AlmaLinux 10 has been released, codenamed "Purple Lion," and is intended to support the community by ensuring compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10. The platform has implemented minor enhancements to its user base, activating frame pointers by default for real-time tracing and profiling. It additionally facilitates prolonged x86-64-v2 support, enabling users with legacy hardware to benefit from security updates for an additional ten years.
EPEL packages are being developed to assist users in their transition to the x86-64-v2 release of AlmaLinux OS 10. Support for Secure Boot on ARM platforms has been implemented, and SPICE support has been completely restored for both server and client applications. AlmaLinux OS 10 features a technical preview of KVM virtualization support for the IBM Power architecture, a capability that has not been available upstream since version 9.0.
The AlmaLinux OS Foundation has officially announced the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.6, codenamed "Sage Margay". Installation ISOs are provided for all four architectures: Intel/AMD (x86_64), ARM64 (aarch64), IBM PowerPC (ppc64le), and IBM Z (s390x). AlmaLinux provides a range of cloud, container, and live images. The release encompasses updates to module streams, compiler versions, elfutils, Valgrind, SystemTap, and PCP, alongside enhancements in networking, security updates, improvements in containerization and virtualization, as well as the inclusion of snpguest and snphost packages. A technical preview of KVM virtualization support for the IBM Power architecture is also included.