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-stable/> ! In March, ALESCo approved a proposal <https://github.com/AlmaLinux/ALESCo/blob/master/rfcs/0001-build-fedora-epel-for-almalinux-and-almalinux-kitten-x86_64_v2.md> 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=academy-software-foundation-events> 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.*