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-tr... 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-IQE8s8jbPLykds...! 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.*