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

  • Are you a user based in Japan? Our Japan User Group would love to chat with you in Mattermost (https://chat.almalinux.org), or have you join their meetups! 

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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.

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 Blog

Call for testing (now published) - FreeType CVE-2025-27363

Meta reported a flaw in FreeType versions 2.13.0 and below that can allow remote code execution. This blog post 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 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) that we announced in May of 2024 has been hard at work setting up processes and stretching our legs.


Check out this blog post 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! 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!

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benny Vasquez

Chair, Board of Directors @AlmaLinux OS Foundation 

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