Current Release 9.5

Release notes for Rocky Linux 9.5¶

You can find a complete list of most changes in the upstream release notes found here.

Upgrading¶

You can upgrade from Rocky Linux 9.x to Rocky Linux 9.5 by running sudo dnf -y upgrade.

Images¶

Several images are available along with the normal install images, including cloud and container platforms.

You can find more on the artifacts produced by the Cloud Special Interest Group, and information on how to get involved on the SIG/Cloud Wiki page.

Image build workflow and process¶

Most images for the 9.5 release were created using a KIWI, from OpenSUSE. The images aim to be feature complete with the old images, and no serious regressions are intended. If you find a bug, please let us know and we will do our best to resolve or explain any differences.

The images still built with imagefactory are: Vagrant-VBox, Vagrant-VMware, and OCP-Base (Oracle Cloud Platform). The remaining Cloud, Container, and Vagrant images were built using KIWI. The new build workflow will enable Rocky Linux to provide more frequent updates to our images on all cloud providers.

You are invited to check out the KIWI configuration used as well as our toolkit used to invoke KIWI and are welcome to join us in improving our image and distribution process.

Installing¶

Prior to installing, ensure compatibility of your CPU with this procedure!

To install Rocky Linux 9.5, head to the download page and download the version you need for your architecture.

The Rocky team release highlights¶

New and notable¶

Major changes¶

For a complete list of major changes, see the upstream listing here.

Highlights and new features from this release are detailed next.

Security¶

Listed below are security-related highlights in the latest Rocky Linux 9.5 release. For a complete list of security-related changes, see the upstream link here.

• SELinux The SELinux policy now provides a boolean that allows QEMU Guest Agent to execute confined commands
• OpenSSL TLS toolkit upgrades to 3.2.2. OpenSSL now supports certificate compression extension and adds in Brainpool Curves to the TLS 1.3 protocol
• ca-certificates program now provides trusted CA roots in the OpenSSL directory format
• crypto-policies packages are updated to extend its control to algorithm sections in Java
• NSS cryptographic toolkit are rebased to upstream version 3.101

Dynamic programming languages, web, and database servers¶

For a detailed list of the changes in this category see the upstream link here.

Later versions of the following Application Streams are now available:

• Apache HTTP Server 2.4.62
• Node.js 22

Compilers and development tools¶

For details on the changes in this category see the upstream link here

Updated system toolchain components:

• GCC 11.5
• Annobin 12.70

Updated performance tools and debuggers:

• GDB 14.2
• Valgrind 3.23.0
• SystemTap 5.1
• elfutils 0.191
• libabigail 2.5

Updated performance monitoring tools:

• PCP 6.2.2
• Grafana 10.2.6

Updated compiler toolsets:

• GCC Toolset 14
• LLVM Toolset 18.1.8
• Rust Toolset 1.79.0
• Go Toolset 1.22

Updated default Java implementation to java-17-openjdk:

• After this update the java, java-devel and jre packages will install Java 17 instead of Java 11.

Web console¶

The cockpit-files package got added for easier file management in the web console. This file manager can perform basic tasks such as browsing the files and directories, copy/move/delete and download/upload files.

Container management¶

Podman got a major update to v5.0, including new features like:

• Extended Quadlet support (automatic systemd service generation)
• Manifest management
• Full support for multi-architecture image builds

This also includes several new features of the other container tools like Buildah or Skopeo.

Known issues¶

As with any release, there are many known issues. Review the upstream listing for the complete details on these issues.

Help in Anaconda¶

Currently the help buttons when clicked in Anaconda only show blank pages.

Reporting bugs¶

Please report any bugs you encounter to the Rocky Linux Bug Tracker. We also welcome you to join our community in any way you wish be it on our Forums, Mattermost, IRC on Libera.Chat, Reddit, Mailing Lists, or any other way you wish to participate!