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-10-1/> 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.*