took place the release of the distribution Rocky Linux 8.6 , aimed at creating a free assembly of RHEL, capable of taking a place of classic centos, after the Red Hat company stopped supporting the Centos 8 branch at the end of 2021, and not in 2029, as was supposed initially. This is the third stable release of the project, recognized as ready for working implementations. Build Rocky Linux prepared for architectures x86_64 and Aarch64.
as in the classic centos included in the Rocky Linux Changes are reduced to getting rid of the reference to the Red Hat brand. The distribution is fully compatible with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 and includes all the improvement . Including the new Perl modules: 5.32, PHP: 8.0, Container-Tools: 4.0, Eclipse: Rhel8, Log4j: 2, and updated versions of LLVM Toolset 13.0.1, GCC Toolset 11.2.1, Rust Toolset 1.58.1, GO Toolset 1.17.7, Java-17-Openjdk, NetworkManager 1.36.0, RPM-SOSTREE 2022.2, BIND 9.11.36 and 9.16.23, Libreswan 4.5, Audit 3.0.7, Samba 4.15.5, 389 Directory Server 1.4.3.
Among the changes specific for Rocky Linux, you can note the supply in a separate repository pluse a package with a mail client Thunderbird With support for PGP and the Open-VM-Tools package. In the repository Rockypi includes the Rasperrypi2 package with Linux 5.15 core, which includes improvements for work on Rasperry Pi boards Based on the architecture of Aarch64. In the repository nfv a set of packages for virtualization of networks developed, developed
SIG-group nfv (Network Functions Virtualization).
The project is developing under the leadership of Gregory Kurtzer, the founder of Centos. In parallel for the development of expanded products based on Rocky Linux and supporting the developers of this distribution, a commercial company CTRL IQ was created, which received $ 26 million. The Rocky Linux distribution itself promises to develop, regardless of CTRL IQ under the control of the community. Companies such as Google, Amazon Web Services, Gitlab, Montavista, 45Drives, Opendrives and Naver Cloud.
also joined the development and financing of the project.
In addition to Rocky Linux, Almalinux (develops by Cloudlinux, together with the Community), VZLINUX (prepared by Virtuozzo), Oracle Linux, Suse Linux and EULOLINUS as alternatives to classic centos 8. In addition, Red Hat has provided the possibility of free use of RHEL in organizations developing open software, and in the environment of individual developers, numbering up to 16 virtual or physical systems.