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AlmaLinux News for October 2026!
by benny Vasquez 15 Oct '26

15 Oct '26

LOTS of news this month: * AlmaLinux 10.3 Beta and 9.9 Beta are both available for testing * We've welcomed two new board members, Tristan Théroux and Muuhh (Munehiro) Ikeda * Software certification is here, and hardware certification now takes under 10 minutes * The Atomic SIG has released v13 of atomic-ci AND we want to hear from you! Tell us what AlmaLinux should do next in our 5 minute community survey. https://almalinux.org/newsletters/2026-10-14-almalinux-news-october-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.

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AlmaLinux News for April 2026!
by benny Vasquez 22 Apr '26

22 Apr '26

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.*

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AlmaLinux News: March 2026
by benny Vasquez 06 Mar '26

06 Mar '26

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/> - 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 <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.*

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AlmaLinux News for November '25
by benny Vasquez 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

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: ---------- * 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 ---------- ** 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. ---------- 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 <https://lists.almalinux.org/mailman3/lists/newsletters.lists.almalinux.org/> or subscribe on LinkedIn! <https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7123058…> See you next month! 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.*

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AlmaLinux News for October '25
by benny Vasquez 30 Oct '25

30 Oct '25

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.*

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AlmaLinux News for September '25
by benny Vasquez 03 Oct '25

03 Oct '25

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.*

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AlmaLinux News for July '25
by benny Vasquez 31 Jul '25

31 Jul '25

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.*

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AlmaLinux News for June '25
by benny Vasquez 26 Jun '25

26 Jun '25

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.*

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AlmaLinux News for May '25
by benny Vasquez 29 May '25

29 May '25

Welcome to this month's AlmaLinux newsletter! It's been another busy month, so let's dive into it! For the skimmers: - AlmaLinux OS 9.6 <https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-05-20-almalinux_96_release/> and 10.0 <https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-05-27-welcoming-almalinux-10/> are now available! - We've announced AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver <https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-vancouver-2025/> - submit to speak before June 23rd, and then join us August 9, 2025 just before SIGGRAPH. - Board elections will be in August! Learn more in this blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-04-24-election-announcement/>. If you want to be able to run in this year's election, make sure you submit your application <https://almalinux.org/members/> to join before the end of May! - University College London is hiring! Learn more about the 2 positions below. <#New-on-the-AlmaLinux-Blog>New on the AlmaLinux Blog <#General-Availability-of-AlmaLinux-100-Stable>General Availability of AlmaLinux 10.0 Stable! AlmaLinux 10.0 "Purple Lion" is now available! With this release, we've brought in some impactful improvements that target specific sections of our userbase while still maintaining compatibility with RHEL 10. Read more from @Eduard Abdullin <https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-05-27-welcoming-almalinux-10/> <#General-Availability-of-AlmaLinux-96-Stable>General Availability of AlmaLinux 9.6 Stable! AlmaLinux 9.6 "Sage Margay" is available for all supported architectures (Intel/AMD (x86_64), ARM64 (aarch64), IBM PowerPC (ppc64le), IBM Z (s390x)). Read more from @Eduard Abdullin <https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-05-20-almalinux_96_release/> <#x86_64_v2-EPEL-for-the-Enterprise-Linux-10-World>x86_64_v2 EPEL for the Enterprise Linux 10 World The build of EPEL packages for AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 is now complete and ready for use! Check it out, share your feedback, and we'll be working on EPEL packages support for x86_64_v2 once 10.0 Stable is released. Read the post by @Eduard Abdullin <https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-05-13-epel-10-kitten-v2/> <#AlmaLinux-Events>AlmaLinux Events We just announced AlmaLinux Day: Vancouver, which is happening August 9 (in tandem with Academy Open Source days <https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-days/> and SIGGRAPH <https://s2025.siggraph.org/>)! The call for papers is open until June 23, and you can learn more here <https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-vancouver-2025/>. The rest of 2025 is pretty packed. This is where we'll be visiting, exhibiting, or speaking so far through the rest of this year. - June 5-8: Flock to Fedora <https://flocktofedora.org/> - June 12-14: DevConf <https://www.devconf.info/cz/> - June 13-15: Southeast Linux Fest <http://southeastlinuxfest.org/> - Jun 23-27: Internet Governance Forum <https://www.intgovforum.org/en> - 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>New on the AlmaLinux YouTube Channel AlmaLinux in the VFX world <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwpJjchTYL0&t=2s> @Tristan Théroux from @SHED and Danny Smith from @Cinesite discuss Cinesite's use of AlmaLinux for desktops and rendering, and Danny shares his advice for migrating to AlmaLinux. Meet the Live Media SIG! <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VCIfcuTVxk> Sonia Boldyreva and @Yuriy Kohut talk through live media image creation at AlmaLinux. <#Community-Spotlight>Community Spotlight Community member Ben Thomas from University College London is hiring for two Senior Research Infrastructure Developers <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=14153&…>. If you're interested, make sure to apply! We also have this newly updated website hero image, courtesy of Andrew Lukoshko. We love it! Check it out on https://almalinux.org <#Stay-Up-to-Date-and-Join-Us>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.*

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AlmaLinux News for March ‘25
by benny Vasquez 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

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! - 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。 - 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. - April 25-27: Linuxfest NW - June 5-8: Flock to Fedora - June 12-14: DevConf - 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.*

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