/>.
ELevate Project Updates
ELevate now support AlmaLinux OS 10, AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10, and has a ton
of other bug fix and feature updates. Read it here
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-01-14-elevate-updates/>!
Meet the board - benny Vasquez
We released a new board member Q&A video, this time with benny being
interviewed by AlmaLinux community member, Noah Alum. They talked about how
she got started with Linux, her hopes for AlmaLinux, and some other fun
things. Check it out here
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-01-13-benny-vasquez-qa/>!
Ending 2024 with 9 events in 4 months
The end of last year was a whirlwind of events, and this this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-01-10-event-wrapup/> will tell you all
about why benny has been bad at replying to email.
AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Updates
Back in October 2024 AlmaLinux OS Foundation officially introduced
AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-22-introducing-almalinux-os-kitten/>.
It is designed as a development-focused distribution of AlmaLinux OS, and a
stable preview of AlmaLinux OS 10. Check out this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-01-07-almalinux-os-kitten-10-updates/> to
read about updated packages and ISOs, Cloud and Container Options, and how
to help and contribute!
AlmaLinux Cloud, Container and Live Media Images Updates
Check out the latest AlmaLinux OS 9.5 images updates in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-01-07-almalinux-95-container-cloud-live-med…>,
including:
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Cloud and Container Images Updates and Changes
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Live Media Images - now including ARM!
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Other options like Incus and LXC, Raspberry Pi images, and more!
Upcoming Events
We’ve got some big plans for 2025!
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January 30-31: CentOS Connect
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February 1-2: FOSDEM
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March 13-15: FOSSASIA
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March 15-16: CloudFest Hackathon
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March 17: AlmaLinux Day Germany
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March 17-20: CloudFest
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 there!
Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest
AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more.
Quick notes:
- We now have a dedicated channel in <http://chat.almalinux.org/>
chat.almalinux.org for our Spanish-speaking community!
- We’ve got major updates for Azure users, and are now listed as an
Endorsed Distribution on Azure.
- We added another entry in the seres introducing our board to the
community.
- Tuxcare and CloudLinux renewed their sponsor membership and there was
an update to the FIPs process
Looking for ways to help? Here are a couple of good ones!The swag shop
needs a new tender! Are you someone with organizational chops, and an eye
for detail? The Marketing SIG is looking for someone to help audit what’s
there and the costs for each item, update what we’re offering, and help us
come up with some new designs for our Shop <https://shop.almalinux.org/>!
Email benny at almalinux.org, if you’d like to help out.Help on the forums!
[image: 2024-10-30_08-32-18.png]
The traffic to the AlmaLinux forums has been steadily increasing over the
last year, and that means having answers to the questions there is more
important than ever! 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 BlogAlmaLinux Named an Endorsed Distro in
Microsoft Azure
Earlier today we announced that AlmaLinux has been selected to join
the Endorsed
Distributions list on Microsoft Azure
<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/endorsed-dis…>,
a unique distinction with only 6 other distributions.
We are so grateful to the incredible Azure team for this, and are so
excited to see our community supported in this way. Visit the Microsoft
Linux and Open Source Blog - Announcing availability of AlmaLinux as an
endorsed Linux distribution in Azure
<https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/linux-and-open-source-blog/announcin…>
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to see their announcement as well. You can also read more in our blog post
here <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-30-almalinux-endorsed-distro/>.
Nov 12th - ALESCo meetup!
Since the inception of ALESCo just a few months ago, there has been a lot
of exciting news and work coming from ALESCo. Whether you’ve been following
along via the minutes <https://wiki.almalinux.org/alesco.html>, or
attending the meetings yourself, or engaging in the chat, we are so humbled
by the excitement around what we’re doing. Next month, we’re hosting a
meetup so that you can join our ALESCo team and ask all of your burning
questions! We hope to see you there
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-23-join-the-alesco-meetup/>!
Introducing AlmaLinux OS Kitten
Since we started building AlmaLinux directly from the sources that Red Hat
uses for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), we have been able to deliver bug
fixes and security patches faster than ever before for our community. We
still keep our promise of compatibility with RHEL, and every deviation from
RHEL is recorded in our release notes, but our build and infrastructure
teams have been embracing that freedom even more.
CentOS Stream 10, which will eventually be the source for RHEL10, has
already started being built and is available for use today. Because we
anticipated many changes in 10, we wanted to get a head start on building
AlmaLinux OS 10. Earlier this year we started setting up infrastructure and
the build pipeline for AlmaLinux OS 10, and started testing using CentOS
Stream 10’s code. Based on this preparation work, we are excited to share
that we have successfully built a preview of AlmaLinux OS 10 that we are
calling AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10.
Read more about AlmaLinux OS Kitten in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-22-introducing-almalinux-os-kitten/>!
Welcoming CloudLinux and Tuxcare - Platinum Sponsor Members
CloudLinux <https://cloudlinux.com/> and its sister company TuxCare
<https://tuxcare.com/> have renewed their platinum-level sponsorship of the
AlmaLinux OS Foundation, and we’re so grateful! They are continuing the
commitment they made in 2021 of providing $1 million in annual support for
AlmaLinux. You can read more about this in our recent blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-16-cloudlinux-renews-sponsorship/>.
Announcing AlmaLinux 9.5 Beta!
AlmaLinux 9.5 Beta “Teal Serval” is now available 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 not be
used on production machines unless you don’t mind if something breaks. If
you are looking to see how things are going to work in stable, you are on
the right track.
Get more details about this release on our blog here
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-15-announcing-95-beta/>!
Azure Marketplace Updates
This month, we shared some updates with our AlmaLinux Azure users. If
you’ve been using the original AlmaLinux Azure image for x86_64
architecture (VM Image URN: almalinux:almalinux:*), you should have
received an email notifying you that that image is being deprecated and
removed from the Azure Marketplace on 30 Dec 2024. Read this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-09-azure-marketplace-updates/> to learn
how this does or doesn't impact you!
Meet the board - Alex Iribarren
For our latest board member Q&A, we interviewed Alex Iribarren
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/iribarren/>. Alex opted for a text-based
interview, rather than a video, so you can find the full content in this
blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-08-meet-the-board-alex/>! You'll
also find a link to the playlist at the end of this post.
AlmaLinux 9.2 FIPS Validation Update
After a long wait (view the previous blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-09-19-fips-validation-for-almalinux/>),
the AlmaLinux 9.2 kernel received FIPS validation making it the first
software implementation to receive a FIPS 140-3 ESV certificate using
SHA3-256 as a conditioner. It’s also the first EL9 distribution to get a
FIPS 140-3 certificate for the kernel. View the certificate here
<https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/cert…>
or
read more about this update in our recent blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-07-fips-validation-for-almalinux-update/>
.
Upcoming Events
This month, we had one event: All Things Open, and what a blast it was!
Keep an eye out to read our recap of ATO and NERDEARLA on our blog. We’re
also looking forward to quite a few events before we wrap up the year. Come
find us at:
- openSUSE.asia <http://opensuse.asia/>, November 2-3 in Tokyo, Japan
- SFSCon <https://www.sfscon.it/>, November 7-8 in Bolzano, Italy
- Seagl <https://seagl.org/>, November 8-9 in Seattle, Washington, US
- Ohio Linux Fest (OLF) <https://olfconference.org/>, November 15-16 in
Columbus, Ohio, US
- SC (formerly Supercompute) <http://supercomputing.org/>, November
17-22 in Atlanta, Georgia, US
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!
We’re also looking for volunteers from the AlmaLinux community to help
staff our booths. If you like chatting with folks about Linux and open
source and are local to any of these events (or any others that you think
we should be at) fill out this Google form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykd…>!
We’ll cover your travel and hotel.
Thanks for being part of this amazing community.
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 there!
Welcome to the (slightly delayed) September AlmaLinux newsletter, where we
share the latest AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more.
Quick notes:
-
We now have a Certification SIG that has already launched a hardware
certification program.
-
Looking for AlmaLinux Bootc images? We’ve got them!
-
Meet Jack and Jun - two of our board members!
Looking for ways to help? Here are a couple of good ones!
The swag shop <https://shop.almalinux.org/> needs a new tender!
Are you someone with organizational chops, and an eye for detail? The
Marketing SIG is looking for someone to help audit what’s there and the
costs for each item, update what we’re offering, and help us come up with
some new designs for our Shop <https://shop.almalinux.org/>! Email benny at
almalinux.org, if you’d like to help out.
Help on the forums!
The traffic to the AlmaLinux forums has nearly doubled in the last 6
months, and that means there are more questions than ever to answer! If you
have a few minutes, use the link lnx.rocks/forumhelp to see all the
currently unanswered threads on the forums and see if you can help your
fellow sysadmins, developers, and DevOps engineers with opinions, answers,
and feedback.
Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogAnnouncing the AlmaLinux Certification SIG
After months of work, we are happy to announce the AlmaLinux Certification
Special Interest Group (SIG)
<https://wiki.almalinux.org/sigs/Certification.html>, along with our Hardware
Certification Program
<http://almalinux.org/certification/hardware-certification/hardware-certific…>!
This SIG has tangible goals and immediate benefits for all users of
AlmaLinux, and tons of ways to get involved. Learn more about the
Certification SIG in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-09-10-announcing-new-certification-sig/>!
Bringing bootc to AlmaLinux
bootc is a new deployment method that powers Image mode for RHEL
<https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-reimagines-enterpris…>
and HeliumOS <https://www.heliumos.org/>, a new Linux distribution. We are
excited to announce that AlmaLinux now offers bootc images
<https://quay.io/repository/almalinuxorg/almalinux-bootc?tab=tags> for
Intel/AMD(x86_64) and ARM64(AArch4). Read more about this in our blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-09-02-bootc-almalinux-heliumos/>.
Meet the board - Jack and Jun
Last year, we launched a Q&A video series
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-01-16-video-contributions/> in which we
have community members ask and answer common questions we’re seeing. This
year, we’re starting another video series, this time with the AlmaLinux OS
Foundation board members. Our goal with this new series is to better
introduce our board to the AlmaLinux community. We’ve got blog posts for
our first two, Jack Aboutbol
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-09-12-meet-the-board-jack/> and Jun Yoshida
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-09-23-meet-the-board-jun/>, on our blog
now!
ELevate Project Updates
There are some new ELevate project updates! Check out this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-09-24-elevate-updates/> or the changelog
<https://wiki.almalinux.org/elevate/Changelog.html> to get the scoop.
Upcoming Events
September was another month that was fairly light with events, though we
just wrapped up with NERDEARLA <https://nerdear.la/>. Here’s what’s coming
up for the rest of the year:
-
All things open <http://allthingsopen.org/>, October 27-29 in Raleigh,
North Carolina, US
-
Seagl <https://seagl.org/>, November 8-9 in Seattle, Washington, US
-
OLF Conference <http://olfconference.org/>, November 15-16, Columbus, OH
-
SC (formerly Supercompute) <http://supercomputing.org/>, November 17-22
in Atlanta, Georgia, US
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!
We’re also looking for volunteers from the AlmaLinux community to help
staff our booths. If you like chatting with folks about Linux and open
source and are local to any of these events (or any others that you think
we should be at) fill out this Google form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykd…>!
We’ll cover your travel and hotel.
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/>!
Thanks for everything,
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 there!
Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest
AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more.
Quick notes:
-
Looking for new contributors!!
-
ELevate <https://almalinux.org/elevate/> got a huge update! Read more
below.
-
AlmaLinux is up for The Stevie® Awards’ People’s Choice award
<https://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com/>! If you’d like to support
AlmaLinux with your vote, here’s a link
<https://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com/> (and thank you!). You'll find
us under the 'Government or Non-profit' category.
Call for help!
Our swag shop <https://shop.almalinux.org/> needs a new tender!
Are you someone with organizational chops, and an eye for design? The
Marketing SIG is looking for someone to help audit what’s there and the
costs for each item, update what we’re offering, and help us come up with
some new designs for our Shop <https://shop.almalinux.org/>! Email benny at
almalinux.org, if you’d like to help out.
Help on the forums!
The traffic to the AlmaLinux forums has nearly doubled in the last 6
months, and that means there are more questions than ever to answer! 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 BlogSummer events recap
We attended quite a few events this summer, including Southeast Linux Fest,
Academy Open Source days, SIGGRAPH, and Flock to Fedora. Check out this
blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-08-28-summer-event-recap/> for a
full recap of these events!
From 1 to 400 mirrors; The AlmaLinux Mirror System Story
In August of 2021 we first launched our new and improved mirror system,
including the geo-location feature that allows users to automatically use
the closest mirror to them. Since we launched, we’ve grown from around 100
mirror servers to over 400. We’ve also made a lot of improvements to the
mirrorlist which supports over 1 million systems worldwide. Learn more on
our blog <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-08-07-mirrors-1-to-400/>!
ELevate gets a huge update - now supports CentOS Stream 8 - 9, Scientific
Linux upgrades, and hardware detection
ELevate <https://almalinux.org/elevate/> just received the biggest update
since 2021 when the project was first announced! ELevateNG has been
promoted to stable, and we received tons of community-contributed
feedback. Read
the blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-08-08-elevate-release/> to
dive into what has been updated.
Upcoming Events
August was fairly light with events, though we did attend SIGGRAPH and
Flock to Fedora. Here’s what’s coming up for the rest of the year:
-
NERDEARLA <https://nerdear.la/en/>, September 24-28, 2024 in Buenos
Aires, Argentina
-
All things open <http://allthingsopen.org/>, October 27-29 in Raleigh,
North Carolina, US
-
Seagl <https://seagl.org/>, November 8-9 in Seattle, Washington, US
-
SC (formerly Supercompute) <http://supercomputing.org/>, November 17-22
in Atlanta, Georgia, US
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!
We’re also looking for volunteers from the AlmaLinux community to help
staff our booths. If you like chatting with folks about Linux and open
source and are local to any of these events (or any others that you think
we should be at) fill out this Google form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykd…>!
We’ll cover your travel and hotel.
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 there!
Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest
AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more.
Quick notes - find more information below!
-
Patches for CVE-2024-6387 (regreSSHion) and CVE-2024-6409 are available
for AlmaLinux OS 9 users.
-
We're testing a patch for glibc
-
A new version of ELevate will be released next week - testers wanted!
-
Earlier this month, we announced that CTJ has renewed its platinum
sponsorship. We also announced 3 new 2024 sponsors!
Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogAnnouncing Silver Sponsor Members -
Codenotary, ATIX AG, StorPool Storage AD
We just announced 3 Silver Sponsor Members for 2024: Codenotary, ATIX AG,
and StorPool Storage AD! We’re so grateful for the contributions of our
every-growing list of sponsor members, as more and more companies prove
that they believe in what we do. You can read more about our sponsors here
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-30-announcing-codenotary-atix-storpool/>
!
Testers needed: glibc regression in Enterprise Linux 9.4
Recently, the VFX community was faced with a regression in glibc causing
instability for very commonly used software in RHEL 9.4 and distributions
based on it. The fix has been available upstream but was only recently
released to CentOS Stream 9. We need your help testing the fix before we
consider releasing it ourselves. Learn more in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-25-testing-glibc-needed/>!
Sponsor webinar: Raise Your Application Management Game: AlmaLinux and
Virtuozzo in Action
benny joined a webinar with one of our newest Sponsor Members at the
Foundation to talk about why and how people use AlmaLinux. Watch the
recording here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np3NKUT-aL8>!
AlmaLinux Cloud, Container, and Live Media Images Updates
We have been doing a ton of work to automate our image creation, and have
been making some important changes for AlmaLinux 9.4 and 8.10 images. You
can find a complete breakdown in this recent blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-10-almalinux-container-cloud-live-media-…>
.
How to get updates after CentOS 7 end-of-life
On June 30th CentOS 7 hit end-of-life, ending the long-loved and widely
used CentOS Linux era. While the CentOS Project continues on with CentOS
Stream, much of the world still needs another option for upgrading CentOS
7. The AlmaLinux community has a few options you can check out in this blog
post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-09-centos7-updates/>!
AlmaLinux OS 9 Patching for CVE-2024-6409
Another recently disclosed vulnerability in OpenSSH
<https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/08/2> in glibc-based
Linux systems involves a signal handler race condition, which could expose
your system to potential security risks. The OpenSSH patch for
CVE-2024-6409 has been released and is available for AlmaLinux OS 9 users.
The decision to build the update and push the package to production without
waiting for a CentOS Stream or RHEL update was made by our newly-formed
technical steering committee, ALESCo
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-05-21-introducing-alesco/>. Learn more in
this blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-09-cve-2024-6409/>.
Get ready for ELevateNG
In January we announced the availability of ELevateNG
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-01-31-elevate-updates/> (Next Generation)
for testing. ELevateNG is based on leapp version 0.19.0
<https://github.com/oamg/leapp-repository/releases> and includes upstream
features and bugfixes.
Unless we encounter any blockers, the current version of ELevateNG will
move to stable the week of August 5th. Check out this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-08-elevateng-testing/> to learn more!
Welcoming Cybertrust Japan again as a Platinum Sponsor Member
Our friends at Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd, have renewed their platinum
sponsor membership. As a subsidiary of SB Technology Corp, this level of
commitment to the foundation is huge, and we cannot thank them enough.
Cybertrust Japan’s sizable contributions to AlmaLinux will allow us to
expand AlmaLinux OS’s security and adoption in Asia. We’ve also seen a
noticeable upswing in the adoption of AlmaLinux in Japan! Learn more in
this blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-02-ctj-sponsorship/>.
AlmaLinux OS 9 - CVE-2024-6387: regreSSHion
Security is our top priority at AlmaLinux and we aim to deliver patches to
our users as quickly as possible. If you aren’t already aware, a
vulnerability in OpenSSH
<https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/3> in glibc-based Linux
systems that was published on July 1, 2024.
We made the decision to make this patch available that same day for
AlmaLinux OS 9 users. The decision to build the update and push the package
to production on our own (without a CentOS Stream/RHEL update) was made by
our newly-formed technical steering committee, ALESCo
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-05-21-introducing-alesco/>.
We are committed to working upstream and have submitted this patch to
CentOS Stream 9
<https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/openssh/-/merge_requests/77>
to benefit the whole ecosystem. You can learn more in this blog post
<https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-07-01-almalinux-9-cve-2024-6387/>.
Upcoming Events
July was also pretty light on events, though we did attend Academy Open
Source Days
<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/about/calendar/?_sft_lfevent-category=ac…>
and are currently attending SIGGRAPH <https://s2024.siggraph.org/>. Here’s
what’s coming up for the rest of the year:
-
Flock to Fedora <https://flocktofedora.org/>, August 7-10 in Rochester
New York, US
-
NERDEARLA <https://nerdear.la/en/>, September 24-28, 2024 in Buenos
Aires, Argentina
-
All things open <http://allthingsopen.org/>, October 27-29 in Raleigh,
North Carolina, US
-
Seagl <https://seagl.org/>, November 8-9 in Seattle, Washington, US
-
SC (formerly Supercompute) <http://supercomputing.org/>, November 17-22
in Atlanta, Georgia, US
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!
We’re also looking for volunteers from the AlmaLinux community to help
staff our booths. If you like chatting with folks about Linux and open
source and are local to any of these events (or any others that you think
we should be at) fill out this Google form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykd…>!
We’ll cover your travel and hotel.
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.*
