De AlmaLinux OS Foundation heeft versie 10.2 van AlmaLinux OS uitgebracht. AlmaLinux is net als Rocky Linux ontstaan nadat Red Hat had besloten CentOS niet verder meer te ontwikkelen. Het OS is voornamelijk bedoeld om voor servertaken ingezet te worden. Waar versie 9 was gebaseerd op Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, wordt voor versie 10 CentOS Stream 10-code als basis gebruikt en is versie 10 verder binary compatible met RHEL 10. De releasenotes voor deze uitgave kunnen hier worden gevonden; dit is de aankondiging voor deze uitgave:
AlmaLinux OS 10.2 “Lavender Lion”AlmaLinux 10.2 (kernel
6.12.0-211.7.3.el10_2) introduces updated compiler toolsets, new language and database packages, and improved security. This release adds Python 3.14, PostgreSQL 18, MariaDB 11.8, Ruby 4.0, and PHP 8.4 as new packages, alongside SDL3, libkrun, trustee, and FIDO Device Onboard tooling. The desktop sees GNOME 49. Container and virtualization support is updated with the latest versions of Podman, Buildah, libvirt, QEMU-KVM, and skopeo. Security is improved with updates to OpenSSL, OpenSSH, SSSD, SELinux policies, crypto-policies, and Keylime.AlmaLinux 10.2 also brings i686 userspace packages — enabling legacy 32-bit software, CI pipelines, and containerized workloads on AlmaLinux 10. We first landed i686 in Kitten 10 back in April; 10.2 is where it crosses into stable.
10.2 continues to ship AlmaLinux’s deviations from upstream that we’ve written about before: Btrfs support including the ability to boot from a Btrfs volume, the CRB repository enabled by default, and a parallel x86_64_v2 build with matching EPEL coverage for older hardware.
New in this release: KVM for IBM POWER is fully enabled in the virtualization stack (graduating from the 9.6 tech preview), frame pointers are re-enabled by default so system-wide profiling works out of the box, SPICE support is back for both server and client applications, and Firefox and Thunderbird ship as regular RPMs in the system repositories. 10.2 also re-adds a long list of older storage and networking drivers (Adaptec, Dell PERC, HP, Mellanox, QLogic, Emulex, LSI, Broadcom) that upstream had disabled — see the release notes’ Extended hardware support section for the full table.
