Rocky Linux 8.6 Available Now
Hello everyone. I am pleased to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux 8.6. This release is for the x86_64 and aarch64 architectures and is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6.
Please read through the release notes at: Release 8.6 - Documentation 3 - These notes contain important information about the release, details about some of the content inside the release (such as newer modules or updates throughout the distribution) and highlights.
General Repository Changes
openldap-servers
While it may not be very well known, we were providing the openldap-servers package as part of our Plus repository alongside thunderbird and open-vm-tools for aarch64. openldap-servers is now part of the PowerTools repository. In the event this changes again, we will of course let you know in our announcements.
multiple bind versions
The standard bind version is the 9.11 series. In 8.6, bind9.16 is now available as a choice for those who want to use a newer bind series.
perl module streams rebuilt
With the exception of the default base perl module (5.26), all other perl module streams have been completely rebuilt. Thanks to our testing team, its members, and others in the community, we were able to identify and stamp out the problematic behavior that has unfortunately existed in our previous releases.
Known Issues
dotnet
As reported in our 8.5 release, we had to override the builds for the dotnet packages to fake “rhel” as the RID. This is still the case until we are upstreamed. You can help us in this effort in ~Development in our Mattermost.
Updates
Updates released since upstream are posted across our current architectures. We strongly recommend that all users apply all updates, including the content released today on your existing Rocky Linux machines. This can be done by running dnf update.
All Rocky Linux components are built from the sources hosted at git.rockylinux.org. In addition, SRPMs are being published alongside the repositories in a corresponding “source” directory. You can find these on any of our mirrors. These source packages match every binary RPM we release.
Note that this release supersedes all previously released content for Rocky Linux 8. You are encouraged to update your system. Older content, such as those obsoleted from the previous release will not be available. While we keep older content around for historical purposes (within our vault), it is recommended that you use the latest updates available to you.
Please allow mirrors to sync the content. While most of our mirrors have synced majority of the content, not all has been synced and you may not get your updates right away.
Download
x86_64
Boot: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/x86_64/Rocky-8.6-x86_64-boot.iso
DVD: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/x86_64/Rocky-8.6-x86_64-dvd1.iso
Minimal: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/x86_64/Rocky-8.6-x86_64-minimal.iso
DVD Torrent: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/x86_64/Rocky-8.6-x86_64-dvd1.torrent
Boot Torrent: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/x86_64/Rocky-8.6-x86_64-boot.torrent
Minimal Torrent: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/x86_64/Rocky-8.6-x86_64-minimal.torrent
Checksum: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/x86_64/CHECKSUM
Verification: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/x86_64/CHECKSUM.sigaarch64
Boot: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/aarch64/Rocky-8.6-aarch64-boot.iso
DVD: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/aarch64/Rocky-8.6-aarch64-dvd1.iso
Minimal: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/aarch64/Rocky-8.6-aarch64-minimal.iso
DVD Torrent: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/aarch64/Rocky-8.6-aarch64-dvd1.torrent
Boot Torrent: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/aarch64/Rocky-8.6-aarch64-boot.torrent
Minimal Torrent: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/aarch64/Rocky-8.6-aarch64-minimal.torrent
Checksum: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/aarch64/CHECKSUM
Verification: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/aarch64/CHECKSUM.sigLive Images
GNOME (Workstation): https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/Live/x86_64/Rocky-Workstation-8-x86_64-20220515.1.iso
XFCE: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/Live/x86_64/Rocky-XFCE-8-x86_64-20220515.4.iso
Checksum: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/Live/x86_64/CHECKSUM
Verification: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/Live/x86_64/CHECKSUM.sig
Louis Abel has announced the release of Rocky Linux 8.6 based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 sources.
