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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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AlmaLinux News for Feb '25
by benny Vasquez 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

Hi friends! Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter! February has flown by, but here’s what we’ve been up to: Quick notes: - 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/>. - 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! - March 6-9: SCaLE - March 13-15: FOSSASIA - March 17-20: CloudFest - 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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AlmaLinux news for Jan '25
by benny Vasquez 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

(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: - AlmaLinux 10 beta is now available! - We need your input for patching Rsync - ELevate has been updated for use with AlmaLinux 10 beta and AlmaLinux OS Kitten (with CentOS Stream 10 support coming soon!) - 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. - The server vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-12084 and CVE-2024-12085) can lead to remote code execution (RCE). - 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). - 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: - Cloud and Container Images Updates and Changes - Live Media Images - now including ARM! - Other options like Incus and LXC, Raspberry Pi images, and more! Upcoming Events We’ve got some big plans for 2025! - January 30-31: CentOS Connect - February 1-2: FOSDEM - March 13-15: FOSSASIA - March 15-16: CloudFest Hackathon - March 17: AlmaLinux Day Germany - 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.*

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AlmaLinux News for Nov '25
by benny Vasquez 05 Dec '24

05 Dec '24

Hi there! Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more. Quick notes: - AlmaLinux 9.5 stable is now available! - We get to announce even more new sponsors! - We’re starting to plan our 2025 event schedule! 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. Volunteer for the Distros Room at FOSDEM! This year the Linux Distributions room at FOSDEM wi, and we’re going to need some help! Whether you want to help staff the door (and remind folks to be quiet), or announce speakers and help the audience ask questions, or help the speaker get set up and then stay on time, there is a lot to take care of! Sign up for the FOSDEM Distributions Devroom <https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/distributions-devroom> mailing list to see the volunteer sheet go out soon! You can also learn more in this blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-11-14-fosdem-2025-distros-room/>. Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogGeneral Availability of AlmaLinux 9.5 Stable! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.5 <https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos.html> codenamed “Teal Serval”! Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures: - Intel/AMD (x86_64) <https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/x86_64/9.5.html> - ARM64 (aarch64) <https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/aarch64/9.5.html> - IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) <https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/ppc64le/9.5.html> - IBM Z (s390x) <https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/s390x/9.5.html> Torrents are available as well at: - Intel/AMD (x86_64) <https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.5/isos/x86_64/AlmaLinux-9.5-x86_64.t…> - ARM64 (aarch64) <https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.5/isos/aarch64/AlmaLinux-9.5-aarch64…> - IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) <https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.5/isos/ppc64le/AlmaLinux-9.5-ppc64le…> - IBM Z (s390x) <https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.5/isos/s390x/AlmaLinux-9.5-s390x.tor…> The AlmaLinux team also creates a variety of Cloud, Container and Live Images. Read more and find the full release notes on our blog <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-11-18-announcing-95-stable/>! Announcing Silver Sponsor Members - Fastly, AMD, world4you Fastly has joined us this year as a new sponsor member, and AMD and world4you have renewed their sponsorship memberships. We’re so grateful for the contributions of our every-growing list of sponsors, as more and more companies prove that they believe in what we do. Find out a little bit about each of them in this blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-11-11-welcome-october-sponsors/>. Upcoming Events In November our community represented AlmaLinux all around the world at many different events: openSUSE.Asia <https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSAS24>, OSS Summit Japan <https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-japan/>, SeaGL <https://seagl.org/>, SFSCON <https://www.sfscon.it/>, OLF <https://olfconference.org/about/>, and SC ‘24 <https://sc24.supercomputing.org/>. We’ve also got some big plans for 2025, too! 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 any events that you attend on behalf of AlmaLinux. 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 October ‘24
by benny Vasquez 02 Nov '24

02 Nov '24

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…> - 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.*

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AlmaLinux News for September ‘24
by benny Vasquez 03 Oct '24

03 Oct '24

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.*

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AlmaLinux News for August ‘24
by benny Vasquez 30 Aug '24

30 Aug '24

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.*

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AlmaLinux News for July '24
by benny Vasquez 01 Aug '24

01 Aug '24

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.*

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AlmaLinux News for June ‘24
by Jonathan Wright 28 Jun '24

28 Jun '24

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! - AlmaLinux now has Raspberry Pi5 support! - Last week, we announced three new silver sponsors and thanked the others who have backed us so far this year. - Using ELevate to upgrade your CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 devices is even more critical now. Hear about one user’s journey with ELevate! Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogHow ELevate supports business needs In this blog post, David der Nederlanden <https://www.linkedin.com/in/daviddernederlanden/?originalSubdomain=nl> shares his perspective on how AlmaLinux and ELevate support business needs, including practical tips from a real-life ELevate user! Read it here <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-06-05-how-elevate-supports-business-needs/> . 2024 Sponsors of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation (so far) We recently issued yet another press release announcing yet another round of sponsors. Read this blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-06-20-2024-sponsors/> to learn about each of the sponsors we just announced, and then a little about the rest of the amazing companies that are giving back to open source by sponsoring us this year. AlmaLinux with Raspberry Pi 5 Support! AlmaLinux now has support for Raspberry Pi 5, thanks largely to the hard work of Metalefty! AlmaLinux now supports all of these Raspberry Pi models: Raspberry Pi 5 (supported since June 2024 images) Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Raspberry Pi 400 Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ See more information in this blog post: https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-06-11-almalinux-support-for-raspberry-pi-5/ Upcoming Events June was a lighter month for events, with us only joining Southeast Linux Fest <https://southeastlinuxfest.org/>, Fedora’s Week of Diversity <https://cfp.fedoraproject.org/fwd-2024/schedule/>, and OpenNebula’s OpenNebulaCon <https://opennebula.io/opennebula-conferences/opennebulacon2024/>, but here’s what’s coming up for the rest of the year: - Academy Open Source Day <https://events.linuxfoundation.org/about/calendar/?_sft_lfevent-category=ac…>, July 28th, in Denver, Colorado, US - SIGGRAPH <https://s2024.siggraph.org/>, July 30-August 1 in Denver, Colorado, US - Flock to Fedora <https://flocktofedora.org/>, August 7-10 in Rochester New York, US - Academy Open Source days <https://events.linuxfoundation.org/about/calendar/?_sft_lfevent-category=ac…>, August in Los Angeles, California, US - Ohio Linux Fest (OLF) <http://olfconference.org/>, September in Columbus, Ohio, US - 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/>! -- Jonathan Wright AlmaLinux Foundation Mattermost: chat <https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/messages/@jonathan>

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AlmaLinux News for May ‘24
by benny Vasquez 29 May '24

29 May '24

Hi there! Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more. It was a busy month, so this issue is PACKED! Quick notes - find more information about below! -- Both AlmaLinux 9.4 and AlmaLinux 8.10 were released this month, and we announced the new AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee, AND a new HPC & AI SIG. -- To help our community, both AlmaLinux 9.4 and 8.10 have re-enabled support for more than 10 drivers that were disabled in RHEL, extending support for more than 140 devices. <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://almalinux.discourse.group/t/re-adding-…>Learn more on the forums, and let us know if you are missing other devices! <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://almalinux.discourse.group/t/re-adding-…> Some videos to highlight for our community: -- Art of Server <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/@ArtofServer&sa=D&sour…> recently released a new video about why they picked AlmaLinux, which you can check out here <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DG4c354CEhSE&…> ! -- Dmitry Lambert Tech <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/@DmitryLambertTech&sa=…> - featuring Dmitry Lambert from Zabbix - did a video walking you through an ELevate upgrade from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8, which you can see here <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DvcH1gy7fSkk%…> ! Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogAlmaLinux 8.10 Stable! AlmaLinux 8.10 “Cerulean Leopard” is available! Read this blog post <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-05-28-announci…> for ISOs, torrents, release notes, and more. The following device drivers were modified to re-add PCI IDs for hardware disabled in RHEL: - aacraid - Dell PERC2, 2/Si, 3/Si, 3/Di, Adaptec Advanced Raid Products, HP NetRAID-4M, IBM ServeRAID & ICP SCSI - be2iscsi - Emulex OneConnect Open-iSCSI for BladeEngine 2 and 3 adapters - be2net - Emulex BladeEngine 2 and 3 adapters - hpsa - HP Smart Array Controller - lpfc - Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI - megaraid_sas - Broadcom MegaRAID SAS - mlx4_core - Mellanox Gen2 and ConnectX-2 adapters - mpt3sas - LSI MPT Fusion SAS 3.0 - mptsas - Fusion MPT SAS Host - qla2xxx - QLogic Fibre Channel HBA - qla4xxx - QLogic iSCSI HBA Sponsor meetup: Migrating from CentOS 7 and Mythbusting Linux on Microsoft Azure Yesterday, I participated in a meetup with Claus Wiesner from the Azure Linux team at Microsoft! We busted the myths around using Linux on Azure, and showed how CentOS 6 and 7 users on Azure can upgrade to AlmaLinux using ELevate. Read more <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-05-23-mythbust…> and watch it on demand here <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3D3LsPn7xOn34&…> ! Introducing ALESCo: The AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee We recently announced the AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee, or ALESCo. Simply stated, ALESCo is a group of engineers heavily involved in using and developing AlmaLinux, formed into a committee that will generally guide the technical progression and growth of AlmaLinux as an operating system. Learn more and get involved <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-05-21-introduc…> ! Sponsor Webinar: ELevate: Upgrading in Place for RHEL-based Distros Has Finally Arrived with Tuxcare On May 15th, I participated in a webinar with one of our sponsors, TuxCare, about the new additions to ELevate, along with all of the things our community members need for upgrading their OS using ELevate. You can read more about it <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-05-8-tuxcare-a…> or watch it on demand here <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tuxcare.com/webinars/elevate-upgrading…> ! General Availability of AlmaLinux 9.4 Stable! AlmaLinux 9.4 “Seafoam Ocelot” is available! Read this blog post <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-05-06-announci…> for ISOs, torrents, release notes, and more. The following device drivers were modified to re-add PCI IDs for hardware disabled in RHEL: - aacraid - Dell PERC2, 2/Si, 3/Si, 3/Di, Adaptec Advanced Raid Products, HP NetRAID-4M, IBM ServeRAID & ICP SCSI - be2iscsi - Emulex OneConnect Open-iSCSI for BladeEngine 2 and 3 adapters - hpsa - HP Smart Array Controller - lpfc - Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI - megaraid_sas - Broadcom MegaRAID SAS - mlx4_core - Mellanox Gen2 and ConnectX-2 adapters - mpt3sas - LSI MPT Fusion SAS 3.0 - mptsas - Fusion MPT SAS Host - qla2xxx - QLogic Fibre Channel HBA - qla4xxx - QLogic iSCSI HBA Introducing the AlmaLinux HPC and AI SIG In case you missed the news, we have a new Special Interest Group, the High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence SIG! Learn all about it here <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-05-02-introduc…> . AlmaLinux Day: Germany - Recap If you weren’t able to join us for AlmaLinux Day: Germany in March, you can read all about it here on our blog <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-05-01-almalinu…>, and watch the sessions, which included an explanation of where we get AlmaLinux’s sources since our shift last year, and a Q&A with the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board. Upcoming Events While we got to take a break on travel for May, there are quite a few for the rest of the year: - Southeast Linux Fest <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://southeastlinuxfest.org/&sa=D&source=edi…>, June 7-9 in Charlotte, North Carolina, US - SIGGRAPH <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://s2024.siggraph.org/&sa=D&source=editor…>, July 30-August 1 in Denver, Colorado, US - FOSSY <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fossy.us/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1716…>, August 1-4 in Portland, Oregon, US - Flock to Fedora <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://flocktofedora.org/&sa=D&source=editors…>, August 7-10 in Rochester New York, US - Academy Open Source days <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://events.linuxfoundation.org/about/calen…>, August ? in Los Angeles, California, US - Ohio Linux Fest (OLF) <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://olfconference.org/&sa=D&source=editors&…>, September ? in Columbus, Ohio, US - All things open <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://allthingsopen.org/&sa=D&source=editors&…>, October 27-29 in Raleigh, North Carolina, US - Seagl <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://seagl.org/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=171…>, November 8-9 in Seattle, Washington, US - SC (formerly Supercompute) <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://supercomputing.org/&sa=D&source=editors…>, November 17-22 in Atlanta, Georgia, US We need your help! We’re looking for volunteers from the AlmaLinux community to help staff our booths. If you can dedicate at least 1/2 of an event to staffing a booth, <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPn…>fill out this Google form <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPn…>! We’ll cover your travel and hotel, and you’ll get a per-diem to help offset your food and assorted travel-related costs. Stay up to date and join us! If you want to make sure you catch every update from us, sign up for the <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.almalinux.org/mailman3/lists/new…>Newsletters mailing list <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.almalinux.org/mailman3/lists/new…> or <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/almalinux…>subscribe on LinkedIn <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/almalinux…> ! 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 ‘24
by benny Vasquez 01 May '24

01 May '24

View this newsletter in rich text on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/almalinux-news-april-24-almalinuxos-kiwfe Hello everyone! Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more. Quick notes! - AlmaLinux 9.4 and 8.10 will be released in May! We appreciate everyone who is helping us test out the 9.4 Beta <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-04-15-announcing-94-beta/> and the 8.10 Beta <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-04-17-announcing-8-10-beta/>. 8.10 ISO images and repos will be used until 2029, so help us test now to make sure they're perfect! - RHEL 8.10 and 9.4 are on their way, and Red Hat has made changes to the way they handle device drivers that are deprecated, disabled and unmaintained, and ELRepo will no longer be able to enable support for devices that Red Hat has deprecated. Read more on the ELRepo blog <https://elrepoproject.blogspot.com/2024/04/some-elrepo-kmod-packages-will-n…> . - To help our community, both AlmaLinux 9.4 and 8.10 have re-enabled support for those PCI IDs, continuing support for more than 140 devices. Learn more on the forums, and let us know if you are missing other devices! <https://almalinux.discourse.group/t/re-adding-support-for-older-hardware/38…> . - Some changes have been made to our mirror system to help us better manage hardware resources. If you host one of the 350+ AlmaLinux mirrors, take a look at this forums post <https://almalinux.discourse.group/t/almalinux-vault-rsync-url-change/3858> to see how you're impacted! - The recordings of our AlmaLinux Day: Germany event are now live! Watch them here <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqKzWfm6zyltcA6vEbRAD92AJEH3bnr_q> . Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogWhy I wanted to help translate the AlmaLinux website to Hebrew AlmaLinux Community member Noam Alum <https://www.linkedin.com/in/noam-alum/> is helping to translate the AlmaLinux website into Hebrew! In this blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-04-22-why-i-wanted-to-help-translating-the-…>, Noam explains why and how he’s making it happen. AlmaLinux 8.10 Beta, and 9.4 Beta! In case you missed it, AlmaLinux 8.10 Beta <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-04-17-announcing-8-10-beta/> "Cerulean Leopard," and AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-04-15-announcing-94-beta/> "Seafoam Ocelot" are now available for all supported architectures! Read more on the blog, and help us identify bugs early! Secure boot with AlmaLinux It’s important to keep your system secure and one of the easiest ways that is rarely talked about is by enabling Secure Boot. AlmaLinux OS has provided Secure Boot since its 8.4 release <https://wiki.almalinux.org/release-notes/8.4.html>. Learn more about Secure Book with AlmaLinux in this blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-04-11-secure-boot-with-almalinux/>! AlmaLinux OS - CVE-2024-1086 and XZ As of April 3rd, the patches for CVE-2024-1086 are available in production repos! Thank you to everyone who tested these patches. If you missed this update, learn more about our support in this blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-04-02-xz-and-cve-2024-1086/>, and more about the exploit overall in this episode from Linux Unplugged <https://linuxunplugged.com/556>, or this one from Destination Linux <https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-365/>. Upcoming Events While we don’t have any May events on the books, there are quite a few for the rest of the year: - Southeast Linux Fest <http://southeastlinuxfest.org/>, June 7-9 in Charlotte, North Carolina, US - SIGGRAPH <https://s2024.siggraph.org/>, July 30-August 1 in Denver, Colorado, US - FOSSY <https://fossy.us/>, August 1-4 in Portland, Oregon, US - Flock to Fedora <https://flocktofedora.org/>, August 7-10 in Rochester New York, US - Academy Open Source days <https://events.linuxfoundation.org/about/calendar/?_sft_lfevent-category=ac…>, August ? in Los Angeles, California, US - Ohio Linux Fest (OLF) <http://olfconference.org/>, September ? in Columbus, Ohio, US - 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 We need your help! We’re looking for volunteers from the AlmaLinux community to help staff our booths. If you can dedicate at least 1/2 of an event to staffing a booth, fill out this Google form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykd…>! We’ll cover your travel and hotel, and you’ll get a per-diem to help offset your food and assorted travel-related costs. 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/>! Thank you! 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 ‘24
by benny Vasquez 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Hello everyone! Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more. Fun fact: this month, we’re celebrating AlmaLinux’s 3rd birthday! Quick notes! - In case you missed it, Andrew Lukoshko’s FOSDEM session <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZItk4uBB5Q> is now up on YouTube! - benny recently joined Jay LaCroix and Joao Correia on the Enterprise Linux Security podcast <https://enterpriselinuxsecurity.show/> for an episode about Managing a Distro <https://enterpriselinuxsecurity.show/2024/03/06/enterprise-linux-security-e…> . - DJ Ware <https://www.youtube.com/@CyberGizmo> recently shared two videos about ELevate <https://almalinux.org/elevate/>, which you can check out here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qd3tOZdelg> and here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOSXtYuloC0>! AlmaLinux HPC and AI SIG Proposal We have a new SIG in the works! Hayden Barnes (HPE), Peter Grossoehme (MEGWARE), Markus Hilger (MEGWARE), and other AlmaLinux community members are working on an HPC and AI SIG. The goals of the SIG are to promote the benefits of AlmaLinux for HPC and AI, provide guidance and support for AlmaLinux users in HPC and AI, and represent the interests and needs of the HPC and AI community within AlmaLinux. You can check out the proposal here <https://github.com/AlmaLinux/wiki/pull/370/files> that will be reviewed at the next AlmaLinux board meeting, and we welcome any feedback. If you are using using AlmaLinux in HPC or for AI solutions we would love to hear from you! Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogSCaLE 21x, CloudFest, and AlmaLinux Day: Germany! This month we hosted our second ever AlmaLinux Day in Germany <https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-germany-2024/>! We also attended SCaLE 21x, CloudFest, and hosted a CloudFest Hackathon project. In this blog post, we share what to know about each of these events for those who weren’t in attendance! Upcoming Events In April, we’re hitting the road again for a number of events! - We will be at FOSS asia <https://fossasia.org/> April 8-10! If you’re there, make sure to say hi and catch benny’s session <https://eventyay.com/e/55d2a466/session/8904>. - We’ll also be at Texas LinuxFest <https://2024.texaslinuxfest.org/schedule/> April 12-13, so come find us if you’re also there! - benny is speaking at and attending HEPiX <https://www.hepix.org/> April 15-19, donc on se voit là-bas! - On April 26-28th, we’ll be at both PenguiCon <https://2024.penguicon.org/> and LinuxFest NW <https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/>, so come find us if you’re at either one. The rest of the year is filling up, too, and we need your help! We’re looking for volunteers from the AlmaLinux community to help staff our booths. If you can dedicate at least 1/2 of an event to staffing a booth, fill out this Google form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykd…>! We’ll cover your travel and hotel, and you’ll get a per-diem to help offset your food and assorted travel-related costs. 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 February ‘24
by benny Vasquez 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

(Click here to see this newsletter on LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/almalinux-news-february-24-almalinuxos-y3y4e> ) Hello everyone! Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more! *Quick notes!* • We’ll be at SCaLE March 14-17! <https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x> Swing by our booth to see us. • We’re hosting a CloudFest Hackathon <https://hackathon.cloudfest.com/project/securing-more-infrastructure-by-eas…> project March 16th - 17th, and you can also catch us at CloudFest March 18th-22nd <https://cloudfest.com>! • In addition, we’re hosting AlmaLinux Day: Germany <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-02-29-announcing-aldg/> adjacent to CloudFest, and we hope to see you there on March 18th! • We hit three big events in February, CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, and the AlmaLinux Leadership Summit. Read all about them on the blog <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-02-29-feb-event-recap/>! • We’re looking for volunteers from the AlmaLinux community to help staff our booths. If you can dedicate at least 1/2 of the event to staffing a booth at any of the events below, fill out this Google form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cQ0YQiAcRZXPnDqiHak-AXmsjEBz-IQE8s8jbPLykd…>! We’ll cover your travel and hotel, and you’ll get a per-diem to help offset your food and assorted travel-related costs. *Latest from the AlmaLinux Blog* What to expect at AlmaLinux Day: Germany <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-02-29-announcing-aldg/> Last December we hosted the very first AlmaLinux Day in Tokyo <https://almalinux.org/aldt-2023/>, and next we’re bringing AlmaLinux Day to Germany <https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-germany-2024/>! If you’re already headed to Rust for CloudFest, why not swing by for AlmaLinux Day: Germany as well? For a sneak peek at what you can expect at this event, check out this new blog post. February events recap <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-02-29-feb-event-recap/> Earlier this month, we had three back-to-back events: CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, and our AlmaLinux Leadership Summit. In this blog post, we share what to know about them for those who weren’t in attendance! *Stay up to date and join us!* If you want to make sure you catch every update from us, make sure you are signed up for the newsletter mailing list <https://lists.almalinux.org/mailman3/lists/newsletters.lists.almalinux.org/> or subscribe on LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/almalinux-news-7123058222835376128/>! Hope to see you soon! 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 January ‘24
by benny Vasquez 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

Hello everyone! Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more! A lot is happening already, so make sure you take a look below. *Quick notes!*- If you’re at CentOS Connect, don’t miss Elkhan Mammadli’s ta <http://connect.centos.org/#almalinux>lk today <http://connect.centos.org/#almalinux>! - Attending FOSDEM? Catch me at this panel session on Saturday <https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3113-rhel-and-centos-and…>, and Andrew Lukoshko’s talk on Sunday <https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3161-almalinux-how-to-ma…> ! - We’re hosting a CloudFest Hackathon <https://hackathon.cloudfest.com/project/securing-more-infrastructure-by-eas…> project to make OS upgrades easier! - We’ve made some updates to our ELevate project! You'll see it in the blog highlights below, or you can read the full blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-01-31-elevate-updates/>. - The session recordings for AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqKzWfm6zylsIzLbFht2GpY50L7rqjAQ6> are now available! - We’ve also announced AlmaLinux Day: Germany <https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-germany-2024/> (adjacent to CloudFest), and we hope to see you there on March 18th! *Latest from the AlmaLinux Blog*AlmaLinux Day: Tokyo recap, announcing AlmaLinux Day: Germany, and more! <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-02-01-aldt-recap/> Last December we hosted the very first AlmaLinux Day in Tokyo <https://almalinux.org/aldt-2023/>, and the session replays are now available! You can check them out in this blog post or on our YouTube channel <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxwhw6Q6ITc&list=PLqKzWfm6zylsIzLbFht2GpY50…>. We’re also planning and attending a number of other events this year, including AlmaLinux Day: Germany <https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-germany-2024/> (if you want to see the current list, it’s in this blog post). ELevate Project Updates <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-01-31-elevate-updates/> We’ve made a number of updates to our ELevate project recently. In addition to RHEL and EPEL, ELevate now offers 3rd party repository support. We also launched a new version of ELevate, ELevate Next Generation (NG). Read more in this blog post! Q&A Videos + How to Get Involved <https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-01-16-video-contributions/> To address some of the common community questions that we are getting, we are excited to share that we will be creating short Q&A videos that will be shared on some of our most common outreach platforms. Want to get involved? This blog post explains how you can! AlmaLinux Cloud, Container and Live Media Images Updates <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-12-26-almalinux-container-cloud-live-media-…> AlmaLinux OS provides a variety of cloud images, so we’ve been updating them to 9.3 and 8.9 versions. All Live Media images were also updated to versions AlmaLinux 9.3 and AlmaLinux 8.9. Learn more in this blog post! *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/>! You can also join the AlmaLinux OS Foundation <https://almalinux.org/members/#apply> here if you haven’t already. Thank you for such a great start to the year! 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 Dec '23!
by benny Vasquez 28 Dec '23

28 Dec '23

Hello everyone! Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more! Quick notes! - AlmaLinux 8 GPG Key updates - January 12th - Welcome to our new board members - Check out the 2023 recap - We’ve added EPEL support to ELevate - Our Cloud and Live Media images have been updated! - Join us in Brussels Feb 3&4 for FOSDEM Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogAction required: Getting ready for AlmaLinux 8 GPG key change <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-12-20-almalinux-8-key-update/> Due to a problem with the storage for the original master key for AlmaLinux 8, we are updating the AlmaLinux 8 key. Take a look at the blog post for more information about steps you can take ahead of January 12th. Welcome to Jun and Alex! <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-12-19-jun-and-alex-join-board/> We’ve expanded the AlmaLinux OS Foundation’s board by two seats, adding Alex Iribarren from CERN, and Jun Yoshida from Cybertrust. Learn a little more about them on the blog <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-12-19-jun-and-alex-join-board/>! Bringing EPEL support to the ELevate project <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-12-05-announcing-epel-support-in-elevate/> We are thrilled to announce that the first step in EPEL support is now included in the ELevate project, enabling smooth migrations between CentOS7 and AlmaLinux 8. At present, the EPEL support does not include migrating to non-AlmaLinux OSes, or between EL8 and EL9 derivatives! Learn more about helping us with testing, contributing, and more <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-12-05-announcing-epel-support-in-elevate/> ! AlmaLinux Cloud, Container and Live Media Images Updates <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-12-26-almalinux-container-cloud-live-media-…> Our images have been updated for 8.9 and 9.3, including the much-asked-for UEFI boot support. See the blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-12-26-almalinux-container-cloud-live-media-…> for more details, and check out almalinux.org/get-almalinux for the full list of images that we provide. Join us in the Distributions Dev Room for FOSDEM 2024! <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-11-29-distros-devroom/> We’ll be returning to FOSDEM in 2024 with a stand <https://fosstodon.org/@almalinux/109806681564344149> and a bunch of friends <https://social.linux.pizza/@benny/111468054707170805>, and this time we get to help host the Distros Dev Room! The schedule is now live <https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/distributions/>, and it is full of incredible topics. If you are interested in helping staff this event (or any of the events we’re attending next year), reach out to the Marketing SIG <https://wiki.almalinux.org/sigs/Marketing.html>, or email benny <benny(a)almalinux.org>! 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! You can also join the AlmaLinux Foundation here <https://almalinux.org/members/#apply> if you haven’t already. Thanks! 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 ‘23
by benny Vasquez 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

Hello everyone! Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more! Quick notes! - AlmaLinux OS 9.3 <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-11-13-announcing-93-stable/> and AlmaLinux OS 8.9 <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-11-21-announcing-89-stable/> are now available! More on these releases in the section below with the latest from the AlmaLinux Blog. - CIS Benchmarks for AlmaLinux <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-11-28-cis-benchmarks-update> 8 have been updated, and an update for AlmaLinux 9 is coming soon! - We will be back at FOSDEM in 2024, and we’re helping with the Distributions Dev Room this year. Want to join us at this or another event? Read how on the blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-11-29-distros-devroom/>! - We have added a brand new guide to help folks moving from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 9 using ELevate <https://wiki.almalinux.org/elevate/ELevating-CentOS7-to-AlmaLinux-9.html> . - The 2023 election is starting December 1st! Members will get an email, but more info is available on the wiki <https://wiki.almalinux.org/election2023.html>. - We’ve made some recent improvements to the mirror system (blog post coming soon!). If you run one of our mirrors, take a look at your traffic, and then reach out if you have any questions <https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/channels/mirrors>! Latest from the AlmaLinux BlogAnnouncing AlmaLinux Day Tokyo! <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-11-13-announcing-aldt/> In case you missed it, earlier this month we announced AlmaLinux Day Tokyo! This event will take place on December 9th, just a few days after Open Source Summit Japan <https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-japan/>. Reserve your spot at AlmaLinux Day Tokyo now <https://almalinux.org/aldt-2023/>, or you can catch the recordings on our YouTube channel <https://www.youtube.com/@almalinux6891> after the event. CIS Benchmarks Update <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-11-28-cis-benchmarks-update/> We last posted about the AlmaLinux OS 8 CIS benchmark <https://almalinux.org/blog/official-cis-benchmark-for-almalinux-and-opensca…> almost two years ago. We’ve recently released the second update to that - v3.0.0 <https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/15287> which was tested on AlmaLinux 8.8 and are about to start working on the first update to the AlmaLinux OS 9 CIS benchmark <https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/almalinuxos_linux> for 9.2. Check out this new blog post <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-11-28-cis-benchmarks-update/> to learn more about what this means, and how you can help! Join us in the Distributions Dev Room for FOSDEM 2024! <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-11-29-distros-devroom/> In just over two months we’ll be returning to FOSDEM again with a stand <https://fosstodon.org/@almalinux/109806681564344149>, a bunch of friends <https://social.linux.pizza/@benny/111468054707170805>, and this time we get to help host the Distros Dev Room! Read more about how to attend, plus how you can join AlmaLinux at more events next year! <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-11-29-distros-devroom/> Announcing AlmaLinux 9.3 and 8.9! This month we released both AlmaLinux OS 9.3 <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-11-13-announcing-93-stable/> “Shamrock Pampas Cat” and AlmaLinux OS 8.9 <https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-11-21-announcing-89-stable/> “Midnight Oncilla”. These two builds are the first minor releases that we have done since we shifted to using CentOS Stream <https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/> for our enterprise linux builds in July. Both were ready within a week of RHEL’s release, and we are extremely happy with our new build pipeline. Check the link to the blog above for ISOs, torrents, release notes, and more, or watch this 2 minute Q&A <https://youtu.be/DNMnajmyLaA> with benny (our foundation Chair) and Andrew (our lead architect). AlmaLinux Live The year is almost over, but we have one more destination to go! We can’t wait to see everyone in Tokyo for Open Source Summit Japan and AlmaLinux Day Tokyo. - Open Source Summit <https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-japan/> - December 3rd and 4th in Tokyo, Japan - AlmaLinux Day Tokyo <https://almalinux.org/aldt-2023/> - December 9th in Tokyo, Japan What events would you like to see us at next year? Drop into the ~marketing room <https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/channels/marketing> on our chat and say hi, or just email benny <benny(a)almalinux.rog>. 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! You can also join the AlmaLinux Foundation here <https://almalinux.org/members/#apply> if you haven’t already. Thanks for everything you do to support open source. 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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