AlmaLinux News for April ‘24

Hello everyone!

Welcome to this month’s AlmaLinux newsletter, where we share the latest AlmaLinux happenings, upcoming events, and more.?

Quick notes!

• AlmaLinux 9.4 and 8.10 will be released in May! We appreciate everyone who is helping us test out the 9.4 Beta and the 8.10 Beta.?8.10 ISO images and repos will be used until 2029, so help us test now to make sure they're perfect!
• RHEL 8.10 and 9.4 are on their way, and Red Hat has made changes to the way they handle device drivers that are deprecated, disabled and unmaintained, and ELRepo will no longer be able to enable support for devices that Red Hat has deprecated. Read more on the ELRepo blog.
• To help our community, both AlmaLinux 9.4 and 8.10 have re-enabled support for those PCI IDs, continuing support for more than 140 devices. Learn more on the forums, and let us know if you are missing other devices!.
• Some changes have been made to our mirror system to help us better manage hardware resources. If you host one of the 350+ AlmaLinux mirrors, take a look at this forums post to see how you're impacted!
• The recordings of our AlmaLinux Day: Germany event are now live! Watch them here.

Latest from the AlmaLinux Blog

Why I wanted to help translate the AlmaLinux website to Hebrew

AlmaLinux Community member Noam Alum is helping to translate the AlmaLinux website into Hebrew! In this blog post, Noam explains why and how he’s making it happen.?

AlmaLinux 8.10 Beta, and 9.4 Beta!

In case you missed it, AlmaLinux 8.10 Beta "Cerulean Leopard," and AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta "Seafoam Ocelot" are now available for all supported architectures! Read more on the blog, and help us identify bugs early!

Secure boot with AlmaLinux

It’s important to keep your system secure and one of the easiest ways that is rarely talked about is by enabling Secure Boot. AlmaLinux OS has provided Secure Boot since its 8.4 release. Learn more about Secure Book with AlmaLinux in this blog post!

AlmaLinux OS - CVE-2024-1086 and XZ

As of April 3rd, the patches for CVE-2024-1086 are available in production repos! Thank you to everyone who tested these patches. If you missed this update, learn more about our support in this blog post, and more about the exploit overall in this episode from Linux Unplugged, or this one from Destination Linux.

Upcoming Events

While we don’t have any May events on the books, there are quite a few for the rest of the year:

• Southeast Linux Fest, June 7-9 in Charlotte, North Carolina, US
• Academy Open Source days, July 28th in Denver, Colorado, US
• SIGGRAPH, July 30-August 1 in Denver, Colorado, US
• FOSSY, August 1-4 in Portland, Oregon, US
• Flock to Fedora, August 7-10 in Rochester New York, US
• Ohio Linux Fest (OLF), September in Columbus, Ohio, US
• All things open, October 27-29 in Raleigh, North Carolina, US
• Seagl, November 8-9 in Seattle, Washington, US?
• SC (formerly Supercompute), November 17-22 in Atlanta, Georgia, US

We need your help! We’re looking for volunteers from the AlmaLinux community to help staff our booths. If you can dedicate at least 1/2 of an event to staffing a booth, fill out this Google form! We’ll cover your travel and hotel, and you’ll get a per-diem to help offset your food and assorted travel-related costs.

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