Red Hat published the distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4. Ready-made installation images are available for registered Red Hat Customer Portal users (you can also use Centos Stream 9 and free assemblies for developers). The release is formed for architectures X86_64, S390X (IBM System Z), PPC64le, and Aarch64 (ARM64).
The RHEL 9 branch is developing with a more open development process and uses the Centos Stream 9 package base as a basis. Centos Stream is positioned as an UPStream project for RHEL, which makes it possible to control the preparation of packages for RHEL, to offer their changes and influence the accepted solutions. In accordance with a 10-year-old support cycle, RHEL 9 distribution will be accompanied until 2032.
The initial texts of RPM packets RHEL 9.4 are not posted in the public repository git.centos.org and are provided to the company’s customers only through the closed section of the site, on which the user agreement (Eola) is in effect, prohibiting data redistribution, which does not allow the use of these packages to create derivatives of distribution derivatives. The initial texts remain available in the Centos Stream repository, but it is not completely synchronized with RHEL and it does not always have the latest versions of packages with RHEL packages. Rocky Linux, Oracle, and Suse reproduce the initial texts of RPM RHEL release packages as part of the Openla project.
Key changes in RHEL 9.4: