Red hat introduced the first beta The version of the distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 . Ready-made installation images Prepared For registered users Red Hat Customer Portal. Repositories with packages available without restrictions for architectures x86_64, S390x (IBM System Z), PPC64LE and AARCH64 (ARM64). The source texts of the RPM packets Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 are located in Git repository CentOS. Release is expected in the first half of next year. In accordance with the 10-year-old support cycle Rhel 9 distribution will be accompanied until 2032. Updates for Rhel 7 will continue to be released until June 30, 2024, RHEL 8 – until May 31, 2029.
Distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 is notable for the transition to a more open development process. Unlike the past branches, the CENTOS Stream 9. Centos Stream is used as a basis for building a distribution. Centos Stream is positioned as a Upstream project for RHEL, which makes it possible to third-party participants to control the preparation of packages for RHEL, offer their changes and affect decisions made. Previously, a snapshot of one of Fedora issues was used as the basis for a new Rhel branch, which was refined and stabilized behind closed doors, without the ability to control the development of the development and decisions. Now, on the basis of the Fedora snapshot, with the participation of the community, the centos Stream branch is formed, in which the preparatory work is carried out and the basis for the new significant Rhel branch is formed.
- updated the system environment and assembly toolkit. GCC 11 is involved for assembling packages. The standard S-library is updated to GLIBC 2.34. The Linux kernel package is built on the basis of release 5.14. The RPM packet manager is updated to version 4.16 with support for integrity control via Fapolicyd.
- The Distribution Migration on Python 3. The default is the Python 3.9 branch. Delivery Python 2 is stopped.
- Desktop based on GNOME 40 (GNOME 3.28 was supplied in Rhel 8) and the GTK Library 4. In GNOME 40 Virtual Work Tables in the Overview Mode (Activities Overview) are translated into horizontal orientation and are displayed in the form of a continuously scrolled left right chain. On each desktop shown in the review mode, the available windows are clearly presented for which dynamic pan and scaling when the user interacts. Provided seamless transition between program list and virtual desktops.